2018 Women's Fistball World Cup

8th World Cup 2018
Women
Number of nations	11
World Champion	Germany
host	Austria
city	Linz
opening	July 24, 2018
Endgame	28th July 2018
Association	IFA
Number of games	47
← 7th World Cup 2016

The 8th women's fistball world championship took place from July 24th to 28th, 2018 in Linz ( Austria ). After the finals in 1998 , the Austrian city hosted a women's fistball world championship for the second time . The defending champion was the German women's national team , who won the 2016 final against the then hosts Brazil 4-2.

The World Cup in Austria was organized by the International Fistball Association (IFA) in cooperation with Faustball Austria (ÖFBB) and the Upper Austrian Fistball Association (OÖFBV).

The German women's national team became world champions for the sixth time and for the third time in a row.

Attendees

A total of eleven nations from three different regional associations took part in the 2018 IFA Women's Fistball World Cup. With New Zealand, Belgium, Poland and Serbia, four national women's teams also took part in a fistball world championship for the first time.

8 from Europe	Belgium	Germany	Italy	Austria
	Poland	Switzerland	Serbia	Czech Republic
2 from America	Argentina	Brazil
1 from Asia / Oceania	New Zealand

game schedule

The preliminary round groups were drawn on the basis of the results of the last fistball world championship on March 7th in Linz.

Group A	Group B
Brazil	Germany
Switzerland	Argentina
Austria	Poland
New Zealand	Serbia
Belgium	Italy
	Czech Republic

Preliminary round

Group A

Tuesday July 24, 2018
3	1:45 p.m.	Austria	-	Belgium	2: 0 (11: 1, 11: 0)
4th	1:45 p.m.	Brazil	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (11: 4, 11: 4)
7th	3:15 p.m.	Switzerland	-	Belgium	2: 0 (11: 0, 11: 2)
10	4:45 p.m.	Switzerland	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (11: 1, 11: 3)
11	6:15 pm	Brazil	-	Austria	2: 0 (11: 9, 11: 5)
Wednesday 25th July 2018
14th	1:45 p.m.	Brazil	-	Belgium	2: 0 (11: 1, 11: 2)
15th	1:45 p.m.	Austria	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (11: 3, 11: 2)
19th	3:15 p.m.	New Zealand	-	Belgium	2: 0 (11: 3, 11: 2)
22nd	4:45 p.m.	Brazil	-	Switzerland	2: 0 (11: 6, 11: 5)
25th	7:00 p.m.	Switzerland	-	Austria	2: 0 (11: 9, 11: 5)

Pl.	team	Sp.	sentences	Ballverh.	Pt.
1	Brazil	4th	8-0	88:36	8th
2	Switzerland	4th	6: 2	77:42	6th
3	Austria	4th	4: 4	72:50	4th
4th	New Zealand	4th	2: 6	39:71	2
5	Belgium	4th	0: 8	11:88	0

Group B

Tuesday July 24, 2018
1	13:00 'O clock	Argentina	-	Czech Republic	2: 0 (11: 2, 11: 6)
2	13:00 'O clock	Poland	-	Italy	1: 2 (11: 7, 6:11, 6:11)
5	2:30 p.m.	Germany	-	Czech Republic	2: 0 (11: 0, 11: 2)
6th	2:30 p.m.	Argentina	-	Serbia	2: 1 (11: 4, 14:15, 11: 5)
8th	4:00 p.m.	Germany	-	Italy	2: 0 (11: 1, 11: 3)
9	4:00 p.m.	Serbia	-	Poland	2: 0 (14:12, 11: 8)
Wednesday 25th July 2018
12	13:00 'O clock	Germany	-	Serbia	2: 0 (11: 4, 11: 3)
13	13:00 'O clock	Argentina	-	Poland	2: 1 (11: 8, 10:12, 11: 6)
16	2:30 p.m.	Serbia	-	Czech Republic	2: 0 (11: 2, 11: 3)
17th	2:30 p.m.	Argentina	-	Italy	2: 0 (11: 7, 11: 7)
18th	3:15 p.m.	Germany	-	Poland	2: 0 (11: 2, 11: 2)
20th	4:00 p.m.	Poland	-	Czech Republic	2: 0 (13:11, 11: 4)
21st	4:00 p.m.	Serbia	-	Italy	0: 2 (9:11, 6:11)
23	17:30	Italy	-	Czech Republic	2: 1 (11: 6, 7:11, 11: 5)
24	17:30	Germany	-	Argentina	2: 0 (11: 6, 11: 6)

Pl.	team	Sp.	sentences	Ballverh.	Pt.
1	Germany	5	10-00	110: 290	10
2	Argentina	5	08: 40	124: 940	08th
3	Italy	5	06: 60	098: 104	06th
4th	Serbia	5	05: 60	093: 105	04th
5	Poland	5	04: 80	097: 123	02
6th	Czech Republic	5	01:10	052: 119	00

Double elimination

qualification

The fourth and fifth placed teams of the two preliminary round groups played for the open two places in the double elimination .

