# 2019 African Women's Handball Champions League

The 2019 African Women's Handball Champions League was the 41st 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 4–13, 2019 at the Pavilhão Vavá Duarte and Pavilhão Craveiro Lopes in Praia, Cape Verde, contested by 8 teams and won by Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto of Angola.

## Draw

| Group A | Group B |
| Bandama DGSP FAP Yaoundé HC Héritage Primeiro de Agosto | ABO Sport Atlético do Mindelo Petro Atlético |

## Preliminary round

    Times given below are in CVT UTC+1.

### Group A

| Fri, 4 Oct 2019 |||
| DGSP | 32 (15:14) 28 | Bandama |
| Sat, 5 Oct 2019 |||
| DGSP | 28 (15:13) 28 | FAP Yaoundé |
| Sun, 6 Oct 2019 |||
| 1º de Agosto | 36 (15:05) 14 | FAP Yaoundé |
| HC Héritage | 29 (12:15) 27 | Bandama |
| Mon, 7 Oct 2019 |||
| DGSP | 40 (19:11) 28 | HC Héritage |
| 1º de Agosto | 39 (19:07) 17 | Bandama |
| Tue, 8 Oct 2019 |||
| Bandama | 27 (15:10) 29 | FAP Yaoundé |
| 1º de Agosto | 40 (20:05) 13 | HC Héritage |
| Wed, 9 Oct 2019 |||
| HC Héritage | 26 (12:18) 35 | FAP Yaoundé |
| 1º de Agosto | 36 (16:09) 13 | DGSP |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| 1º de Agosto | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 151 | 57 | +94 | 8 |
| DGSP | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 113 | 120 | -7 | 5 |
| FAP Yaoundé | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 106 | 117 | -11 | 5 |
| HC Héritage | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 96 | 142 | -46 | 2 |
| Bandama | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 99 | 129 | -30 | 0 |
| PRI | DGS | FAP | HER | BAN |
| — | 36–13 | 36–14 | 40–13 | 39–17 |
| 13–36 | — | 28–28 | 40–28 | 32–28 |
| 14–36 | 28–28 | — | 35–26 | 29–27 |
| 13–40 | 28–40 | 26–35 | — | 29–27 |
| 17–39 | 28–32 | 27–29 | 27–29 | — |

### Group B

| Sat, 5 Oct 2019 |||
| ABO Sport | 38 (16:08) 21 | Atl Mindelo |
| Tue, 8 Oct 2019 |||
| Petro Atlético | 26 (14:15) 25 | ABO Sport |
| Wed, 9 Oct 2019 |||
| Petro Atlético | 37 (19:03) 09 | Atl Mindelo |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| Petro Atlético | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 34 | +29 | 4 |
| ABO Sport | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 47 | +16 | 2 |
| Atlético do Mindelo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 75 | -45 | 0 |
| PET | ABO | ATL |
| — | 26–25 | 37–9 |
| 25–26 | — | 38–21 |
| 9–37 | 21–38 | — |

## Knockout stage
### Quarter-finals

| Thu, 10 Oct 2019 |||
| ABO Sport | 24 (11:09) 22 | FAP Yaoundé |
| DGSP | 30 (14:09) 23 | Atl Mindelo |
| Petro Atlético | 32 (14:11) 16 | HC Héritage |

### Semi-finals

| Sat, 12 Oct 2019 |||
| DGSP | 19 (06:13) 24 | Petro Atlético |
| 1º de Agosto | 32 (14:10) 24 | ABO Sport |

### 5th place

| Sun, 13 Oct 2019 |||
| FAP Yaoundé | 38 (18:11) 27 | HC Héritage |

### 3rd place

| Sun, 13 Oct 2019 |||
| ABO Sport | 29 (13:15) 28 | DGSP |

### Final

| Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:00 (UTC+1) | 1º de Agosto | 18–16 | Petro Atlético | Vavá Duarte, Praia |
| Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:00 (UTC+1) | Isabel Guialo 5 | (6–8) | Azenaide Carlos 6 | Vavá Duarte, Praia |
| Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:00 (UTC+1) | 3× | | 5× | Vavá Duarte, Praia |
| GK | 1 | Eneleidys Guevara | | | |
| RW | 2 | Mafuta Pedro | | | |
| LW | 3 | Iracelma Silva | 3/1 | | |
| CB | 4 | Helena Paulo | 9/5 | | |
| RB | 6 | Juliana Machado | 5/1 | | |
| B | 8 | Ruth João | | | |
| LW | 9 | Natália Bernardo | 5/3 | | |
| RB | 11 | Vilma Silva | 2/0 | | |
| P | 11 | Albertina Kassoma | 4/1 | | |
| P | 15 | Liliana Venâncio | 1/1 | | |
| GK | 16 | Helena Sousa | | | |
| RW | 18 | Claudete José | 1/0 | | |
| RB | 19 | Wuta Dombaxe | 3/1 | | |
| GK | 20 | Amália Pinto | | | |
| LB | 23 | Christianne Mwasesa | 3/0 | | |
| CB | 90 | Isabel Guialo | 6/5 | | |
| Coach: ||||||
| | | Morten Soubak | Morten Soubak | Morten Soubak | Morten Soubak |
| 1º de Agosto | Statistics | Petro Atlético |
| 18/39 | Goals | 16/32 |
| 46% | Scoring % | 50% |
| 7/4 | 7m penalty | 4/3 |
| 6 min | Suspensions | 10 min |
| 0 | Yellow cards | 0 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0 |
| – | Saves | – |
| | Saving % | |
| CB | 2 | Vilma Nenganga | 4/3 | | |
| LW | 3 | Emingarda Ferreira | | | |
| CB | 4 | Delfina Mungongo | 4/3 | | |
| RW | 6 | Natália Kamalandua | 4/0 | | |
| RW | 7 | Edith Mbunga | | | |
| RB | 9 | Manuela Paulino | 4/2 | | |
| RW | 10 | Alexandra Chaca | | | |
| CB | 11 | Marília Quizelete | 1/0 | | |
| GK | 12 | Filigênia Fernandes | | | |
| – | 13 | | | |
| P | 14 | Ríssia Oliveira | 2/1 | | |
| RB | 15 | Azenaide Carlos | 10/6 | | |
| GK | 16 | Teresa Almeida | | | |
| LB | 21 | Magda Cazanga | 3/1 | | |
| GK | 22 | Ivete Simão | | | |
| Coach: ||||||
| | | Vivaldo Eduardo | Vivaldo Eduardo | Vivaldo Eduardo | Vivaldo Eduardo |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team | Record |
| | Primeiro de Agosto | 6–0 |
| | Petro Atlético | 4–1 |
| | ABO Sport | 3–2 |
| 4 | DGSP | 4–3 |
| 5 | FAP Yaoundé | 3–2 |
| 6 | HC Héritage | 1–5 |
| 7 | Atlético do Mindelo | 0–3 |
| 8 | Bandama | 0–4 |
* 2019 Africa Women's Handball Champions Cup winner
* Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto 6th title
* Squad: Amália Pinto, Eneleidys Guevara, Helena Sousa (GK) Christianne Mwasesa, Helena Paulo, Juliana Machado, Vilma Silva, Vivalda Silva, Wuta Dombaxe (B) Claudete José, Iracelma Silva, Janete Santos, Mafuta Pedro, Natália Bernardo (W) Albertina Kassoma, Liliana Venâncio (P) Morten Soubak (Head Coach)