GOALBALL

Goalball is the biggest teamsport for visually impared players. The game are played at a volleyball-court where the two teams are in the opposite side of the court and throws the ball between each other to try get the ball into the goal, which are placed along the whole short side of the court. Each team consists of three players and there is a bell inside the ball for the athletes to locate where the ball is. Therefore the audience is requested to keep silent and enjoy the action of the game. The players orient themselves with the tactical lines on the floor.

Competition dates & times
February 7-9
Friday: 8:30-19:15
Saturday: 8:30-19:15
Sunday: 8:30-16:30

Venue
FIFH-hallen

Classes
Open Class

Tournament Rules & Regulations
According to IBSA competition rules but with necessary adjustments depending on how many teams there will be participating. A maximum of 10 teams can participate.

The first stage will be played in a round-robin basis. The second stage will be played in knock-out format.

Participants

The tournament are an Open Class-competition and the teams must compare to the following criterias:

(1) Teams can be consisted by women, men or mixed;
(2) Unclassified athletes (also sighted) are allowed in this competition.
(3) A male athlete who are over 19 years old (born in 2005 or earlier) and have participated in an EGCA Champions League stage during the last two years (2023-2024), or will participate in the same year (2025), is not eligible to participate in this tournament.
(4) A male athlete who has represented his country in the IBSA Goalball European Championships (A, B or C Division) is not eligible to participate in this competition without a special permission. The special permission should be requested from the tournament Director who will review each case individually. The request must be done as soon as possible before the player registries as a participant.
(5) Failure to comply with registration rules results in a cancellation from the competition for the whole team.

We have those rules due to the fact that the Malmö Open Goalball-competition shall be open for beginners, youth, not so experienced players and new teams. We all have a responsibility to make the competition fair for all participants.

Other info
Participants must wear uniform club outfit. Please note that we need all players shirtnumbers when your enter their names at the registration.

Registration fee
500 SEK/person

Contact person for goalball tournament
Peter Björkstrand
bjorkstrand@telia.com