Throughout the 2021 IHF Women’s World Championship Main Round and President’s Cup: Group Phase a total of 46 matches were played with some impressive individual and team performances, statistically-speaking.

Every single match - like all at Spain 2021 - saw fans have the opportunity to help decide the ‘hummel Player of the Match’ award, via the IHF Official App with the IHF Analyst on site nominating a shortlist of three influential players with five minutes remaining and getting fans to vote.

Four teams have perfect records in the Main Round and President’s Cup: Group Phase with Cameroon, Denmark, Spain and Romania all taking three awards from their three matches but just Spain and Denmark can boast a perfect record at Spain 2021 with both teams taking six awards from their six games so far, although Cameroon have impressed with five awards in total.

Just three teams have failed to win an award so far, but two are still in action, with Tunisia, along with Uzbekistan, having one game left to play on Wednesday (15 December). People’s Republic of China leave the competition without taking one home.

With 20 awards out of a possible 94, goalkeepers top the chart, followed by centre back (17) and the other backcourt players, on the right and the left (15 each) in third spot.

But one player stands head and shoulders over everyone else – Republic of Korea centre back Lee Migyeong. The OMRON club player in Japan has won the individual award four times, two ahead of her nearest rivals. She wears the famous ‘Michael Jordan’ shirt #23, and along with the goalkeeper #12 jersey, they are the most common award winners, with seven each, 14 in total.

hummel Player of the Match awards – Spain 2021
(Main Round, President's Cup: Group Phase – 46 games played)

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Per Team

3 – Cameroon (CMR), Denmark (DEN), Spain (ESP), Romania (ROU) – 4 teams

2 – Austria (AUT), Brazil (BRA), Congo (CGO), France (FRA), Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), Republic of Korea (KOR), Norway (NOR), Paraguay (PAR), Poland (POL), Russian Handball Federation (RHF), Serbia (SRB), Slovakia (SVK), Sweden (SWE) – 13 teams 

1 – Angola (ANG), Argentina (ARG), Germany (GER), Hungary (HUN), Japan (JPN), Montenegro (MNE), Netherlands (NED), Puerto Rico (PUR) – 8 teams

0 – People’s Republic of China (CHN), Slovenia (SLO), Tunisia (TUN), Uzbekistan (UZB), Croatia (CRO), Kazakhstan (KAZ), Czech Republic (CZE) – 7 teams

Per Confederation

African Handball Confederation (CAHB) – 6 awards
Asian Handball Federation (AHF) – 5 awards
European Handball Federation (EHF) – 29 awards
North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation (NACHC) – 1 award
South and Central America Handball Confederation (SCAHC) – 5 awards

Per Position

8 – Goalkeeper
6 – Right Back
9 – Centre Back
7 – Left Back
4 – Left Wing
8 – Line Player
4 – Right Wing

Per Player

2 – Althea Rebecca Reinhardt (DEN), Cyrielle Ebanga Baboga (CMR), Ines Ivancok (AUT), Migyeong Lee (KOR), Pauletta Foppa (FRA)

1 – 36 players

Per Shirt Number

4 – #26

3 – #12, #16, #23

2 – #2, #18, #19, #24, #29, #33, #78, #96

1 – #1, #5, #7, #8, #10, #11, #13, #17, #20, #21, #27, #36, #39, #51, #66, #79, #91

Per Game

Match	Player	Country	Position	Shirt #
SVK vs TUN	Réka Bíziková	SVK	Left wing	91
CZE vs KOR	Migyeong Lee	KOR	Centre back	23
CRO vs ARG	Malena Cavo	ARG	Right back	17
PAR vs CHN	Jazmin Mendoza	PAR	Right wing	26
GER vs CGO	Fanta Diagouraga	CGO	Centre back	78
BRA vs AUT	Tamires de Araujo	BRA	Line player	7
DEN vs HUN	Althea Rebecca Reinhardt	DEN	Goalkeeper	16
ESP vs JPN	Martine Echeverria	ESP	Right wing	18
ANG vs CMR	Cyrielle Ebanga Baboga	CMR	Left back	19
RHF vs SLO	Iuliia Managarova	RHF	Right wing	36
NED vs ROU	Crina-Elena Pintea	ROU	Line player	21
IRI vs UZB	Elnaz Ghasemi	IRI	Line player	78
MNE vs SRB	Itana Grbic	MNE	Centre back	96
NOR vs PUR	Sanna Solberg-Isaksen	NOR	Left wing	24
FRA vs POL	Paulette Foppa	FRA	Line player	26
KAZ vs SWE	Emma Lindkvist	SWE	Right back	23
SVK vs PAR	Barbora Lancz	SVK	Right back	11
KOR vs GER	Emily Bölk	GER	Left back	20
ARG vs BRA	Barbara Arenhart	BRA	Goalkeeper	12
TUN vs CHN	Match cancelled*
HUN vs CGO	Viktória Lukács	HUN	Right wing	66
JPN vs AUT	Ines Ivancok	AUT	Left back	29
CZE vs DEN	Sandra Toft	DEN	Goalkeeper	1
CRO vs ESP	Irene Espinola Perez	ESP	Right back	51
ANG vs IRI	Fatemeh Khalili Behfar	IRI	Goalkeeper	12
MNE vs RHF	Antonina Skorobogatchenko	RHF	Right back	39
ROU vs PUR	Lorena-Gabriela Ostase	ROU	Line player	27
CMR vs UZB	Laeticia Petronie Ateba Engadi	CMR	Right back	33
SRB vs FRA	Tamara Radojevic	SRB	Centre back	18
KAZ vs NED	Tess Wester	NED	Goalkeeper	33
SLO vs POL	Dagmara Nocun	POL	Left wing	96
SWE vs NOR	Jamina Roberts	SWE	Left back	8
CHN vs SVK	Match cancelled*
CGO vs CZE	Sharon Lea Dorson	CGO	Line player	79
ARG vs JPN	Natsuki Aizawa	JPN	Centre back	26
TUN vs PAR	Fatima Acuña	PAR	Left wing	2
KOR vs HUN	Migyeong Lee	KOR	Centre back	23
AUT vs CRO	Ines Ivancok	AUT	Left back	29
DEN vs GER	Althea Rebecca Reinhardt	DEN	Goalkeeper	16
ESP vs BRA	Silvia Navarro Gimenez	ESP	Goalkeeper	12
UZB vs ANG	Albertina da Cruz Kassoma	ANG	Line player	10
POL vs MNE	Adrianna Placzek	POL	Goalkeeper	16
PUR vs KAZ	Nathalys Ceballos	PUR	Centre back	5
CMR vs IRI	Cyrielle Ebanga Baboga	CMR	Left back	19
SRB vs SLO	Jovana Kovacevic	SRB	Left back	24
SWE vs ROU	Cristina Laslo	ROU	Centre back	13
RHF vs FRA	Pauletta Foppa	FRA	Line player	26
NED vs NOR	Henny Reistad	NOR	Centre back	2

*Due to the withdrawal of People’s Republic of China, their games against Tunisia and Slovakia were forfeited with no hummel Player of the Match award given.

hummel Player of the Match awards – Spain 2021
(all matches – 94 played)

Per Team

6 – Denmark (DEN), Spain (ESP) – 2 teams

5 – Cameroon (CMR), Romania (ROU), Sweden (SWE) – 3 teams 

4 – Brazil (BRA), France (FRA), Hungary (HUN), Republic of Korea (KOR), Norway (NOR), Poland (POL) – 6 teams

3 – Argentina (ARG), Austria (AUT), Congo (CGO), Germany (GER), Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), Japan (JPN), Montenegro (MNE), Netherlands (NED), Paraguay (PAR), Russian Handball Federation (RHF), Serbia (SRB) – 11 teams

2 – Puerto Rico (PUR), Slovenia (SLO), Slovakia (SVK) – 3 teams

1 – Angola (ANG), Croatia (CRO), Czech Republic (CZE), Kazakhstan (KAZ) – 4 teams

0 – People’s Republic of China (CHN), Tunisia (TUN), Uzbekistan (UZB) – 3 teams

Per Confederation

African Handball Confederation (CAHB) – 9 awards
Asian Handball Federation (AHF) – 11 awards
European Handball Federation (EHF) – 62 awards
North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation (NACHC) – 2 awards
South and Central America Handball Confederation (SCAHC) – 10 awards

Per Position

20 – Goalkeeper
17 – Centre Back
15 – Right Back
15 – Left Back
10 – Line Player
9 – Right Wing
8 – Left Wing

Per Player

4 – Lee Migyeong (KOR)

3 – No players

2 – Aleksandra Rosiak (POL), Althea Rebecca Reinhardt (DEN), Antonina Skorobogatchenko (RHF), Cristina Laslo (ROU), Cyrielle Ebanga Baboga (CMR), Emma Lindkvist (SWE), Fatemeh Khalili Behfar (IRI), Ines Ivancok (AUT), Jamina Roberts (SWE), Marina Rajcic (MNE), Natahalys Ceballos (PUR), Natsuki Aizawa (JPN), Pauletta Foppa (FRA), Silvia Navarro (ESP)

1 – 62 players

Per Shirt Number

7 – #12, #23

5 – #1, #16, #26

4 – #2, #10

3 – #18, #19, #21, #22, #24, #33, #39

2 – #4, #5, #7, #8, #11, #13, #29, #78, #96

1 – #3, #6, #15, #17, #20, #25, #27, #36, #42, #44, #45, #51, #62, #66, #79, #90, #91, #98