They were chosen over a competitive bid from the Turkish Korfball Federation (TDSF) to host the event that will now take place on the weekend of August 11 to 12 in Blankenberge, Belgium. 

The best ranked European team will become European Beach Korfball Champion 2018.

With the introduction of World Cups, the IKF invests in the global development of beach korfball. 

Every continental organisation has the opportunity to organise a World Cup in 2018 and every country from all over the world is able to participate in each of the events. 

This can lead to, at most, five Beach World Cups in Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas.

The KBKB were chosen to host next summer's event because they were seen as key to widening the “Korfball Experience” to promote korfball in Flanders.

This includes a side event for youth teams and recreational teams during the Championship weekend and a tournament for schools at the end of June. 

There is two kilometres of beach available in Blankenberge, to organisers have enough playing space for all beach korfball activities.

Next summer it will be 15 years since two small clubs outside Antwerp started playing beach korfball. 

Since then beach korfball has grown significantly.

In 2010, the Belgian Federation started a taskforce to organise a beach korfball tour across Flanders, which has been converted into an official committee within the Federation. 

To date, the highlight came in 2015 with more than 1,200 participants in the korfball tour.