# 2014 African Men's Youth Handball Championship

The 2014 African Men's Youth Handball Championship was the 6th edition of the tournament, organized by the African Handball Confederation, under the auspices of the International Handball Federation and held in Nairobi, Kenya from 15 to 21 March 2014.
Egypt was the champion and qualified to both the 2015 world championship and the 2014 Youth Olympics whereas the three remaining top teams qualified for the 2015 world championship.

## Draw

| Group A | Group B | Group C |
| Egypt  Guinea  Libya | Algeria  Niger  Tunisia | Angola  Kenya  Zambia |

## Preliminary round

Nine teams were drawn into three groups of three, with the top team of each group plus the second best of all the groups qualifying for the semifinal, the remaining two second-placed teams playing for the 5-6 classification whereas the third-placed teams of each group played for the 7-9 classification matches.
All times are local (UTC+3).

### Group A

* Qualified to the Semi-finals
* Relegated to the 5-6 classification
* Relegated to the 7-9 classification
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Egypt | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 37 | +34 | 4 |
| Libya | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 58 | −13 | 2 |
| Guinea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 46 | 67 | −21 | 0 |
| 15 March 2014 10:00 | Egypt | 38 – 21 | Guinea | Nairobi |
| 15 March 2014 10:00 | | (15–12) | | Nairobi |
| 16 March 2014 14:00 | Libya | 29 – 25 | Guinea | Nairobi |
| 16 March 2014 14:00 | | (17–13) | | Nairobi |
| 17 March 2014 14:00 | Egypt | 33 – 16 | Libya | Nairobi |
| 17 March 2014 14:00 | | (17–06) | | Nairobi |

### Group B

* Qualified to the Semi-finals
* Relegated to the 7-9 classification
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Tunisia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 39 | +27 | 4 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 54 | 47 | +7 | 2 |
| Niger | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 39 | 73 | −34 | 0 |
| 15 March 2014 14:00 | Tunisia | 40 – 18 | Niger | Nairobi |
| 15 March 2014 14:00 | | (19–07) | | Nairobi |
| 16 March 2014 14:00 | Algeria | 33 – 21 | Niger | Nairobi |
| 16 March 2014 14:00 | | (17–12) | | Nairobi |
| 17 March 2014 16:00 | Tunisia | 26 – 21 | Algeria | Nairobi |
| 17 March 2014 16:00 | | (11–14) | | Nairobi |

### Group C

* Qualified to the Semi-finals
* Relegated to the 5-6 classification
* Relegated to the 7-9 classification
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Angola | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 33 | +35 | 4 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 50 | −1 | 2 |
| Zambia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 37 | 71 | −34 | 0 |
| 15 March 2014 17:00 | Angola | 28 – 18 | Kenya | Nairobi |
| 15 March 2014 17:00 | | (10–06) | | Nairobi |
| 16 March 2014 18:00 | Angola | 40 – 15 | Zambia | Nairobi |
| 16 March 2014 18:00 | | (17–10) | | Nairobi |
| 17 March 2014 18:00 | Kenya | 31 – 22 | Zambia | Nairobi |
| 17 March 2014 18:00 | | (11–10) | | Nairobi |

## Placement round 7–9
### Bracket

| Cross matches | Cross matches | Cross matches | 9th place final | 9th place final | 9th place final | 7th place final | 7th place final | 7th place final |
| 18 March 2014 - 14:00 | 18 March 2014 - 14:00 | 18 March 2014 - 14:00 | | | | 20 March 2014 - 14:00 | 20 March 2014 - 14:00 | 20 March 2014 - 14:00 |
| Guinea | Guinea | 40 | | | | Guinea | Guinea | 35 |
| Zambia | Zambia | 29 | 19 March 2014 - 10:00 | 19 March 2014 - 10:00 | 19 March 2014 - 10:00 | Niger | Niger | 22 |
| | | | Niger | Niger | 41 | | | |
| | | | Zambia | Zambia | 12 | | | |

### 7th–9th place

| 18 March 2014 14:00 | Guinea | 40 – 29 | Zambia | Nairobi |
| 18 March 2014 14:00 | | (22–15) | | Nairobi |
| 19 March 2014 10:00 | Niger | 41 – 12 | Zambia | Nairobi |
| 19 March 2014 10:00 | | (21–03) | | Nairobi |

### 7th place game

| 20 March 2014 14:00 | Guinea | 35 – 22 | Niger | Nairobi |
| 20 March 2014 14:00 | | (16–12) | | Nairobi |

## Placement round 5–6

| 19 March 2014 14:00 | Libya | 23 – 16 | Kenya | Nairobi |
| 19 March 2014 14:00 | | (12–10) | | Nairobi |

## Final round
### Bracket

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 19 March 2014 – 16:00 | 19 March 2014 – 16:00 |
| Egypt | 26 |
| Egypt | 26 | 21 March 2014 – 18:00 | 21 March 2014 – 18:00 |
| Tunisia | 19 | 21 March 2014 – 18:00 | 21 March 2014 – 18:00 |
| Tunisia | 19 | Egypt | 26 |
| 19 March 2014 – 18:00 | 19 March 2014 – 18:00 | | Egypt | 26 |
| 19 March 2014 – 18:00 | 19 March 2014 – 18:00 | Algeria | 22 |
| Algeria | 24 | Algeria | 22 |
| Angola | 22 | | |
| Angola | 22 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | 21 March 2014 – 16:00 | 21 March 2014 – 16:00 |
| | | Tunisia | 24 |
| | | Angola | 16 |

### Semi finals

| 19 March 2014 16:00 | Egypt | 26 – 19 | Tunisia | Nairobi |
| 19 March 2014 16:00 | | (12–08) | | Nairobi |
| 19 March 2014 18:00 | Algeria | 24 – 22 | Angola | Nairobi |
| 19 March 2014 18:00 | | (10–10) | | Nairobi |

### Bronze medal game

| 21 March 2014 16:00 | Tunisia | 24 – 16 | Angola | Nairobi |
| 21 March 2014 16:00 | | (11–07) | | Nairobi |

### Final

| 21 March 2014 18:00 | Egypt | 26 – 22 | Algeria | Nairobi |
| 21 March 2014 18:00 | | (12–12) | | Nairobi |

## Final standings

* Qualified for the 2015 World Championship and 2014 Youth Olympics
* Qualified for the 2015 World Championship
| Rank | Team | Record |
| | Egypt | 4–0 |
| | Algeria | 2–2 |
| | Tunisia | 2–2 |
| 4 | Angola | 2–2 |
| 5 | Libya | 2–1 |
| 6 | Kenya | 1–2 |
| 7 | Guinea | 2–2 |
| 8 | Niger | 1–3 |
| 9 | Zambia | 0–4 |

## Awards

* 2014 African Men's Youth Handball Championship
* Egypt 5th title