The men’s and women’s World Tour Finals will take place in Austria in 2025: Union Tigers Vöcklabruck will host the competition for the best club teams in the world from 24-27 July 2025.

It was the biggest success in the club’s history: the Union Tigers Vöcklabruck fistball team won the title at the 2024 World Tour Finals on 21 July, crowning themselves the best club team in the world. In one year, the Tigers will host the next world cup for club teams: from 24 to 27 July, the defending champions will host the top teams in Vöcklabruck. After 2019 (Salzburg), the World Tour Finals are thus returning to Austria.

Early awarding for better planning

“We are delighted to have found a very experienced organizer of national and international events to host the event,” says Jörn Verleger, President of the International Fistball Association (IFA): “We are convinced that we will experience a great event in Vöcklabruck next year.” With six participating teams, Austria is the country with the largest number of participating teams at the latest event in Mannheim. “There is great enthusiasm for the World Tour format in Austria. We are therefore all the happier that the Union Tigers Vöcklabruck have signaled their interest in our bidding process. We had very good discussions in which you could sense the great motivation of all those involved,” says Sönke Spille, Head of Events at IFA: “It was important to us to create clarity at an early stage and thus offer the teams planning security. We have succeeded in doing this with the award – one year before the event.”

Experienced organizer of fistball events

The Union Tigers Vöcklabruck have already hosted Austrian championships, European Cup events and European championships in recent years. In 2025, the Volksbankstadion Vöcklabruck will now host the best club teams in the world. “We were enthusiastic about the idea of the IFA World Tour right from the start, it has given the tournaments a new value and the top teams from all over the world regularly compete against each other there,” says Stefan Huemer, head of the organizing committee: “The World Tour Final is the highest title that can be won by a club team and the value of this title has also increased enormously since the finals were introduced.”

The Tigers Vöcklabruck have been at the finals without interruption since 2019 (Salzburg), and their wish to host this event themselves is now coming true. The Vöcklabruck team has experience from numerous events. “After various Final 3 competitions, a Masters World Championship, two Champions Cups and a European Youth Championship, this is the event highlight in the club’s history,” emphasizes Huemer: “On the one hand, we can offer the teams a perfect sporting ambience, and on the other hand, the area around Vöcklabruck with its lakes, mountains and cultural sites offers numerous “delicacies” that round off such a competition perfectly.” In sporting terms, the Tigers want to compete for the title in front of their home crowd – and also promote the region. Huemer: “All participating teams should share wonderful experiences together and remember the 2025 World Tour Finals in Vöcklabruck for as long as possible.”

First participants confirmed

The winners of the highest continental Cup competitions in 2024 in the regions of Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, South America and North America have qualified for the 2025 World Tour Finals. The winners of the 2024 World Tour Finals have also punched their ticket. The starting field will be completed by the best-placed teams from the 2024 World Tour, which will hold tournaments until the end of September. With TSV Dennach (GER/Winner European Cup) and TV Jahn Schneverdingen (GER/Winner World Tour Finals 2024) in the women’s competition and FBC Linz-Urfahr (AUT/Winner European Cup) and host Union Tigers Vöcklabruck (AUT/Winner World Tour Finals 2024) in the men’s competition, the first four teams have already qualified for the World Tour Finals 2025.