Qatar men's national handball team
| Association | Qatar Handball Association |
| confederacy | AHF |
| Trainer |
 Valero Rivera
|
| Handball world championship | |
| Participation | 7 of 26 (First: 2005 ) |
| best result | Vice World Champion 2015 |
| Handball Asian Championship | |
| Participation | 12 (first: 1983 ) |
| best result | Asian champions 2014, 2016, 2018 |
| (Status: unknown) | |
The Qatari men's national handball team represents the Qatar Handball Association , the Handball Federation of Qatar , in international tournaments in Men Handball .
The team has taken part in handball world championships five times . She achieved the best placement with 2nd place at the 2015 World Cup in her own country. For the handball world championship 2007 in Germany , the team qualified as third place in the Asian championships. After fourth and last place in group D and a winning placement game against Australia , they finished 23rd.
The team has been coached by Spaniard Valero Rivera since 2013 . Under his leadership, Qatar won the Asian Cup for the first time in 2014.
Successes at championships
Handball world championship
- 16th place 2003 World Cup
- 21st place World Cup 2005
- 23rd place in the 2007 World Cup
- 20th place World Cup 2013
- 2nd place World Cup 2015
- For the 2015 World Cup in its own country, Qatar has a world champion coach ( Valero Rivera ) and several national and top players from Bosnia ( Eldar Memišević ), France ( Bertrand Roiné ), Cuba ( Rafael Capote ), Montenegro ( Goran Stojanović and Žarko Marković ), Serbia ( Danijel Šarić ) and Spain ( Borja Vidal ). This was possible because - in contrast to z. B. to soccer - handball players after a three-year waiting period for the national team of a new association, although they have already competed for the senior national team of the home association in official competitions (status of the regulations: January 2015).
- 8th place WM 2017
- 13th place World Cup 2019
Handball Asian Championship
- Gold: 2014, 2016, 2018
- Silver: 2002, 2012
- Bronze: 2004, 2006
Asian Games
- Gold: 2014
- Silver: 2002
Olympic games
- Olympic Games 2016 : 8th place
Current squad
The roster for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil (as of August 3, 2016).
| No. | Surname | birthday | position | size | International matches | Gates | logo | society | Previous national teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Danijel Šarić | June 27, 1977 | TW | 1.95 m | 22nd | 0 |
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FC Barcelona |
;_Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_(2003%E2%80%932006).svg){kind=small} Serbia and Montenegro Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina 
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| 16 | Goran Stojanović | February 24, 1977 | TW | 1.91 m | 37 | 0 | al-Jaish |
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| 1 | Žarko Marković | June 1, 1986 | RR | 1.96 m | 22nd | 152 | al-Jaish |
Montenegro
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| 4th | Hassan Mabrouk | July 29, 1982 | RL | 1.90 m | 30th | 64 | al-Jaish | no | |
| 7th | Bertrand Roiné | 17th February 1981 | RL | 1.97 m | 40 | 70 | al-Ahli SC |
 France
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| 9 | Rafael Capote | 5th October 1987 | RR | 1.96 m | 34 | 131 | al-Jaish |
 Cuba
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| 11 | Abdulrazzaq Murrad | June 29, 1990 | LA | 1.86 m | 77 | 169 |
|
al-Gharafa | no |
| 13 | Eldar Memišević | June 21, 1992 | RA | 1.78 m | 100 | 196 | al-Jaish |
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| 14th | Bassel Al-Rayes | March 4th 1979 | KM | 1.80 m | 36 | 146 |
|
al-Rayyan SC | no |
| 15th | Nasreddine Megdich | August 29, 1991 | RA | 1.78 m | 16 | 27 |
|
al-Rayyan SC | no |
| 19th | Borja Vidal | December 25, 1981 | KM | 2.06 m | 34 | 79 | al-Qiyada | no | |
| 25th | Kamalaldin Mallash | January 1, 1992 | RM | 1.80 m | 62 | 109 | al-Jaish | no | |
| 55 | Abdelrahman Abdalla | January 1, 1994 | LA | 1.89 m | 23 | 38 | al-Jaish | no | |
| 94 | Ameen Zakkar | June 15, 1994 | RL | 1.95 m | 35 | 62 |
|
al-Rayyan SC | no |
Web links
- Portrait of the Qatari team on www.handball-wm-2007.de ( Memento from February 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )