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Saturday 26 andSunday 27 September 2015 in Budapest, Hungary 6 European national club teams compete for 3 places in the IKF Europa Cup final round in January 2016 in Budapest as well.
The six teams in the IKF Europa Cup 2016 first round are divided in two pools:
| Pool A | ||
| 1 | STATE UNIVERSITY-HSS | Russia |
| 2 | Edinburgh City Korfball Club | Scotland |
| 3 | SKK Dolphins Prievidza | Slovakia |
| Pool B | ||
| 1 | UKK WUM Warszawa | Poland |
| 2 | Szentendrei Korfball Klub | Hungary |
| 3 | Vardananq | Armenia |
Korfball will be featured as part of the program of the Generation Games from 11-15 October in Lausanne, the Olympic Capital. The Games are organized in collaboration with the International Olympic Committee and the City of Lausanne to engage Lausanne citizen in a healthy lifestyle.
The Generation Games organisation is a network of professionals in the field of sport, communication, creative concepts, design, events. The organization works together with several organisations, schools, Universities and internationally operating institutions that share the conviction regarding the importance of stimulating a healthy lifestyle for all ages, through this intergenerational sporting event.
Some exciting events are underway this week from 16 to 22 August in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. First of all, IKF in liaison with KNKV run the IKF Level III “Youth Coach Camp”. An international group of 22 coaches perform under guidance of current coach of Dutch korfball champion PKC, Mr. Ben Crum. He is appointed as a program manager for this course. Mr. Crum lead a group of prestigious coaches invited to guide the participants in the “Youth coach camp” and learn all about coaching drills at youth level. Amongst this group of tutors, coach of Dutch national team Mr. Wim Scholtmeijer, Mr .Jan Sjouke van den Bos, head of coaches for the KNKV and Mr Detlef Elewaut, coach of Belgium national team, conduct some of the sessions.
During the week several training sessions take place at different Dordrecht clubs featuring local korfballers from 11 to 16 years coming from the clubs: DeetosSnel, Sporting Delta, Movado, Oranje Wit, KC Dordrecht together with some players from KC Barcelona. The training sessions will be useful as a practice for the 22 coaches from 15 different countries representing all five continents. They participate this week in order to obtain the IKF level III diploma for international coaches:
| Coach | Country | M/F | |
| 1 | Javi Navarro | Catalonia | M |
| 2 | Nigel Cooper | Scotland | M |
| 3 | David Konecny | Czech Republic | M |
| 4 | Bandor Nagy | Hungary | M |
| 5 | Kevin De Waele | Belgium | M |
| 6 | Joe Stirling | England | M |
| 7 | Liandri Theyse | South Africa | F |
| 8 | Danie Smith | South AFrica | M |
| 9 | Pardeep Dahiya | India | M |
| 10 | Alice | Chinese Taipei | F |
| 11 | Bird | Chinese Taipei | F |
| 12 | Karen Fuchs | Germany | F |
| 13 | Keisuke Mashiba | Japan | M |
| 14 | Anna Schutze | Germany | F |
| 15 | Daniel Rivillini | Brazil | M |
| 16 | Maria J. Capparelli | Argentina | F |
| 17 | Sebastian J. Iula | Argentina | M |
| 18 | Diego Rodrigo | Argentina | M |
| 19 | Luciana Bortoletto | Brazil | F |
| 20 | Rosa Cooper | New Zealand | F |
| guest | Chattha Imtiaz Ahmad | Pakistan | M |
| guest | Hashmi Shamsa | Pakistan | F |
For some years, IKF and KNKV work closely together in order to involve all korfball nations pursuing to raise their level of play.
For that purpose we provide coaches with a complete program for coaching youth teams. This should be planned and executed with accuracy; furthermore the IKF Level III “Youth Coach Camp” is an opportunity to enjoy a unique experience, sharing one week with coaches from all around the world in the excellent environment of one of the greatest korfball cities in the world and hosted by well-known club DeetosSnel. The clubs from Dordrecht opens its doors to an international program for coach education and provide the best facilities to perform during this week.
From Friday 3 April till Sunday 5 April 2015 the 20th U19 Korfball World Cup is played in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Thirteen teams will be in competition in 2015. The participants travel to the Netherlands from 4 of the 5 IKF Continental Confederations.
The venues are sport centre Kalverdijkje and the Cammingha sports hall (close to each other). The U19 KWC is patronised by the International Korfball Federation (IKF); the KNKV is the organiser.
In 2015 New Zealand participates for the first time in this youth event.
The opening ceremony is scheduled Thursday 2 April in sport centre Kalverdijkje in Leeuwarden..
The U19 KWC started in 1996. Over the years the event is grown and is a fixed event in the international korfball calendar now.
