IPCH Scout Mobility - Dutch Nations Cup 2025

Powerchair Hockey fans, mark your calendars! The highly anticipated IPCH Scout Mobility - Dutch Nations Cup 2025 is set to take place in the picturesque town of De ... more

IPCH Officially Endorses the APHC Camp: A Unique Opportunity for Athletes and Officials

The International Powerchair Hockey (IPCH) is excited to officially endorse the upcoming APHC Camp, which will take place from June 24 to June 30, 2025, at the ... more

Join The IPCH Athletes & Coaches Committee! 

We are happy to announce the launch of the IPCH Athletes & Coaches Committee! This new initiative is designed to bring the voices of athletes and coaches to ... more

The Netherlands are your 2024 European Champions!

In Sunday’s final, we saw a rematch between title defender The Netherlands and Germany. This highly anticipated game certainly delivered. Germany took an early ... more

The European Championship 2024 Group Games Are Over

Today, the final group games of the IPCH European Championship 2024 were concluded. After another day of thrilling games, we gladly share some information with ... more

European Championship 2024 - Official Match Schedule

IPCH is excited to announce the official match schedule for the European Championship 2024. The Opening Ceremony will take place on October 23rd, at 2pm CET and ... more

Join the IPCH Jury Member Online Course!

The International Powerchair Hockey (IPCH) organization is thrilled to announce the launch of the IPCH Jury Member Online Course, in preparation for the upcoming ... more

Switzerland claims second spot in world ranking list after successful IN-JET tournament

After a successful IN-JET Tournament in Jesolo (Italy), Switzerland now ranks second in the world ranking list. This tournament was an opportunity for the national ... more

Powerchair hockey community, get involved!

The Sports Executive Committee invites all members of the Powerchair Hockey community to an online Zoom meeting on May 4th from 2 to 4 pm CET. Key agenda items ... more

Everything you have to know about the Injet tournament

This Thursday, April 18th, teams will arrive in Jesolo, Italy ahead of the IN-JET Tournament, an international tournament sanctioned by IPCH and valid for World ... more

European Championship 2024 Drawing Ceremony

The Drawing Ceremony of the IPCH European Championship 2024 is just a week away! This group draw is the first official and public step towards the upcoming ... more

No Powerchair Hockey in 2024 Guttmann Games

Because not enough national teams were able to fully commit to participation, powerchair hockey will not be featured in this year’s World Abilitysport Guttmann ... more

IPCH Classifier and Referee Observer course at 3 nations tournament

From 18 to 21 April, The IN JET Tournament will be held at Villaggio Marzotto, Jesolo -Italy. The tournament will be organized by IPCH under the auspices of World ... more

Classification masterlist updated (12/23)

The Classification Masterlist is updated and can be found here. Lobbach October 2023 Including Switzerland and Germany, all the athletes classified in Lobbach ... more

IPCH supports referee course at Australia’s Club Championship

From 19 to 21 January, the Australian Powerchair Hockey Association – NSW (APCHA) hosts its first Club Championship since COVID-19. This big event welcomes five ... more

Powerchair Hockey to feature in first World Abilitysport Guttmann Games

World Abilitysport has just announced its first ever Guttmann Games! This event will be held from 10-14 July 2024, hosting a competition programme of para dance ... more

Anti-doping education program kicks off on 12 October

On 12 October, IPCH and World Abilitysport kick off the anti-doping education program. With online seminars, IPCH and World Abilitysport aim to educate everybody ... more

The success of the one-on-one meetings

At the Sports Congress back in November 2022, we announced to the nations that we intended to invite every single powerchair hockey nation to a one-on-one meeting ... more

2023 Qualification Tournament takes place in De Rijp (Netherlands)

IPCH is happy to announce that the 2023 - Qualification Tournament for the European Championship will be organized in De Rijp (The Netherlands) from 16 to 19 ... more

Meet the N.1 Powerchair Hockey Scorer of all times: Anders Berenth

Hello Anders, we have some great news to share with you: you have surpassed all other athletes and are now the all-time international powerchair hockey top scorer. ... more

APRIL 7th: The International Powerchair Hockey Day

A day to celebrate our passion for Powerchair Hockey! It was March 2021 when Paul Desaulniers from Canada sent an email to the Sport Executive Committee of the ... more

Join the 1st International PCH Day - 7th April 2023

We are excited and proud to announce that we have decided to launch an awareness initiative to promote and boost knowledge of our beloved sport POWERCHAIR HOCKEY.... more

