MEDIA RELEASE: The European Handball Federation (EHF) has announced the female winners of the EHF Excellence Awards 2026 \u2014 the EHF\u2019s annual awards to honour the best handball players of the season.<\/p>\n
After the 2025\/26 European club season ended earlier this month, the women\u2019s Team of the Season has been revealed by the EHF on Tuesday (23 June).<\/p>\n
EHF Champions League winners Metz Handball are represented with four players, runners-up Gy\u00f6ri Audi ETO KC with three, and Team Esbjerg with one player.<\/p>\n
For every position on the playing court \u2014 goalkeeper, left wing, left back, centre back, line player, right back, right wing, and defender \u2014 six players were nominated based on their performances in the 2025\/26 season, both on club and national team level.<\/p>\n
The Team of the Season is based on the voting of four stakeholder groups: fans, players, coaches and media, each accounting for 25 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Team of the Season 2025\/26:<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Johanna Bundsen (Sweden \/ Metz Handball)
\nLeft wing:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chlo\u00e9 Valentini (France \/ Metz Handball)
\nLeft back:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bruna de Paula (Brazil \/ Gy\u00f6ri Audi ETO KC)
\nCentre back:\u00a0 \u00a0 Henny Reistad (Norway \/ Team Esbjerg)
\nRight back:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Dione Housheer (Netherlands \/ Gy\u00f6ri Audi ETO KC)
\nRight wing:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lucie Granier (France \/ Metz Handball)
\nLine player:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sarah Bouktit (France \/ Metz Handball)
\nDefender:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Kelly Dulfer (Netherlands \/ Gy\u00f6ri Audi ETO KC)<\/p>\n
From the players named in the seven positions and the best defender, the season\u2019s Most Valuable Player (MVP) will be selected by the EHF.<\/p>\n
The MVP of the 2025\/26 season and the best young player (aged 21 or younger) will be announced at the draw ceremony for the EHF Champions League group phase on Friday, 26 June at 11:00 CEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEDIA RELEASE: The European Handball Federation (EHF) has announced the female winners of the EHF Excellence Awards 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-507020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}