Current season, competition or edition: 2023 IKF World Korfball Championship | |
Sport | Korfball |
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Founded | 1978 |
No. of teams | 16 (finals) |
Continent | International (IKF) |
Most recent champion(s) | Netherlands (10th title) |
Most titles | Netherlands (10 titles) |
Official website | International Korfball Federation |
The IKF World Korfball Championship is an international korfball competition contested by the national teams of the members of International Korfball Federation (IKF), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded roughly every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1978. The current champions are the Netherlands, who won the 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship.
The current format of the tournament involves 20 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation over a period of about a week. The 11 World Championships have been won by two different national teams. The Netherlands have won all but one time, losing only to Belgium in the 1991 Korfball World Championship.
Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | Total top 4 |
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Netherlands | 10 (1978*, 1984, 1987*, 1995, 1999, 2003*, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) | 1 (1991) | — | — | 11 |
Belgium | 1 (1991*) | 10 (1978, 1984*, 1987, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015*, 2019) | — | — | 11 |
Chinese Taipei1 | — | — | 4 (1991, 2011, 2015, 2019) | 2 (1987, 2003) | 6 |
England# | — | — | 2 (1987, 1999) | 3 (1978, 1984, 2015) | 5 |
Germany^ | — | — | 2 (1978, 1984) | 2 (1991, 1999) | 4 |
Czech Republic | — | — | 2 (2003, 2007*) | — | 2 |
Portugal | — | — | 1 (1995) | 1 (2007) | 2 |
Australia | — | — | — | 1 (1995) | 1 |
Catalonia | — | — | — | 1 (2011) | 1 |
China | — | — | — | 1 (2019) | 1 |
1Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, due to complicated relations with People's Republic of China, is recognized by the name Chinese Taipei by most of the international organizations in sports competitions. For more information, please see Cross-Strait relations.
Each successive World Championship has had at least one team appearing for the first time.
Year | Debutants | Total |
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1978 | Belgium Great Britain Luxembourg Netherlands Papua New Guinea Spain United States West Germany |
8 |
1984 | Australia France |
2 |
1987 | Aruba Chinese Taipei Indonesia Portugal |
4 |
1991 | Armenia Germany India |
3 |
1995 | Czech Republic Slovakia South Africa |
3 |
1999 | Catalonia Japan Poland |
3 |
2003 | Hungary | 1 |
2007 | China England Russia |
3 |
2011 | Hong Kong Wales |
2 |
2015 | Brazil | 1 |
2019 | Ireland Macau New Zealand Suriname |
4 |
Total | 34 |
Note: The IKF considers Germany a successor to West Germany. Likewise, Catalonia is seen as a successor to Spain.
For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.
Team | 1978 (8) |
1984 (8) |
1987 (12) |
1991 (12) |
1995 (12) |
1999 (12) |
2003 (16) |
2007 (16) |
2011 (16) |
2015 (16) |
2019 (20) |
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Argentina | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • |
Armenia | × | × | × | 8th | 9th | × | 15th | × | × | × | × |
Aruba | × | × | 8th | 10th | × | × | × | × | × | × | × |
Australia | × | 7th | 6th | 9th | 4th | 7th | 7th | 8th | 12th | 11th | 14th |
Belgium | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd |
Brazil | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 16th | • |
Catalonia | 6th | 5th | 11th | × | × | 8th | 9th | 9th | 4th | 5th | 10th |
China | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 16th | 11th | 7th | 4th |
Chinese Taipei | × | × | 4th | 3rd | 5th | 6th | 4th | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd |
Colombia | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • |
Costa Rica | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • |
Czech Republic | × | × | × | × | 7th | × | 3rd | 3rd | 8th | 9th | 7th |
Dominican Republic | × | × | x | x | × | × | × | × | × | × | × |
Germany | 3rd | 3rd | 5th | 4th | 6th | 4th | 8th | 11th | 9th | 6th | 5th |
England | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 5th | 8th | 3rd | 5th | 7th | 5th | 4th | 9th |
France | × | 8th | 12th | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • |
Hong Kong | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 14th | 12th | 17th |
Hungary | × | × | × | × | × | × | 10th | 10th | • | 13th | 12th |
India | × | × | × | 11th | 12th | 11th | 14th | 12th | 13th | × | × |
Indonesia | × | × | 10th | 12th | × | × | × | × | × | • | • |
Ireland | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • | 16th |
Japan | × | × | × | × | × | 12th | 16th | × | × | • | 15th |
Luxembourg | 8th | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × |
Macau | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | × | • | 20th |
Malaysia | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | × |
Malawi | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | × |
Mexico | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | × |
Netherlands | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
New Zealand | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • | • | 18th |
Pakistan | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | × | × |
Papua New Guinea | 7th | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × |
Philippines | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • |
Poland | × | × | × | × | × | 9th | 12th | 14th | 10th | 14th | 11th |
Portugal | × | × | 9th | 6th | 3rd | 5th | 6th | 4th | 7th | 10th | 8th |
Russia | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 6th | 6th | 8th | × |
Scotland | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • | • |
Serbia | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • | • |
Slovakia | × | × | × | × | 10th | × | 13th | × | • | • | 13th |
South Africa | × | × | × | × | 11th | 10th | 11th | 15th | 16th | 15th | 19th |
South Korea | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • | • |
Suriname | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 6th |
Turkey | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • | × |
United States | 5th | 6th | 7th | 7th | × | × | × | 13th | × | × | × |
Wales | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 15th | • | • |
Zambia | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • |
Zimbabwe | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • | • | × |