As of December 2024, Norway has been in 27 finals and is regarded as one of the finest women's national handball teams ever, with 34 medals.

Norway is unsurpassed in the European Championships, having won eight golds, three silvers, and one bronze in fourteen tournaments.

The very first match of the Norwegian women's national handball team, against Sweden in 1946, was met with great public interest.

Several players who had trained with the team up to this point were left out or kept as reserves, most notably Isabel Blanco and Terese Pedersen.

There were no debuts in the group selected by Marit Breivik, but veteran Tonje Larsen made her comeback to the team after five years of struggle with injury.

[9] During the warm up of this match Katja Nyberg suffered a knee injury that prevented her from playing the quarter final against Sweden.

Katrine Lunde Haraldsen quickly started the last attack of the game with a pass to Karoline Dyhre Breivang, who was already at the middle of the field.

The goal was validated by the referees but the Norwegians refrained from celebrating until the IHF delegate finally confirmed the decision.

They were already leading by 10 goals after 14 minutes played and Trefilov's team never managed to lower that margin below a five-goal difference.

Two Norwegian players were selected into the tournament's All-Star Team: Katrine Lunde Haraldsen as goalkeeper and Else-Marthe Soerlie-Lybekk as pivot.

[20] After the Olympic Games, Breivik encountered challenges for the 2008 European Championship: Lybekk retired from the national team, Snorroeggen was recovering from a shoulder injury and both Hammerseng and Nyberg would forego international play in order to recover from recent sport activity with only club matches.

Three players made their debut: Heidi Løke (pivot) and Tine Rustad Kristiansen (centre back) from Larvik, and Camilla Herrem (left wing) from Byåsen.

[30] Euro 2008 was the third European Championship gold in a row for Norway, and the fourth title in the history of the team.

Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth was top scorer of the tournament with 51 goals and four Norwegian players were included in the All-Star Team: Riegelhuth as right wing, Katrine Lunde Haraldsen as goalkeeper, Tonje Larsen as left back and Kristine Lunde as center back.

[33] At the 2016 European Women's Handball Championship in Sweden, the Norwegian team won their seventh title.

The team won a silver medal at the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany, defeated by France in the final.

At the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship in France they failed to reach the semi-finals, but finished 5th after defeating Sweden in the top 5 match.

In 1999 Norway won their first gold medal after a final match against France that needed two overtimes to break the tie.