Welcome in our WKF SANDA-WUSHU division !
This includes all Sanda male/female fighters, fill in the online profile, add a jpg photo to be listed in the SANDA World ranking.
The World Kickboxing Federation is one of the leading organisations World Wide in the promotion of amateur and professional kickboxing in all styles, Muay Thai and MMA – mixed martial arts hosting professional fighting events.
Our modern and interactive approach to this sport highlights our commitment to keeping you updated with the latest events taking place worldwide.
The WKF SANDA & WUSHU DIVISION was formed in February 2015, the WKF stresses its strong belief in offering equal opportunities to sufficiently skilled athletes who have practised Kickboxing, enabling them to display their talents in the National and International Amateur and Professional arenas.
Also to ensure the credibility of their “World Championship” titles and gives these world class athletes an international platform on which to perform.
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WKF Europeanchampionships in Moldova
Dear friends in sport,
to all respected
European WKF
presidents,
Welcome to
Moldova!
the 2025 European Championship are first time in WKF history in Chisinau
full information already on our official website
It’s a great pleasure and honor for me as officially nominated WKF Supervisor for the European Championships to welcome all of our members, fighters, officials, country presidents and supporters to our next European Championships in Chisinau.
It is interesting to see after the amazing World Championships in Spain 2024 how the World is getting even more closer and therefore, it is pleasing to see the European Championships in the wonderful and charming country Moldova.
WKF head office expect again more than 30 countries from all over Europe in north and South, east and west!
WKF MOLDOVA President Rustam ALIMOV has already confirmed that the next European Championships in 2025 will take place in the historic city of Chisinau.
The first meetings with the mayor and local partners and sponsors have already taken place.
As always, the official list of the various hotels in all price ranges is here online and will be sent to all our WKF EUROPE presidents by email.
As always, the World Referee Seminar will be held in the main hotel on Saturday and Sunday 21/22 June.
From Portugal to Georgia and from Scandinavia to Cyprus.
With kind regards,
yours
Iwan Derkachenko
Moldova warmly welcomes everyone!
Welcome to Chisinau
June 22nd to 29th
Your best Kata and Forms athletes in Moldova
WKF had in the past always a very strong
responsible for development, referee training and Supervisor for many continental and World Championships.
Forms rules Reglamento Formas Formen Reglement
Today we have 6 official categories for WKF Forms
World referee seminar in June 2025
As your WKF World President, I invite all our best international WKF referees to renew their licenses at the next WKF World referee seminar on June 21st / 22nd.
Venue is the amazing 4 star main Hotel in Chisinau.
This is the perfect weekend, just before the European Championships 2025 in Chisinau, Moldova.
For the very first time our World referee seminar takes place in Chisinau.
We got already many requests from our male / female referees and officials from 6 continents and we hope everybody who would need Visa start in time at least 8 weeks before with Visa procedure.
Registration deadline June 13th
For details about the Visa invitations, Hotel bookings, any requests about airport transfer and more contact our organizing team Mr. Rustam ALIMOV
Our update WKF licensed referee list is here ! Many photos of our international WKF referees here ! All rule books in 4 languages and more free to down load here !
All International WKF referees, who not has attended the last seminars in Wels 2022 , Triest 2023 or Alicante 2024 must extend their license in Chisinau
The extended license is valid for three Years again.
Many photos from all WKF seminars since 2011 are here in the gallery!
Next World referee seminar in autumn 2026 in Cartgena, Colombia before the upcoming World Championships !
Please note: without valid WKF license you are not qualified for WKF events !
Our WKF registration program is ONLINE
Welcome in 2025 !
Since Years WKF technical committee work successfully with our amazing registration program.
Now, in time for the next upcoming European Championship, we are officially launching our new program.
ONLY ON REQUEST by E-mail, all Presidents all over the WKF EUROPE will receive their personal access and password.
Thus only the presidents can register, change or delete their participants for the EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS in Chisinau, Moldova, June 22. – 29. Of course you can also see the already registered participants.
But as I said – only the country presidents! 😉
The link to the online registration program can be found HERE !
