Hermansson-Högdahl has played 222 matches for the Swedish national team, and scored 1100 times.

As a club player she won the Women's EHF Champions League with Hypo Niederösterreich two times (1993/94, 1994/95).

[3] Mia Hermansson-Högdahl started playing handball at HP Warta when she was 10 years old.

[4] While playing for HP Warta she debuted for the senior Swedish national team in 1984.

[6] In 1996 she returned to Norway and Byåsen, where she won another Norwegian title, before playing a single year at BM Sagunto in Spain before retiring.