At the IWGA Annual General Meeting in Esslingen (GER) IFA Secretary General Chris Oberlehner signed the so called IWGA-IF commitment confirming the competition venue and competition days of Fistball at The World Games 2025. The Fistball event will take place from Saturday 9th of August 2025 to Wednesday 13th of August. The women´s and the men´s gold medal match will both be played on Wednesday 13th of August.

Venue: Tianfu Park
After several changes of venue, we are pleased to announce that we will be playing our matches in Tianfu Park.

“We are very glad that we could have been fixed the competition venue during the stay of Competition Manager Sönke Spille and IFA Sports Commission Chairman Gastao Englert some weeks ago in Chengdu”, said IFA Secretary General Chris Oberlehner after signing the formal commitment in Esslingen. “We are more than satisfied with the venue proposed, and we have full confidence that it will be a remarkable event at the heart of a dynamic community.”

The 12th edition of The World Games will be held in Chengdu (CHN) from 7-17 August 2025.

Despite Chengdu being Sichuan province’s capital with an estimated population of close to 20 million citizens, the distances between each venue at peak traffic time and from/to the Athletes Villages and the official hotels is a maximum of 60 minutes.

New logo of the 12th edition of The World Games revealed

In December 2023, the Chengdu 2025 LOC initiated an international contest to create the logo, mascot and slogan of The World Games 2025, calling for designers’ ideas globally. Worldwide contributions ran until the end of February 2024.

A total of 9,235 (national and international) submissions were received from national and foreign applicants, a testament of the world’s creativity to develop the visual identity of the International World Games Association (IWGA) flagship event next year. The submissions breakdown unfolds as follows: 3,562 logo ideas received, 1,924 mascot creations and 3,749 slogans.

The Chengdu 2025 mascot and slogan will be unveiled at the ‘One Year to Go’ event in August 2024.