What is Korfball?

Korfball is an exciting and creative mixed team sport combining agility, speed, technique and vision. The game involves moving and passing the ball around with the objective of scoring goals in the basket which is 3.5m of the ground with no back-board.

It is in the same family as netball and basketball and “korf” is actually the Dutch word for basket.

Each team consists of 8 players: 4 men and 4 women. The court is split into 2 halves and the team split into 2 groups of 4 in each half of the court. One group attacks in one half whilst the other defends. Everyone gets to attack and defend as after two goals the groups swap court halves and swap roles.

An attacker cannot shoot if they are being defended (criteria: same gender defending, between opposition and the post, actively marking them within arms reach and with their arm up). So it is up to the attacking division of four to create shooting opportunities, by either running past their opposition for a “running in shot” or getting sufficient distance away from their player to go for a “long shot”.

Download this PDF (124K) introducing Korfball produced by Korfball New Zealand

Download this PDF (535K) for a more in depth view of the rules produced by the British Korfball Association

Download this PDF (100K) for the rules of Beach Korfball.

Download this PDF (380K) for the IKF 2005 Competition Regulations (but only if you like long tedious documents).

 

Referees

Download the lastest PDF (845K) of referee signals.

 

Fitness

Korfball is a sport which requires a reasonable level of fitness.

Download The current KNZ Fitness test and skill monitoring (154K).

Download The well known "Beep" test (WARNING 15MB).

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