European

This is the Eirball.world Archive of European Sports. It is an Ongoing Project and is part of the Eirball.ie – Irish, North American and World Sports Archives

Featured Image Credit: RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – June 6: Korfball League games played at Olympia Park on June 6, 2015 in Rustenburg South Africa. Ladies team: Girl goal trowing ball at net. Contributor Snap2Art Item ID: 290375525 [Internet] Available from: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/rustenburg-south-africa-june-6-korfball-290375525 [Accessed 5 January 2022]

European Sports include both Traditional and non-traditional Sports such as variations on Hockey (Roller Hockey – Portugal & World; Bandy – Russia & Scandinavia; Floorball/Innebandy/Ball Hockey – Scandinavia & Russia), Choule – Normandy, France); Football (Calcio Fiorentino, Italy; Lelo Burti – Georgia), Basketball (Korfball – Netherlands); Baseball (Pesapallo – Finland); Racquet Sports (Tamburello – Italy)

Roller Hockey (Portugal & World)

Roller Hockey is the National sport of Portugal. Played on skates with four wheels – one at each corner (quads) rather than Inline – and with a ball rather than puck. It has an over 100-year history in Ireland, and is sometimes also known as Rink Hockey.

Dublin Vikings IHRA Senior Spring League Champions 2017

Irish Rink / Roller Hockey Associations

IRHA

Irish Rink Hockey Association Senior Spring League (Seasons):

2017 (Pending Review)

Irish Roller Hockey Association Roller Hockey League (Seasons):

1995

[11] Irish Rink Hockey Association Facebook (2017) Post: March 1, 2017:”Dublin Vikings” [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/17015984_1254728087943548_8438206201520793448_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=t0WzSEGVuA4AX-WXW3K&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=57ea91b48453121fd8466b8abff52c6f&oe=5ECD8F6E [Accessed 26 April 2020]

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Roller / Rink Hockey County Leagues

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County Roller Hockey Leagues (Decade / Era Finals):

Waterford Roller Hockey League | Olympia Cup Finals 1949-1950(Pending Review)

Dublin Roller Hockey League | Butlins Challenge Cup:

1950(Pending Review)

Dublin Roller Hockey League | Classic Shield (League):

1950 (Pending Review)

Drimnagh Civic Week Roller Hockey Matches:

1949 (Pending Review)

Limerick Senior Roller Hockey League:

1941 (Pending Review)

Inter-County Roller Hockey Challenge Matches:

1939(Pending Review)

Leinster Rink Hockey League:

1910 (Pending Review)

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Portugal Roller Hockey

Portuguese Roller Hockey League

Roller Hockey is the National Sport of Portugal, and the Portuguse Roller Hockey League is the Major League of Roller Hockey in the World.

Portuguese Roller Hockey League 2015-Present (Pending Review)

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Bandy (Russia)

Bandy is one of Russia’s National Sports, where it is known as Hockey with a Ball as opposed to Hockey with a Puck (Ice Hockey).

It is played on Ice with a ball rather than a puck.

Versions of the sport include Innebandy (also known as Floorball in Europe or Ball Hockey in North America) where runners are used on a hard floor rather than blades or roller skates. (see https://eirball.ie/roller-hockey/ for more details on Floor Hockey and Ball Hockey – Floorball results also available at: https://eirball.ie/floorball/ and Ball Hockey Results also available at: https://eirball.ie/ball-hockey/ )

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Russian Bandy (Major League)

Russian Bandy Super League

Russian Bandy Super League

2018-19

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Floorball

Floorball is a version of Ice Hockey played on a hard floor with a ball rather than a puck, and without skates. It has been included in the Special Olympics World winter Games since the early 21st Century. Below you will find the results & tables of various competitions:

Special Olympics World Winter Games Austria 2017

Special Olympics World Winter Games Floorball

Special Olympics World Winter Games Floorball

Special Olympics World Winter Games:

Special Olympics World Winter Games | Floorball Austria 2017

Picture Credit: [1] Special Olympic World Winter Games Austria 2017 Austria 2017 Logo [Internet] Available from: http://www.specialolympicsga.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2017WorldGamesAustrialogo.jpg [Accessed 30 November 2017]

Choule (Normandy, France)

The Traditional Sports and Games of Normandy (North France) were first described in the 12th Century A.D. Choule is a Team Sport involving a curved stick and a leather ball.

Jeux et Tradi Normandi Logo

Jeux et Tradi Normandie

Jeux et Tradi Normandi

FJSTNV Choule Crosse Normande (Seasons):

2019

Picture Credit: [1] Fédération de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels Normande et Vikings (2014) logotradinormandiedetoure [Internet] Available from: https://jeuxtradinormandie.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/logotradinormandiedetoure.png [Accessed 23 October 2020]

Korfball

Korfball is the Dutch variant of Basketball or Netball and has been played in Netherlands and Belgium since the early 20th Century. It has been played in Ireland since around 2009 when the Ireland Korfball International team first entered the IKF European Championships.

