European women's fistball championship

The European Women's Fistball Championship is a fistball tournament for national fistball teams from Europe, where the European fistball champion is determined every two years . The organizer is the European fistball association EFA . The last European championship so far took place in the Czech Republic in 2019, the reigning European champion is Germany .

First participations

Four nations took part in the first European championship in 1993: Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Up to and including the EM 2019, twelve associations were represented with their own selection at a European Championship finals. The following list gives an overview of the EM premieres of all previous participants. Japan and Namibia took part in the European Championship as there was no continental championship in their countries until 2010.

year	First time participant
1993	Germany	Austria	Switzerland	Czech Republic
1999	Italy	Japan
2001	Namibia
2009	Catalonia
2019	Belgium	Denmark	Poland	Serbia

The tournaments at a glance

year	host		final				Game for third place
			winner	Result	2nd place		3rd place	Result	4th Place
1993 details	Austria		Germany	2-0	Austria		Switzerland	2-0	Czech Republic
1996 details	Czech Republic		Germany	2-0	Switzerland		Austria	2-0	Czech Republic
1999 details	Germany		Germany	2-0	Switzerland		Austria	2-0	Japan
2000 details	Switzerland		Switzerland	2: 1	Germany		Austria	2-0	Italy
2001 details	Germany		Germany	2: 1	Switzerland		Austria	2-0	Czech Republic
2003 details	Austria		Germany	Final round	Austria		Switzerland
2004 details	Germany		Switzerland	Final round	Germany		Austria
2005 details	Austria		Germany	2-0	Switzerland		Austria	2-0	Italy
2007 details	Austria		Germany	2-0	Switzerland		Austria	2-0	Italy
2008 details	Germany		Germany	3: 2	Switzerland		Austria
2009 details	Switzerland		Switzerland	3: 1	Austria		Germany	3-0	Italy
2011 details	Germany		Austria	3: 1	Germany		Switzerland	3-0	Italy
2012 details	Switzerland		Austria	3-0	Germany		Switzerland	3-0	Italy
2013 details	Czech Republic		Austria	3: 2	Germany		Switzerland	3-0	Italy
2015 details	Italy		Germany	3: 1	Austria		Switzerland	3-0	Italy
2017 details	Germany		Germany	3-0	Austria		Switzerland	3-0	Italy
2019 details	Czech Republic		Germany	3: 1	Austria		Switzerland	3-0	Serbia

Leaderboards

A total of six different European nations have made it to the semi-finals in the previous championships. The Federal Republic of Germany is the most successful. She won the European Championship eleven times. Switzerland and Austria currently follow in second place, each with three titles.

by country

rank	country	title	Year (s)	2.	3.	4th
1	Germany	11	1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2017, 2019	5	1	-
2	Switzerland	3	2000, 2004, 2009	6th	8th	-
2	Austria	3	2011, 2012, 2013	6th	8th	-
4th	Italy			-	-	9
5	Czech Republic			-	-	3
6th	Serbia			-	-	1

Finals placements

The European participants at the European Championships have achieved these placings since the first edition in 1993.

country	1993	1996	1999	2000	2001	2003	2004	2005	2007	2008	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017	2019
Belgium																9.
Denmark																8th.
Germany	1.	1.	1.	2.	1.	1.	2.	1.	1.	1.	3.	2.	2.	2.	1.	1.
Italy			5.	4th	6th			4th	4th		4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	6th
Catalonia											5.
Austria	2.	3.	3.	3.	3.	2.	3.	3.	3.	3.	2.	1.	1.	1.	2.	2.
Poland																5.
Switzerland	3.	2.	2.	1.	2.	3.	1.	2.	2.	2.	1.	3.	3.	3.	3.	3.
Serbia																4th
Czech Republic	4th	4th	6th	5.	4th							5.	5.	5.		7th
Attendees	4th	4th	6th	5	6th	3	3	5	4th	3	5	5	5	5	4th	9
Color legend: European champion Vice European champion third  

Explanation: Tournament organizer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results at European Championships. (PDF) In: swissfaustball.ch. Swiss Faustball, 2011, accessed on September 19, 2019 (ger).