# Handball at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's tournament

The men's tournament of handball at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, were held between June 23 and June 30. All games were held at the Lütfullah Aksungur Sports Hall.

## Format

* TEn teams are divided into two preliminary groups. Each group have five teams.
* The top 2 teams from each group will qualify for Semifinals, other teams will qualify for the placement matches.
* Winners of the Semifinals contested the gold medal game and the losers the bronze medal game.

## Participating teams

* Algeria
* Croatia
* Egypt
* Greece
* Italy
* North Macedonia
* Slovenia
* Serbia
* Tunisia
* Turkey

## Group stage
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | TUR | ITA | SRB | MKD | ALG |
| Turkey | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 113 | 107 | +6 | 6 | | 34–30 | 23–24 | 30–29 | 26–24 |
| Italy | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 109 | 100 | +9 | 4 | 30–34 | | 23–22 | 33–20 | 23–24 |
| Serbia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 112 | 93 | +19 | 4 | 29–30 | 22–23 | | 27–19 | 34–21 |
| North Macedonia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 90 | 109 | −19 | 4 | 24–23 | 20–33 | 19–27 | | 27–26 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 95 | 110 | −15 | 2 | 24–26 | 24–23 | 21–34 | 26–27 | |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | CRO | EGY | SLO | TUN | GRE |
| Croatia | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 120 | 109 | +11 | 6 | | 28–25 | 32–34 | 32–26 | 28–24 |
| Egypt | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 111 | 94 | +17 | 6 | 25–28 | | 33–28 | 27–22 | 26–16 |
| Slovenia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 134 | 117 | +17 | 5 | 34–32 | 28–33 | | 32–32 | 40–20 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 107 | 111 | −4 | 3 | 26–32 | 22–27 | 32–32 | | 27–20 |
| Greece | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 80 | 121 | −41 | 0 | 24–28 | 16–26 | 20–40 | 20–27 | |

## Playoffs

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 29 June | 29 June |
| Turkey | 22 |
| Turkey | 22 | 30 June | 30 June |
| Egypt | 25 | 30 June | 30 June |
| Egypt | 25 | Egypt | 28 |
| 29 June | 29 June | | Egypt | 28 |
| 29 June | 29 June | Croatia | 23 |
| Croatia | 23 | Croatia | 23 |
| Italy | 21 | | |
| Italy | 21 | Third place | Third place |
| | | 30 June | 30 June |
| | | Turkey | 32 |
| | | Italy | 26 |

### Semifinals

| June 29 16:00 | Croatia | 23–21 | Italy | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Gousko, Repkin (BLR) |
| June 29 16:00 | Matulić 8 | (11-11) | Tokic 7 | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Gousko, Repkin (BLR) |
| June 29 18:00 | Turkey | 22–25 | Egypt | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: A.Konjicanin, D.Konjicanin (BIH) |
| June 29 18:00 | Catkin 6 | (11-13) | five players 4 | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: A.Konjicanin, D.Konjicanin (BIH) |

### 9th/10th classification

| June 29 10:00 | Greece | 23–27 | Algeria | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Jurinović, Mrvica (CRO) |
| June 29 10:00 | Palasks 7 | (13-11) | Benali 8 | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Jurinović, Mrvica (CRO) |

### 7th/8th classification

| June 29 12:00 | Tunisia | 35–19 | North Macedonia | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Ozdeniz, Erdogan (TUR) |
| June 29 12:00 | Lazarov, Manaskov 4 | (16-10) | Boughanmi 13 | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Ozdeniz, Erdogan (TUR) |

### 5th/6th classification

| June 29 14:00 | Slovenia | 29–26 | Serbia | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Rashed,Elsayed (EGY) |
| June 29 14:00 | Razgor 8 | (12-9) | Marković 7 | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Rashed,Elsayed (EGY) |

### Bronze medal match

| June 30 10:00 | Turkey | 32–26 | Italy | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Jurinović, Mrvcia (CRO) |
| June 30 10:00 | Done 11 | (18-14) | three players 5 | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Jurinović, Mrvcia (CRO) |

### Final

| June 30 12:00 | Egypt | 28–23 | Croatia | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Ozdeniz, Erdogan (TUR) |
| June 30 12:00 | Eid 7 | (14-11) | Matulic 7 | Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Ozdeniz, Erdogan (TUR) |