2008 European Men's Fistball Championship

The 2008 European Men's Fistball Championship was held in Stuttgart (Germany) from July 25 to July 27 with seven men's national teams: Austria, Catalonia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Serbia and Switzerland. The matches were played in Stammheim district.

16th European Fistball Championships - Germany 2008 -
Host	Stuttgart (Germany)
Dates	July 25 - July 27
Teams	7 national teams
Final rankings
Champions	Austria
Runners-up	Switzerland
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches	17

Teams

Group A

Germany Kolja Meyer Willm Engelke Jan Hoffrichter Olaf Machelett Sascha Ball Michael Marx Christian Kläner Stefan Konprecht

Austria Dietmar Weiß Christian Koller Christian Zöttl Georg Kerbl Robert Tapler Klemens Kronsteiner Harald Pühringer Siegfried Simon

Italy Florian Rottensteiner Thomas Meran Tobias Prudenziati Lukas Tovazzi Christian Scartezzini Fabian Obexer Armin Runer Simon Prdudenziati

Switzerland Cyrill Schreiber Cyrill Jäger Dominik Guggerli Manuel Sieber Marc Hüttig Lukas Lässer Marcel Eicher Ueli Frischknecht

Group B

Czech Republic Michal Krajicek Petr Kuna Vladislav Merunko Jan Mazal jr. Jan Forst Daniel Mazal

Catalonia Luis González Daniel Sarrión Oscar Suárez Javier García Aitor Piñol Javier Estévez Jordi Matador Jordi Cantó

Serbia Vojislav Skoric Ivan Milenkovic Milan Kavaric Zoran Jovancovic Sasa Jovic Dusan Zezelj Marko Stojanovic Mirko Neskovic Nenad Kovacevic Milos Milurovic Zuca Pantovic Nikola Biberovic

First round

Group A

GROUP A	Pts	P	W	L	S+	S-	DS
Austria	6	3	3	0	9	3	+6
Switzerland	4	3	2	1	7	4	+3
Germany	2	3	1	2	5	7	-2
Italy	0	3	0	3	2	9	-7

July 25 - 11:00
	Switzerland	3-1	Italy	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-3, 11-9, 8-11, 11-4

July 25 - 14:00
	Switzerland	3-0	Germany	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-7, 11-2, 11-9

July 25 - 15:00
	Austria	3-0	Italy	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-6, 11-5, 11-5

July 25 - 18:30
	Austria	3-2	Germany	Stammheim Stuttgart
	12-14, 12-10, 3-11, 12-10, 11-7

July 26 - 11:00
	Germany	3-1	Italy	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-5, 10-12, 12-10, 11-8

July 26 - 13:00
	Switzerland	1-3	Austria	Stammheim Stuttgart
	8-11, 7-11, 11-7, 5-11

Group B

GROUP B	Pts	P	W	L	S+	S-	DS
Serbia	4	4	2	0	6	1	+5
Czech Rep.	2	2	1	1	3	3	=
Catalonia	0	2	0	2	1	6	-5

July 25 - 12:00
	Serbia	3-0	Czech Republic	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-2, 11-7, 11-6

July 25 - 16:00
	Serbia	3-1	Catalonia	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-4, 13-15, 11-2, 11-6

July 26 - 12:00
	Catalonia	0-3	Czech Republic	Stammheim Stuttgart
	6-11, 6-11, 9-11

Semifinals classification

Match classification 4th group A - 1st group B

July 26 - 15:00
	Italy	3-1	Serbia	Stammheim Stuttgart
	8:11, 11-4, 11-6, 11-7

5th-7th places

5th-7th places	Pts	P	W	L	S+	S-	DS
Serbia	4	2	2	0	6	1	+5
Czech Rep.	2	1	0	1	4	6	+1
Catalonia	0	2	0	2	0	6	-6

July 27 - 9:30
	Serbia	3-0	Catalonia	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-8, 11-6, 11-9

July 27 - 11:00
	Czech Republic	3-0	Catalonia	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-9, 11-8, 11-7

July 27 - 12:30
	Serbia	3-1	Czech Republic	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-5, 5-11, 11-6, 11-9

Final round

	Semi-finals				Final
	July 26 - Stuttgart
	Switzerland	4
					July 27 - Stuttgart
	Germany	0
					Switzerland	2
	July 26 - Stuttgart
					AUSTRIA	4
	Austria	4
	Italy	0
					Third place
					July 27 - Stuttgart
					Germany	4
					Italy	0

Semifinals

July 26 - 16:30
	Switzerland	4-0	Germany	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-6, 11-9, 11-9, 11-5

July 26 - 17:30
	Austria	4-0	Italy	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-9, 11-6, 11-5, 11-9

Finals

3rd-4th places

July 27 - 14:00
	Germany	4-0	Italy	Stammheim Stuttgart
	11-1, 11-3, 11-5, 11-6

Final

July 27 - 16:00
	Switzerland	2-4	Austria	Stammheim Stuttgart
	9-11, 7-11, 12-10, 11-9, 8-11, 3-11

Winners AUSTRIA

Final standings

Final standings
1	Austria
2	Switzerland
3	Germany
4	Italy
5	Serbia
6	Czech Rep.
7	Catalonia

External links

• International Fistball Association