History

It has been surmised that korfball is a descendant of basketball through an intermediate Swedish sport called ringboll.

The story goes that at the beginning of the 20th century a Dutch school teacher called Nico Broekhuysen was looking for a game that both the boys and the girls in his class could play. In 1902 he played a game called ringboll whilst in Sweden. Back in the Netherlands he devised the rules for korfball.