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More than 85 registered club teams and 21 hosts from 3 continents prove that the IFA Fistball World Tour was a success story. To extend that success story we offer again a slightly adopted version to the Fistball community for 2019. The biggest modification is the new tournament category “IFA 500” and we terminated the…

In just eight months the IFA 2019 Fistball World Tour Finals in Salzburg, Austria will start. The International Fistball Association today published the Official Bulletin 1 of the World Tour Finals. The bulletin contains information about the event itself, the planned schedule and accommodation. The IFA 2019 Fistball World Tour Finals take place in Salzburg,…

In just eight months the IFA 2019 Fistball Men’s World Championship in Winterthur, Switzerland will start. The International Fistball Association today published the Official Bulletin 2 of the Men’s World Championship. Bulletin 2 contains all final information concerning e.g. the event schedule, registration of players and team nomination. Ticket information for all Fistball fans The…

The IFA Fistball World Tour Season 2018 is closed and IFA is glad to confirm all participants at the IFA 2019 World Tour Finals, which take place in Salzburg dated 13-15 September. The following teams are qualified and have registered: CC…Continental Champion WT…World Tour Ranking TV Vaihingen/Enz, Condor and VfL Kellinghusen (all male competition) have…

On Monday, for the second year running, Fistball Australia together with International Fistball Association featured in the Premier’s Sporting Challenge Learning to Lead Program, this time at Northlakes High School just outside of Newcastle, New South Wales. FiFA President Rolf ‘Godfister’ Petersen and IFA Administrative Director Christoph Oberlehner worked with over 60 students to teach…

New Zealand win titles in Men’s and Women’s Competition of 2018 Asia-Pacific Fistball Championships (APFC) in Melbourne. The New Zealand women’s team continued their dominance over much-improved team Australia, taking the final in a deceptively-close 4-0 straight sets final. In the men’s competition, New Zealand had to valiantly battle and scrap for the maximum amount…

IFA followed the invitation of IWGA and Olympic Channel to attend their Media Workshop at the Olympic Channel headquarters in Madrid, Spain. Exchange of knowledge, best practice examples and current available technologies were subject of this two-day workshop. Within the event we had the opportunity to discuss and evaluate our ongoing cooperation with the Olympic…

Exactly nine months prior to the IFA 2019 Congress on 14 August 2019 in Winterthur (Switzerland), IFA formally invited all member federations today. Invitation According to the IFA Statues the deadlines are: – for proposals of the member federations: 24 April 2019 (16 weeks prior congress) – for send out final agenda and financial report:…

Within yesterday´s Board meeting IFA approved new IFA Competition Rules, which are now also applicable for events of the Regional Associations. Furthermore, the Board discussed the Selection and Qualification Criteria for The World Games 2021 as well as new IFA Masters Regulations and new IFA Standing Orders. IFA is happy to announce Board member Roger…