# 2017 African Women's Handball Champions League

The 2017 African Women's Handball Champions League was the 39th edition, organized by the African Handball Confederation, under the auspices of the International Handball Federation, the handball sport governing body. The tournament was held from October 21–29, 2017 at the salle Bein Khiar, in Hammamet, Tunisia, contested by 8 teams and won by Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto of Angola.

## Draw

| Group A | Group B |
| ABO Sport Africa Sports FAP Yaoundé GS Pétroliers | ASF Sfax Bandama HC Vainqueur 1º de Agosto |

## Preliminary round

    Times given below are in CET UTC+1.

### Group A

| Sat, 21 Oct 2017 |||
| FAP Yaoundé | 27 (17:07) 20 | GS Pétroliers |
| ABO Sport | 39 (24:08) 26 | Africa Sports |
| Tue, 24 Oct 2017 |||
| GS Pétroliers | 22 (12:09) 35 | ABO Sport |
| Africa Sports | 24 (11:11) 27 | FAP Yaoundé |
| Wed, 25 Oct 2017 |||
| FAP Yaoundé | 22 (09:07) 22 | ABO Sport |
| Africa Sports | 21 (07:11) 23 | GS Pétroliers |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| ABO Sport | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 96 | 70 | +26 | 5 |
| FAP Yaoundé | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 76 | 66 | +10 | 5 |
| GS Pétroliers | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 65 | 83 | −18 | 2 |
| Africa Sports | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 71 | 89 | −18 | 0 |

### Group B

| Sat, 21 Oct 2017 |||
| 1º de Agosto | 27 (14:04) 15 | HC Vainqueur |
| Bandama | 37 (15:23) 42 | ASF Sfax |
| Sun, 22 Oct 2017 |||
| Bandama | 09 (07:16) 28 | 1º de Agosto |
| Mon, 23 Oct 2017 |||
| ASF Sfax | 20 (13:14) 29 | 1º de Agosto |
| Tue, 24 Oct 2017 |||
| HC Vainqueur | 21 (11:16) 29 | ASF Sfax |
| Wed, 25 Oct 2017 |||
| Bandama | 22 (09:09) 19 | HC Vainqueur |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| 1º de Agosto | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 44 | +40 | 6 |
| ASF Sfax | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 87 | +4 | 4 |
| Bandama | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 68 | 89 | −21 | 2 |
| HC Vainqueur | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 70 | 78 | −8 | 0 |

## Knockout stage
### Championship bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | | | |
| 1º de Agosto | 33 | | | |
| 1º de Agosto | 33 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 14:15 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 14:15 | | |
| Africa Sports | 14 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 14:15 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 14:15 | |
| Africa Sports | 14 | 1º de Agosto | 23 | |
| Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 14:00 | Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 14:00 | | 1º de Agosto | 23 | |
| Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 14:00 | Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 14:00 | FAP Yaoundé | 17 | |
| FAP Yaoundé | 33 | FAP Yaoundé | 17 | |
| FAP Yaoundé | 33 | | | | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 16:00 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 16:00 |
| Bandama | 18 | | | | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 16:00 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 16:00 |
| Bandama | 18 | | | | 1º de Agosto | 30 |
| Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 18:00 | Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 18:00 | | | | | 1º de Agosto | 30 |
| Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 18:00 | Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 18:00 | | | | ASF Sfax | 17 |
| ASF Sfax | 33 | | | | ASF Sfax | 17 |
| ASF Sfax | 33 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | | | |
| GS Pétroliers | 18 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | | | |
| GS Pétroliers | 18 | ASF Sfax | 33 | | | |
| Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | | ASF Sfax | 33 | | | |
| Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | Thu 26 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | ABO Sport | 23 | | Third place | Third place |
| ABO Sport | 45 | ABO Sport | 23 | | Third place | Third place |
| ABO Sport | 45 | | | | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 12:00 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 12:00 |
| HC Vainqueur | 23 | | | | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 12:00 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 12:00 |
| HC Vainqueur | 23 | | | | FAP Yaoundé | 31 |
| | | | | | ABO Sport | 24 |

### 5-8th bracket

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Fifth place | Fifth place |
| Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 12:00 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 12:00 |
| GS Pétroliers | 26 |
| GS Pétroliers | 26 | Sun 29 Oct 2017 – 10:00 | Sun 29 Oct 2017 – 10:00 |
| HC Vainqueur | 22 | Sun 29 Oct 2017 – 10:00 | Sun 29 Oct 2017 – 10:00 |
| HC Vainqueur | 22 | Bandama | 25 |
| Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 18:00 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 18:00 | | Bandama | 25 |
| Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 18:00 | Sat 28 Oct 2017 – 18:00 | GS Pétroliers | 24 |
| Bandama | 22 | GS Pétroliers | 24 |
| Africa Sports | 19 | | |
| Africa Sports | 19 | Seventh place | Seventh place |
| | | Sun 29 Oct 2017 – 09:30 | Sun 29 Oct 2017 – 09:30 |
| | | Africa Sports | 30 |
| | | HC Vainqueur | 23 |

### Quarter-finals

| Thu, 26 Oct 2017 |||
| ABO Sport | 31 (16:14) 29 | HC Vainqueur |
| 1º de Agosto | 33 (-:-) 14 | Africa Sports |
| FAP Yaoundé | 33 (18:08) 18 | Bandama |
| ASF Sfax | 27 (15:14) 25 | GS Pétroliers |

### 5–8th classification

| Sat, 28 Oct 2017 |||
| HC Vainqueur | 22 (13:14) 26 | GS Pétroliers |
| Bandama | 22 (13:07) 19 | Africa Sports |

### Semi-finals

| Sat, 28 Oct 2017 |||
| FAP Yaoundé | 17 (06:13) 23 | 1º de Agosto |
| ABO Sport | 23 (10:18) 33 | ASF Sfax |

### 7th place

| Sun, 29 Oct 2017 |||
| HC Vainqueur | 33 (14:17) 28 | Africa Sports |

### 5th place

| Sun, 29 Oct 2017 |||
| GS Pétroliers | 24 (12:12) 25 | Bandama |

### 3rd place

| Sun, 29 Oct 2017 |||
| ABO Sport | 24 (13:11) 31 | FAP Yaoundé |

### Final

| Sun, 29 Oct 2017 |||
| 1º de Agosto | 30 (14:09) 17 | ASF Sfax |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team | Record |
| | Primeiro de Agosto | 6–0 |
| | ASF Sfax | 4–2 |
| | FAP Yaoundé | 4–1 |
| 4 | ABO Sport | 3–2 |
| 5 | Bandama | 3–3 |
| 6 | GS Pétroliers | 2–4 |
| 7 | Africa Sports | 1–5 |
| 8 | HC Vainqueur | 0–6 |
* 2017 Africa Women's Handball Champions Cup winner
* Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto 4th title
* Squad: Cristina Branco, Eliane Paulo, Helena Sousa, Swelly Simão (GK) Christianne Mwasesa, Dalva Peres, Isabel Guialo, Juliana Machado, Lurdes Monteiro, Teresa Leite (B) Carolina Morais, Elizabeth Cailo, Iracelma Silva, Joelma Viegas (W) Albertina Kassoma, Elizabeth Viegas, Liliana Venâncio (P) Morten Soubak (Head Coach)