HAT-TRICK! Mathias Gidsel is WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2025 by Handball-Planet!
Handball-Planet.com is proud to announce the results of our traditional Contest for the WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2025 powered by Nexe Grupa. The Danish superstar, Fuchse Berlin right-back Mathias Gidsel, received the most points based on the cumulative votes of 12 members of the international jury of handball journalists and website visitors for the third year in a row. The fantastic Danish lefthander becomes the first man to win three titles in a row and to level record of his compatriot Mikkel Hansen, who also won prestigious award three times in 2016, 2019, and 2021.
In three weeks of voting, all of 32 nominated players have got amazing support by the handball community. Handball lovers voted (49.649 on website polls and 6388 on Instagram page – 56.037 in total) for their favorite players in eight categories.
TOP 5 IN 2025
FINAL RESULTS
VOTING PROCESS
JURY MEMBERS:
Jonas Risager Nyhøj (TV 2 – Denmark)
Jasmin Tajić (Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jorge Dargel (MARCA, Spain)
Johan Flinck (Aftonbladet, Sweden)
Života Bogdanović (Balkan-handball.com, Serbia)
Sergey Prigolovkin (handballfast.com, Russia)
Rici Gjamovski (mkdhandball.mk, North Macedonia)
Lojze Grčman (Podcast Roling, Slovenia)
Luca Zadra (Pallamano Italia)
Bjorn Pazen (Handball Woche, Germany)
Uros Samardzic (TV Arena Sport, Serbia)
JURY MEMBERS FROM ALL OVER THE HANDBALL WORLD
Our goal that handball world gets a public and fair contest for the World best players of the year, since 2010 received a big support from the parts of handball globe. WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2024 Jury is consisted of the people with their names and CV’s with the clear aim to get opinion from different countries, continents, handball schools and traditions. Our Jury members are famous handball specialists in their countries, which coming from the biggest media (Marca, TV 2 NO, ORF, TV2 DK, TV Arena Sport), but also from specialized websites and newspapers as Handball Woche, Balkan-Handball.com, etc…
NAGY, JICHA, DUVNJAK, KARABATIĆ, HANSEN…
Handball-Planet.com looking for the 15th World’s Handball Player in the history of our Contest. Hungarian TOP star Laszlo Nagy won award in 2011 when over 6500 fans voted on our Poll question. WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2012 was Czech star Filip Jicha (over 13.000 voters), while in 2013 the first name in the handball world was Domagoj Duvnjak with unified opinion of Jury members and huge support of the fans (about 146.000 votes for all nominees in total).
The WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2014 was Nikola Karabatić, with the great support of Jury members, but also over 171.000 fans who voted in our Polls. Fantastic French star won also the title in 2015.
The winner of 2016 Contest was his team-mate from PSG Handball, Danish TOP star Mikkel Hansen.
He won his third title in 2021.
JIM GOTTFRIDSSON is title holder from 2022.
Title defender is Danish superstar Mathias Gidsel with two nominations in 2023 and 2024.
HANDBALL-PLANET.COM WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
2011 – Laszlo Nagy
2012 – Filip Jicha
2013 – Domagoj Duvnjak
2014 – Nikola Karabatic
2015 – Nikola Karabatic
2016 – Mikkel Hansen
2017 – Arpad Sterbik
2018 – Sander Sagosen
2019 – Mikkel Hansen
2020 – Sander Sagosen
2021 – Mikkel Hansen
2022 – Jim Gottfridsson
2023 – Mathias Gidsel
2024 – Mathias Gidsel
2025 – Mathias Gidsel
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