Thursday July 26, 2018
26th	09:30 am	Serbia	-	Belgium	3: 0 (11: 3, 11: 4, 11: 6)
27	09:30 am	New Zealand	-	Poland	0: 3 (8:11, 8:11, 7:11)

Grid

1 round

2nd round

Semifinals

final

loser

Game 32

Serbia

0

Game 40

Argentina

3

Argentina

0

Switzerland

3

Game 43

Winning round

Game 30

Switzerland

3

Brazil

3

Austria

2

Serbia

0

Game 34

Brazil

1

Game 28

Austria

3

Argentina

0

Austria

3

Game 47

Switzerland

1

Game 31

Germany

4th

Germany

3

Poland

0

Game 35

Germany

3

Game 29

Switzerland

0

Switzerland

3

Game 42

Italy

0

Germany

3

Brazil

2

Game 39

loser

Game 33

Brazil

3

Poland

3

Poland

0

Italy

1

Placement round

Placement games

Game 45

Game 41

Game 44

Game 46

9/10 place

7/8 place

Place 5/6

3rd place

Czech Republic

0

Serbia

0

Argentina

3

Austria

0

New Zealand

3

Italy

3

Poland

0

Brazil

4th

1 round

Thursday July 26, 2018
28	11:00 o'clock	Argentina	-	Austria	0: 3 (2:11, 6:11, 7:11)
29	11:00 o'clock	Switzerland	-	Italy	3: 0 (11: 3, 11: 5, 11: 4)
30th	12:30 pm	Brazil	-	Serbia	3: 0 (11: 7, 11: 5, 11: 2)
31	12:30 pm	Germany	-	Poland	3: 0 (11: 2, 11: 1, 11: 4)

Thursday July 26, 2018
32	14:00 clock	Argentina	-	Serbia	3: 0 (11: 6, 11: 9, 11: 7)
33	3:30 p.m.	Italy	-	Poland	1: 3 (12:10, 8:11, 9:11, 13:15)

2nd round

Thursday July 26, 2018
34	17:00 o'clock	Austria	-	Brazil	3: 1 (11: 8, 11: 9, 9:11, 15:14)
35	6:30 p.m.	Switzerland	-	Germany	0: 3 (14:15, 9:11, 5:11)

Friday 27th July 2018
39	1:15 p.m.	Brazil	-	Poland	3: 0 (11: 1, 11: 3, 11: 8)
40	11:45 a.m.	Switzerland	-	Argentina	3: 0 (11: 7, 11: 5, 11: 8)

Semifinals

Friday 27th July 2018
42	6:00 p.m.	Germany	-	Brazil	3: 2 (12:10, 5:11, 12:10, 8:11, 11: 7)
43	4:30 p.m.	Austria	-	Switzerland	2: 3 (9:11, 11: 7, 7:11, 11: 3, 6:11)

Placement games

President's Cup (places 9 to 11)

The President's Cup was held for the first time at a women's world championship in fistball. The two losers of the qualification for double elimination , Belgium and New Zealand, as well as the Czech Republic as the last of group B participated. First, a simple round-robin tournament was played. The two group winners then determined the winner of the President's Cup in a final - at the same time the game for 9th place in the World Cup.

Friday 27th July 2018
36	09:15 a.m.	Belgium	-	Czech Republic	0: 2 (2:11, 7:11)
37	10:00 a.m	New Zealand	-	Czech Republic	1: 2 (6:11, 11: 7, 9:11)
38	10:45 a.m.	Belgium	-	New Zealand	0: 2 (4:11, 8:11)

Final and game for 9th place

Saturday 28th July 2018
45	2:30 p.m.	Czech Republic	-	New Zealand	0: 3 (7:11, 8:11, 7:11)

Game for 7th place

Friday 27th July 2018
41	2:45 p.m.	Serbia	-	Italy	0: 3 (9:11, 7:11, 12:14)

Play for 5th place

Saturday 28th July 2018
44	13:00 'O clock	Poland	-	Argentina	0: 3 (9:11, 7:11, 12:14)

3rd place match

Saturday 28th July 2018
46	4:00 p.m.	Brazil	-	Austria	4: 0 (11: 9, 11: 5, 15:14, 11: 9)

final

Saturday 28th July 2018
47	6:00 p.m.	Germany	-	Switzerland	4: 1 (11: 9, 10:12, 11: 7, 11: 6, 11: 1)

watch TV

The organizing committee was able to win the Austrian sports broadcaster ORF Sport Plus as media partner of the 2018 women's fistball world championship . The television station broadcast the semi-final match of the Austrian team, the match for the bronze medal and the final between Germany and Switzerland live. The semifinals between Brazil and Germany were broadcast live in the ORF media library. Johannes Hahn accompanied the game as commentator and was supported by co-commentator Klemens Kronsteiner, former national player of the Austrian men's national team.

Final ranking

space	team
1	Germany
2	Switzerland
3	Brazil
4th	Austria
5	Argentina
6th	Poland
7th	Italy
8th	Serbia
9	New Zealand *
10	Czech Republic
11	Belgium

^* President's Cup winner

Web links

• Official website of the 2018 Fistball World Cup

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Upper Austrian news: Fistball: World Cup gold again to Germany's women . Article dated July 28, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018.
2. ↑ Germany is crowned world champion again. Final report on fistballwwc.com from July 28, 2018, accessed on July 29, 2018.
3. ↑ Official invitation to the Women's World Cup 2018. In: ifa-fistball.com. IFA, June 14, 2017, accessed June 8, 2017 (English, German). 
4. ↑ Germany is crowned world champion again. In: fistballwwc.com. July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Premiere for President's Cup. In: fistballwwc.com. July 26, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 .