2016 IKF European Korfball Championship


The 2018 European Korfball Championship was held in the Netherlands from October 22 to October 30 - 8 days in total, with 10 national teams in competition. As the European Korfball Championship was split into an A-Championship and a B-Championship as of 2018, this tournament was used to decide which teams would participate at which level, with the top 8 teams qualifying for the A-Championship, while the teams in positions 9 and 10 relegated to the B-Championship. Netherlands won the tournament for a sixth consecutive time, maintaining its 100% win record.

Qualified teams

Group stage

The number of participating teams was brought down from 16 during the past two championships to only 10 in 2016, thus requiring a new format. Two groups of five teams were drawn on 6 June 2016, with each team playing the other teams in their group once. The top two teams in these groups will move to the semi-finals. The other teams will also be paired with a team from the other group in a playoff match with the winners moving into group C playing for positions 5 through 7, while the playoff losers will go into group D playing for positions 8 through 10.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

5th–10th place play-offs

Play-off round

Group C

The three teams winning in the Play-off round will play each other in Group C to determine places 5 through 7.

Group D

The three teams losing in the Play-off round will play each other in Group D to determine places 8 through 10.

Final standing