IPCH bids to organise Qualification Tournament 2023

Prior to the European Championship 2024 (EC 2024), there should be a qualification tournament (QT) to determine which of the European nations that are not automat... more

Classification masterlist updated (09/22)

At the past IPCH World Championship in Sursee, the Classifiers have succesfully classified 49 athletes. As a result, the classification masterlist has been updated ... more

Game schedule announced for the IPCH World Championship 2022 in Sursee

IPCH is proud to announce the game schedule for the IPCH World Championship 2022, that will take place in a little over a month from now. The Local Organizing ... more

15th Sport Congress takes place at 19 November 2022

The 15th Sport Congress of IWAS Powerchair Hockey (IPCH) will be held on Saturday 19th November 2022 - Online. PCH Sport Congresses are held every two years and ... more

Game schedule announced for the IPCH Bever Dutch Nations Cup

IPCH gladly announces the game schedule for the upcoming IPCH Bever Dutch Nations Cup. This official event takes place on 28 and 29 May in Eindhoven, The Netherla... more

IPCH SPORT CONGRESS 2022 - INFORMATION

During the last months, the IPCH Sport Executive Committee has several times discussed the opportunity to move the IPCH Sports Congress that normally happens right ... more

IPCH World Championship drawings ceremony - 5th March 2022 in Nottwill

The IPCH World Championship is approaching fast, after such a long period of inactivity we are all very eager to see some action on the international level again. ... more

Finnish Powerchair Hockey players showcasing their skills in the men’s World Floorball Championships

Finnish Powerchair Hockey national team got an opportunity to showcase the sport and their individual skills during the final day of the men’s World Floorball ... more

Global Development Network a new SEC initiative

For quite some time, the IPCH Development Committee has been hard at work on a brand new initiative. We are now ready and excited to introduce to you the Global ... more

Technical Delegates for WC2022 appointed

Little over 1 year to go for the IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Championship 2022! It is good to see some countries have resumed training and competition after such ... more

1st IPCH Referee Town Hall

After such a long time away from the field and in the sight of the upcoming World Championship 2022 the IPCH Referee committee has organized yesterday the first-e... more

CALLING FOR BIDS FOR QT23 and EC24

While the SEC is working hard on the organization of the upcoming World Championship 2022, time has also come to start looking forward. With the aim of having ... more

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2022: ALLOCATED NATION AND INVITATION SENT

The 5th IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Championship will take place from 7th to 15th August 2022 in Switzerland. This will be the first time Switzerland will host ... more

SWITZERLAND APPOINTED AS HOSTING NATION FOR THE POWERCHAIR HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2022

IPCH is happy to announce that the hosting nation for the IPCH World Championship 2022 has finally been selected. Switzerland will host the competition in ... more

IPCH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP CANCELLED!

The complicated and unpredictable situation created by the COVID-19 Pandemic brought, last march, the IPCH Sport Executive Committee, in agreement with the Local ... more

NEW DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

We're happy to announce that Danni Hillbrandt-Mogensen is the new Development Officer for the IPCH Sport Executive Committee. You may know Danni as a player for ... more

CLASSIFICATION: TRUNK ASSESSMENT REFINEMENT 

In 2016 a first research on the Trunk Assessment was conducted by students of the University of Applied Science in The Hague (The Netherlands), the project led to ... more

Call for bids: 2022 IPCH World Championship

Dear Sporting Friends, We proudly look back on a very successful IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Championship in 2018: the efforts of the Italian organizers with all ... more

IPCH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP POSTPONED

THE IPCH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 2020 POSTPONED! Due to the current situation with the COVID-19 (Coronavirus). The IPCH and Local Organizing Committee have decided ... more

UPDATED WORLD RANKING LIST - GERMANY NEW NUMBER 1

The IPCH Euro Stars Tournament was a very thrilling experience for all the teams involved in the competition as well as for the IPCH Officials and Staff involved. ... more

IPCH EURO STARS SCHEDULE

The IPCH Euro Stars tournament is coming closer and we hope you're as excited as we are. Here you find the match schedule for the tournament: more

BOOKING INFORMATION EURO STARS 2020

Don’t miss the chance to follow live the IPCH Euro Stars tournament - warming up to EC2020! In order to follow your team in Lignano supporters can book a room ... more

