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10 December 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document enshrines the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin,…

Thank you for your support and your friendship in 2023! IFA is looking forward to all Fistball activities all around the world with many highlights, especially the U18 World Championships in Chile and the Women’s World Championship in Argentina! Our office will close on Friday 22 December 2023 at 1pm and will reopen on Monday…

The International Fistball Association has launched the bidding process for upcoming international fistball events. Interested candidates can register now. Offering the best men’s teams in the world a big stage, promoting young talent with the U18 World Championships at their first major international event or welcoming the best club teams in the world to the…

Club Gimnasia Guatambú in Montecarlo, Argentina (Misiones province), will host the tenth Women’s Fistball World Championship. The world title matches will take place from 7 to 10 November 2024. It is October 7, 1994 when a new era in international fistball begins in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For the first time in history, a match was…

A new format was a complete success: the referee commission of the International Fistball Association held its second International Referee Congress. All international referees in the sport of fistball were invited. The main topics were the evaluation of the events in 2023, experience reports, votes on the interpretation of the rules and the exchange of…

The annual International Federations Forum (IF Forum) took place at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne at the beginning of this week. The event kicked off with the AIMS General Assembly at the Olympic House. Stephan Fox, the President of AIMS, opened the General Assembly by emphasizing the continuous collaboration between AIMS and the IOC since…

At the 28th TAFISA World Congress, almost 400 delegates from 70 countries discussed the developments and challenges of the global “Sport for All” movement in a practice-oriented manner. IFA was represented this year by IFA President Jörn Verleger, Secretary General Christoph Oberlehner, Erasmus Project Manager Hanna Einsiedler and Head of Events Sönke Spille. The motto…

IFA is glad to invite you to a Capacity Building Workshop together with the European Flying Disc Association on 7 and 8 December 2023 in Linz. This Workshop is part of the INTERACT+ project under the leadership of TAFISA and is co-founded by the European Union. Please find here the invitation to this Capacity Building…

TV Jahn Schneverdingen (Germany) and SG Novo Hamburgo (Brazil) won the title at the Women’s and Men’s World Tour Finals. The world’s best club teams competed in Curitiba, Brazil, from October 19 to 22. TV Jahn Schneverdingen and SG Novo Hamburgo are the winners of the World Tour Finals 2023. In Curitiba (Brazil), the women…

Brazil versus Germany: These are the final pairings at the IFA World Tour Finals 2023 in Curitiba. With TV Jahn Schneverdingen and Duque de Caxias Curitiba in the women’s final and TSV Pfungstadt and SG Novo Hamburgo in the men’s final, one European and one South American team each made it to the final. Men…