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In October 2016, the number of teams participating was increased from 16 to 20. The four extra places were awarded to the Americas (1), Africa (1) and Asia & Oceania (2). The Americas are now allotted 2 spots, Africa 2 spots, Europe 10 spots, and Asia and Oceania 6 spots (with a minimum of 1 for Oceania). Due to withdrawals, in the end there will only be 1 team participating from the Americas and Africa (each), leading to 11 for Europe and 7 for Asia & Oceania.
This tournament also acted as the qualification tournament for the World Games 2022, with eight teams qualifying for the World Games. The IKF aimed to have teams from up to four continents present at the World Games, therefore the top eight finishing nations qualified, with the exception that when a team finished in the top eleven as the highest finishing team from a top four continent not already having a qualifier, then this team would have qualified instead of the last placed team from an already qualified continent. This de facto meant that the top five finishers were always certain of qualification, while the outcome for the teams in places six through eight depended on the continent of origin of teams up to place eleven. Additionally, Catalonia was ineligible for qualification as the World Games are contested by national instead of regional teams.
Teams
Qualification
In February 2019, the IKF announced that both Dominican Republic and Zimbabwe withdrew from the tournament despite both having qualified for the first time ever. First reserve of the Americas (Brazil) was unable to step in and ultimately the first reserves of Europe (Slovakia) and Asia (Macau) were invited and accepted the invitation.
includes participations of Great Britain until 2003.
includes participations of Germany from 1978 to 1987.
Draw
For the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the IKF World Korfball Ranking of December 2018. Pot 1 contained the best five teams (which were automatically assigned to pools A through E), pot 2 contained the next best five teams, and so on for pots 3 and 4, with the exception of Suriname which was placed into pot 3 instead of 4 as the IKF specified that each continental champion would at least be positioned in pot 3. Finally, it is not allowed to have four European, three Asian or two Oceanian countries in the same pool. In case this happens during the draw, the relevant country will change position with the country drawn after. In case this is not possible, the change will be made with the country that has been drawn before.
Competing countries will be divided into five groups of four teams (groups A to E). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin basis, with the top three teams of each group and the best fourth-placed team advancing to the knockout stage.
The rankings are shown as of December 2018. These are the rankings used for the final draw.
At the final whistle the scores were even and when referee Lee invited the teams to play a golden goal period as per the rules of the tournament, they mutually declined, opting instead to save themselves for the 19th-20th place game to be played the very next day in which both teams would meet again.
Netherlands (10th title)
Belgium
Chinese Taipei
China
Dominican Republic and 
Zimbabwe withdrew from the tournament despite both having qualified for the first time ever. First reserve of the Americas (
Brazil) was unable to step in and ultimately the first reserves of Europe (
Slovakia) and Asia (
Macau) were invited and accepted the invitation.
Great Britain until 2003.
Germany from 1978 to 1987.
Czech Republic
Catalonia
New Zealand
Poland
Australia
Ireland
England
Hong Kong
Suriname
Hungary
Portugal
Japan
South Africa
