The IFA Board of Directors sent out a proposal for the IFA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION AND QUALIFICATION CRITERIA to the Regional Associations and representatives for feedback latest until 17th of March 2018.
Due to logistical reasons the number of participants in an IFA competition should generally be limited to 16 teams. In that case IFA should establish a system of qualification which nations are invited and ac-cepted and which existing competitions might be used to decide the admission.
The leading principle for this proposal is the universality of Fistball.
Determination (draft):
1. Deadline for team registration: 1 year before the event (e.g. #fistball19MWC: 10 August 2018)
2. Counting only team registrations from member federations, which have already paid the mem-bership fee for the current year, a deposit of 500,00 € for registration until the deadline of the team registration and no further liabilities to IFA (e.g. #fistball19MWC: fee 2018 and deposit of 500,00 € paid until 10 August 2018)
3. Applying the “IFA World Championship Selection and Qualification Criteria” only if there are more than 16 teams after step 1 and 2; if less team apply all teams are accept.
4. Introduction of a minimum quota of 1 team per Regional Association
5. Decision that no Regional Association should send 50% or more of the participants that means a maximum of 7 teams per Regional Association)

IFA World Championship Selection and Qualification Criteria (draft):
A. The Regional Association should be represented by
a. the Regional Champion (of the respective category)
i. of the year before the event if the Regional Championship is held before end of November in that year or
ii. of the year before if there was no Regional Championship in that year or
iii. of two years before if the was no competition according ii. or
b. the highest ranked team from the concerning Regional Association which participated at the last World Championships if a. is no applicable.
B. As a next step all teams finished TOP 8 at the last World Championships are added/qualified.
C. The remaining places are provided to team from the Regional Association according to a quota referring to the number of members reported to the IOC from the respective Regional Associa-tion. The teams within this quota are ranked by
a. the Regional Champions (of the respective category)
i. of the year before the event if the Regional Championship is held before end of November in that year or
ii. of the year before if there was no Regional Championship in that year or
iii. of two years before if the was no competition according ii. or
b. the highest ranked teams from that Regional Association, which participated in the last World Championships (of the respective category) if no Regional Championship was con-ducted within the last three years before the year of the respective World Championship or
c. by decision of the Board of the Regional Association if b. is not applicable. The Board should take into account national matches played between the teams.