Graz host city for the EFC 2018

For a few weeks the rumors have been growing, but today we are proud to make it official. The EFVL has chosen the city of Graz in Austria as host city for the 3rd edition of the European Footvolley Championship in 2018.

This decision is based on the strong case the Austrian Footvolley Federation built in which they demonstrate their motivation and vast experience in organising with a keen eye for every detail. We strongly believe Graz will be a worthy successor in line with the great host cities Schwäbisch Gmünd in 2016 and Albufeira in 2017.

The Austrian Footvolley Federation has a long history of organising international tournaments; 2017 marks the eighth in Austria, the last six being held in the city of Graz. The best players from Brazil and across Europe have enjoyed the hospitality of Graz, the second biggest city of Austria, located in the southern part of the country. Since the first event in 2009, the players have developed a strong affinity with the residents of this beautiful and lively city and look forward to this highlight of the international footvolley calendar.

The event location will be the main square of Graz in the heart of the old city Centre, one of the most beautiful locations in Austria receiving more than 100.000 visitors per month. Around the event location, there will be a stadium and an event village. Apart from the main event, plans are made to have a whole week packed with various footvolley events including a women’s and a youth competition as well as workshops and tryouts for school classes and football clubs, an exhibition with the presence of former football players and a training camp.

An official press conference will be held later this year.

Video of the European Footvolley Championship 2016

France wins first European Footvolley Championship

The European Footvolley League would like to congratulate France with the win in the first European Footvolley Championship in Schwäbisch Gmünd 2016. Dume Susini and Anghjulu Maria Plasenzotti beat Nelson Pereira and Miguel Pinheiro of Portugal in a very exciting and well played final. 

France beat Portugal 1 18:15 and 18:12 in the final and showed us solid defense and outstanding attacking. Portugal 1 kept within reach for a long time, but France proved stronger and came out with the win.

The battle for the 3rd place was won by Spain. Sergio Antolinos & Juan Antonio Lopez managed to beat Pedro Salvador & Tiago Melo of Portugal 2.

This means the top 3 of European Footvolley Champions looks as follows:

1. France
2. Portugal
3. Spain

Winners Dume Susini and Anghjulu Maria Plasenzotti

This was truly a historical 1st edition of the European Footvolley Championship. Everyone involved is a winner. All teams showed their skills, commitment and love for the sport. The organization was perfect and we are eternally grateful to the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Over 100 school kids played footvolley. The ladies exhibition was very tense and high level.  And last but not least, the more than 2000 enthusiastic supporters from all over Europe were sublime. This was a giant step for our beloved sport. United we play footvolley!

All pictures are taken by JF-PhotoStyle. See more pictures at his Facebook-page. 

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Live video and commentary

The tournament was broadcasted with live video stream on our Youtube channel and you can see all the action there. We also had live commentaries from Nick Dugdale-Moore.

Here are some quick links: 

• The stream for sunday (finals)
• The stream for saturday (knock out stages)
• The final between France and Portugal 1
• The semi final 1 between France and Portugal 2
• The semi final 2 between Spain and Portugal 1

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Results from the tournament

The groups

Group A: Germany 1, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland 2
Group B: Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and Germany 3
Group C: Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway and Portugal 2
Group D: Portugal, France, Germany 2 and Netherlands 2 

Schedule and results from friday

10:00 1 Austria - Switzerland 2 18:14
10:30 2 Spain - United Kingdom 18:5
11:00 3 Germany - Belgium 18:12
11:30 4 Italy - United Kingdom 18:8
12:00 5 Belgium - Switzerland 2 7:18
12:30 6 United Kingdom - Germany 3 7:18
13:00 7 Germany - Austria 9:18
13:30 8 Italy - Spain 14:18
14:00 OFFICIAL OPENING
14:30 9 Austria - Belgium 18:6
15:00 10 Spain - Germany 3 18:10
15:30 11 France - Netherlands 2 18:12
16:00 12 Switzerland - Portugal 2 9:18
16:30 13 Portugal - Germany 2 18:7
17:00 14 Netherlands - Norway 18:7
17:30 15 Germany 2 - Netherlands 2 11:18
18:00 16 Norway - Portugal 2 9:18
18:30 17 Portugal - France 18:13
19:00 18 Netherlands - Switzerland 18:14

Schedule and results from saturday

10:00 19 France - Germany 2 18:10
10:30 20 Switzerland - Norway 18:7
11:00 21 Germany - Switzerland 2 19:17
11:30 22 Italy - Germany 3 21:19
12:00 23 Portugal - Netherlands 2 18:11
12:30 24 Netherlands - Portugal 2 14:18

Schedule and results from the knock out stage saturday

13:30 25 France - Switzerland 18:16 18:14
14:15 26 Italy - Switzerland 2 18:5 18:11
15:00 27 Netherlands 1 - Netherlands 2 15:18 18:13 15:11
15:45 28 Germany 1 - Germany 3 14:18 13:18

Schedule and results from quarter finals saturday

17:00 29 Austria - (W25) France 7:18 10:18
17:45 30 Portugal 2 - (W26) Italy 18:13 20:18
18:30 31 Spain - (W27) Netherlands 1 18:16 18:12
19:15 32 Portugal 1 - (W28) Germany 3 18:12 18:10

Schedule and results from semi finals and finals sunday

10:00 33 France - Portugal 2 9:18 18:14 15:5
10:45 34 Spain - Portugal 1 18:12 15:18 11:15
11:30 - Netherlands girls - Italy girls (Italy wins)
13:25 35 Portugal 2 - Spain 13:18 (Spain wins bronze medal)
14:00 36 France - Portugal 1 18:15 18:12 (France wins gold medal)

Participants of the EFC 2016

Main teams

• Austria: Benedikt & Klemens Hofmann-Wellenhof
• Belgium: Jochen Van Gestel & Ruben Veestraeten
• Croatia: Team withdrawn
• France: Dume Susini & Anghjulu Maria Plasenzotti
• Germany 1: Jakob Domke & Joel Nißlein.
• Germany 2: Ray Wenning & Dennis Bessel
• Italy: Marco Graziani & Marco Santopre
• Netherlands: Antonio Aurino & Jesse van Oord
• Norway: Kristoffer Førde Aarskog & Tom Johannes Bang
• Portugal: Nelson Pereira & Miguel Pinheiro
• Spain: Sergio Antolinos & Juan Antonio Lopez
• Switzerland: Alberto Quintas & Cristiano Goes
• United Kingdom: David Donkin & Gary Titley

Qualification teams

• Switzerland: Nils Fehr & Benedikt Zwyssig
• Austria: Sascha Wegscheider & Jakob Hofmann-Wellenhof
• Germany 3: Mo Obeid & Daniel Wehr
• Portugal: Pedro Salvador & Tiago Melo
• Netherlands: Martijn ten duis & Bart Zantman

Follow the action from the European Footvolley Championship in Schwäbisch Gmünd

If you want to follow the action from the 1st ever European Footvolley Championship, which is taking place this weekend in Schwäbisch Gmünd, you can do this by following us here: 

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You can also see all the scores in our live blog on Facebook.