Korfball is a team ball game, similar in many ways to netball. It is played in over forty countries. The countries with the most players are the Netherlands and Belgium. Korfball differs from other team sports in that it is a mixed-gender game: a team consists of four men and four women.

How to play

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Korfball is played indoors or outdoors on a court divided into two halves called zones. In each zone there is a post (3.5m, shorter for the young) with a basket at the top. This is positioned at two thirds of the distance between the centre line and the back of the zone. The ball is similar to the one used for football. There are two teams, each consisting of eight players: two men and two women of each team in each zone (attack and defense). Players score by throwing the ball through the other team's basket. After two goals the teams change zones: the defenders become attackers and attackers defenders. At half-time the teams swap halves of the court.

History

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It has been surmised that korfball is a descendant of basketball through an intermediate Swedish sport called ringboll. The rules of Korfball are quite similar to those of Netball. Since basketball was only invented in 1891 in the United States (by a Canadian), just eleven years before korfball, it seems very unlikely that this game had any influence on the birth of korfball.

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