Al Ahly (handball)

Al Ahly Handball Club (النادي الاهلي لكرة اليد) is one of Al Ahly Sporting Club's sections that represent the club in Egypt as well as in international handball competitions. Al Ahly's Handball team was founded in 1959. The Al Ahly handball team has participated in the Egyptian Handball League since the beginning in 1960s until the present. The Championship was played under the name of the Republic League. The first championship win for the Al Ahly team in the Egyptian Handball League was in 1968 and 1969. The Al Ahly Handball Club has won the most titles in the league, 24 of which were gold medals. It participated in 6 different championships every season: the Egyptian Handball League, the Egypt cup, the Egyptian Handball Federation, the African Handball Champions League, the African Handball Cup Winners' Cup, and the African Handball Super Cup.

Al Ahly had the best record in the IHF Super Globe when it achieved a silver medal in 2007. For many years, Al Ahly preferred to participate in Arab tournaments instead of African tournaments, causing Al Ahly to remain at the top of Arab handball clubs with 8 total trophies. Al Ahly was the first team to qualify to the African Super Cup in 1994, but it withdrew its participation in Arab Championships.

Al Ahly has had many successful generations of handball, but during the 90s they have had the most success. During this time, they won 6 Egyptian Leagues, 2 Egypt Cups, 2 African Handball Champion Leagues, and 6 Arab Championships, not including the great efforts with the Egypt men's national handball team.

Al Ahly player Gohar Nabil was nominated as the Best Handball Player in the World in 1998 and 2000. Further, Sameh Abdel Warth was chosen at the Handball World Team in 1997.

National titles

 * Egyptian Handball League 25 [[Image:Star full.svg|15px]][[Image:Star full.svg|15px]] (Record):
 * [[Image:Star*.svg|15px]] [[Image:Star*.svg|15px]] Champions : 1968–69, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86,   1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999–00, 2001–02,  2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2013–14,  2014–15,  2016–17,  2017–18,   2022–23, 2023-24


 * Egypt Handball Cup 10:
 * [[Image:Star*.svg|15px]] Champions: 1995–96, 1997–98, 1999–00, 2004–05, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022-23


 * Egyptian Handball Super Cup  : 2023
 * Egyptian Federation Handball Cup 3 (Record):
 * [[Image:Star*.svg|15px]] Champions: 2015, 2016, 2017


 * 25 January Cup 1 :
 * [[Image:Star*.svg|15px]] Champions: 2011 (played instead of cancelled league due to shortage time after 25 January Revolution and the champion qualify to African Handball Champions League

International titles

 * IHF Super Globe :
 * Runners-up: 2007 (Best African team record in IHF Super Globe)


 * African Handball Champions League 6:
 * Gold medal africa.svg Champions: 1985, 1993, 1994, 2012, 2016,  2023


 * Silver medal africa.svg Runners-up: 2013, 2014, 2018


 * African Handball Cup Winners' Cup 4:
 * Gold medal africa.svg Champions: 2013, 2017, 2018, 2021


 * Silver medal africa.svg Runners-up: 1985, 2001, 2014, 2015, 2019


 * African Handball Super Cup 4 :
 * Gold medal africa.svg Champions: 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024


 * Silver medal africa.svg Runners-up: 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021

Regional titles

 * Arab Handball Championship of Champions 5:
 * Simple gold cup.svg Champions: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998,  2010
 * Simple silver cup.svg Runners-up: 1986, 1999


 * Arab Handball Championship of Winners' Cup 3 (Record Shared) :
 * Simple gold cup.svg Champions: 1996, 1997, 2011
 * Simple silver cup.svg Runners-up: none

Current squad

 * Squad for the 2022–2023 season


 * Goalkeepers
 * 01 🇪🇬 Abdelrahman Mohamed
 * 16 🇪🇬 Abdelrahman Taha
 * 97 🇪🇬 Mohammed Ibrahim
 * Right Wingers
 * 19 🇪🇬 Omar Sami
 * 98 🇪🇬 Omar Castilo


 * Left Wingers
 * 11 🇪🇬 Abdel Aziz Ehab
 * 79 🇪🇬 Ahmed Hesham
 * 04 🇪🇬 Islam Rady


 * Line players
 * 24 🇪🇬 Ibrahim El-Masry
 * 72 🇪🇬 Yasser Seif Eldin
 * 80 🇪🇬 Ahmed Adel
 * 44 🇪🇬 Omar Sherif


 * Left Backs
 * 07 🇪🇬 Mostafa Khalil
 * 08 🇪🇬 Shehab Abdallah
 * 10 🇪🇬 Abdelrahman Abdou


