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Association | Handball Federation of the Faroe Islands | ||
Coach | Sonni Larsen | ||
Assistant coach | Finnur Hansson | ||
Captain | Pernille Brandenborg | ||
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European Championship | |||
Appearances | 1 (First in 2024 ) | ||
Best result | TBD (2024) | ||
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The Faroe Islands women's national handball team are the women's team for the Faroe Islands.
In June 2017 the team advanced for the first time from the Qualification Phase 1 to Phase 2 of the European Women's Handball Championship qualification, when they won both matches in their group in the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship qualification which were against Greece and Finland. [1] Faroe Island qualified for the territory's first European Women's Handball Championship in 2024.
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Total | 0/0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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2024 | Qualified | |||||||
2026 | TBD | |||||||
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Total | 1/18 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The squad chosen for the two qualification matches for the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, against Austria in Tórshavn and Maria Enzersdorf, in March 2021. [2]
Head coach: Sonni Larsen
The following players have been called up to the Faroese squad within the past 12 months.
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