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IKF EKC web casting

Saturday 25 October 2014 the IKF European Korfball Championship (IKF EKC) starts. Web casting is part of the media approach. The IKF will stream the matches to the ikfchannel on YouTube.

You can follow the matches thru worldkorfball.org as well. Worldkorfball.org combines the Internet connection with the jury table and the live stream; link to worldkorfball.org

The full match schedule is available in the IKF website as well: IKF EKC Match schedule

IKF EKC in Portugal on worldkorfball.org

Saturday 25 October 2014 the IKF European Korfball Championship (IKF EKC) starts in Maia, Portugal.

The IKF jury software system is direct connected to Internet again. Everybody can follow the matches live thru the link: IKF EKC 2014 on worldkorfball.org

The korfball app for smartphones is available as well and connected to the same database with all matches live.

All 16 teams prepare themselves to show their abilities and compete on the highest level.

IKF European Korfball Championship

The IKF published the four pools of four national teams each and the match schedule for the IKF European Korfball Championship scheduled to be held in Maia, Portugal, from 25 October to 2 November 2014.

Sixteen countries are participating and have been drawn into four pools of four. Unlike in previous championships, in order to try and prevent matches with a predictable result and large goal difference in the early round the selection of teams for the pools has been done in a different way on this occasion. Pools A and B have pools containing the highest ranked countries and pools C and D the lowest ranked countries. Countries ranked 1, 2 or 3 in pools A and B progress to the quarter finals for places 1 to 8 together with the countries finishing first in pools C and D. The remaining countries (4th in pools A and B plus 2nd, 3rd or 4th in pools C and D) will play quarter finals leading to a ranking of 9th to 16th.

Details on the pools and the match schedule follow the link: IKF EKC Pools and match schedule

 

England to host four-nation tournament in September

England Korfball will welcome the national teams from Catalonia, Scotland and Wales in September for a set of international friendly matches to be played in London as part of the preparation for the IKF European Korfball Championship later this year.

With England ranked 3rd and Catalonia ranked 5th in Europe, the matches between these two teams are promising to be highly competitive. Wales’ current European ranking is 11th while Scotland is the 16th European nation on the most recent IKF World Korfball Ranking. The IKF has been encouraging its member countries to play more official friendly matches and very much welcomes the initiative by the EKA for this event in one of Europe’s premier cities.

The pre-european championship tournament will take place on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September 2014 at Whitgift Sports Centre, Croydon, South London.

Source: England Korfball

IKF European Korfball Championship 2014 draw

Recently the IKF Competitions Committee organised the draw for the IKF European Korfball Championship (IKF EKC) to take place from 25 October 2014. The draw was based on the most recent IKF ranking dated 5 November 2013 with teams drawn in pairs.

16 national teams will compete to become the next IKF European Korfball Champion on Sunday 2 November. The tournament starts with pool matches on the first three days. Pools A and B contain the top 8 ranked teams and pools C and D the bottom 8 ranked teams. The teams finishing 1st to 3rd in pools A and B join with the teams finishing 1st in pools C and D to form a group of 8 teams to form a top group for the quarter finals while the remaining teams will play quarter finals towards places 9 to 16. Quarter finals take place on Wednesday 29 October.

During the closing days of the tournament in Maia, Portugal, the teams from Slovakia and Turkey will compete for the “Jan Hanekroot Cup”. They have, therefore, been placed in different first round pools.

The pools are:

Pool A   Pool B
The Netherlands Belgium
England Portugal
Germany Catalonia
Russia Czech Republic
Pool C   Pool D
Poland Hungary
Wales Slovakia
Turkey Ireland
Serbia Scotland

The participants in the IKF European Korfball Championship

In the next IKF European Korfball Championship (IKF EKC) in Maia, Portugal the following 16 countries are qualified for participation.

The first 10 ranked in the last IKF EKC: Belgium, Catalonia, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands (reigning champion), Poland, Portugal (host) and Russia.

And 6 from the two qualification events; IKF European Bowl Eastern region and Central region; Ireland, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey and Wales.

These are exactly the same 16 nations as participated in IKF EKC 2010.

The Netherlands is the current holder of the IKF European Korfball Championship following the last championship held in The Netherlands in 2010.

IKF European Korfball Championship 2014 logo

As part of the opening session of the IKF World Korfball Congress in Lisbon the IKF President, Dr Jan Fransoo, and Portuguese Korfball President, Mr Mario Almeida under the eyes of Portuguese Secretary of State for Sports, Mr Guerreiro signed the contract and released the for the IKF European Korfball Championship 2014 in 2014 in Maia in the Porto region.

1st day World Korfball Congress

The first day of the IKF World Korfball Congress In Lisbon, Portugal was opened with speeches from the president of our host the FPC, Mr Mario Almeida, Mr Guerreiro, Secretary of State for Sports and Dr Jan Fransoo, IKF President in front of around 60 special guests, IKF delegates and committee members.

The sessions were on;

  1. The IKF Year of the Youth 2013
  2. Refereeing
  3. Development and Education
  4. Equal gender policy.

There was great interest in the subjects and many interesting new suggestions from the audience were added to the ideas and plans presented.

Results final day IKF European Bowl

Turkey, Wales and Ireland finished in this order on the first three places in the IKF European Bowl and qualified for the next IKF European Korfball Championship in Portugal in October 2014.

The results of the second and final day were:

Romania Greece 10 13
Wales Ireland 8 7 after Golden Goal
Turkey France 12 6
Greece Romania 8 11
Ireland * France 15 14 after Golden Goal
Wales * Turkey * 4 7

* qualified for the IKF European Korfball Championship 2014.

The ranking of the IKF European Bowl Eastern Region is:
1 Turkey
2 Wales
3 Ireland
4 France
5 Greece
6 Romania

Frans Walvis, IKF Senior Vice-President, was very positive on the organisation by KNKV – PKC/Hagero in the beautiful Papendrecht sportsarena. All teams were very positives as well. The jury members and the referees were granted a big hand for their good work.

Frans Walvis supported by ms.  Mady Tims and Laurens Leeuwenhoek, 2 Dutch internationals and PKC/ Hagero players awarded the prizes.

IKF European Bowl starts today

In the city of Papendrecht, The Netherlands in the venue of PKC / Hagero starts today the IKF European Bowl Eastern Region. Six national korfball teams will compete in this qualification event. The numbers 1, 2 and 3 after the competition qualify for the IKF European Korfball Championship in Portugal in October 2014.

Friday 18 October the first match starts 1400 PM.

Saturday 19 October the matches are played from 0900 AM till 1715 PM.

The numbers 1, 2 and 3 in the IKF European Bowl event qualify for the IKF European Korfball Championship 2014 in Portugal.

The six participants are: France, Ireland, Wales, Rumania, Greece and Turkey.
The match schedule can be found under ‘Events’.