1. Select one of the 5 categories in the left margin of the page: Player Team Match Referee Event.
2. Fill in one or more fields as your search criteria and click on the �search� button. Corresponding results will appear on the screen.
3. Click on the result which you want more information on.
4. Take advantage of the hyperlinks to browse through the database and discover all its possibilities.

The FITB match database is a database compiling all tchoukball matches that have been organised under the supervision of the FITB since 1984. This database can be accessed through the internet. It is public and open to anyone. The main entrance is located at match.tchoukball.org. The database can also be accessed through the link available at www.tchoukball.org, the FITB website.

The aims of this database are: This database is useful for:

The FITB match database contains the following information:

All events organised under the supervision of the FITB since 1984. For each event: For each match: For each player: For each referee:

Navigation into the database is instinctive. The interface is user-friendly. Consequently, no long explanations are needed to browse and find needed information.

Search
To start with a new search, five main possibilities exist, that correspond to the buttons on the left:

Player

Team

Match

Referee

Event

Once the user has clicked on one of these buttons, the corresponding base search fields appear. To see the advanced search fields, click on the �plus� symbol on the right side of the �advanced search� box. Most search fields have an associated list. The user can simply choose one of the items in the list. Some boxes are totally empty. The user should type in his own search criteria. He can type a complete word (a player�s first or last name for example), but also part of a word. For instance, if the user searches the player �Romain Schmocker�, he can write �schmocker� or �sch� in the �name� box. The syntax is not case sensitive.

Once the fields are (totally or partially) filled, the user can click on the �search� button. The user can at any time come back to the search page by clicking on �search� on the top of the page.

Note about players from the Republic of China: the spelling with roman letters of Chinese names is not unique. Therefore, some names may be spelled differently in the database than what the user could be expecting. In case the user is looking for a Chinese player, it is strongly advised to browse by team, match or event and to find a match in which this player took part. The player�s information can then be seen by clicking on the player�s name in the list of all players of the match.

Results
The list of results that corresponds to the criteria is displayed on the screen, as well as the total number of results. To continue with our example, the �Schmocker� search will give one result (Romain Schmocker), while the �sch� search will give 16 results (stand May 2006), among them Romain Schmocker.

The user can then click on the result he is interested in (also required in case only one result appears). He can at any time come back to the list of results by clicking on �result� on the top of the page.

Details
The details of the entry (player, team, match, referee, or event) appear. Hyperlinks make it possible to browse through the results. In our example, the user can click on any of the matches played by Romain Schmocker to see the details of the match.

In spite of all our efforts to fill in the database, some information is still missing, especially related to older events. The main reason for this is that some information could not be found in the FITB archives. If, as a user, you know any information that is still missing in the database, we will greatly appreciate if you could take a few minutes to communicate this information to the FITB by using the contact page.

Information still missing:

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