HANDBALL – BARBAR wrapped up their regular season campaign in the 2025-26 Khalid Bin Hamad Bahrain Handball League last night with a resounding 41-28 victory over lowly Bahrain Club at the Bahrain Handball Federation Arena in Um Al Hassam Sports Complex.
The match kicked off the 22nd and concluding matchweek, ahead of the highly anticipated Golden Square semi-finals.
Barbar held a comfortable 21-13 lead at the half and stretched their advantage in the final 30 minutes en route to securing their 13th win of this campaign. They improved to 46 points in fourth place on the table, and are now shifting their focus to their opponents in the last four, who will be defending champions and league leaders Al Najma.
Bahrain Club suffered their 19th defeat and end their league run with the worst record at 22 points.
In yesterday’s other fixture, Al Ettifaq defeated Tubli 36-31. Ettifaq edged ahead 17-15 at the interval, and did enough to close out the match to end their season with five wins and 30 points.
Tubli lost for the 12th time and went to 35 points.
Round 22 continues today and tomorrow at the same venue. This evening, Al Dair take on Samaheej at 5.30pm, to be followed by Al Ettihad facing Al Tadhamun at 7.15pm.
Then, tomorrow, Najma go up against Ahli at 7pm in a clash between two of this season’s title contenders.
With Najma having already locked in first place and Al Shabab second, Ahli will be finishing the standings in third – regardless of tomorrow’s result – and will be facing Shabab in the Golden Square.
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