| Personal information | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Pernille Brandenborg | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Faroese | ||||||||||||
| Born | 29 July 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Handball | ||||||||||||
| Position | Pivot | ||||||||||||
| Current club | Storhamar HE | ||||||||||||
| Number | 18 | ||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||
| -2017 | Svendborg HK | ||||||||||||
| Senior clubs | |||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Gudme HK | ||||||||||||
| 2017–2021 | Vendsyssel Håndbold | ||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Randers HK | ||||||||||||
| 2022–2025 | København Håndbold | ||||||||||||
| 2025–2026 | Storhamar HE | ||||||||||||
| 2026– | CSM București | ||||||||||||
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Pernille Brandenborg (born 29 July 1997) [1] is a Faroese-Danish handballer who plays for Storhamar HE and the Faroe Islands women's national team,where she is the captain of the team. [2] [3]
Brandenburg made her debut in the Faroese national team on 2 December 2016,against Macedonia. [4] She then represented the team during the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship qualifying cycle. [5]
She also participated with the Faroese national team at the 2024 European Women's Handball Championship in Hungary,Switzerland and Austria,placing 17th overall. [6] This was the first time ever the Faroe Islands made a major international tournament. At the 2025 World Championship she was part of the Faroe Islands team that played for the first time at a World Championship. [7] [8] With wins over Spain and Paraguay they advanced from the preliminary groups and recorded their first ever win at a major international tournament. [9]
She started playing handball at Svendborg HK,before joining Gudme HK at 18. [10] She then joined Vendsyssel Håndbold in the 1st Division,where she played for 3.5 years. [11] [12]
In 2020 she was promoted with Vendsyssel to the top division. In the following season they did however finish last and was relegated again. [13]
In 2021 she joined league rivals Randers HK. [14] In her first season she was the second choice pivot behind Sidsel Mejlvang. When Mejlvang left the team a year later she became first choice. [15]
When Randers HK declared bankruptcy in November 2022,she joined København Håndbold. [16]
In the summer of 2025 she joined Norwegian team Storhamar Håndball. [17] A year later she moved to CSM București.
She grew up in Denmark to a Faroese mother and Danish father. [5] Danish politician Bjørn Brandenborg is her older brother.