Friday 20 January 2012 was the founding meeting of IKF Europe in Warsaw (POL).

The delegates of 12 countries present in the meeting elected the executive committee of the Continental Confederation of IKF Europe. IKF Europe represents the 31 countries within the territory of IKF Europe.

Due to an achilles tendon rupture a few days before the meeting Milan Schwarz, earlier elected president of IKF Europe, could not preside the meeting. Schwarz had surgery. The operation was succesful.

The founding meeting was presided by Frans Walvis, senior vice president of IKF.

The meeting elected in IKF Europe: Bandor Nagy (HUN), member (left), Jan van den Berghe (BEL), secretary general (in the middle) and Jan Sjardijn (NED), vice president (right).

The IKF has made another step towards the future with this new continental confederation in Europe. in total the IKF has 5 continental confederations; the other 4 are: IKF Asia, IKF Africa, IKF Americas and IKF Oceania. The growth of korfball will benefit of this step. 

Thursday 19 January 2012 was the Quarter Finals Day in the IKF Europa Cup event in Warsaw, Poland.

Photo impressions:

The day 1 matches in the 46^th IKF Europa Cup were decisive. The winners reach a top 8 ranking. The losers will be contesting the places 9 to 12.

The first match between Assessoria Valparadis (CAT) and SKK Dolphins Prievidza (SVK) showed great commitment. The whole match the Slovakians gave a lot of defensive pressure to their opponents, but the Catalonians were always on the right side of the score. They finished with a 19-15 victory.

In the next match NC Benfica (POR) did what was expected, they beat FJEP Bonson (FRA) by 36-6 after 20-2 half time. The Portugese team outperformed the French squad due to a much higher scoring ability.

First time participant Ankara University Club (TUR) showed a lot of enthusiasm and energy in their match against Trojans (ENG). But the more experienced English team stayed calm and created the opportunities to win 19-10.

The day ended with the match between the hosting club Megasports Warsawa (POL) and Orel State University HSS (RUS). It was a match with 2 different tactical concepts, Orel State University HSS focused on the long distance shot and Megasports Warsawa more playing from and in the post area. The Russians achieved a well-deserved win; 18-27 after a 7-12 score at halftime.