Kabaddi World Cup (Standard style)

Kabaddi World Cup

Founded	2004 (2004)
Region	International (IKF)
Number of teams	12 (current)
Current champions	India (3rd title)
Most successful team(s)	India (3 titles)
Television broadcasters	Star Sports Sky Sports TEN 2
2016 Kabaddi World Cup (Standard style)

The Kabaddi World Cup, is an indoor international kabaddi competition conducted by the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF) in standard style, contested by men's and women's national teams. The competition has been previously contested in 2004, 2007 and 2016. All the tournaments have been won by India.

In 2016, the first Women's Kabaddi World Cup was held for women in India.

The current format of the competition involves a round robin group stage, with 6 teams in 2 pools, with the first and second place finishers of each group progressing to the semi-finals.

Summary

Men

India men's national Kabaddi team has been the most dominating team in the world so far. All the three world cups has been won by India so far.

Year	Host	Final			Third place
		Champions	Score	Runner-up
2004	Mumbai	India	55–27	Iran	Bangladesh	and	Canada
2007	Panvel	India	29–19	Iran	Bangladesh	and	Japan
2016	Ahmedabad	India	38–29	Iran	South Korea	and	Thailand
2019	Dubai[1]	TBA		TBA	TBA	and	TBA

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	3	0	0	3
2	Iran (IRN)	0	3	0	3
3	Bangladesh (BAN)	0	0	2	2
4	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		3	3	6	12

Current IKF Rankings

Points are calculated after every match by the formula:

10*(total number of kabaddi nations – rank of the opponent)+(score difference)

rank	Team	Points
1	India	126
2	Iran	90
3	South Korea	83
4	Thailand	81
5	Nepal	81
6	Kenya	75
7	Poland	60
8	England	59
9	United States	51
10	Japan	47
11	Argentina	45
12	Australia	10

References

External links

• Official Website