The dates and host city for the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe) 2024 have been revealed by the IKF EXCO: 24 and 25 August 2024 in Temse, 🇧🇪 Belgium.
The Royal Belgian Korfball Federation (Koninklijke Belgische Korfbalbond) will host this event.
All fans around the world will be able to watch and follow this tournament live on youtube.com/ikfchannel and on www.worldkorfball.sport (with live results and live streams, statistics, scorers, play-by-play …), as well as on social media on @BeachKorfball profiles and the hashtag #BKWC, #beachkorfball and #korfball, with the best image galleries, clips and highlights.
The 3rd edition of a spectacular the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe) 2023 has finished in the Polish city of Wroclaw. From 25 to 26 August, 13 teams from 3 different continents competed to be the new champion in this new and fascinating korfball discipline, recently included in the official program of the next World Games 2025 in Chengdu, China.
The 2 fields located at Wrocław Academy of Physical Education in Wrocław became the perfect scenario for great and exciting matches, where all teams had the chance to compete for the win. The sand and the intensity of this discipline guaranteed a lot of tight matches, and lots of them were decided during exciting golden goal extra periods.
Australia, Belgium, Catalonia, England, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Türkiye, United States Of America and Wales were the participants in the senior category, and the Belgians were the ones who reached the top position after winning the senior final against the Netherlands by 6-8. They reached the final after winning their semi-final vs Poland by 7-10 in a great match. Congratulations!
Photos by: Marco Spelten
The Dutch team got the silver medal by fighting until the last second of every match, like they did in the final vs BEL and also during the thought semi-final vs USA which they won by one single goal (4-3).
Photos by: Marco Spelten
For the Bronze medal, Poland, the current world champions, played against an intense and competitive strong squad from the United States. The Americans were leading the game with 3 goals in advantage, but in the last 3 minutes, an impressive comeback from the Polish team decided the game in favour of the locals with a close 11-12.
Photos by: Marco Spelten
The U19 competition played between Belgium, Catalonia, Netherlands and Poland finished with another duel NED-BEL, also ending in favour of the Belgian players by 5-6.
FINAL RANKING: SENIOR COMPETITION
1st – Belgium
2nd – The Netherlands
3rd – Poland
4th – United States Of America
5th – Hungary
6th – France
7th – Catalonia
8th – Wales
9th – Türkiye
10th – Australia
11th – Scotland
12th – England
13th – Sweden
The IKF and the PKA were honored to have the Polish Olympic Committee as a patron of this important international event, successfully organised, once again, by the Polish Korfball Association and lots of great volunteers and officials. Thank you very much to all of them for their support and good job and spirit!
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All fans around the world were also follow this tournament, with the best image galleries, videos and photos on www.beachkorfball.sport, as well as on social media visiting the different @BeachKorfball profiles and via the hashtags #BKWC2023 and #beachkorfball:
24/8/2023 – 18:00 pm ⚠️ URGENT ⚠️ Updated match schedule: The IKF and LOC have faced a last-minute withdrawal of Morocco, due to VISA problems. Despite various efforts, the required documents to travel to Poland were not obtained. Therefore, the IKF BKWC (Europe) 2023 will take place with 13 senior teams.
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All fans around the world can also follow this tournament, with all the results, rankings, image galleries and photos on www.beachkorfball.sport, as well as on social media visiting the different @BeachKorfball profiles and via the hashtags #BKWC2023 and #beachkorfball:
Australia, Belgium, Catalonia, England, France, Hungary, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Türkiye, United States Of America and Wales are the participants in the senior category.
24/8/2023 – 18:00 pm ⚠️ URGENT ⚠️ Updated match schedule: The IKF and LOC have faced a last-minute withdrawal of Morocco, due to VISA problems. Despite various efforts, the required documents to travel to Poland were not obtained. Therefore, the IKF BKWC (Europe) 2023 will take place with 13 senior teams.
The U19 event will be played by Belgium, Catalonia, Netherlands and Poland.
All fans around the world can also follow this tournament, with all the results, rankings, image galleries and photos on www.beachkorfball.sport, as well as on social media visiting the different @BeachKorfball profiles and via the hashtags #BKWC2023 and #beachkorfball:
[Updated] The group draw for the next IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe) 2023 took place on Thursday, July 6, at 20:00 (CEST).
24/7/2023 – The match schedules for the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe) 2023 senior & U19 categories have been published.
6/7/2023 – 20:30 (CEST) – The groups are known:
6/7/2023 – 20:00 (CEST) – Live draw:
Fourteen senior teams will be participating in this live draw, hosted by IKF commentator Tom Brady, that will define the group phase of the future match schedule to be revealed in the next few weeks.
This event will be hosted by the Polish Korfball Association, from 25-26 August 2023 in Wroclaw, Poland.
National Federations had until March 31 to submit their entry forms for participation, in the senior and U19 categories.
Only 4 teams applied for the U19 category, so they will not play in different groups.
The Thailand Korfball Association hosted from 5 to 7 May 2023 the second edition of the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Asia) 2023. Pattaya Beach became the beautiful scenario where 9 teams from 3 different continents competed during three intense days for a medal in this always exciting championship in Asia.
