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European Korfball Championship
European Korfball Championship or European Korfball A-Championship is a korfball competition for European national teams organized by the International Korfball Federation. It was played every four years from 1998 until 2014 and then moved to a tournament every two years, starting from 2016. The number of participated teams has varied between 8 and 16. The Netherlands national korfball team has won each edition. History From 2005 until 2013, the IKF organized the Korfball European Bowl for nations which had failed to qualify for the European Korfball Championship. In these tournaments it was possible to win places for the next European Korfball Championships and sometimes also IKF World Korfball Championships. The tournament was abolished in 2013 as the number of teams in the European Korfball Championship had risen to 16, however the IKF decided to bring this number down again to 8 by 2018 and to create a European Korfball B-Championship similar to the European Bowl but with a prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Korfball Federation
The International Korfball Federation (IKF) is the governing body of korfball. IKF is responsible for the organisation of korfball's major international tournaments, notably the IKF World Korfball Championship. The IKF was founded on 11 June 1933 in Antwerp, Belgium as a continuation of the International Korfball Bureau established in 1924 by the Dutch and Belgian Associations. The headquarters is in Utrecht, Netherlands, since December 2020, moving from Zeist. The IKF is officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1993 and is affiliated to SportAccord, the Association of the IOC Recognized International Sports Federations (ARISF) and the International World Games Association (IWGA). The IKF aims to spread korfball around the globe and increase the level of play in the affiliated countries. The IKF has 69 member countries. It provides the affiliated countries via five Continental Confederations (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania) with financial, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 European Korfball Championship
The 2006 European Korfball Championship was held in Budapest (Hungary) with 8 national teams in competition, from April 16 to 22. First round Final round 5th-8th places Semifinals Finals matches Final standings {, align=center cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="background: #D0E7FF; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;" width=180 , - align=center bgcolor=#006699 style="color:white;" !width=100% colspan=2, Final standings , - align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF , , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#F5FAFF , , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF , , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#F5FAFF , 4 , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF , 5 , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#F5FAFF , 6 , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF , 7 , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#F5FAFF , 8 , align=left, {{korf, HUN See also *European Korfball Championship *International Korfball Federation The Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korfball Competitions
Korfball ( nl, korfbal) is a ball sport, with similarities to netball and basketball. It is played by two teams of eight players with four female players and four male players in each team. The objective is to throw a ball into a netless basket that is mounted on a high pole. The sport was invented by Dutch school teacher Nico Broekhuysen in 1902. In the Netherlands there are approximately 500 clubs and more than 90,000 people playing korfball. The sport is also played in Belgium and Taiwan, and in nearly 70 other countries. History In 1902 Nico Broekhuysen, a Dutch school teacher from Amsterdam, was sent to Nääs, a town in Sweden, to follow an educational course about teaching gymnastics to children. This is where he was introduced to the Swedish game "ringboll". In ringboll one could score points by throwing the ball through a ring that was attached to a 3 m pole. Men and women played together, and the field was divided into three zones. Players could not leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Korfball Championship
European Korfball Championship or European Korfball A-Championship is a korfball competition for European national teams organized by the International Korfball Federation. It was played every four years from 1998 until 2014 and then moved to a tournament every two years, starting from 2016. The number of participated teams has varied between 8 and 16. The Netherlands national korfball team has won each edition. History From 2005 until 2013, the IKF organized the Korfball European Bowl for nations which had failed to qualify for the European Korfball Championship. In these tournaments it was possible to win places for the next European Korfball Championships and sometimes also IKF World Korfball Championships. The tournament was abolished in 2013 as the number of teams in the European Korfball Championship had risen to 16, however the IKF decided to bring this number down again to 8 by 2018 and to create a European Korfball B-Championship similar to the European Bowl but with a prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 IKF European Korfball Championship
The 2014 European Korfball Championship was held in Portugal from October 25 to November 2, with 16 national teams in competition. The tournament also served as a European qualifier for the 2015 Korfball World Championship, with the top ten nations qualifying for the world championship. Group stage The group stages took place in Maia. The IKF had implemented a new format of qualifying from the group stages. In these European Championships, the top eight nations were seeded in to pools A & B. In these pools the top three teams qualified for the quarter-finals. The other nations in pools C & D needed to finish top of their pool in order to reach the quarter-finals. Group A Key: G denotes win by golden goal. Group B Group C Key: G denotes win by golden goal. Group D Key: G denotes win by golden goal. Knockout stage 1st–8th place play-offs Key: G denotes win by golden goal The golden goal or golden point is a rule used in association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship
