Moroccan men's national handball team
Nickname (s) | Atlas Lions |
Association | Fédération Royale Marocaine de Handball |
confederacy | CAHB |
Handball world championship | |
Participation | 6 of 26 (First: 1995 ) |
best result | 17. ( 2001 ) |
Handball African Championship | |
Participation | 16 of 22 (First: 1987 ) |
best result | 3rd (2006) |
(Status: unknown) |
The Moroccan men's handball team representing Morocco at international tournaments in Men Handball .
The team has so far participated in handball world championships six times , the best placement they achieved with 17th place at the 1999 World Cup in Egypt .
For the handball world championship 2007 in Germany the team was automatically qualified as third place of the African championships 2006, after the fourth and thus last place in the preliminary round group F and the 36:29 lost placement game for 19th place against Brazil , they finished 20th. Rank.
The team is coached by Noureddine Bouhaddioui .
Successes at championships
Handball world championship
- World Cup 1995 : 22nd place
- 1997 World Cup : 23rd place
- World Cup 1999 : 17th place
- World Cup 2001 : 22nd place
- 2003 World Cup : 23rd place
- World Cup 2007 : 20th place
Handball African Championship
- Bronze: 2006
Olympic games
no participation so far
Well-known national players
Web links
- Portrait of the Moroccan team on www.handball-wm-2007.de ( Memento from February 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )