Silje Brøns Petersen (born 5 December 1994) is a Danish-German

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 who plays for

PDO Handball Team Salerno PDO Handball Team Salerno, also known as Jomi Salerno due to sponsorship reasons, is a women's handball club from Salerno in Italia. Jomi Salerno competes in the Serie A. They are currently competing in the 2024–25 Women's EHF European Cup. ...

and since 2024 the German national team.

Early life

Brøns Petersen comes from the

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

suburb of

Herlev Herlev is a suburb about 11 km northwest of Copenhagen city centre, bordering Rødovre to the south, Ballerup to the west and Gladsaxe Municipality, Gladsaxe to the north. It is the site of the municipal council of Herlev Municipality, Denma ...

. She comes from a handball family: Her father was a player and is now a coach, her mother was a Champions League winner and her older sisters Emilie and Nikoline also play handball professionally as well.

Club career

As a teenager, Brøns Petersen was part of the Danish team at Rødovre HK and moved to the second division team Virum-Sorgefri HK in 2013. In 2015, she moved to the

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

club

Siófok KC Siófok Kézilabda Club is a former Hungary, Hungarian professional women's handball team from Siófok, that currently play in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II (women's handball), Nemzeti Bajnokság II. They have competed in lower divisions until 2006, wh ...

. In Spring 2016, her one-year contract was extended, but in May of the same year the contract was terminated and Petersen returned to Virum-Sorgefri. In December 2016 she moved to

HSG Blomberg-Lippe HSG Blomberg-Lippe is a German women's handball club, that competes in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen. They play their home matches in Schulzentrum Blomberg, which have capacity for 900 spectators. They play in blue shirts and black shorts. K ...

. In February 2018, her contract was extended to 2020. She then moved to

TuS Metzingen TuS Metzingen is a German women's handball team from Metzingen and Baden-Württemberg. It currently competes in the Frauen Handball-Bundesliga since 2012. In the 2016-17 season Tus Metzingen broke the attendance record in the Bundesliga, when 6 ...

International career

Brøns Petersen was called up to the German national team by head coach Henk Groener in November 2021. She made her international debut against

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on 7 November.dhb.de: ''Alina Grijseels entscheidet Thriller gegen Russland''
retrieved 7 November 2021.

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* 1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Herlev Municipality Danish female handball players German female handball players Handball players from the Capital Region of Denmark Danish expatriate handball players in Hungary Danish expatriate handball players in Germany Naturalized citizens of Germany Naturalised handball players Danish expatriate sportspeople in Italy German expatriate sportspeople in Italy German expatriate handball players 21st-century German sportswomen 21st-century Danish sportswomen {{Germany-handball-bio-stub