#ITSFMasterSeries2021
New tournament accepted:
Master Series - Open National du Montreuillois 2021 - ITSF Master Tour will be held in France, Montreuil sur Mer November 6th to 7th on Bonzini Tables - Further information on that tournament are displayed there
On next 15th of June we’ll attempt to achieve the world record of gathering the greatest number of people playing table soccer at the same time. Anyone can participate thanks the digital format. Join us if you want to connect the entire planet as a big foosball family with us. Don’t miss out, LET’S FOOS!
More info are coming, you can follow the event there : https://bit.ly/2Mc20Hx
Online meetings about specific topics start with the ITSF Education Commission on next 23rd of March, at 5PM (CET). John O’Brien and Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler will introduce to federations’ delegates the Education Commission goals, its projects, and the requested involvement from federations.
Please if you didn’t already do it, send us your representative at info@tabllesoccer.org and we will contact them.
You are involved with a National Olympic Committee, a Sport Association or just a fan of the discipline, we can help you to build a strong table soccer organization in your country.
We have Sport authorities looking for foosball fan to work with them as we have players looking for institution support, let us make the connexion and contact us !
The renewed ITSF Sport Commission (SC) consists of 6 people now: Ekaterina Atanasova (BGR), Maryam Ali (USA), Wolfgang Breuer (AUT), Daniel Görlich (DEU), Klaus Gottesleben (DEU) and Julian Wortmann (DEU).
Their main task is to prepare the season 2021 and to have a first view towards 2022 and the ITSF World Cup in Nantes.
These are the topics the SC is working on:
• Revising the Sport Code and the DressCode
• Redefining the different types of ITSF tournaments (names and titles)
• Defining a uniform standard for all World Series tournaments
• Preparing the ECL 2021
• Defining the categories and competitions for the ITSF World Cup 2022
• Revising the qualification rules for the ITSF World Cup 2022
• Finalizing the schedule and the tournament file for the ITSF World Cup 2022
We will inform about the decisions after the approval of the responsible persons.
Yesterday the ITSF started online meeting series.
Thanks to the 51 delegates who joined the meeting.
We mainly spoke together about sport recognition, World Cup 2022, education program and sport organisation.
Next ones will concern specific topics as ITSF software, Federation development plan, referees and rules, trainer and training program, …
Contact us for more information and contact your federation to become a delegate on topic you matter.
Next dates and full calendar will be sent shortly to your federation.
You can already check what time you can play in your time zone.
Since the event will happen 24h before the UEFA match France-Germany, the playing period is from 14th of June 8pm till 15th of June 8pm for Central European Time (CET) and locations like Hamburg, Germany, which will be the record “control room”. For example: for Vancouver it would be 14/06, 11am till 15/06, 11am or for Sydney 15/06 4am till 16/06 4am.
Feel free to use the event hashtag is #foosisallaround
As a reminder: Everybody can play locally a tournament within the 24 hours to participate in the world record. You can choose the location, your guests, the details like rules or duration. The only thing which is fixed is the format: Fair play and every tournament will be played as a Monster-DYP, and if you want a special KO-phase… This is already possible today with the “KOMM KICKERN” App for free.
More information coming soon, you can follow the event here .
#letsfoos #kommkickern #tablesoccerissport
The ITSF is really pleased to announce the 2021 European Champions League !
This year the host city will be Roma – Italy.
From November 19th to 21st.
Sincere congratulations to organizers, Figest !
Stay tuned, more information are coming.
#ITSFMasterTour2021
#ITSFWorldSeries2021
#ITSFProTour2021
New tournaments accepted:
World Series - ITSF World Series by Leonhart 2021 will be held in Germany, St. Wendel September 2nd to 5th on Leonhart Tables - Further information on that tournament are displayed there
Pro Tour - DTFB Schmiden Open 2021 - ITSF Pro Tour will be held in Germany, Fellbach October 22nd to 24th on Leonhart Tables - Further information on that tournament are displayed there
We are very pleased to announce the next ITSF World Series by Leonhart :
From the 02 to the 05 September 2021 – St Wendel, Germany.
Players info package will be online in few weeks.
Event page here.
World Record coming next June.
KOMM KICKERN (engl. LET’S FOOS) intends to bring foosball out of its niche. The movement wants to motivate and bring together more players and thus strengthen clubs, venues and the entire foosball family.
On 15 June 2021, around 8.15 p.m. (CEST), KOMM KICKERN would like to announce a world record: most participants in a foosball tournament within a 24-hour period.
And everybody can be part of it: Play at least one tournament with the KOMM KICKERN app during the campaign period from 8 p.m. (CEST) on 14 June until the same time on 15 June. And you will automatically be part of the world record.
More information coming soon. You can already follow the Facebook event.
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the ITSF executive and all the people involved in international foosball development, I want to send to you our best wishes and our hope that you all had a healthy start in the new year 2021.
2020 was affected by the sanitary situation, but was also marked by outstanding work carried out by national federations, manufacturers and our Foosball Community to reinvent themselves and to prepare for a return to more favourable conditions. We will be thrilled to regularly report on the concrete results of this hard work. Just as you certainly are, we are looking forward to resuming competitions, knowing that federations and ITSF manufacturers will be ready, as soon as sanitary conditions will makes it possible, depending on geographic areas specificities.
