Karate1 Premier League

Karate1 Premier League
Competition details
Current event or competition: 2023 Karate1 Premier League

Discipline	Karate
Organiser	World Karate Federation (WKF)
History
First edition	2011

The Karate1 Premier League is a Karate competition Initiated by the World Karate Federation in the year of 2011 with two tournaments held in Paris and Istanbul, the Karate1-Premier League- has made exponential progress in terms of magnitude and status of the tournaments as well as the number of participants and countries represented.^[1]

The Karate1-Premier League- is the most important league event in the world of Karate. It comprises a number of the most prominent Karate competitions and endeavours to bring together the best Karate athletes in the world in an open championship of unprecedented scale and quality.

Karate1 Premier League events is homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic Karate tournament Started from 2018 at Berlin, Germany event and ended with 2021 Lisbon, Portugal event for the 2020 Olympic Games qualification standing.

In 2022, a new round-robin format was introduced at the Karate1 Premier League.^[2]

Events

Number	Series	Stages	Events
1	2011	2	28
2	2012	8	110
3	2013	8	110
4	2014	8	111
5	2015	8	112
6	2016	11	152
7	2017	5	70
8	2018	7	98
9	2019	7	98
10	2020	3	42
11	2021	5	70
12	2022	1
13	2023	1

2011

Stages	Host	Events
1	Istanbul	14
2	Salzburg	14

2012

Stages	Host	Events
1	Paris	14
2	Dordrecht	14
3	Jakarta	14
4	Busan	12
5	Istanbul	14
6	Hanau	14
7	Athens	14
8	Salzburg	14

2013

Stages	Host	Events
1	Istanbul	14
2	Hanau	14
3	Salzburg	14
4	Paris	14
5	Dordrecht	14
6	Lasko	12
7	Tyumen	14
8	Jakarta	14

2014

Stages	Host	Events
1	Paris	14
2	Almere	14
3	Lasko	14
4	Jakarta	13
5	Okinawa	14
6	Istanbul	14
7	Hanau	14
8	Salzburg	14

2015

Stages	Host	Events
1	Paris	14
2	Almere	14
3	El Sheikh	14
4	São Paulo	14
5	Istanbul	14
6	Coburg	14
7	Salzburg	14
8	Okinawa	14

2016

Stages	Host	Events
1	Paris	14
2	El Sheikh	14
3	Lasko	12
4	Rotterdam	14
5	Dubai	14
6	Salzburg	14
7	Rabat	14
8	Istanbul	14
9	Fortaleza	13
10	Hamburg	14
11	Okinawa	14

2017

Stages	Host	Events
1	Paris	14
2	Rotterdam	14
3	Dubai	14
4	Rabat	14
5	Halle/Leipzig	14

2018

Stages	Host	Events
1	Paris	14
2	Dubai	14
3	Rotterdam	14
4	Rabat	14
5	Istanbul	14
6	Berlin	14
7	Tokyo	14

2019

Stages	Host	Events
1	Paris	14
2	Dubai	14
3	Rabat	14
4	Shanghai	14
5	Tokyo	14
6	Moscow	14
7	Madrid	14

2020

Stages	Host	Events
1	Paris	14
2	Dubai	14
7	Salzburg	14

2021

Stages	Host	Events
1	Istanbul	14
2	Lisbon	14
3	Tashkent	14
4	Moscow	14
5	Rabat	14

2022

Stages	Host	Events
1	Baku

2023

Stages	Host	Events
1	Dublin

References

^ "Karate Tournaments | WKF".
^ Brennan, Eliott (17 February 2022). "New round robin format set to be launched at opening Karate 1-Premier League event in Fujairah". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 8 March 2022.