The pools for the jubilee 20th U19 KWC are:
Pool A: Netherlands, England, Chinese Taipei, Catalonia, Romania, New Zealand and Brazil
Pool B: Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, China and RTC U19 North*.
* The regional U19 team (RTC) is playing out of competition.
The draw is based on the IKF Ranking.
Friday 30, Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2015 the next IKF Europa Shield takes place in Bergisch Gladbach (near Cologne) in Germany.
Eight teams compete to become the 2015 IKF Europa Shield winner. The participants and the match schedule are available on line as well. See under IKF Europa Shield 2015.
The first mach starts Friday 30 January 1730 PM (German time). The address of the venue is: Integrierte Gesamtschule Paffrath (IGP), Borngasse 86, 51469 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
The final starts Sunday 1 February 1420 PM immediately followed (1530 PM) by the prize giving ceremony.
The eight competitors are:
More information on the teams and the event; go to Organisers website IKF EShield 2015.
More photo impressions from IKF Europa Cup 2015 Day 4.
Day 4, Saturday 17 January 2017 (finals day) played in the Bloso Sportcenter in Herentals Belgium. The IKF photographer is Marco Spelten (www.actionphotography.nl):
After beating the Belgium champion Royal Scaldis SC 17-31 in the big final, the Dutch champion TOP/Quoratio becomes the new IKF Europa Cup Champion 2015.
The 3rd place and bronze medal was achieved by the Portuguese NC Benfica, who defeated the Czech Brno KK 21-17.
The review and all day photograps of IKF ECUP DAY 4 will be published in a next post. Meanwhile, you can visit our social profiles on facebook and twitter to review the complete tournament.
Here you have some images from the final (by Marco Spelten):
Let’s recap more images of the bronze medal game and other final games:
More images of the final and Day 4 tournament in the following link: http://goo.gl/XKCgDY
Edinburgh – Bonson FJEP 11 – 16
It must be said. It is a point of attention for a new European working group to create schedules where teams of equal strength can play for results with small margins. As this was the case in this match, both players and officials enjoyed the performance of the teams. The French finally got away with the victory although there is still a chance for the champion of Scotland to reverese the situation in the best of two.
Brno – Trojans KC 19 – 18
A good start from Brno, a team that came in as a substitute for the champion of Czech Republic, resulted in an early lead. 10 minutes before half time Trojans closed the gap and took over.
A more stylish way of playing of Trojans against the power play of Brno, at half time it was difficult to predict the outcome (10-8)
The Czechs had their best period after tea. The Brooks brothers worked hard but forgot the most important issue of an attack. No wonder Brno felt safe with 15-8 and 10 minutes to go
Trojans never underestimated the danger and did their utmost to secure a good position for the final ranking.
The Czechs now played the 25 shot clock seconds till the signal of the buzzer reducing the scoring opportunities of Trojans (18-16 with 3 minutes to go)
A thrilling game, good refereeing, dedicated players.
Benfica – Vallparadis 22 – 18
The battle of the Iberian peninsula was closely watched by many spectators and more specific by the Belgian team from Scaldis.
Vallparadis, after a succesful start, could not keep up with the rythm imposed by the opponent and called for an early time out to reset tactics (8-5)
More Catalan ball recuperation disturbed Portugese attacks even to end with the sound of the shot clock buzzer.
Difficult to say which was the better team at half time (11-10)
The teams performed so well and were so eager to win that both were unable to create a big margin. Some mistakes in defense were penalised by good reffing. At the end Benfica was the winner after a game that had all to offer to an exciting crowd of spectators.
Top/Quoratio – Kocaeli 39 – 9
Not much excitement here. The Turkish team has confirmed that they are in progress and Top seems ready to deal with any obstacle on the way to glory.
Scaldis – Schweriner 25 – 15
A bad injury from “Diamond” Patty Peeters and a serious effort from the German B-team were the main facts of the first half.
In the second half Scaldis slowly but surely strolled towards an easy victory.
Up to day 3
A usual, you can follow all the games and live statistics during all day in www.worldkorfball.org, and photographs and game results in IKF’s social profiles: facebook.com/korfball.org & twitter.com/korfball
Here you have all the images made by Marco Spelten from this second day of tournament. (www.facebook.com/ActiefotografieNL)
The LIVE Stream IKF Europa Cup in Tielen, Belgium works. You can watch all matches live as of now.
Go to matches on the frontpage of the IKF website or go to worldkorfball.org or follow the ikfchannel on YouTube.
We hope you watch your favorites and many others as of now till Saturday afternoon.
The full history of the IKF Europa Cup is available. The IKF ECup history goes back to the start in 1967. It is an annual IKF event: IKF Europa Cup History version January 2015.
Wednesday 14 January the 49th IKF ECup event with 10 national European champions starts in Tielen, Belgium.
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