The FISTF quadrennial Congress was held in late December, to discuss a number of proposals submitted to amend the federation Statutes as well as handbooks.
A total of 12 Member National Associations, one provisional member, and one continental confederation had representatives who took part in the online Congress.
MNAs
Australia — Beth Eveleigh
Austria — Alfred Strommer
Belgium — Yves Pereman
Brazil — Daniel Matos
England — Alan Lee
France — Eric Naszalyi
Greece — Themis Koutsogiannis
Ireland — Mark Farrell
Italy — Andrea Ciccarelli
Japan — Kenzo Koi
Switzerland — Roman Bernhardsgrütter
United States — Peter Alegi

MNA-Ps
Ukraine — Thomas Ponte

Confederations
Europe — Giorgos Koutis

Apologies
Malta
Portugal
Scotland
Singapore

Additionally, FISTF Board members were present:

Steve Dettre AUS President
Eliot Kennedy AUS General Secretary
Nic Tan SGP Vice-President Finance Director, Treasurer
Andrea Ciccarelli ITA Vice-President Director Development and Education
Daniel Matos BRA Vice-President Confederation America South
Peter Alegi USA Vice-President Confederation America North
Bob Varney ENG Vice-President Confederation Europe
Roger Trouillard FRA IT – Administrator

Apologies:
Chris Angelinas GRE Vice-President Director Sports
Mike Sgro CAN Vice-President Director Media
Adrian Connolly AUS Vice-President Confederation Asia
Sebastien Scheen BEL Operational Manager

A full description of the minutes of the meeting is available on FISTF.com > Resources > Congress 2024.
You can also read the various resolutions that were discussed, and in some cases modified.

Voting on these resolutions will be conducted by online voting until January 21.
Only Member National Associations can participate in the vote.

We are making all players aware of these resolutions in the interests of transparency.
If you want to raise issues or discuss these, you should do so with your national association before they vote.

The resolutions are listed, as well as the proposed impact of the Statutes and the Handbooks.
In keeping with our statutes, the minutes are available in English and French.

The following MNAs are entitled to vote:
 Australia
 Austria
 Belgium
 Brazil
 England
 France
 Germany
 Gibraltar
 Greece
 Ireland
 Italy
 Japan
 Malta
 Netherlands
 Northern Ireland
 Portugal
 Scotland
 Singapore
 Spain
 Switzerland
 United States
 Wales

The following unfinancial/suspended MNAs, MNA-Ps and other countries are not entitled to vote:
 Argentina
 Canada
 Chile
 Cyprus
 Czechia
 Denmark
 Finland
 Hungary
 Malaysia
 Norway
 South Africa
 Tunisia
 Ukraine

Confederations and FISTF Board Members do not have a vote.

regards
FISTF Board

With the World Cup just over 3 weeks away, the FISTF Board wishes to remind MNAs/MNA-Ps about some important processes and deadlines outlined in the World Cup Handbook to ensure that the final participants and the draw are finalised efficiently and transparently.
In particular, in case there are any late withdrawals by players currently included in the main draw, the organisers need to know whether players currently listed as reserves in each individual category are still available to be included in the main draw should that be necessary.
All players whose names were submitted by their nations are considered to be registered and must follow the regulations. This includes both players included in the draw as well as those currently listed as reserves.
Please note that the first deadline mentioned below (that is, two weeks before the World Cup), is 6 September 2024.
If players are intending on NOT travelling because they were not selected in the draw and are only listed as reserves, we need to know this ASAP and, if possible, by no later than 6
September 2024.
Of course, we also need to know ASAP and before 6 September at the latest, whether players/teams who ARE included in the draw no longer intend to travel to the World Cup. It
should be noted that there are penalties for Teams and Individuals included in the draw who withdraw without giving sufficient notice, as outlined in section 2.2.4 of the World Cup Handbook.

Teams Event:
(i) Withdrawal without giving early notice of at least two weeks: 30 EUR per team.
(ii) Withdrawal in the last 5 days before the competition: 50 EUR per team.
(iii) Withdrawal in the last 48 hours before the scheduled start of the competition: 100 EUR per team and suspension of the withdrawn team from the next World Cup.
(iv) Additionally, National teams which leave the competition without playing their scheduled games will be awarded no world ranking points from the World Cup  (except for cases of huge delays of competition schedule or where a delay in competition may result in the players missing their travel home on the same day).
A delay in competition may cause missing travel home on the same day (e.g.: Saturday or Sunday). If players stay overnight and travel home the next day (e.g.: Monday), they shall stay at the event and play and show respect to fellow competitors.

Individuals
(i) Withdrawal without giving an early notice of at least two weeks: 15 EUR.
(ii) Withdrawal in the last 5 days before the competition: 25 EUR.
(iii) Withdrawal in the last 48 hours before the scheduled start of the competition: 50 EUR, deduction of 100 world ranking points and suspension from the next
World Cup.
(iv) Additionally, players who leave the competition without playing their scheduled games will be awarded no world ranking points from the World Cup. (except for cases of huge delays of competition schedule or where a delay in competition may result in the players missing their travel home on the same day)

Please note: If an individual player listed only as reserve withdraws after 6 September, their MNA will not be penalised, but we nonetheless seek your cooperation in advising us of any withdrawals as soon as possible for the reasons outlined above.

FISTF Board

FISTF has published a fantastic record of all finals of the FISTF World Cup in the lead up to the Eland Cables FISTF World Cup 2024 in Tunbridge Wells, England.
The data reports are an invaluable resource for our community.
Much of the content is based on the epic work done by former FISTF President and Communications guru Vincent Coppenolle, and has been validated and added to by FISTF’s honorary historians Francesco Mattiangell and Warrick Ford, with additional content from Fabrizio Fedele and Fabrizio Sonnino, and of course Roger Trouillard, who maintains our official World Cup pages.
As you look through these reports, if you find things which you believe are incorrect, whether scores, names etc, please let us know at newsletter@fistf.com
You can find all the reports here:
https://fistf.com/history/

Full results of the FISTF World Cups 2011-2022 can be found here:
https://fistf.com/WorldCup/
The aim is to publish ALL results of all World Cups and work is being continued on this.

Results of World Cups 1994-2014 are available on the History page as a pdf.
We are currently working to update this document as well as the online information.
If you would like to assist, please contact us.

A series of data reports based on these lists is being prepared and will be issued soon.