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Due to the global impact of the COVID 19 pandemic, the International Fistball Association IFA decided today in its board meeting via video conference on the further procedure for the planned events in summer 2020: The Fistball U18 Men’s and Women’s World Championship in Grieskirchen (Austria) will be postponed to July 2021. The Fistball World…

WINTERTHUR. The 15th Fistball Men’s World Championship has begun with some excellent Fistball played in front of 3100 spectators. Germany and Switzerland both won their opening matches with Namibia and The Czech Republic also winning both their preliminary games today. New Zealand had a nail biting win against Serbia and are definitely a team to…

WINTERTHUR. Every four years the Men’s Fistball world championships take place. This year they are being held in Winterthur, Switzerland. From 11 to 17 August, 18 of the world’s best men’s fistball teams are playing for the coveted World Championship title. New standards on the Schützenwiese The main games are being held in a fistball…

At the 2018 Asia-Pacific Fistball Championships (APFC) in Australia last year there were many storylines of interest, but arguably the most intriguing was the inaugural international appearance of the newly founded member of the International Fistball Association (IFA) – the Samoan Fistball Association (SFA). Formed with the help of their friends at the New Zealand…

Brazilian defender Bianca Suffert has had a strong year: as a 15-year-old she won the Bronze medal with the Seleção at the IFA 2018 Fistball Women’s World Championship. Two weeks earlier, Suffert was a member of the team that took the second place at the U18 World Championship in the USA. The success of the…

Today, the IFA Board of Directors met the 2nd time in 2019. Together with deputy chair of the IFA Athletes´ Commission Eric Kindler (USA) the Board approved unanimously changes of the IFA Juridical Regulations concerning yellow and red cards. The IFA Athletes´ Commission supported the proposal of the IFA Sports Commission regarding yellow and red…

Looking back to 2018 this was a successful year with the highlights of the IFA 2018 Fistball Women´s World Championship in Linz, the IFA 2018 Fistball U18 World Championships in USA, the inaugural IFA Fistball World Tour Finals in Vaihingen/Enz, the European Men´s Championship in Adelmannsfelden, the Pan-American Fistball Championships in Buenos Aires and the…