2019 IKF World Korfball Championship

Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
Dates	1–10 August
Teams	20
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (10th title)
Runners-up	Belgium
Third place	Chinese Taipei
Fourth place	China
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Jing Zhao (39 goals) [1]
← 2015 2023 → All statistics correct as of 8 September 2018.

The 11th IKF World Korfball Championship was held in August 2019 in Durban, South Africa and won by the Netherlands. The International Korfball Federation awarded the hosting rights for the tournament to South Africa on 7 November 2015, ahead of the bid by New Zealand. ^[2]

In October 2016, the number of teams participating was increased from 16 to 20. The four extra places were awarded to the Americas (1), Africa (1) and Asia & Oceania (2). The Americas are now allotted 2 spots, Africa 2 spots, Europe 10 spots, and Asia and Oceania 6 spots (with a minimum of 1 for Oceania). ^[3] Due to withdrawals, in the end there will only be 1 team participating from the Americas and Africa (each), leading to 11 for Europe and 7 for Asia & Oceania.

This tournament also acted as the qualification tournament for the World Games 2022, with eight teams qualifying for the World Games. The IKF aimed to have teams from up to four continents present at the World Games, therefore the top eight finishing nations qualified, with the exception that when a team finished in the top eleven as the highest finishing team from a top four continent not already having a qualifier, then this team would have qualified instead of the last placed team from an already qualified continent. This de facto meant that the top five finishers were always certain of qualification, while the outcome for the teams in places six through eight depended on the continent of origin of teams up to place eleven. Additionally, Catalonia was ineligible for qualification as the World Games are contested by national instead of regional teams. ^[4]

Teams

Qualification

In February 2019, the IKF announced that both   Dominican Republic and   Zimbabwe withdrew from the tournament despite both having qualified for the first time ever. First reserve of the Americas (  Brazil) was unable to step in and ultimately the first reserves of Europe (  Slovakia) and Asia (  Macau) were invited and accepted the invitation. ^[5]

Team	Date of qualification	Method of qualification	Finals appearance	Previous appearance	IKF Ranking [nb 1]
Australia	2 August 2018	2018 Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship 3rd place	10th	2015	10
Belgium	15 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship top-8 finish	11th	2015	03
Catalonia	15 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship top-8 finish	09th	2015	12
China	1 August 2018	2018 Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship runners-up	04th	2015	04
Chinese Taipei	31 July 2018	2018 Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship winners	09th	2015	02
Czech Republic	16 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship top-8 finish	06th	2015	07
England	15 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship top-8 finish	11th [A]	2015	06
Germany	14 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship top-8 finish	11th [B]	2015	05
Hong Kong	1 August 2018	2018 Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship 4th place	03rd	2015	11
Hungary	16 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship top-8 finish	04th	2015	09
Ireland	18 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship top-2 finish	01st	–	20
Japan	3 August 2018	2018 Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship 5th place	02nd	1999	24
Macau	14 February 2019	Invited [5]	01st	–	30
Netherlands	14 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship top-8 finish	11th	2015	01
New Zealand	3 August 2018	2018 Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship 6th place	01st	–	16
Poland	18 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball B-Championship top-2 finish	06th	2015	13
Portugal	15 October 2018	2018 IKF European Korfball A-Championship top-8 finish	09th	2015	08
Slovakia	14 February 2019	Invited [5]	03rd	2003	17
South Africa	7 November 2015	Host country	07th	2015	15
Suriname	3 March 2018	2018 Pan-American Korfball Championship champions	01st	–	21

Draw

For the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the IKF World Korfball Ranking of December 2018. Pot 1 contained the best five teams (which were automatically assigned to pools A through E), pot 2 contained the next best five teams, and so on for pots 3 and 4, with the exception of Suriname which was placed into pot 3 instead of 4 as the IKF specified that each continental champion would at least be positioned in pot 3. ^[6] Finally, it is not allowed to have four European, three Asian or two Oceanian countries in the same pool. In case this happens during the draw, the relevant country will change position with the country drawn after. In case this is not possible, the change will be made with the country that has been drawn before.

The draw took place on 20 April 2019. ^[7]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Netherlands (1, CH Europe)   Chinese Taipei (2, CH Asia-Oceania)   Belgium (3)   China (4)   Germany (5)	England (6)   Czech Republic (7)   Portugal (8)   Hungary (9)   Australia (10)	Hong Kong (11)   Catalonia (12)   Poland (13)   South Africa (15, CH Africa)   Suriname (21, CH Pan-America)	New Zealand (16)   Slovakia (17)   Ireland (20)   Japan (24)   Macau (30)

Group stage

Competing countries will be divided into five groups of four teams (groups A to E). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin basis, with the top three teams of each group and the best fourth-placed team advancing to the knockout stage.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	0	99	22	+77	9	Round of 16
2	Czech Republic	3	2	0	0	1	47	48	−1	6
3	Catalonia	3	1	0	0	2	39	65	−26	3
4	New Zealand	3	0	0	0	3	29	79	−50	0	Finals for 17th–20th places

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chinese Taipei	3	3	0	0	0	92	37	+55	9	Round of 16
2	Poland	3	2	0	0	1	44	67	−23	6
3	Australia	3	1	0	0	2	55	71	−16	3
4	Ireland	3	0	0	0	3	47	63	−16	0

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	3	3	0	0	0	99	32	+67	9	Round of 16
2	England	3	2	0	0	1	67	54	+13	6
3	Slovakia	3	1	0	0	2	40	74	−34	3
4	Hong Kong	3	0	0	0	3	40	86	−46	0	Finals for 17th–20th places

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	2	1	0	0	92	52	+40	8	Round of 16
2	Suriname	3	2	0	1	0	77	37	+40	7
3	Hungary	3	1	0	0	2	72	55	+17	3
4	Macau	3	0	0	0	3	14	111	−97	0	Finals for 17th–20th places

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	3	3	0	0	0	83	22	+61	9	Round of 16
2	Germany	3	2	0	0	1	76	32	+44	6
3	Japan	3	1	0	0	2	39	80	−41	3
4	South Africa	3	0	0	0	3	20	84	−64	0	Finals for 17th–20th places

Ranking of fourth-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B	Ireland	3	0	0	0	3	47	63	−16	0	Knockout stage
2	C	Hong Kong	3	0	0	0	3	40	86	−46	0	Finals for 17th–20th places
3	A	New Zealand	3	0	0	0	3	25	78	−53	0
4	E	South Africa	3	0	0	0	3	20	84	−64	0
5	D	Macau	3	0	0	0	3	14	111	−97	0

Knockout stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Finals for 9th–16th places

Finals for 17th–20th places

Round-robin stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hong Kong	3	3	0	0	57	37	+20	9	Ranking match 17th-18th
2	New Zealand	3	2	0	1	61	43	+18	6
3	South Africa	3	0	1	2	40	53	−13	1	Ranking match 19th-20th
4	Macau	3	0	1	2	31	56	−25	1

19th-20th place match

17th-18th place match

Venue

Two venues are used to host all games this championship. Both are located on the Westville campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Final standings

Key

Qualified for the 2022 World Games

Rank	Team
	Netherlands
	Belgium
	Chinese Taipei
4	China
5	Germany
6	Suriname
7	Czech Republic
8	Portugal
9	England
10	Catalonia
11	Poland
12	Hungary
13	Slovakia
14	Australia
15	Japan
16	Ireland
17	Hong Kong
18	New Zealand
19	South Africa
20	Macau

See also

• Korfball World Championship
• International Korfball Federation

Notes

References

External links

• International Korfball Federation