 * Central Backs
 *  13 🇪🇬 Seif Hany
 *  17 🇪🇬 Ahmed Khairy


 * Right Backs
 * 05  🇪🇬 Mohsen Ramadan
 * 48  🇪🇬 Mohab Saeed
 * 55  🇪🇬 Mohamed Lashin

Transfers

 * Transfers for the 2022–23 season

Joining
 * 🇧🇷 Raul Nantes From CS Dinamo București
 * 🇪🇬 Ahmed Khairy From CS Dinamo București
 * 🇪🇬 Shehab Abdallah From 🇪🇬 Tala'ea El Gaish SC
 * 🇪🇬 Mohammed Ibrahim From 🇨🇿 KH Kopřivnice


 * [[Image:Arrow-down.gif]] Leaving
 * 🇹🇳 Oussama Jaziri to ??
 * 🇪🇬 Mahmoud Noaman to ??
 * 🇪🇬 Omar Haggag to ??

Egyptian league title
After the equal points of Al Ahly SC and Zamalek SC they played a tiebreak game when Al Ahly won 27–26, and were then announced as the Champion of Egyptian Handball league

The road to 2016 African Handball Champions League
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The road to 2018 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup

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The "Glory Season"
In the 2016/2017 season, Al Ahly HB had one of its best seasons when the team won five championships from six competitions competed.


 * In the first months of the season, specifically in October 2017, Al Ahly won the 2016 African Handball Champions League in Burkina Faso after beat Espérance de Tunis in the final 26–23 achieving the fifth title in this tournament and the first title of this season.
 * In the beginning of 2018 in January specifically Al Ahly crowned the Egyptian Federation Handball Cup after beat Al Gazira in the final and thus Al Ahly added his second title in this season
 * In the same month Al Ahly crowned a friendly championship of Alshaab club after the victory over the Algerian GS Pétroliers in the final 28–21, but this friendly championship is not calculated among the five trophies
 * In April 2018 the team won three trophies:
 * On April 12, in Agadir, Morocco Al Ahly won the 2017 African Handball Super Cup after beat Zamalek SC 29–23, this was the third title of Al Ahly in the season
 * On April 22, Al Ahly won the 2017 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup after beat AS Hammamet in the final 31–22, this was the fourth title of this season
 * On April 30, Al Ahly won the Egyptian Handball League after beating Sporting SC in the 24th round, Al Ahly had 24 wins in row (without any loss or a draw), this was the fifth title in this great season.

Head coaches
This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.

Al Ahly in Super Globe Championship
→ Al Ahly participate 4 times in IHF Super Globe. Al Ahly Hosted the IHF Super Globe 2007 In Al ahly hall in Gezira

2007 IHF Super Globe
This competition was held in league format, and 5 teams took part. Al Ahly Fixtures was: Final Ranking:

2015 IHF Super Globe
'''This competition was held in Knock out format starting form Quarter Finals, and 8 teams participated in this competition. Al Ahly Fixtures was:'''
 * Final ranking

2017 IHF Super Globe
 Al Ahly  Qualified to super globe after beat Zamalek SC in the 2017 African Handball Super Cup but later withdraw due to Political problems with Host Country Qatar 🇶🇦. and Espérance participate instead of Al Ahly sc

2022 IHF Men's Super Globe
 Al Ahly  Qualified to super globe after beat Zamalek SC in the 2022 African Handball Super Cup 32–31 The draw was held on 29 September 2022. and put Al Ahly beside both of SL Benfica and  Mudhar Group B

Championship bracket

Semifinals

Third place game

Final ranking

Notable players

 * 01- 🇪🇬 Hassan Moustafa
 * 02- 🇪🇬 Gamal Shams
 * 03- 🇪🇬 Mohamed ElAlfey
 * 04- 🇪🇬 Yasser Labib
 * 05- 🇪🇬 Assem El Saadney
 * 06- 🇪🇬 khaled ElAwady
 * 07- 🇪🇬 Sameh Abdel wareth
 * 08- 🇪🇬 Ashraf Awad
 * 09- 🇪🇬 Hazem Awad
 * 10- 🇪🇬 Gohar Nabil


 * 11- 🇪🇬 Hany Elfakarney
 * 12- 🇪🇬  Ashraf Shokrey 
 * 13- 🇪🇬  Atef Abdelrahman 
 * 14- 🇪🇬  Mahmoud Ashour 
 * 15- 🇪🇬  Saber Heussin 
 * 16- 🇪🇬  Ahmed Salem 
 * 17- 🇪🇬  Mamdouh seleman 
 * 18- 🇪🇬  Tarek el dorey
 * 19- 🇪🇬  Karim Elsaaeed  (N)
 * 20- 🇪🇬  Karim shokrey  (N)
 * 21- 🇪🇬  Ayman ElAlfey 
 * 22- 🇪🇬 Islam Hassan