The ranking at the end of the regular competition was leaded by Chinese Taipei, followed by Thailand in 2nd position, and theUnited States of America in 3rd place. The 4 last matches to decide the final positions didn’t change the current ranking, and the win of TPE over THA by 8:4 in the big final of the tournament proclaimed them as winners and champions of this IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Asia) 2023.
Australia, Hong Kong China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, United States of America and Thailand were the participants. All games were live streamed by Thailand Korfball on www.youtube.com/@IKFasia, and all image galleries from each game are already available on www.facebook.com/Beachkorfball.
Congratulations to all participants, officials and volunteers for these amazing days of competition and the great atmosphere and friendship bweteen all the teams.
Again, a big thank you to Thailand Korfball for an excellent organisation of this IKF BKWC (Asia) 2023, that together with the organisation of last November’s IKF AOKC 2022, has demostrated a remarkable and outstanding professionalism and commitment with all the organizational tasks required.
FINAL RESULTS AND OFFICIAL FINAL RANKING:
UPDATED RESULTS AND RANKING AFTER DAY 3:
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All fans around the world were able to follow this tournament, with all the results, rankings, image galleries and photos on www.beachkorfball.sport, as well as on social media visiting the different @BeachKorfball profiles and via the hashtags #BKWC2023 and #beachkorfball:
[Updated] The Thailand Korfball Association is ready to host the second edition of the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Asia) 2023. From 5 to 7 May, Pattaya Beach will be the beautiful scenario where 9 teams from 3 different continents will be competing for a place in the final podium.
Australia, Hong Kong China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, United States of America and Thailand are the participants. Which team will raise the champion’s trophy? Discover it following and watching live all the competition through Thailand Korfball live streams on: www.youtube.com/@IKFasia
After an excellent organisation of the IKF AOKC 2022 in November last year, the IKF is looking forward to another outstanding event in collaboration with Thailand Korfball Association.
FINAL RESULTS AND OFFICIAL FINAL RANKING:
UPDATED RESULTS AND RANKING AFTER DAY 3:
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All fans around the world can also follow this tournament, with all the results, rankings, images and photos on www.beachkorfball.sport, as well as on social media visiting the different @BeachKorfball profiles and via the hashtags #BKWC2023 and #beachkorfball:
UPDATE (22 April, 2020) – In alignment with the KNKV, the IKF had decided to cancel the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe 2020), which was planned for 7-8 August 2020 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
The Dutch government has announced that the ban on (sport)events in The Netherlands has been extended to 1 September 2020, which automatically means that no event can take place in August. The IKF will not look for another date in 2020 for this event.
Although this announcement probably doesn’t come as a surprise to you following the earlier cancelation of IKF events, it is still a sad moment. However, the IKF would like to thank the Royal Dutch Korfball Federation (KNKV) for their preparational work
UPDATE (23 March, 2020) – Due to the coronavirus, the subscription deadline for the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe) 2020 has been extended until 30 April 2020.
The final decision on this event will be made in the months to come and will very much depend on the development of the corona virus. More detailed info has been sent to all national federations via email. More info ► www.korfball.sport/?p=23567
Following the first two successful editions of the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe) in Belgium and France, the third edition of this new event will be hosted by the KNKV in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. The KNKV organized the IKF Open European Beach Korfball Championship in 2017. This event has been awarded the IKF World Korfball Award for Best Event, granted during the IKF General Meeting in 2019.
Therefore, the IKF is very confident that this edition of the BKWC will be a big success as well. For the Dutch team, the location will be an extra motivation to finally claim the trophy, after seeing Belgium (2018) and Portugal (2019) taking the win in previous years.
The second, and last, day of the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (BKWC) (Europe) 2019 has come to an end. The seniors played their last matches in the preliminary round, then continued with the semifinals and the finals. The U19 teams played the quarterfinals in a pool format, after which they continued with the semifinals and finals.
Seniors:
1. Portugal
2. Netherlands
3. Belgium
4. Hungary
5. Wales
6. England
7. France
8. Morocco
Male top scorer: Arne Beeck (Belgium) – 22 goals
Female top scorer: Ilona Luisa van den Berg (Netherlands) – 31 goals
U19:
1. Belgium 1
2. Netherlands 2
3. Netherlands 1
4. Belgium 2
5. France 1
6. France 2
Male top scorer: Carel Wielinga junior (Netherlands) – 22 goals
Female top scorer: Lotte Fokker (Netherlands) – 16 goals
Yesterday, on July 6th, the IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (BKWC) (Europe) 2019 has started in Bonson, France. The day was kicked off with a referee’s and manager’s meeting, after which we started with the first matches at 12:00 o’clock. The seniors played the majority of their preliminary matches and the U19 teams played all of them.
Today we continue and end the tournament. The remaining four preliminary matches for the seniors are going to be played, followed by the semifinals and finals. The U19 teams have been divided into two pools. After these matches, they will continue with the semifinals and the finals.
