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Fistball is part of the United Through Sports virtual Youth Festival 2021 again this year, and you can be there too! Over 100 organizations have joined together in solidarity and unity within the Olympic, Paralympic and Special Olympics values. Together, these organizations will promote inclusion, health, equality, non-discrimination and peace. This year we want to…

As the world begins to gradually recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, I very much hope that the United Nations Day inspires a response that fosters peace and prosperity for all. In celebration of the 76th anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Charter this year’s theme, Building Back Together for Peace and Prosperity,…

On the 16 October 2021 United Through Sports and the International Fistball Association signed a Memorandum of Understanding virtually online formalising a vision towards closer collaboration and confirming mutual goals towards providing sport opportunity to youth around the world. The MoU defines the core area of focus between the two entities as promotion and development…

Fistball history – 35 years ago today … … the sixth Men’s Fistball World Championship opened in Buenos Aires. Six teams took part in the three-day world championship. In the preliminary round everyone played against everyone. In the semifinals, the first-place team plays the fourth-place team from the preliminary round and the second-place team plays…

Congrats to IFA Athletes Commission Chair Katharina Lackinger, who becomes Austrian federation coach and takes over the management of the Fistball Performance Center Linz. National team player Katharina Lackinger will take over the management of the fistball performance center in Linz as well as the function of the federation coach of Faustball Austria from November….

The 12th edition of The World Games will take place in Chengdu (People’s Republic of China) from 7 to 17 August 2025. These dates were agreed upon by the International World Games Association (IWGA) together with the Local Organising Committee in the capital of Sichuan Province. After the 11th edition of the TWG in Birmingham,…

Leipzig STAR winner Jacob Jungclaussen will meet numerous national fistball players in Nuremberg at the 2×2 Fistball European STAR presented by Greater Birmingham CVB, Alabama Five years after the successful U18 Fistball World Championships in Eibach, international fistball returns to the sports facility at the Rednitz with a tournament. Teams with from Germany, Austria, Brazil…

Great honor for IFA Honorary President Karl Weiss, who was awarded the Ring of Honor by the Faustball Austria on Sunday on the sidelines of the Austrian Final3 event in Nussbach. The Ring of Honor is the highest award given by ÖFBB.

Birmingham, Alabama (USA), host city of The World Games 2022, supports the world premiere of the new “2×2 Fistball STAR Events presented by Greater Birmingham CVB, Alabama” in Leipzig and Nuremberg. “This will give the host city of the next games of the non-olympic sports a special presence in the run-up to The World Games,”…