Many federation seized this period as an opportunity to review their development plan. The growing of their community, the opening of their activities to children and leisure players, and the building of better relationships with companies have often been the major focuses of their actions. I would like to congratulate all the men and women who took part in these initiatives, as well as those who acted individually by creating and sharing tutorials and videos about Table Soccer practice on social media. Each of these enterprises shall be commend and encouraged, whatever the audience performances, as it participate in the spread of our sport and in the growing of our community of passionate players.
In the meantime, take care of yourselves and preserve your loved ones. I wish to meet you soon around a foosball table, as I’m convinced that 2021 will bring a return to positive thinking and to optimism.
Kind regards,
Farid Lounas, ITSF President
After these difficult times we are pleased to announce the reopening of the table soccer tournaments. Tournaments shall resume after 15th of March 2021 if the pandemic situation allows it.
As the 2020 ranking stopped on the 15th of March 2020, the 2021 ranking will start on the 15th of March 2021, to compile a full year of tournaments. Thus, the Qualification for 2022 World Cup will be based on this assembled year consisting of the Q1 2020 and Q2-Q4 2021.
Recently, The Federation of Table Soccer in Democratic Republic of the Congo (FECOFOTA) introduced their wish to participate to the next International Francophonie Games which will take place in Kinshasa (DRC) from 19th to 28th August 2022.
Théophile NKEY KIMPANGA, the vice president of the FECOFOTA and the federation secretary had a talk with Zéno KABAMBA, the general director of the International Francophonie Games about the potential entry of The Table Soccer Federation of DRC (FECOFOTA) to this event.
This talk ended with a hopeful outcome. Indeed, the general director of the International Francophonie Games commits to talk to the different organizations to find a way to add them to the International Francophonie Games 9th edition as a demo activity. According to the general director, the FECOFOTA is on the right track, and the International Francophonie Games is ready to support them.
The International Francophonie Games take place every 2 years and gather all the French speaking countries in a sportive tournament to tighten links and develop solidarity.
The ITSF congratulates the FECOFOTA for this huge step for Table Soccer development in DRC and hope to see them at the next International Francophonie Games!
The ITSF is pleased to introduce John O’Brien as President and Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler as member of the ITSF Education Commission. They both have experience in this domain as they are already involved in youth development projects for their national federations.
The ITSF Youth Commission is dedicated to the promotion of Table Soccer for the young people on both competition and leisure aspects. It focuses particularly in building educational projects and providing a framework for the practice of the youngest generations.
John and Jan will also work in close cooperation with the ITSF Sport Commission on the matters regarding players under the age of 19.
We give them a warm welcome and hope that their cooperation will benefit to youngsters!
As a reminder, any licensee from a national federation is free to be part the ITSF Commissions. If you are interested in committing yourself to the development of Table Soccer, or if you would like to have more information about the ITSF Commissions, feel free to contact us at info@tablesoccer.org.
The ITSF Executive Committee will meet on Tuesday 3rd November 2021 to discuss the current situation and to prepare next ITSF Season.
The ITSF Executive Committee is willing to repeat its encouragements to foosball players to keep acting with utmost caution, as the spread of the covid-19 virus is increasing again in multiple countries.
This meeting is also the occasion to welcome 4 new Executive Committee observer members: Tomas Fernandez (Spain) President of the Federación Española de Futbolín, Kenneth Dale (Peru) Member of the Apfm Perú, Ilanga Bienvenu (DRC) President of the FECOFOTA - Fédération Congolaise de Football de Table and member of the national parliament, Jules Epotié (Cameroon) President of the Association Sportive Camerounaise de Babyfoot
This co-optation is the opportunity to get more people involved to support federations, with members dedicated to Africa and South America, and to prepare those members as candidates to chair the committee in the future.
We give them a warm welcome and hope that their cooperation will benefit to the ITSF.
Bring Table Soccer to the SPORT level in your country
Dear Friends,
Since 2017, ITSF’s campaign to recognize Table Soccer as a sport took a significant turn with the integration of the Global Association of International Sports Federations. For these past years, the combined work with national federations enabled the ITSF to formed solid bond with influent executive officers in the sport’s world on nearly every continent.
We, ITSF staff, commissions members and partners, are always available to support any initiatives from our federation members and/or from National Olympic Committees and National Sport Authorities committed to the recognition of our sport.
The ITSF will redouble its effort and take advantage of those troubled times to accompany national federations on their way to official recognition.
As a result, each federation and National Olympic Committee wishing to move forward and get sport recognition will receive an individual appointment to define the best action plan to reach that goal, with full ITSF support.
We hope the sanitary situation will end soon, but in the meantime let’s be ready to come out of this crisis even stronger.
Farid Lounas
President of the ITSF
Given the uncertainties connected with the global sanitary crisis, the ITSF decided to postpone the next ITSF World Cup - initially planned in June 2021 - to 2022.
Following numerous requests from federations to defer this event, added to the inability to foresee the developments of the crisis for the coming months and in order to guarantee the equality of opportunities for the players to take part to qualifications, the International Federation made the difficult decision to postpone the World Cup to a later date.
ITSF Commissions are now working on defining a better date to organise this event. They are also considering a way to start the 2021 ITSF season in the best conditions. More information will be shared with you in the coming months.
Rest assured that it is ITSF's sincere will to resume the competitions, but that gathering more than 900 players from all over the world in less than 8 months is still difficult to consider.
The ITSF is ready to work with each national federation case by case to explore the conditions for a safe re-opening of their national competitions, according to their local requirements. Feel free to contact the ITSF office about that matter.
Thank you for your understanding.
Farid Lounas
President of the ITSF
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