On 20 and 21 May, the 500 tournament of the Clube Guarani (Blumenau; BRA) took place again. In youth and children’s competitions as well as in the women’s and men’s categories, 29 teams from Brazil fought for victory. After exciting preliminary rounds and semifinals, one club was able to prevail in the women’s and men’s…
SGNH wins men and women category in Blumenau
IFA held its 18th and last IFA – International Fistball Association Board of Directors online meeting in the election period 2019 – 2023. The agenda included a report on The World Games 2025, changes in eligibility for national teams and the IFA Fistball World Tour Finals as well as an update of anti-doping documents, the…
For the 36th time, Clube Duque de Caxias (Curitiba, BRA) hosted the Lothar Germani Jaehnert Tournament on the weekend of 6 and 7 May. 40 teams and over 200 athletes played exciting matches in both the youth and adult categories. In the women’s category, Sogipa (Porto Alegre) clearly came out on top. With a 2-0…
The International World Games Association (IWGA) has confirmed today by a unanimous decision of the General Assembly, the renewed implementation of a women’s fistball competition at the World Games 2025 in Chengdu (China). For the first time, a women’s fistball competition was part of the World Games in Birmingham (Alabama/USA) in 2022. Men’s competitions have…
Congratulations IFA Honorary President Karl Weiss. All the best for your 70th birthday. You can look back on a successful sporting and coaching career as well as an official. Sporting successes: Active Fistball player from 1968 until today With his club mates he marched through to the then State League A and achieved promotion indoors…
It is with greatest sadness that the International Fistball Association (IFA) has learnt that Walter Zöttl, IFA Honorary Member from Austria, passed away at the age of 66. Walter has dedicated his entire life to the sport of fistball. As an active player, he won numerous state championship titles and participated in European and world…
Dennach wins the Pfister Stuttgart Open for the second time in 8 days after the success in Karlsdorf. Thus the Swabians jump to the second place in the World Tour Ranking. In the men’s tournament, FBC Urfahr beat Tigers Vöcklabruck in the all-Austrian final and was crowned tournament winner. However, Vöcklabruck collected the most World…
From 19-21 April 2023, the University of Limerick hosted the first transnational partner meeting of the ‘International and European Sport Organisations Activate Citizens–Plus (INTERACT+) project. Led by TAFISA, INTERACT+ is a 36-month project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, aiming to bridge the gap from theory to practice by supporting and positioning…
The IFA World Tour 500 tournament in Münzbach had to be unfortunately canceled on Thursday afternoon due to the continuous rainfalls of the last days, as the OC team announced after checking the courts. “Unfortunately, we had to realize that the pitches cannot absorb the amount of water as fast as we had hoped. A…
Two World Tour tournaments took place last weekend. At the Major tournament in Elgg (SUI) the team of SATUS Kreuzlingen (SUI) won the women’s title and Tigers Vöcklabruck (AUT) the men’s title. At the IFA500 tournament in Karlsdorf, TSV Dennach won the women’s event and TV Schweinfurt-Oberndorf the men’s event. The Major tournament in Elgg…