Ranking 31 December 2021 - International Korfball Federation

Up to 31 December 2021

NOTE II – 8/2/2022: Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ranking criteria for the cycle 2020/2023 have been adjusted by the IKF Council. This following the altered competition calendar and inequity of number of continental IKF events in the regular 4-year cycle. In the last two years it has only been possible to organise events in Europe.

The adjustments in the ranking criteria ensure that all European events will have an impact in the world ranking but at the same time European countries will not have an advantage compared with countries from other continents.

To ensure the above the two European Korfball Championships in 2021 (including the EKC Round 1 in Ukraine 2019) and the European World Korfball Championship Qualifiers in 2022 will be combined as one to obtain points for the world ranking. The overall classification will be the result from the average of the classifications in both European events and will be included in the world ranking points of 2022.

The five European countries participating in The World Games already qualified for the World Championship with their result at the IKF European Korfball Championship in Antwerp. Therefore, they will not participate in the EU WKC Qualifiers in 2022 and consequently earn their ranking points directly from the EKC A 2021 classification.

NOTE I – 2/2/2021: After an atypical year determined by the cancellation of almost all IKF competitions due to the covid-19 pandemic, the IKF world ranking reflects this fact.

The changes we can see are mainly due to a large decrease in the points from IKF NATIONAL TEAM EVENTS (either due to the lack of points resulting from non-participation in international competitions in 2020 or due to the lower weighting of older competitions). Thus, the basic points gain a bit more importance in defining the ranking of 2020, having less influence at the top of the ranking where there are almost no changes.

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Ranking criteria

The IKF World Ranking 2018 (from 1 July 2018) is based on the revised world ranking criteria 2018, approved by the IKF EXCO in June 2018.
Due to the continuously development of korfball around the globe and the establishment of the IKF Competition Calendar 2018-2021, an update of the world ranking criteria was required.
For the IKF World Ranking, the total number of points of each country is determined by adding:
1 . The basic points of each country, according to overall participation and development.
2. The points from IKF National Team Events of each country according to its ranking on IKF official events and the specific weightings, over the last four-year period.
Points for the ranking are mainly earned through participation in official IKF National Team Events, according to the classification of each country and the specific weightings, over the last four-year period.
Weights are given to different continental competitions to reflect the prestige of the tournament and to ensure that ratings are comparable across regions.
A year weighting is implemented to reward teams for most recent participation and performances and in order to prevent all games over the four-year period from carrying the same weight and receiving the exact same value.
If there is a specific qualifying round event for a main World or Continental event, the countries that do not qualify for the final round of a championship will still be given a position according to the final ranking obtained in the qualifying round event and will earn points according to it. The points earned in the qualifying rounds will only be added to the World Ranking when the points of the main event are added.
The official IKF World Ranking will be published:
– immediately after each IKF World Korfball Championship, The World Games and IKF U21 World Korfball Championship;
– immediately after the last IKF Continental Korfball Championship and IKF U23/U21 Continental Korfball Championship, of the year;
– in December of each year, with the addition of the Basic Points of that year.