Faroe Islands women’s national handball team: Difference between revisions

| World cup best =17th ([[2025 World Women’s Handball Championship|2025]])

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.in.fo/itrottur/sport-detail/kvinnurnar-leiktu-seg-vidari/|title=Kvinnurnar leiktu seg víðari|last=Heldarskarð|first=Neli|date=11 June 2017|publisher=In.fo|language=Faroese|accessdate=11 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615090901/http://www.in.fo/itrottur/sport-detail/kvinnurnar-leiktu-seg-vidari/|archive-date=15 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Faroe Island qualified for the territory’s first [[European Women’s Handball Championship]] in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hsf.fo/hesar-18-skulu-til-em-endaspaelid/|title=Hesar 18 skulu til EM-endaspælið|publisher=[[Handball Federation of the Faroe Islands]]|date=5 November 2024|access-date=10 December 2024}}</ref> The same way they qualified for their first [[World Women’s Handball Championship]] in 2025.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dr.dk/sporten/haandbold/vm/haandboldfeber-paa-faeroeerne-folk-siger-i-er-saa-smaa|publisher=[[Danmarks Radio]]|title=Håndboldfeber på Færøerne: Folk siger, ‘I er så små’|date=26 November 2025|access-date=26 November 2025|language=da}}</ref> With wins over Spain and Paraguay they advanced from the preliminary groups and recorded their first ever win at a major international tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dr.dk/sporten/haandbold/vm/faeroesk-landsholdsspiller-har-det-saa-vildt-hun-naesten-ikke-kan-vaere-i-sin-egen-krop|title=Færøsk landsholdsspiller har det så vildt, at hun næsten ikke kan være i sin egen krop|date=Sebastian Taarsted Bagger|publisher=[[Danmarks Radio]]|access-date=15 December 2025|date=28 November 2025|language=da}}</ref>