The IKF hereby publishes the match schedule for the IKF European Korfball Championship (IKF EKC) being held from 22 – 30 October 2016 in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. All details IKF EKC: Click here for match schedule and event rules.
The IKF EKC 2016 event rules are published as well.
Matches will be played in 4 quarters of 10 or 7.5 minutes Real Playing Time (RPT)
There will be a break of one (1) minute between quarters one and two and again between quarters three and four. Half time after Q2 shall be 10 minutes.
Each team will be allowed one (1) time out which can be requested at any time when play is stopped.
Each team will be allowed a maximum of 8 (reversible) substitutions.
If scores are level after the end of normal time a “Golden Goal” period of extra time shall be played with a maximum length of 10 minutes RPT. If there is no winner after the “Golden Goal” period, then the match shall be determined by penalties with all eight players from the end of the “Golden Goal” period taking penalties.
We draw your attention to the fact that this is the first time in IKF senior competitions that teams play their matches in four equal quarters of 10 or 7.5 minutes real playing time with one minute breaks between Q1 and Q2 and between Q3 and Q4.
Ten (10) teams are participating in the event. The Netherlands is the defending European Korfball Champion following their win in the last IKF EKC held in 2014 in Portugal.
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9 July 2016 KORFBALL FEDERATION OF SERBIA organized the “1st Beach Korfball Tournament” in Belgrade, in Ada Ciganlija lake sports venues. 10 teams with more than 70 players took part during 8 hours of matches.
There were also 3 teams with new players from Belgrade University, an important and huge first step to achieve a new young generation of korfball players in Belgrade and from all university centers in Serbia, which is one of the prime goals of KFS in recent future.
Following completion of the two qualification events last week in France and Slovakia, all 10 countries that have qualified for the IKF European Korfball Championship 2016 are known.
The IKF EKC are to be held from 22 October to 30 October 2016 in the Netherlands, in the city of Dordrecht.
The 10 countries that have achieved qualification are as follows.
Belgium, Catalonia, Czech Republic, England, Germany, The Netherlands (reigning champion), Poland, Portugal, Russia and Turkey.
Following the draw 6 June 2016 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, the pools are:
POOL A
POOL B
The Netherlands (NED)
Belgium (BEL)
Catalonia (CAT)
England (ENG)
Germany (GER)
Portugal (POR)
Russia (RUS)
Czech Republic (CZE)
Turkey (TUR)
Poland (POL)
Following the last IKF European Korfball Championship held in Portugal in 2014, The Netherlands is the reigning champion.
For further information regarding the History of the IKF European Korfball Championship please refer to the IKF website, www.korfball.org, go to the ‘Documents’ tab and searching under ‘Event Booklets’ for the booklet ‘IKF European Korfball Championship.’
With this weekend’s qualification and tomorrow’s draw for the IKF EKC 2016, the build-up to the new competition structure in Europe has started. In the eventual new structure, the European Korfball Championship will be held every two years, with A and B groups competing for the title and for promotion respectively.
Some history
The IKF European Korfball Championship has been held since 1998. The first edition was held in Estoril (POR). Until 2006, the Championship was held every four years, with 8 teams taking part in the final round. The European Champion is award the Ton Marteijn Trophy. Qualification was conducted in many different formats. The best two teams that did not qualify have contested each four years the so-called European Bowl, the winner of which was awarded the Jan Hanekroot Trophy.
16 Teams
With the growth of the number of competing countries, IKF Europe decided that from 2010 onwards, the European Championship would be held with 16 teams. The Netherlands (2010) and Portugal (2014) hosted this Championship running over a period of 10 days. Differences in strength were however large and the length of 10 days was deemed too long by many participants. Further, at the 2013 Lisbon Congress, the European Countries agreed with a new bi-annual schedule.
Promotion and Relegation
With the Championship to be held every two years, a system with an A-Championship and a separate B-Championship became possible. The idea is that a certain number of teams will relegate from the A-Championship to the B-Championship after each edition, and a certain number of teams from the B-Championship will be promoted. Whether this will be a direct promotion of relegation, or whether play-offs will need to be played, is yet to be determined.
2018: First new format IKF EKC
The first IKF European Korfball Championship in the new format will be hosted by the Netherlands in 2018. They will host both the A-Championship and the B-Championship. To transition from the old format championship to the new format, in 2016 the Netherlands will also host a European Korfball Championship; this edition from 22-30 October in Dordrecht will see 10 teams compete.
IKF EKC 2016
The countries taking part in the IKF EKC 2016 are: Netherlands (current Champion and host), Belgium, Portugal, England, Czech Republic, and Russia (qualified at the 2014 IKF EKC), Germany, Poland (qualified through a tournament in Slovakia), Turkey and Catalonia (qualified through a tournament in France).
The countries finishing at the top-8 of the upcoming IKF European Korfball Championship will play for the A- Championship in 2018; the remaining two countries will play for the B-Championship.