While there is no league in Ireland as yet, the International team enters Tournaments in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Netherlands. In keeping with the Dutch ‘Total Football’ Tradition the Attackers and Defenders swap positions after two scores by either team, making an All-Rounders game.

RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – June 6: Korfball League games played at Olympia Park on June 6, 2015 in Rustenburg South Africa. Ladies team: Girl goal trowing ball at net.

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Korfball

Korfball (Dutch Basketball)

International Korfball Federation (Overviews):

International Korfball Federation Logo [Ref: 3]

International Korfball Federation European Korfball Championships 2010-2018

International Korfball Federation European Korfball Championship Round 1 2016-2017

International Korfball Federation | World Korfball Championship (Finals):

2019

International Korfball Federation | European Championships (Finals):

2014 2010

International Korfball Federation | European Championships Round 1 (Qualifying):

2017 2016

Korfball Tournaments:

British Student Korfball Association International Invitaitional Trophy

2017

Korfball Teams:

European Korfball Championships | Ireland’s Record 2009-2016

Scandinavian Baseball

Pesapallo

Pesapallo is the Finnish version of Baseball and is their National Sport. It has an unusual form of pitching and players run zig-zags through bases. There is a game played on their National Holiday every year at the Finnish Embassy in Ireland.

Here is a Video of the sport from the New York Times, as shared by the Irish-Finnish Society on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IrishFinnishSociety/posts/1326676680678956 [Accessed 27 June 2019]

FINLAND – CIRCA 1995: a stamp printed in the Finland shows Paivi Ikola, Pesapallo Player, National Sport of Finland, circa 1995

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Pesapallo (Finland)

Pessapallo (Finland); Brannboll (Denmark)

Finnish Pesapallo Super Pesis:

Finnish Pesapallo Super Pesis:

2019

Irish Pesapallo Matches

Pesapallo on Independence Day at the Finnish Embassy in Ireland 6 December

Calcio Storico Fiorentino

Calcio Storico Fiorentino has been played in Florence, Tuscany since the Renaissance, around 1460-1470 AD. The first organised match took place on February 17, 1530. It was revived in the 20th Century, first under the 1930s government of Mussolini, and then again after World War II in the Italian Republic. Earlier matches dating back to the 1400s mention games played in breaks between work by workers [Reference: 2-5]

The matches usually take place during the June Festival period, with four teams, Azzurri, Bianchi, Rossi and Verdi (Blues, Whites, Reds and Greens) representing the four quarters of the city of Florence. The match is played between 54 players – two teams of 27 – with teams reversing ends after each score. It is played on sand in the Plaza. There are usually a Semi-Finals and Final. Half Points are scored, and teams play in traditional dress.

[2] Calcio Storico Fiorentino Sito Ufficiale (2020) Risultati Partite [Internet] Available from: http://www.calciostoricofiorentino.it/risultati_partite [Accessed 4 August 2020]

[4] Calcio Storico Fiorentino Sito Ufficiale (2020) CALCIO STORICO FIORENTINO [Internet] Available from: http://calciostoricofiorentino.it/?q=calcio-storico-fiorentino [Accessed 4 August 2020]

[5] Calcio Storico Fiorentino Sito Ufficiale (2020) Studies & Documentation [Internet] Available from: http://www.calciostoricofiorentino.it/?q=studi_e_documentazione [Accessed 4 August 2020]

Calcio Fiorentino

Calcio Fiorentino

A Medieval Football game, first organised in Renaissance Florence, Tuscany, Italy, that was first played by workers between breaks in work, and then organised matches beginning in 1530.

The earliest orgainsed Football matches anywhere in the world, as far as Eirball has discovered, although earlier reports in Ancient Europe, Greece, Rome, Italy and China mention similar games, though of what nature is hard to discern – they may just have been children’s catching games. [See articles on Medieval Football at: Medieval Celtic Sports for more information and references on this]

Calcio Storico Fiorentino

Calcio Storico Fiorentino Finals 1952-Present

Calcio Storico Fiorentino (Seasons): 

Calcio Storico Fiorentino (Seasons):

2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

Calcio Storico Fiorentino August Festival (Seasons):

2012

Picture Credit: [6] Calcio Storico Fiorentino Sito Ufficiale (2020) cover-1_0 [Internet] Available from:http://calciostoricofiorentino.it/sites/default/files/cover-1_0.jpg [Accessed 1 December 2020]

Lelo Burti (Georgia)

Jeux et Tradi Normandie; Lelo Burti (Georgia)

Lelo Burti

Lelo Burti is the traditional Georgian form of Rugby.

Georgia: Lelo Burti

SLF Samegrelo Region Championship (seasons): 

2016

Picture Credit: [4] Lelo Burti (2014) 2016_XOBI_03 [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20160923011034im_/http://lelo.comyr.com/images/2016_XOBI_03.jpg  [Accessed 24 August 2020]