Anne Mette Hansen


Anne Mette Hansen is a Danish handball player for CSM București and the Denmark women's national [handball team|Danish national team]. With over 200 caps, she is the 5th most capped player for the Danish national team ever.

National team career

She debuted for the Danish national team on 27 October 2013, and the same year she represented Denmark at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia, where the Danish team won bronze medals beating Poland in the third place playoff 30-26. She has been a mainstay on the national setup since. Since then she has won two additional bronze medals in 2021 and 2023.
At the 2024 Olympics she won another bronze medal. Later the same year, she won silver medals at the 2024 European Championship, losing to Norway in the final.
At the 2025 World Women's Handball Championship Denmark went out in the quarterfinal to France after winning all matches in the group stages. The Danish team was affected by a lot of players missing the tournament including goalkeepers Sandra Toft and Althea Reinhardt and pivots Sarah Iversen and Rikke Iversen. This was the first time since 2019 that Denmark left a major international tournament without any medals. In the quarterfinal against France Hansen only scored a single goal in the 59th minute when the match had already been decided.

Club career

Anne Mette Hansen started playing handball at the age of 10 at FHH90. In 2010 she went to Københavns Idrætsefterskole while at the same time switching to Ajax København. Here she made her senior league debut in the Danish 1st Division in 2014, before signing her first professional contract with København Håndbold. She played at København Håndbold for three years before moving to Hungarian side Győri Audi ETO KC at the age of 22. She played with Győri for 6 years, where she won EHF Champions League two times in a row in 2018 and 2019.
In 2023 she switched to the French league champions Metz Handball. She said regarding the transfer, that she look forward to playing alongside national team colleagues Kristina Jørgensen and Louise Burgaard.

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