SKA Cup 2016-17 Round 1 Day 1
The first day of the SKA Cup Round 1 was held today in Dundee and saw 6 teams competing for a spot in the SKA Cup Finals to be held in February. In Group A: Dundee Dolphins, Redbacks and The Saints. In Group B: Mavericks 1, Edinburgh University 1 and The Sinners. Dolphins v Redbacks...
SKL Week Two
Sunday 2nd October saw the 2nd Division begin! With four matches being played, the results were dominated by the Glasgow clubs. New starts Strathclyde walked away with an 11-5 victory over Edinburgh University 3 and Glasgow 2 completed two convincing wins against Edinburgh University 2 and Dundee 2. The Edinburgh University second team picked up...
Mavs Promo Video Goes Live!
Edinburgh Mavericks have today released a new promotional video to encourage people to #FINDKORFBALL. The film, which Mavs hope will attract new players to the club, came together in November 2015 when award-winning Director, Bjorn Tobiasson, found space in his packed schedule and agreed to jump on board the project. The film takes a slightly...
Inter-club conference (10/1/16)
The SKA will be hosting its first inter-club conference of 2016, from 10:30am on Sunday, Jan 10th. Topics for discussion will include the SKA’s role, priorities and organisation, as well as a few aspects of the current league rules and fixture scheduling. It promises to be an interesting meeting: all clubs are welcome to send as many representatives as...
Newest entrants looking to take the league by Storm
Scotland Korfball are proud to be supporting the development of Korfball in the North-East of England by welcoming Northern Storm Korfball Club into the SKL for 2014/15. SKA Chair Graham Robertson was delighted to confirm that the SKA will accept Northern Storm into the league for the coming season at the recent AGM: “Over the...
SKA Cup: Edinburgh Mavericks narrowly complete domestic treble
With the league season finished and the champions of each division crowned, seven teams from every corner of Scotland’s korfball map descended on George Watson’s to battle for the final piece of silverware of the indoor season. At Sighthill last year, St Andrews 2 took home the crown after defeating Edinburgh Mavericks in the final...
A summary of the Scottish Korfball League, 2012/13
Well, that was a fascinating, and somewhat odd season! Summer predictions were for the university teams to decline somewhat after losing some key players, and for Edinburgh City were expected to improve, for the opposite reason. Dundee were looking to improve and continue their expansion, and no doubt the same could be said for Glasgow...
Edinburgh International Korfball Tournament 2013
On the weekend of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh of January Edinburgh University Korfball Club held their annual international korfball tournament at EN[GAGE], Sighthill. Twenty-four teams from Europe and the United Kingdom entered the competition, with pool matches on Saturday and placing matches played on Sunday. All of the Scottish korfball clubs entered teams, whilst the...
Scotland Korfball Squad Open Trials
The Scotland Korfball team is looking for players to join the squad. Trials will be held in Edinburgh on the 6th and 7th October and are open to all korfballers who qualify to play for Scotland*. The trials are designed to select a team to train for the Euro-bowl, which will be held in 2013,...
New Committee Preparing for Next Season
The 28th of April saw the close of the 2011-12 season with the AGM, league-deciding matches and end of season party. Elected at the AGM were the new committee and with several of last year’s members fleeing the country, there was room for plenty of new faces. Clive Minshull (Ed City) takes on the role...
Inaugural Dundee Korfball Tournament
Sunday 27th May saw the first ever incarnation of the Dundee korfball tournament. Six teams competed in sun-drenched Dawson Park for the honour of winning the UK’s most northerly korfball tournament. For photographs of the tournament please head over to the SKA Flickr Account. Individual match results from throughout the day are listed below: 6-2...