Happy and Healthy New Year
The IKF Council wishes all of you a Happy, Healthy and Sportive 2017.
Another challenging year is ahead of us all.
The IKF Council wishes all of you a Happy, Healthy and Sportive 2017.
Another challenging year is ahead of us all.
In two weeks time the first IKF event in 2017 is on the agenda; the 51st edition of the IKF Europa Cup in Sassenheim , The Netherlands.
Due to a very late withdrawal of the Polish Champion UKK WUM Warszawa the IKF and the organisers had a huge challenge; can we find at this late stage another European champion club team. Despite all efforts they did not manage to find a club team that was able to take the open spot.
The IKF Europa Cup 2017 will be played with nine club teams, all national champions in their country from Thursday 12 till Saturday 14 January 2017.
The first match wil start 12 January 10.45 AM (GMT +1); NC Benfica – KV Adler Rauxel e.V.
The IKF Europa Cup final is scheduled to start Saturday 14 January 17.00 PM
The adjusted pools and match schedule are available: CLICK HERE
As in previous editions of the major IKF events all matches will be available through live web casting via worldkorfball.org and the ikfchannel on YouTube.
(by Jan Fransoo – IKF President) “The Youth is our Future” is not only of general importance, but in particular to the future of korfball.
My predecessors have been always focused on youth as a source of growth. The first international competition for national teams was the European Youth Championship, then for U23 athletes. Many may not know that the first IKF World Korfball Championship in 1978 was also a youth championship and only open to U23 athletes.
In Europe, a longer tradition of youth competitions has existed, in particularly fueled by the KNKV hosting invitational World Cups U23 (held for many years in Apeldoorn), U19 (in the Northern Netherlands) and U16/U17 (In Schijndel). Countries sending teams to these events have typically alsoi been successful with their (open) national teams.
A few years ago, the IKF Congress decided to make a bold step and aim for more youth competitions at an international level. It was decided that at each of the continents U15 and U17 championships would be held for national teams, and that at world level the IKF would hold championships at U19 and U21. Recently, the IKF Council has slightly revised the rhythms and frequency of these events, and also made clear that it is up to the Continental Confederations to decide whether continental youth events would be held, and in which format. Asia, for instance, has moved ahead with Korfball4 championships for U17 and U19.
It is now important that all countries set themselves targets to take part in these international youth championships. Participation can only happen if a national organization also sets up youth club or school leagues within the country. Unfortunately, especially many of the countries that have joined the IKF in the past ten years do not have such competitions, despite being active with youth promotion in schools or otherwise.
I believe it is crucial for a country to develop its youth korfball competition system. Especially with the introduction of korfball4 as an official competition format, it has now become much easier to start a youth league or championship tournament: fewer players and less space is needed. Even in case there is locally a shortage of equipment this has become much easier: korfball4 can also be played with only a single korf.
I do hope that aiming for entering into an international competition can be an extra incentive to organize youth leagues. As an example, the Chinese Taipei Korfball Association has for many years now given the right to represent the national federation to the school teams that wins the U17 competition. In another move, the coach of the champion of the U19 competition, gets appointed national coach and the ability to select the national U19 team. Many of these incentives can help to motivate schools and clubs to set up youth teams. Only your creativity is the limit.
Jan Fransoo
IKF President
Today we published the updated IKF Europa Cup Booklet.
This Booklet tells the full history of 50 IKF Europa Cup Events since 1967. The IKF Europa Cup is the korfball event with the longest history.
The 51th IKF Europa Cup will be played from 12 – 14 January 2017 in Sassenheim in the city of Teylingen in the venue of TOP.
You can find the booklet under “Documents” or clicking here.
From Thursday 12 January till Saturday 14 January 2017 the 51st IKF Europa Cup final round korfball will be played in the Netherlands, in Sassenheim, in the city of Teylingen.
