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The International Fistball Association (IFA) continued the dialogue for the development of sustainable concepts regarding the promotion and dissemination of fistball in the youth sector with its member federations. Therefore, the IFA Youth Commission welcomed on the even of the upcoming IFA 2021 Fistball World Championships around 40 players, coaches and youth representatives in person…

With 20 days to go until the RE-START of Fistball on the international level, IFA President Joern Verleger wrote today to the participating member federations: “I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for the extraordinary resilience and cooperation shown by all of you in organising these unprecedented World Championships that…

The Birmingham 2022 Organising Committee has today published the official Bulletin #4, announced the mascots Vulcan and Vesta and launched the sale of tickets for the 2022 World Games in Alabama as part of its one-year-to-go celebrations. 7 July 2021 marks the launch of our global ticket sales. Tickets are now on sale with more…

IFA, represented by Secretary General Chris Oberlehner and Theresa Eidenhammer, hosted the last two days the INTERACT Consultation Workshop & Partners Meeting in Linz and hybrid as virtual event. Beside the meetings a highlight was a Fistball workshop lead by Austrian national choach Martin Weiss at the club Linz-Urfahr. TAFISA (The International Association for Sport…

Happy Olympic Day everyone! The International Olympic Day was introduced in 1948 to encourage more people to participate in the Olympic games and is based on the three pillars Move, Learn and Discover. Today we together with our friends from the initiative United Through Sports invite you to share your sport exercise. What are YOU…

The International Fistball Association (IFA) will conduct the 11th meeting of its Board of Directors today. Main topic next to reports about upcoming IFA events is the approval of an updated version of the IFA World Games Selection and Qualification Criteria. The initial version was approved by the board on 4th of November 2018 and…

It had already become clear that it would be difficult to conduct the IFA 2021 Fistball Women’s World Championship in Switzerland in mid-July. As yesterday’s decisions by the Swiss authorities did not bring any significant changes, the organizers in Jona have declared that they are not available to host the World Championship under the current…

The SportAccord virtual International Federation (IF) Forum on 25 May 2021 focused on ‘Lessons We Are Learning from a Global Crisis and How Sport and Society Can Emerge Stronger’. An IFA delegation under the leadership of President Jörn Verleger and SG Christoph Oberlehner participated in the event. IFA got the chance to participate at the…