European Korfball Championship

European Korfball Championship
Founded	1998
Region	International (IKF)
Number of teams	8 (finals)
Current champions	Netherlands (8th title)
Most successful team(s)	Netherlands (8 titles)
Website	International Korfball Federation
	2021 IKF European Korfball A-Championship

European Korfball Championship or European Korfball A-Championship is a korfball competition for European national teams organized by the International Korfball Federation. It was played every four years from 1998 until 2014 and then moved to a tournament every two years, starting from 2016. The number of participated teams has varied between 8 and 16. The Netherlands national korfball team has won each edition.

History[]

From 2005 until 2013, the IKF organized the Korfball European Bowl for nations which had failed to qualify for the European Korfball Championship. In these tournaments it was possible to win places for the next European Korfball Championships and sometimes also IKF World Korfball Championships. The tournament was abolished in 2013 as the number of teams in the European Korfball Championship had risen to 16, however the IKF decided to bring this number down again to 8 by 2018 and to create a European Korfball B-Championship similar to the European Bowl but with a promotion/relegation system to be put into place between both championships. These B-Championships will first be held in 2018.

Results[]

	Year	Host	Final			Third place match			#Number of teams
European Korfball Championship
	Year	Host	Champion	Score	Second place	Third place	Score	Fourth place	#Number of teams
I	1998	Portugal	Netherlands	26–13	Belgium	Portugal	16–13	Czech Republic	8
II	2002	Catalonia	Netherlands	15–9	Czech Republic	Belgium	29–9	Germany	10
III	2006	Hungary	Netherlands	25–14	Belgium	Czech Republic	16–15	Germany	8
IV	2010	Netherlands	Netherlands	25–21	Belgium	Czech Republic	18–11	Germany	16
V	2014	Portugal	Netherlands	32–20	Belgium	Portugal	22–14	England	16
VI	2016	Netherlands	Netherlands	27–14	Belgium	Catalonia	16–12	Portugal	10
VII	2018	Netherlands	Netherlands	21–8	Germany	Portugal	20–19	Belgium	8 (+2)^[A]
VIII	2021	Belgium	Netherlands	21-17	Belgium	Germany	13-11	England	8

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In 2018, mid-way through the tournament, an intermediate round was held in which two teams from the B-Championship played off against two teams from the A-Championship, with the winners continuing the tournament in the A-Championship.

Debut of teams[]

Year	Debutants	Total
1998	Belgium Czech Republic Germany Great Britain Netherlands Slovakia Poland Portugal	8
2002	Catalonia Hungary	2
2006	Russia	1
2010	England Ireland Scotland Serbia Turkey Wales	6
2014		0
2016		0
2018		0^[A]
2021		0
Total		17