The European Bowl was the Korfball European Championship "B", played by the countries that have not qualified for the European Korfball Championship. The best teams of these tournaments often won the right to participate in the next European Korfball Championship and/or Korfball World Championship.

In 2005, the International Korfball Federation named the trophy for the European Bowl championship after Jan Hanekroot, one of its longest serving development officers and promoters, who died earlier that year. ^[1]

The tournament was last held in 2013, when the International Korfball Federation decided to create a new system which will be in force from 2018, reducing the number of teams taking part in the European Korfball Championship from 16 to 8 but splitting the championship up in two levels with a relegation/promotion system to be carried out between the so-called "A-Championships" (the current European Korfball Championship) and the "B-Championships". The European Bowl therefore ceases to exist and will be replaced by the "B-Championships", to be first held in 2018.

Korfball European Bowl
	Year		Host	Champion	Second place	Third place
I	2005	Details	Catalonia	Catalonia	Russia	Portugal
II	2007	Details	Luxembourg and Serbia	Slovakia	Wales	Serbia and   France
III	2009	Details	Luxembourg (West) Slovakia (East)	Wales   Slovakia	Scotland   Serbia	Ireland   Turkey
IV	2013	Details	Slovakia (Centre) Netherlands (East)	Slovakia   Turkey	Serbia   Wales	Scotland   Ireland
V	2016	Details	France (West) Slovakia (East)	Turkey   Germany	Catalonia   Poland	France   Slovakia
VI	2021	Details	Poland	Poland	Slovakia	Turkey
VII	2024	Details	Turkey

• International Korfball Federation
• European Korfball Championship
• European Korfball B-Championship

• European Bowl on International Federation of Korfbal website

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