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IKF World Korfball Championship 2023 – Group Draw

July 10, 2023/0 Comments/in Korfball News, Populair /by Dean Woods

The group draw for the IKF World Korfball Championships 2023 took place on Monday, 10 July 2023 in Taipei City and was broadcast live on the IKF YouTube channel. 

The IKF World Korfball Championships 2023 will host more teams than ever before, with 24 teams competing later this year in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei for the title. 

IKF President Jan Fransoo and IKF Secretary General Joana Faria were present for the press briefing and group draw along with Vice-Mayor Yi-Hua, Lin from Taipei City Government, Director Hong-Xiang, Wang from Taipei City Sports Department, and Mrs. Shu-Wei, Huang. 

From the Chinese Taipei Korfball Association President Wei-Chiang, Huang, Vice President Guo-Jin, Han, Secretary-General Yu-Tang, Wen, former Director Wu-Hsiung, Huang were also present along with Coach Mr. Feng and players from team Chinese Taipei. 

The Draw 

To set the groups and pots, the IKF World Rankings from 1 January 2023 was used. The 24 participant teams were split across eight groups, A-H, with the highest ranking top 8 teams placed automatically one into each group, the remaining teams were selected from the pots. 

Group A  Group B  Group C  Group D  Group E  Group F  Group G  Group H 
NED  BEL  TPE  GER  CHN  POR  SUR  CZE 
Pot 2  Pot 2  Pot 2  Pot 2  Pot 1  Pot 1  Pot 1  Pot 1 
Pot 3  Pot 3  Pot 3  Pot 3  Pot 4  Pot 4  Pot 4  Pot 4 

Who was in each pot? 

Pot 1: Catalonia, England, Hungary, Poland  

Pot 2: New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong China, Slovakia  

Pot 3: Ireland, Japan, Brazil, Türkiye  

Pot 4: India, South Africa, Thailand, Malaysia 

The full draw 

Group A: Netherlands, Slovakia, Brazil

Group B: Belgium, Hong Kong China, Türkiye

Group C: Chinese Taipei, New Zealand, Ireland

Group D: Germany, Australia, Japan 

Group E: China, England, India

Group F: Portugal, Poland, South Africa 

Group G: Suriname, Hungary, Malaysia 

Group H: Czech Republic, Catalonia, Thailand

The 12th edition of the World Championships will take place between 20 and 29 October 2023 in Tapiei City, Chinese Taipei, with the group stage matches being played over the first 5 days of the tournament. 

Missed the draw? Watch it here 

Previous news:

27/11/2022 ► IKF Council decides to host 24 teams / Qualified teams from Europe for the WKC 2023 after the IKF EU WKC Qualifiers A & B 2022
16/11/2022 ► Qualified teams from Africa for the WKC 2023 after the IKF AAKC North-West 2022
13/11/2022 ► Qualified teams from Africa for the WKC 2023 after the IKF AAKC South 2022
7/12/2022 ► Qualified teams from Asia & Oceania for the WKC 2023 after the IKF AOKC 2022
22/12/2022 ► Qualified teams from South-America for the WKC 2023 after the IKF PAKC 2022

Qualifying event for The World Games 2025 in Chengdu.

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