Like No One Before! Henny Reistad Wins Fourth Straight World Handball Player Award at Handball Planet
World Female Handball Player 2025 player is Norwegian superstar Henny Reistad!
Amazing 27-years old Scandinavian powerful left back has won the Handball-Planet.com contest powered by Nexe Grupa for the fourth time!
Reistad is the true leader of women’s handball for a few years with brilliant seasons in club and national team. She was leading start of Norwegian golden squad who won the Women’s World Championship 2025 in Roterdam.
Reistad won the highest number (35) of cumulative points of fans (4.308 votes in total on website + 2.656 on Instagram), Instagram and Handball Planet jury alongside Bruna de Paula (21), Dione Housheer (20), and Sarah Bouktit with 19 votes.
Player with the biggest fans support is Bruna de Paula with 981 votes in total!
WORLD FEMALE HANDBALL PLAYER 2025– ALL STAR TEAM:
World Female left wing 2025: Bo van Wetering (Győri Audi ETO KC – Netherlands)
World Female left back 2025: Henny Reistad (Team Esbjerg – Norway)
World Female playmaker 2025: Bruna de Paula (Győri Audi ETO KC – Brazil)
World Female right back 2025: Dione Housheer (Győri Audi ETO KC – Netherlands)
World Female right wing 2025: Emilie Hovden (Győri Audi ETO KC – Norway)
World Female line-player 2025: Sarah Bouktit (Metz Handball – France)
World Female goalkeeper 2025: Katrin Lunde (ZRK Crvena zvezda – Norway)
World Female defensive player 2025: Kelly Dulfer (Győri Audi ETO KC – Netherlands)
WORLD LEFT WING 2025
Bo van Wetering (Győri Audi ETO KC – Netherlands) — 16
Csenge Réka Fodor (Győri Audi ETO KC – Hungary) — 10
Chloé Valentini (Metz Handball – France) — 8
Elma Halilcevic (Odense Håndbold – Denmark) — 6
WORLD LEFT BACK 2025
Henny Reistad (Team Esbjerg – Norway) — 35
Emily Vogel (FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria – Germany) — 10
Estelle Nze Minko (Győri Audi ETO KC – France) — 9
Thale Rushfeldt Deila (Odense Håndbold – Norway) — 5
WORLD PLAYMAKER 2025
Bruna de Paula (Győri Audi ETO KC – Brazil) — 21
Helena Elver (Győri Audi ETO KC – Denmark) — 13
Alina Grijseels (Borussia Dortmund – Germany) — 4
Grâce Zaadi (RK Krim – France) – 3
WORLD RIGHT BACK 2025
Dione Housheer (Győri Audi ETO KC – Netherlands) — 20
Anna Vyakhireva (Brest Bretagne Handball – Russia) — 10
Nora Mørk (Team Esbjerg – Norway) — 8
Viola Leuchter (Odense Håndbold – Germany) — 4
WORLD RIGHT WING 2025
Emilie Hovden (Győri Audi ETO KC – Norway) — 15
Angela Malestein (Ferencvárosi TC – Netherlands) — 9
Lucie Granier (Metz Handball – France) — 9
Viktória Győri-Lukács (Odense Håndbold – Hungary) — 7
WORLD LINE-PLAYER 2025
Sarah Bouktit (Metz Handball – France) — 19
Kari Brattset Dale (Győri Audi ETO KC – Norway) — 14
Maren Aardahl (Odense Håndbold – Norway) — 5
Pauletta Foppa (Brest Bretagne Handball – France) — 5
WORLD GOALKEEPER 2025
Katrine Lunde (Crvena zvezda – Norway) — 18
Hatadou Sako (Győri Audi ETO KC – France) — 15
Anna Kristensen (Ferencvárosi TC – Denmark) — 5
Katharina Filter (Borussia Dortmund – Germany) — 4
WORLD DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST 2025
Kelly Dulfer (Győri Audi ETO KC – Netherlands) — 9
Xenia Smits (Metz Handball – Germany) — 7
Maren Aardahl (Odense Håndbold – Norway) — 4
Kari Brattset Dale (Győri Audi ETO KC – Norway) — 4
JURY MEMBERS:
Zika Bogdanovic (Handball-Planet.com)
Ibolya Szekeres (Time Out Mag, Norway)
Jorge Dargel (Marca – Spain)
Laura Agena (PlaymakerW, Argentina)
Jonas Risager Nyhøj (TV 2 – Denmark)
Bjorn Pazen (Handball Woche, Germany)
LOKE, TOMORI, NEAGU, MORK, VYAKHIREVA, OFTEDAL…
Handball-Planet.com looking for the 13th World’s Handball Player in the history of our Contest. The Norwegian line-player Heidi Loke won prestigious award three times (2011, 2013 and 2014), just like Romanian princess Cristina Neagu (2015, 2016 and 2018).
The WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2012 was Hungarian left back Zsuzsanna Tomori, Nora Mork won in 2017 and 2021, Anna Vyakhireva in 2019, while Stine Bredal Oftedal in 2020. The most successful champ is Henny Reistad who was the best in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
2011 – Heidi Løke
2012 – Zsuzsanna Tomori
2013 – Heidi Løke
2014 – Heidi Løke
2015 – Cristina Neagu
2016 – Cristina Neagu
2017 – Nora Mørk
2018 – Cristina Neagu
2019 – Anna Vyakhireva
2020 – Stine Bredal Oftedal
2021 – Nora Mørk
2022 – Henny Reistad
2023 – Henny Reistad
2024 – Henny Reistad
2025 – Henny Reistad
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