From 1 to 3 November 2019 the 1st Round of the IKF European Korfball Championship 2020 took place place in Lviv, Ukraine. This qualification tournament for the IKF European Korfball Championship 2020 was hosted by the All-Ukrainian Korfball Federation and ended with Turkey and Switzerland playing the final of this tournament and automatically qualify to play next year’s IKF EKC “B” 2020 in Poland (from 5 to 10 October 2020: more info). Greece qualified in 3rd place and will be first reserve team.

IKF EKC R1 2020 PARTICIPANTS:
POOL A: Turkey (TUR), Sweden (SWE), Ukraine (UKR) and Belarus (BLR).
POOL B: Greece (GRE), Switzerland (SUI) and Armenia (ARM).

IKF EKC R1 2020 FINAL RANKING:

1st: Turkey (TUR) – Qualified for the IKF EKC “B” 2020
2nd: Switzerland (SUI) – Qualified for the IKF EKC “B” 2020
3rd: Greece (GRE) – 1st reserve country for the IKF EKC “B” 2020
4th: Ukraine (UKR)
5th: Armenia (ARM)
6th: Sweden (SWE)
7th: Belarus (BLR)

All games can be watched again* with all the statistics, play-by-play, results, scorers and rankings on www.worldkorfball.sport
(*) Youtube live streaming signal & production was provided by НАЖИВО Production 

DAY 1 Results (Friday 1.11.2019)

RANKING POOLS AFTER DAY 1:
POOL A: 1st: Turkey (+3), 2nd: Sweden (+3), 3rd: Ukraine (+0), 4th: Belarus (+0)
POOL B: 1st: Greece (+3), 2nd: Switzerland (+0), 3rd: Armenia (+0)

DAY 2 Results (Saturday 2.11.2019)

RANKING POOLS AFTER DAY 2:
POOL A: 1st: Turkey (+9), 2nd: Ukraine (+6), 3rd: Sweden (+3), 4th: Belarus (+0)
POOL B: 1st: Switzerland (+6), 2nd: Greece (+3), 3rd: Armenia (+0)

DAY 3 Results (Sunday 3.11.2019)

More info and images on social media following the hashtag #ekc2020!

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