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Malmö Lady Intercup in goalball is one of the world's largest and most popular international competitions for women's national teams and is held in May every year in Malmö, Sweden, since the year 2000.This year is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the competition and then we get to meet eleven nations that will play the World Cup during the summer and in addition, for the seventh time we will have a club team from FIFH Malmö in the competition.
Turkiye (world 1), Brazil (world 2), Japan (world 3), Canada (world 5), USA (world 7), Finland (world 8), Greece (world 9), Great Britain (world 10), South Korea (world 11), Ukraine (world 14), Poland (world 15) and FIFH Malmö
The tournament will be played in three pools of four teams with a round robin in each of them. The two first placed teams in each of the pools together with the two best third placed teams will play quarterfinals. The third best third placed team and the fourth placed teams in each pool will play games for places 9-12.
Livestreaming : You can watch all the acton from your home with our live-coverage of all games. Just use the links at the camera-symbol at the games-chedule.
Arena:The tournament will take place in our own venue “FIFH-hallen”. The arena has wooden floor and we will use the German balls. There will as usual be music and other things to keep up the competitions as a great event. At the venue there is a small hall for warmup, two dressing-rooms and a cafeteria where your team to hang between games
Accommodation:All teams and officials will be accommodated at the ”Good Morning+ Hotel”. This hotel is situated close to the venue
Opening ceremony: The Malmö lady Intercup is celebrating its 25 year anniversary this year which we want to celebrate with you in a special way during the Opening Ceremony. This will be combined with a great meal and the celebration will start at 18.30 on Thursday 30 th April.
Organizer:The Malmö Lady Intercup are arranged by FIFH Malmö, the Association of Sports for the Disabled, has a long history. On March 23, 1956, the "Malmö Committee for Disability and Elderly Sports" was formed by some doctors, physiotherapists and representatives from Korpen with the assignment from the City of Malmö to start disability sports activities in Malmö. The Committee examined the nature of the activities in Germany and worked on them as a model. Associations with disabled members joined the committee and activities in swimming, table tennis, sitting volleyball and archery started. At the end of the 60s, the name was changed to Föreningen Idrott för Handicapade and began the transformation to become a member association for individual members. In 1971, the transformation was complete and FIFH became a member of the newly formed Swedish Disability Sports Confederation, today Parasport Sweden. FIFH currently has more than 1000 members and offers training in 11 different sports and a large number of exercise activities with a focus on the social. FIFH is today one of Europe's largest parasport clubs.
City of Malmö:Malmö is Sweden's third largest city with almost 350,000 inhabitants and the city is also the county seat of Skåne County. Malmö is located right on the edge of the Sound and is mentioned as early as the 1100s when Malmö was a small church village but was converted into a city in 1353. The city has a rich industrial history where some of Scandinavia's largest industrial groups were born right here. Today, the city consists of many small and medium-sized companies in the medical technology, logistics, IT, construction and real estate markets. Historically, Malmö has been called the " City of Parks"because the city has always had many large parks that were founded already during the city's rapid growth in the early 1900s. The name Malmö is a combination of ore in the sense of "sand" or "gravel" and " mounds".In connection with the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, the city ended up in Swedish ownership after having previously been Danish and over time the city became the gateway to the continent as the final station for train traffic in Sweden and with Sweden's first real airport. In 1995, construction began on the Öresund Bridge, which was completed in 2000 and further increased the proximity to Europe. In 2005, the construction of a train tunnel through the city began to further increase the proximity, and in recent years, residents are cycling more and more. Today, 30 percent of all journeys within the city are by bicycle. Since 2006, Malmö has been a Fairtrade City and in 2018 the city got its own university. By Swedish standards, the city has a rich cultural and event life and has been awarded the Sports City of the Year award several times. In Malmö, there are Sweden's best football teams on both the men's and women's sides in Malmö FF and FC Rosengård.