Handball national side
Kuwait
National team · Kuwait
«Al-Azraq»
For decades, the one sport Kuwait exported with any consistency was handball, played indoors at the Fahad Al Hamad Handball Indoor Stadium in Daiya.
Between 1995 and 2006 Kuwait won the Asian Championship four times, and at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha it beat Qatar in the final for the gold it had missed as runner-up in 1998 and 2002. The side has kept returning to the podium: bronze at the 2022 Asian Games, then bronze again at the Asian Championships in 2024 and 2026. Qatar and Bahrain remain the teams it measures itself against, without either rivalry ever needing a name.
The wider record is more modest. Kuwait has reached the World Championship ten times but never finished higher than 15th, and its two Olympic appearances, in Moscow in 1980 and Atlanta in 1996, both ended in 12th place. Asia has always been the level at which the team matters; the world stage has mostly been about showing up.
Saif Al-Adwani is the name attached to that period as the team's scorer.
Latest results
Fixtures and results| 26 Sep | Asian Games |
Japan
A
|
32:37 | L |
| 25 Sep | Asian Games |
Bahrain
A
|
25:28 | L |
| 22 Sep | Asian Games |
Kazakhstan
H
|
43:19 | W |
| 21 Sep | Asian Games |
South Korea
A
|
23:26 | L |
| 19 Sep | Asian Games |
Iran
A
|
26:24 | W |
| 15 May | Friendly International |
Bahrain
A
|
21:30 | L |
Standing
Asian GamesGroup stage · Group B
| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Bahrain
|
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0:86 | 8 |
| 2 |
South Korea
|
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0:101 | 5 |
| 3 |
 Kuwait
|
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0:97 | 4 |
| 4 |
Iran
|
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0:109 | 3 |
| 5 |
Kazakhstan
|
4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0:158 | 0 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 43| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 43 | 14 | 29 |
| Scored | 1238 | 403 | 835 |
| Conceded | 1206 | 394 | 812 |
| Scored per game | 28.8 | 28.8 | 28.8 |
| Conceded per game | 28.0 | 28.1 | 28.0 |
| Difference | +32 | +9 | +23 |
Fixtures of Kuwait
Honours of Kuwait
- Asian Men's Handball Championship 1995, 2002, 2004, 2006 4
- Asian Games 2006 1
- Asian Games 1998, 2002 2
- Asian Men's Handball Championship 2024, 2026 2
- Asian Games 2022 1