The WFDF 2025 Pan American Ultimate Championships (PAUC) concluded this Saturday after six days of elite competition, vibrant community spirit, and unforgettable moments both on and off the field. Hosted in the spectacular setting of Cap Cana, Dominican Republic, the tournament brought together 59 teams from 10 countries, competing across five divisions and involving more than 1,200 participants. A spirited crowd, featuring supporters from every division, a dedicated volunteer team, and proud local families, …
Germany Joins USA and Canada Among Gold Medalists on Second Day of Finals at WFDF 2025 World Beach Ultimate Championships
The WFDF 2025 World Beach Ultimate Championships (WBUC) concluded today at Praia da Rocha in Portimão, Portugal, marking the end of a thrilling week of high-level Beach Ultimate featuring 2,500 participants on 136 teams from 38 countries competing across 10 divisions. After seven days of intense, spirited play, the final medal matches took place on Saturday, 22 November, bringing the championships to an exciting close. On the second day of gold-medal rounds, teams from …
North American Teams Prevail in First Day of Gold Medal Rounds at WFDF 2025 World Beach Ultimate Championships
The first day of Gold Medal Rounds at the WFDF 2025 World Beach Ultimate Championships (WBUC) concluded on Friday, 21 November. Held at Praia da Rocha in Portimão, Portugal, the first slate of finals showcased closely contested matchups across the Master’s divisions, with the USA and Canada sweeping every gold medal awarded on Friday. With 2,500 participants on 136 teams from 38 countries competing across 10 divisions, WBUC 2025 continues today with gold medal matches …
WFDF 2025 World Beach Ultimate Championships Get Underway in Portimão, Portugal, the Largest WFDF Beach Ultimate Event Ever
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF), in partnership with the Portuguese Flying Disc Association (APUDD), the Clube de Praticantes Ultimate Portimão (Local Organising Committee – LOC), and the Municipality of Portimão, commenced the WFDF 2025 World Beach Ultimate Championships (WBUC) this Sunday, 16 November 2025, at Praia da Rocha, one of Portugal’s most iconic beach destinations. This seven-day world championship event welcomes 136 teams from 38 countries, spread across 10 divisions, bringing together over …
WFDF seeks bids to host upcoming 2027 and 2028 Championship Events
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) Board of Directors and respective Disc Sport Committees are seeking bids from potential host organizers for the upcoming 2027 and 2028 WFDF Flying Disc Championship events. Initial expressions of interest are due by 2 June 2025. WFDF will select one (1) Local Organizing Committee (LOC) per event to host the following events: Any individual, group, organization or club may bid to host one or more WFDF events. If you …
Successful Workshops for Physical Education Teachers Held in Lithuania
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) recently concluded a series of highly successful workshops aimed at expanding the presence of Flying Disc sports among physical education teachers across Lithuania. Held from 3rd to the 6th of February, the workshops took place in Kaunas, Klaipėda and Vilnius, drawing enthusiastic participation from over 100 teachers. The workshops were led by José Amoroso, Chair of the World Flying Disc Federation’s School, University and Youth Commission. The “Introducing Flying …
INTERACT+ Course Helps Create “Sport for All” Initiatives Among Members
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is happy to share the successful delivery of the INTERACT+ (International and European Sport Organisations Activating Citizens Plus) Capacity-Building Course, an educational initiative designed to train, qualify and empower Members in becoming “Sport for All” leaders. The course, which ran across four online sessions in January, engaged more than 50 flying disc participants from 35 member federations across all regions. Led by Jörg Benner, Secretary General of Deutscher Frisbeesport-Verband(DFV) …
WFDF Requests Input Through Global Flying Disc Sports Community Survey
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is pleased to invite the international community to complete the Global Flying Disc Community Survey. The Survey is aimed at collecting information and opinions from the various stakeholders in Flying Disc Sports, from current and retired athletes at the competitive and recreational levels to coaches, administrators, parents, and volunteers, among other roles. Click HERE to complete the Global Flying Disc Community Survey, available until March 10, 2025. It only …
Celebrate International Spirit of the Game Day on December 7, 2024
WFDF’s International Spirit of the Game Day is held annually on the first Saturday of December, falling in 2024 on December 7th. We believe that Spirit of the Game (SOTG) is not just rule #1 in Ultimate, but the glue that holds the whole Flying Disc community together. SOTG brings the values of co-creating fair and enjoyable competition to all our disciplines, such as Disc Golf, Freestyle, Guts, Overall and Ultimate. To enable all Flying …
WFDF Announces Dates for 2025 Events
The World Flying Disc Federation is pleased to announce our initial 2025 Calendar of Events. The following events have been scheduled after the completion of a competitive bid process. Hosts were selected based on a variety of requirements including past experience running Flying Disc events, the overall cost to teams and athletes, presence of suitable facilities, and the competition venue. All bids were recognized and endorsed by the National Flying Disc Federation of the country …
Philippines’ Teams Find Success at AOBUC 2024
Teams from the Philippines dominated the final standings at the WFDF 2024 Asian Oceanic Beach Ultimate Championships (AOBUC), taking the top spot via decisive wins in every division they competed in — Open, Women, and Mixed. Their scores for the Finals were 13-8 over the Japan National team in Open, 13-6 over Darumasan from Japan in Women, and 12-9 over India’s National team in Mixed. Gold for the Masters Mixed division went to the Australian …