Thursday 12 January 2017 9.30 AM the first match will start; NC Benfica versus KV Adler Rauxel e.V
Today IKF Europe published the IKF Europa Cup 2017 match schedule (all times in GMT + 1):
Thursday 12 January 2017 | |||
9:30 | 1 | NC Benfica | KV Adler Rauxel e.V |
10:45 | 2 | Korfbal Klub Brno | Kocaeli University Sport Club |
12:00 | 3 | UKK WUM Warszawa | Boeckenberg Korfbal Club |
13:15 | 4 | TOP/Quoratio | Szentendre Kinizsi Honvéd SE |
14:30 | 5 | Trojans Korfball Club | KV Adler Rauxel e.V |
15:45 | 6 | Club Korfbal Vallparadis | Kocaeli University Sport Club |
17:00 | 7 | UKK WUM Warszawa | NC Benfica |
18:15 | 8 | Szentendre Kinizsi Honvéd SE | Korfbal Klub Brno |
19:30 |
– 19:50 |
Opening |
Ceremony |
20:00 | 9 | Boeckenberg Korfbal Club | Trojans Korfball Club |
21:15 | 10 | TOP/Quoratio | Club Korfbal Vallparadis |
Friday 13 January 2017 | |||
10:00 | 11 | Trojans Korfball Club | UKK WUM Warszawa |
11:15 | 12 | Szentendre Kinizsi Honvéd SE | Club Korfbal Vallparadis |
12:00 | 13 | KV Adler Rauxel e.V | Boeckenberg Korfbal Club |
13:45 | 14 | TOP/Quoratio | Kocaeli University Sport Club |
15:00 | 15 | NC Benfica | Trojans Korfball Club |
16:15 | 16 | Club Korfbal Vallparadis | Korfbal Klub Brno |
17:30 | 17 | KV Adler Rauxel e.V | UKK WUM Warszawa |
18:45 | 18 | Kocaeli University Sport Club | Szentendre Kinizsi Honvéd SE |
20:00 | 19 | TOP/Quoratio | Korfbal Klub Brno |
21:15 | 20 | Boeckenberg Korfbal Club | NC Benfica |
Results | |||
Pool A | Pool B | ||
1 | |||
2 | |||
3 | |||
4 | |||
5 | |||
Saturday 14 January 2017 | |||
9:00 | 21 | Nr 5 pool A | Nr 5 Pool B |
11:00 | 22 | Nr 4 pool A | Nr 4 Pool B |
13:00 | 23 | Nr 3 pool A | Nr 3 Pool B |
15:00 | 24 | Nr 2 pool A | Nr 2 Pool B |
17:00 | 25 | Nr 1 pool A | Nr 1 Pool B |
18:45 | Medal Ceremony and | Closing ceremony |
The Tournament Rules IKF Europa Cup 2017
THURSDAY 12 and FRIDAY 13 January 2017
Preparation time before a match 10 minutes |
2 x 17 minutes Real Playing Time (RPT) |
1 x Time Out per team |
6 (reversible) substitutions |
Half Time 4 minutes |
Golden Goal 5 minutes RPT |
Penalties sudden death |
SATURDAY 14 January 2017
Preparation time before a match 20 minutes |
2 x 25 minutes Real Playing Time (RPT) |
2 x Time Outs per team |
8 (reversible) substitutions |
Half Time 10 minutes |
Golden Goal 10 minutes RPT |
Penalties whole team of 8 players |
The full History Booklet of the IKF Europa Cup is available: https://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IKF-ECup-History-Booklet-January-2016.pdf
Today we publish the new history booklet re. the IKF Asia Oceania Korfball Championship (IKF AOKC). All nine IKF AOKC Events are described. The 10th IKF AOKC is planned in 2018 and awarded to Japan.
Thanks to the work of Mr Erik Buizer, Mr Tim Miller and Mr Inglish Huang this booklet is ready.
From Thursday 12 January till Saturday 14 January 2017 the 51st IKF Europa Cup final round korfball will be played in the Netherlands, in Sassenheim, in the city of Teylingen. The Royal Dutch Korfball Federation (KNKV) will organize this event in close cooperation with TOP/Quoratio.
