Mia Emmenegger (born 17 January 2005) is a Swiss female

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for

Team Esbjerg Team Esbjerg is a professional women's handball team based in Esbjerg, Denmark, that competes in the Bambusa Kvindeligaen and the 2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League. They play their home matches in Blue Water Dokken, which have capacity for ...

and the Swiss national team.

International

Emmenegger made her official debut on the Swiss national team on 6 October 2021, against

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. She represented Switzerland for the first time at the

2022 European Women's Handball Championship The 2022 European Women's Handball Championship was held in Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro from 4 to 20 November 2022. The tournament was advanced a month in order not to coincide with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. This tournament w ...

in Slovenia, Montenegro and North Macedonia, where she scored 17 goals in 3 matches. She was also a part of the national team for the EC that Switzerland co-host with Austria and Hungary in

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Club

On 12 March 2024 it was announced that Emmenegger had signed a two-years contract with

Vipers Kristiansand Vipers Kristiansand was a professional handball club from Kristiansand, Norway. The team competed in REMA 1000-ligaen, the top division in the country, since its promotion in 2001. They claimed their first Norwegian championship in 2018, ending ...

. She left less than a year later, when the club went bankrupt in January 2025. She then joined Danish side

Achievements

SPAR Premium League The SPAR Premium League (SPL) is the premier women's handball league in Switzerland, established in 1970. LC Brühl is the championship's most successful club by a large margin with 31 titles including two 11-years winning streaks, followed by AT ...

**''Bronze Medalist'': 2022 *

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

**''Bronze Medalist'':

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* Danish Championship: **''Silver Medalist'': 2025 ;Individual awards * EHF Excellence Awards Rookie of the season: 2024/25

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Emmenegger, Mia 2005 births Living people Swiss female handball players 21st-century Swiss sportswomen People from Wolhusen Sportspeople from the canton of Lucerne Swiss expatriate handball players Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate handball players in Norway Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Expatriate handball players in Denmark