H.K.C. ALO is a Dutch korfball team based in The Hague. Founded on February 1, 1906, ALO spent a number of years in the top divisions of the Dutch Korfball league.
ALO is the world's oldest non-merged Korfball team, with the other teams that were founded prior to February 1906 all having to merge over the years.
The ALO team today plays in the Dutch Korfball association's (KNKV) 1st class.
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Korfball is a ball sport, with similarities to netball and basketball. It is played by two teams of eight players with four female players and four male players in each team. The objective is to throw a ball into a netless basket that is mounted on a 3.5 m high pole.
Approximately 5 million of the 17 million people in the Netherlands are registered to one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two thirds of the population older than 15 years participates in sports weekly.
The International Korfball Federation (IKF) is the governing body of korfball. IKF is responsible for the organisation of korfball's major international tournaments, notably the IKF World Korfball Championship.
Alo or ALO may refer to:
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KV TOP is a Dutch korfball club located in Sassenheim, Netherlands. The club was founded on 12 July 1928 and they play their home games in sports accommodation De Korf. The team plays in white/red vertically striped shirts and black shorts / skirts.
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