Amateur boxing is officially part of the WKF European Championships
Each nation can send two participants per weight class for the World Championship
WELCOME IN MOLDOVA !
Our WKF elite Amateur Divisions
From the beginning in WKF we split very clearly amateur and pro business, in ring sport as well as in PPF, Sanda and MMA.
Our newest is our BOXING / BKFC division.
Successfully managed by World president Mr. Daniel Z. HIRLAU from Hungary.
Today we are very successfully not only in pro sport but of course in amateur business too.
With great pleasure we want your poster of WKF sanctioned tournaments, with our logo on the poster. We would like to help with online advertising free of charge, short reports with results and JPG after your event would be great.
We just want to remind every WKF country president World wide to send fighter profiles of your amateurs or just non-professional male/female fighters in ring sport.
We have same system like in other pro sport in WKF.
We offer the chance to fight in all 4 ring sport divisions for the sought after WKF PRO AM champion belts. In full contact, low kick, K-1 and Thai Boxing as well as in MMA and SANDA for amateurs.
Our WKF PRO AM titles has a great value because of our World wide network with more than 140 member countries you have the chance to fight not only at home. And no fighter will lose his/her amateur status , he/she can fight still on any tournament, any World Championship World wide. And you can be sure just to face another amateur fighter with perhaps 15 to 20 fights and not real pro with more than 100 fights.
The rules and regulations for PRO AM are easy to understand and waiting for your download All you have to do is just send your fighter profile and jpg photo like always and we post your team online in the PRO AM World ranking.
Because: only male and female fighter in our PRO AM and BOXING World rankings are qualified to fight for our WKF titles
For further requests or interest on any possible PRO AM title fights do not hesitate to send a mail , please.
International licensed WKF female officials
WKF HEAD OFFICE work very hard in cooperation with our IRC- “International rules committee” to train our international officials and referees, to answer protests and requests for the competition rules and to develop our various WKF rules.
World referee seminar in Chisinau, June 22nd !
Our last World referee seminar´s 2022 in Wels, Austria, 2023 in Skofije, Slovenia and in 2024 Alicante, Spain appointed several female WKF referees with international licenses. Today we again have just 14 females worldwide with an international WKF referee license.
History has shown that nothing is set in stone.
As the world know – our next World referee seminar will be held in Chisinau, Moldova, June 22nd 2025, just before the
The next but one World referee seminar will be held now in autumn 2026, the weekend just before the World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia.
Without valid WKF license you are not an official in our World Kickboxing Federation!!
Today WKF has more than 150 international licensed referees on 6 continents.
Of these, unfortunately, we only have just
14 (!) international licensed female officials
Like all knowledge, more and more strong female champions and athletes are fighting
Our executive board therefore emphatically requests all WKF country presidents to send more female referees to Moldova, the next seminar on June 22nd, 2025.
It’s in your hands and
we just need
more female officials
28.03.205 is significant date in the history of world kickboxing
The World Kickboxing Federation WKF and the Russian Kickboxing Federation held a meeting at the Olympic Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow and signed an agreement on joint cooperation.
Since 28.03.2025 the official representative of the WKF on the territory of the Russian Federation is the Russian Kickboxing Federation- FKR represented by its leader Batu Sergeevich KHASIKOV.
The Russian national kickboxing team is allowed to participate in all international WKF tournaments with the national flag and national anthem of the Russian Federation.
The representative of the FKR – Danil KARPENKO – is the new vice-president of the WKF World Amateur Division.
Soon a representative of the FKR will also be appointed to the position of the representative of the Russian Federation in the IRC – International Rules Committee.
The previous representative of the WKF in the territory of the Russian Federation Gerasimov M.V. is removed from the previously held position and is relieved of all rights and obligations.
WKF CEO and World President Fritz EXENBERGER emphasized that without the Russian team no international federation can consider itself leading, because athletes from Russia are few of the strongest in the world.
WKF and FKR are ready to implement the most ambitious joint projects.
Soon we will please kickboxing fans all over the world.