WFDF Cancels 2022 World Beach Ultimate Championships
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) announced today that, after taking into consideration the high number of late team withdrawals and significantly reduced income collected from teams and players registered to participate at World Beach Ultimate Championships (WBUC), WFDF and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) have determined that the event planned for April has too few teams to be viable and therefore has been canceled. WFDF understands that this will be disappointing news for the …
WFDF Announces 2021 Schedule of World Championships
Planning to resume global Flying Disc events starting in July 2021 Following the March 24 announcement by the World Flying Disc Federation that all Flying Disc championships in 2020 were cancelled or postponed due to the rapid spread COVID-19 virus and effect of the pandemic on international travel, WFDF has been pushing forward with negotiations, plans, and preparations for a full calendar of events for 2021. As of today, WFDF is planning to hold its …
WFDF and BULA Renew Memorandum of Understanding
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is pleased to announce that WFDF and BULA have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding for the two-year period 2020-2021. Both WFDF and BULA wish to continue a working arrangement to their mutual benefit and for the benefit of the Beach Ultimate Community. The MoU outlines the ways that WFDF and BULA will continue to support the growth and development of the sport and cooperate with each other in these efforts …
WFDF seeks bids to host upcoming 2021 and 2022 WFDF Ultimate & Beach Ultimate Championship Events
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) Board of Directors, Ultimate Committee and Beach Committee are seeking bids from potential host organizers for the upcoming 2021 and 2022 WFDF Championship events. WFDF will select one (1) Tournament Organizing Committee (TOC) per event to host the following Grass Ultimate & Beach Ultimate events: WFDF 2021 All African Ultimate Championships (AAUC) WFDF 2021 Asia Oceanic Ultimate and Guts Championships (AOUGC) WFDF 2021 Pan American Ultimate Championships (PAUC) WFDF …
WFDF Appoints David Raflo as Interim Beach Ultimate Committee Chair
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) Board of Directors has appointed David Raflo of the USA as Interim Beach Ultimate Committee Chair, to replace Karen Cabrera of the Philippines who stepped down for personal reasons. Raflo, who is currently a member of the Beach Ultimate Committee, will serve out the remainder of Cabrera’s term, which extends through December 2020. “We really appreciate that David agreed to step up to serve out the remainder of the …
WFDF 2019 European Beach Ultimate Championships, in association with BULA, kicks off in Portugal
The World Flying Disc Federation opened the WFDF 2019 European Beach Ultimate Championships, in association with BULA (EBUC 2019), in Portimão, Portugal on Monday, May 6. The premier European event for Beach Ultimate, EBUC 2019 has more than 1,300 athletes from 22 countries competing in more than 400 games over six days. “WFDF is very excited for this event and, with the development of Beach Ultimate over the past several years, EBUC 2019 will be …
2017 WCBU Live Streaming Plans
[lead]2017 World Championships of Beach Ultimate on 18-24 June [/lead]The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is excited to announce livestreaming plans for the WFDF 2017 World Championships of Beach Ultimate (WCBU), in association with BULA, from 18-24 June in Royan, France. WFDF plans to livestream 120 games, including simultaneous coverage of three pitches. The showcase venue, held in the 4,000-seat arena and covered with five cameras, will be a free livestream for the world to …
Beach Ultimate Included in ANOC 2019
[lead]WFDF excited for Beach Ultimate to be included in the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games[/lead] The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) Board of Directors has reacted enthusiastically to the announcement that the initial edition of the ANOC World Beach Games (WBG) in 2019 will include the Flying Disc sport of Beach Ultimate. The San Diego Organizing Committee for the WBG have released the list of 19 sports being included in their sports programme for the …
WFDF Request for Merchandise Partner 2017-2018
[lead]WFDF Puts Out Request for Proposal for Official Apparel and Merchandise Partner for 2017-2018[/lead] The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is pleased to announce that it is putting out a request for proposal (RFP) for the WFDF Sponsor and Official Apparel/ Merchandise supplier partnership for the two year period from January 2017 through December 2018. The selected company will receive the exclusive opportunity to develop and sell any and all official event merchandise and apparel …
WCBU 2017 with BULA to be in Royan, France
[lead]WFDF announces that the WFDF 2017 World Championships of Beach Ultimate in association with BULA will be held in Royan, France, from 18-24 June 2017[/lead] The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is pleased to announce that the WFDF 2017 World Championships of Beach Ultimate, in association with BULA (WCBU 2017) will be held at Plage de la Grande Conche in Royan, France from Sunday, 18 June to Saturday, 24 June 2017. The French Flying Disc …
2016 BU Grants for Four Continents
[lead]WFDF announces 2016 Beach Ultimate development grants to develop leagues on four continents[/lead] WFDF is pleased to announce that it has awarded a total of US$5,000 in development grants to be used to create and fortify Beach Ultimate leagues with six projects on four continents. WFDF had put out a call for applications in November 2015 for the 2016 Beach Ultimate development grant program with a focus on funding projects brought by member associations or …