IKF EKC 2018
The Netherlands will host both the A-Championship and the B-Championship in 2018. For the B-Championship, the following countries have already qualified: France, Wales (qualified through a tournament in France), Slovakia and Scotland (qualified through a tournament in Slovakia). The remaining two places for the B-Championship will be contested at a qualification event to which all non-qualified European countries can enter. This event will be held in 2017 at a date and location to be determined later.
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Intense second day of IKF EKC R1 West 2016 qualification tournament in Saint Etienne. A lot happened; sometimes could have been written for a Alfred Hitchcock’s movie.
A thrilling first match between Turkey and Ireland. At a score of 6-2 in favour of Turkey one of the shot clocks gave problems. Because of this there was a “technical time out” of about 15 minutes. Kees Verhoeven used this for focussing his Irish team. On the other hand the Turkish team struggled to get back to the level they had before. Ireland came in the lead with two goals, but in the last minute with just 30 seconds on the clock the Turkish team equalised the score. Ireland won the toss for the Golden Goal, but the first ball was lost unfortunately, the Turkish team scored directly after that, so Turkey won, 10-9 GG.
Compliments for the local organisation for organising a working spare set of shot clock very soon.
France beat Sweden by 17-4. Again Catalonia showed their supremacy in a match against the Wales squad; unless their working till the last minute, 15-5.
The second part of the day was decisive for the top and the others. In their fourth match against Ireland, Sweden enjoyed the moment they were in the lead in this game (1-0), but after that it was Ireland making the difference. Ireland won, 8-17.
Turkey qualified for the final round of IKF European Korfball Championship 2016 (October, The Netherlands) in a match with two hard working teams, both searching for an effective attack. Unfortunately this searching was for both teams not very successful, therefore a low score at the end, 4-11. But enough for Turkey to qualify.
Catalonia, the team with best play shown till now: attractive, stable and fast ball play had to defeat France, this evening again supported by a large and enthusiastic audience. The French players showed their perseverance, but that was not enough to beat Catalonia. With their victory of 4-18 Catalonia gained qualification for the final round of IKF EKC 2016
Because of this in the first two matches of tomorrow will be decided the ranking for the places three till six. In the last match Catalonia and Turkey will battle for the first position in the ranking of this qualification competition.
Ranking after four matches (of five)
Catalonia 4-12
Turkey 4-11
France 4-6
Ireland 4-4
Wales 4-3
Sweden 4-0
On the other hand, these are the results in IKF EKC R1 in Nitra, where the other teams also competed to qualify for the final round of IKF EKC 2016 in October.
Day 2 (Saturday) results in IKF EKC R1 West & East 2016
From Friday 3 until Sunday 5 June 2016, all participant teams are competing to be the numbers 1 and 2 of their IKF EKC R1 tournaments, which classifies for the IKF EKC 2016 that will take place from 22 to 30 October 2016 in the Netherlands.
All games are being played in Saint Etienne (France) and Nitra (Slovakia). And they can be watched in live streaming in the followings links inside www.worldkorfball.org IKF’s website:
R.West (St. Etienne): goo.gl/Q7A777
R.East (Nitra): goo.gl/VKrE2v
Enjoy these two amazing tournaments through the internet on our live streaming links and visiting our social media profiles:
Saturday 16 April 2016 we have the Dutch Korfball League finals in the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. Around 11,000 spectators in the venue will create a sportive atmosphere.
We are happy to be able to show this LIVE in the ikfchannel on YouTube again. You may be able anywhere in the world to follow this LIVE. Mr Tom Brady is the English commentator in the final.
The links to ikfchannel on YouTube are (all times in GMT + 0200):
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First time participant Dominican Republic earned the well deserved fourth place after a loss in the bronze medal match against Chinese Taipei (12 – 15). What a huge result for this relative new IKF country.
The 2016 U19 KWC final showed a ‘fight’ between the eternal rivals Belgium and The Netherlands. At half time the Netherland had a six goals lead; 13 – 7. The many hundered speactators in the sportvenue and the live webcasting viewers saw an exciting second half. After 15 – 10 the Belgian team scored 5 goals in a row despite a Dutch time out at 15 – 12. In the final minutes the Dutch managed to expand the lead to four goals again. The end result is 22 – 18 and the Dutch win the 21st edition of the U19 Korfball World Cup.
KNKV President, Mr Rob Meijer and the alderman of sport of the city of Leeuwarden Mr Andries Ekhart awarded the prizes in the closing ceremony in front of an enthousiastic crowd.
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The 21st edition of the U19 Korfball World Cup starts!
Thursday evening 24 March 2016 is the opening ceremony in sportcentre ‘t Kalverdijkje, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. The opening starts 19.30 PM (CET) [live here: http://goo.gl/NScYTI].
From Friday 25 till Sunday 27 March a record 15 countries compete to become the next U19 KWC champion. The Netherlands is the reigning U19 KWC champion. HongKong China and Dominican Republic are first time participants in this youth event.
Photos by Esther van Heertum and Nathalie Kruidenier (actiefotografie.nl – truefocus.nl – korfbalfoto.nl)
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