The International Korfball Federation is proud and happy to announce the 10 national champions that will participate in this edition of the IKF Europa Cup.
Which team will win the IKF Europa Cup in 2017?
The last edition of this annual korfball event took place in Budapest (Hungary) in January 2016. The winner was PKC/SWK Groep, Papendrecht, Netherlands.
After the first round, a qualification event, of the IKF Europa Cup 24 and 25 September in Cardiff, Wales all 10 participating teams in the final round are known:
BELGIUM : Boeckenberg Korfbal Club
CATALONIA : Club Korfbal Vallparadís /Assessoria
CZECH REPUBLIC : Korfbal Klub Brno
ENGLAND : Trojans Korfball Club
GERMANY : KV Adler Rauxel e.V
HUNGARY : Szentendrei Kinizsi Honvéd SE
POLAND : UKK WUM Warszawa
PORTUGAL : Nucleo de Corfebol de Benfica
TURKEY : Kocaeli University Sport Club
NETHERLANDS : TOP/Quoratio
The Pools are:
Pool A | Pool B |
TOP/Quoratio | Boeckenberg Korfbal Club |
Korfbal Klub Brno | NC Benfica |
Club Korfbal Vallparadis | Trojans Korfball Club |
Kocaeli University Sport Club | KV Adler Rauxel |
Szentendrei Kinizsi Honvéd SE | UKK WUM Warszawa |
Within two weeks the IKF Europa Cup 2017 match schedule will be published.
The full IKF History Booklet of this event with all details on all 50 preceding events is available in the IKF website. The link is: CLICK HERE FOR THE IKF EUROPA CUP HISTORY BOOKLET .
One more time, The Netherlands beat Belgium in the IKF EKC final played in Dordrecht’s Sportboulevard Sunday, October 30,2016. The power of the Dutch team was overwhelming in the first minutes, creating a huge gap in the scoreboard with 10-2 at the end of the first quarter, making it almost impossible to go back for the Belgians.. Belgium tried to recover, but it was an impossible mission given the excellent performance of the Dutch who were supported by a home crowd of 4,000 in a sold-out venue. The final result: 27-14.
The bronze medal game was a terrific and exciting game between two similar and experienced teams. Catalonia lead in the beginning, but Portugal came back and turned the game around. Only in the last minutes the Catalan team was able to open a little breach, which became decisive in the final result (12-16). This bronze medal is the first ever achieved by the Catalan national korfball team in an IKF senior tournament.
You can rewatch both games via the following links:
NED – BEL: www.worldkorfball.org/matches/netherlands-belgium-1975
POR – CAT: www.worldkorfball.org/matches/portugal-catalonia-1974
The final IKF EKC 2016 ranking is:
Gold medal: The Netherlands
Silver medal: Belgium
Bronze medal: Catalonia
4th place: Portugal
5th place: Germany
6th place: England
7th place: Czech Republic
8th place: Russia
9th place: Poland
10th place: Turkey
For more information, all the statistics, updated top scorers and ranking pools, visit the following link: www.worldkorfbal.org
You can review and follow all the tournament live 24/7 on IKF social media profiles timelines and hashtags (#EKC2016) on facebook.com/korfball.org and twitter.com/korfball. Here you will find all photos, videos, behind the scenes and after match interviews.
The live webcasting and live streaming of all games through IKF Youtube channel went on with more and new suprises every day. Enjoy again it from any country in the world! And discover IKF’s new Instragram account: instagram.com/korfball_org
On www.worldkorfball.org you can find and rewatch all games played during all the championship, live streamed in HD high quality webcasting, with English commentaries by Tom Brady.
DAY 8 IMAGE GALLERY (Finals): By (c) Marco Spelten (www.Facebook.com/ActiefotografieNL) & Nathalie Kruidenier.