SPOTS OPEN FOR REFEREE OBSERVER AND JURY COURSES

For the upcoming Euro Stars Tournament, there are still spots open for the Referee Observer and Jury courses. We highly encourage the nations to consider this ... more

IPCH EURO STARS TOURNAMENT CONFIRMED

We are happy to confirm the IPCH Euro Stars Tournament will take place from 20 to 24 February in Lignano Sabbiadoro (UD). The tournament will count for I... more

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP DRAWING

On the 9th of November the drawing ceremony for the 2020 European Championship will take place in Tampere, Finland. The drawing ceremony will together with an ... more

TECHNICAL DELEGATES FOR THE EC2020 ANNOUNCED

We're happy to announce that IPCH have chosen Anna Rossi (Italy) as Technical Delegate and Aina Budde (Denmark) as Assistant Technical Delegate for the European ... more

IPCH EURO STARS | WARM UP TO EC2020

Dear Teams, We're happy to announce that FIWH and the Italian National Team offered IPCH the chance to organize an official IPCH Tournament valid for WRL in ... more

TWO SEC MEMBERS RESIGNED

We’re sorry to announce that both Niels ten Hagen and Nikolaj Richelsen have chosen to resign from all of their SEC and IPCH duties, due to personal reasons. All ... more

SPORT CONGRESS 2018 MINUTES

The minutes from the IPCH Sport Congress 2018 in Lignano, has just been released. Besides the representatives from the IPCH Sport Executive Committee, there were ... more

INTERVIEW | ATSO AHONEN

I saw a newspaper article about Powerchair Hockey when I was 10 years old and just found out about my diagnosis. A year later I attended a course for families with ... more

Wilfried Bouttelgier resigns from all positions in IPCH

After 8 years as international IPCH referee, Wilfried Bouttelgier has decided to resign from all official positions at IPCH. Wilfried has been an official IPCH ... more

Invitations sent for the IPCH Qualification Tournament

Invitations for the IWAS Powerchair Hockey (IPCH) Qualification Tournament has been sent. It will take place from the 8th - 14th October 2019 in Prague, Czech ... more

CLASSIFICATION MANUAL UPDATED

As announced earlier, the classification system has been refined. (Read more here) Now we're pleased to announce that the classification manual has been updated. ... more

NEW SPORT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

After the result of the elections in the Sport Congress that followed the IPCH World Championship 2018, the new elected SEC, as announced, has been looking to ... more

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM REFINED

As presented in the Sport Congress 2018 thanks to a certain number of evidence-based researches and studies the IPCH Classification Committee has succeeded in ... more

NEW SPORT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

At the Sport Congress this passed monday, the new IWAS Sport Executive Committee put together after the nominees was voted in. Current chairman Fabio Rodo ... more

INTERVIEW | ANDERS BERENTH

In 2004, me and some other guys played hockey in a wheelchair for fun while practicing for another type of wheelchair hockey, called el-hockey (this sport is only ... more

INTERVIEW | MEGHAN HINES

When I was 9 I was at a doctor’s appointment at Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto (one of the Toronto rehab centres) when a boy and his mother approached me and ... more

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LIVESTREAM

8 Nations, 78 players, 20 exciting matches! Be sure not to miss out on any of the IPCH World Championship 2018 matches! You can watch all matches live on the ... more

UPDATED CLASSIFICATION MANUAL

We have updated the classification manual. The updated classification manual will be valid after the 2018 Sport Congress and can be found in the Sport Congress ... more

INTERVIEW | MAARTEN CLAES

I got to know Powerchair Hockey via a teacher of my elementary school, she knew the sport and introduced me to it. What I love so much about it, is the fact that ... more

CLASSIFIERS FOR THE 2018 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ANNOUNCED

We are pleased to announce the team of classifiers that will carry out the classification procedure at the 2018 IPCH World Championship. The team with chief ... more

INTERVIEW | NELSON BRAILLARD

I discovered Powerchair Hockey in 2008. The first team of the French part of Switzerland was created by M. Degonda, The Whirldrivers Lausanne. M. Degonda asked me ... more

OBSERVERS & JURY MEMBERS FOR THE 2018 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ANNOUNCED

We're happy to annonce the Observers and Jury Members for the IPCH World Championship 2018! more

REFEREES FOR THE 2018 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ANNOUNCED

We are pleased to announce the appointed referees for the IPCH World Championship 2018! We have a great team of very competent referees to make sure all matches ... more