The 2018 European Korfball A-Championship will be held in the Netherlands from 13 to 21 October 2018. Matches will be played in Drachten, Gorredijk, Heerenveen and Leeuwarden. It will be the first edition where the European Korfball Championship is split into an A-Championship and a B-Championship, with the idea that a certain number of teams will relegate from the A-Championship to the B-Championship after each edition, and a certain number of teams from the B-Championship will be promoted. Whether this will be a direct promotion or relegation, or whether play-offs will need to be played, is yet to be determined. Qualified teams Group stage Group A Group B Intermediate stage Following the group stage, an intermediate round is held, featuring the teams finishing in last place during the group stage and the group winners of the B-Championship. The winners will continue in the A-Championship knockout stage, the losers move to the B-Championship knockout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 IKF European Korfball Championship
The 2018 European Korfball Championship was held in the Netherlands from October 22 to October 30, with 10 national teams in competition. As the European Korfball Championship was split into an A-Championship and a B-Championship as of 2018, this tournament was used to decide which teams would participate at which level, with the top 8 teams qualifying for the A-Championship, while the teams in positions 9 and 10 relegated to the B-Championship. Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ... won the tournament for a sixth consecutive time, maintaining its 100% win record. Qualified teams Group stage The number of participating teams was brought down from 16 during the past two championships to only 10 in 2016, thus requiring a new format. Two groups (A and B) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 European Korfball Championship
The 2014 European Korfball Championship was held in Portugal from October 25 to November 2, with 16 national teams in competition. The tournament also served as a European qualifier for the 2015 Korfball World Championship, with the top ten nations qualifying for the world championship. Group stage The group stages took place in Maia. The IKF had implemented a new format of qualifying from the group stages. In these European Championships, the top eight nations were seeded in to pools A & B. In these pools the top three teams qualified for the quarter-finals. The other nations in pools C & D needed to finish top of their pool in order to reach the quarter-finals. Group A Key: G denotes win by golden goal. Group B Group C Key: G denotes win by golden goal. Group D Key: G denotes win by golden goal. Knockout stage 1st–8th place play-offs Key: G denotes win by golden goal The golden goal or golden point is a rule used in association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 European Korfball Championship
The 2010 European Korfball Championship was held in the Netherlands from October 22 to 31, with 16 national teams in competition. The tournament also served as a European qualifier for the 2011 Korfball World Championship, with the top nine nations qualifying for the world championship. First round The first round was played in Leeuwarden (A), Tilburg (B), Almelo (C) and The Hague (D). Second round Matches were played at Rotterdam. Quarterfinals * 9th to 16th places * Final round 13th-16th places Matches were played at Topsportcentrum (Rotterdam). 9th-12th places Matches were played at Topsportcentrum (Rotterdam). 5th-8th places Matches were played at AHOY sportshall (Rotterdam). Semifinals Matches were played at AHOY sportshall (Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas – Demographia, April 2018 Current day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 IKF European Korfball A-Championship
The 2021 European Korfball A-Championship was held in Belgium from 25 to 30 October 2021. Matches was played in Antwerp. It was be the second edition where the European Korfball Championship is split into an A-Championship and a B-Championship. The tournament served as a qualifier for the 2023 IKF World Korfball Championship. Qualified teams Venues All group stages matches were organized at Boeckenberg Sportcenter in Deurne. Knockout stage matches were organized in the Lotto Arena in Merksem Merksem (; former spelling: ''Merxem'') is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It has 44,808 inhabitants as of 2021. History The history of Merksem goes back to Gallo-Roman times. During that peri .... Group stage Group A Group B Knockout stage Classification 5th-8th place Final standing External linksOfficial website References {{Reflist European Korfball Championship 2021 in korfball 2021 in Belgian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 European Korfball Championship
The 2002 European Korfball Championship was held Catalonia from March 31 to April 7, with 10 national teams in competition. The matches were played in Terrassa, Badalona, Sant Boi de Llobregat and Mataró. First round Three best teams of each pool went to second round qualifying matches with The Netherlands and Belgium, that entered then in competition. Second round qualifying matches Second round Pools C and D played for the title and pool E played for 7th to 10th places. Finals Final standings {, align=center cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="background: #D0E7FF; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;" width=180 , - align=center bgcolor=#006699 style="color:white;" !width=100% colspan=2, Final standings , - align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF , , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#F5FAFF , , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF , , align=left, , - align=center bgcolor=#F5FAFF , 4 , align=left, , - ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