More images from the medal ceremony [ûpdated Monday, October 31, 2016]: By (c) Marco Spelten (www.Facebook.com/ActiefotografieNL)
Six games were played today in IKF EKC 2016 Day 7 in Dordrecht. The most important duels were the ones involving teams with options to achieve the 5th place in this IKF European Korfball Championship 2016.
At the end of the day, Germany was able to beat both England and Czech Republic, becoming 5th classified in this tournament. In 6th place ended England and in 7th, Czech Republic. Russia beated Poland (15-13) to reach place 8 in IKF EKC 2016 and secure its spot in 2018 IKF EKC “A” group.
The final ranking after today’s games is:
5th place: Germany
6th place: England
7th place: Czech Republic
8th place: Russia
9th place: Poland
10th place: Turkey
Tomorrow Sunday, October 30, will be the big day, with the bronze medal game between Portugal and Catalonia (at 11:30). Later at 13:30 (local time), the big IKF EKC 2016 final: The Netherlands – Belgium.
Both games will be live streamed on www.worlkorfball.org with English commentaries and also live on the Dutch national TV broadcaster NOS.
Official links:
POR – CAT (11:30 CET+1): www.worldkorfball.org/matches/portugal-catalonia-1974
NED – BEL (13:30 CET+1): www.worldkorfball.org/matches/netherlands-belgium-1975
Here you can see today’s Day 7 results:
For more information, all the statistics, updated top scorers and ranking pools, visit the following link: www.worldkorfbal.org
You can review and follow all the tournament live 24/7 on IKF social media profiles timelines and hashtags (#EKC2016) on facebook.com/korfball.org and twitter.com/korfball. Here you will find all photos, videos, behind the scenes and after match interviews.
The live webcasting and live streaming of all games through IKF Youtube channel will be going on with more and new suprises. Enjoy it from any country in the world! And discover IKF’s new Instragram account: instagram.com/korfball_org
On www.worldkorfball.org you can find and rewatch all games played today and during all the championship, live streamed in HD high quality webcasting, with English commentaries by Tom Brady.
Game 29: ENGLAND – CZECH REPUBLIC
DAY 7 IMAGE GALLERY: By (c) Marco Spelten (www.Facebook.com/ActiefotografieNL)
After match EKC 2016 Day 7 Interviews
The Netherlands and Belgium won their semi final games against Portugal and Catalonia respectively on Friday 30 October of the IKF European Korfball Championship 2016 in Dordrecht and will play the final for the gold medal on Sunday, Oct 30, at 13:30 (local time).
The Catalans and the Portuguese did their best in these two semi final matches, but even in the 1st quarter both finalists showed how powerful they are, leading their games comfortably from the beginning until the end. These two teams will play for the bronze medal on Sunday too at 11:30.
England beated Turkey easily in today’s first game, as well as Germany over Poland in the 2nd game. Both ENG and GER will play its first game on Saturday 29 at 16:15. Afterwards these two teams have to play their last game against Russia and Czech Republic (see schedule below).
On the other hand, Turkey and Poland have the opportunity to win their first game in the clash that they will play tomorrow Saturday 29 at 15:00.
Here you can see today’s Day 6 results.
For more information, all the statistics, updated top scorers and ranking pools, visit the following link: www.worldkorfbal.org
You can review and follow all the tournament live 24/7 on IKF social media profiles timelines and hashtags (#EKC2016) on facebook.com/korfball.org and twitter.com/korfball. Here you will find all photos, videos, behind the scenes and after match interviews.
The live webcasting and live streaming of all games through IKF Youtube channel will be going on with more and new suprises. Enjoy it from any country in the world! And discover IKF’s new Instragram account: instagram.com/korfball_org
On www.worldkorfball.orgyou can find and rewatch all games played today and during all the championship, live streamed in HD high quality webcasting, with English commentaries by Tom Brady.
Game 23: RUSSIA – CZECH REPUBLIC
Game 25: THE NETHERLANDS – PORTUGAL
DAY 6 IMAGE GALLERY: By (c) Marco Spelten (www.Facebook.com/ActiefotografieNL)
After match EKC 2016 Day 6 Interviews