The research was conducted on 32 handball players performing for senior ( HC “Lokomotiva" Zagreb) and cadets ((HC “Split" Split) category. The aim of the research was to determine the differences in the pre-competition anxiety of female handball players of different age groups. The research used a standard questionnaire that is commonly used to assess competitive anxiety in sports. Descriptive statistics and variance analysis were used to find the difference between two groups of different ages. It was expected that the senior female handball players would have much more self-confidence than the cadets, that is, that the years of training and playing have raised the self-confidence of the senior female handball players. However, no such results have been obtained in this research. The results demonstrate that there is no statistically significant difference between self-confidence between senior and cadet female handball players, and that there are differences in somatic and cognitive anxiety, but these differences are also not significant. The reason for this may be the importance of the matches that have been played, since the current research suggests that it is extremely important whether the questionnaire was filled before the game of importance to the players or before the game that is less important or completely irrelevant to the players.