Section 6: Scoring
Definition of a goal (Rule 5.5): A goal is scored when the ball has, from above, completely passed through the korf, provided it was not thrown from underneath the korf. It is also a goal if the referees judge that the ball would certainly have fallen completely through the korf but a defender illegally prevented this by tapping it back from underneath. Every goal is worth one point and is credited to the team attacking the zone into which the korf the ball entered belongs — a distinctive feature of korfball, in which both teams' korfs sit on the same physical field and possession/attacking assignment (not a fixed "home" basket) determines whose goal it is.
Disallowed goals (Rule 5.5): A goal is not allowed if an infringement was committed by the attacking team before the ball passed through the korf; if the ball fell through the korf directly from a throw-off, free pass, or re-start, or from a shot taken from the attacking team's own defence zone; or if the ball left a shooting attacker's hands only after the whistle or signal ending a period of the match.
Winning the match (Rules 5.2, 5.5): The team scoring the most goals over the two 25-minute halves wins the match. If the score is level, the golden-goal procedure described in Section 5 (Rule 5.3) determines the winner.
Time-clock behaviour around scoring (Rule 5.2): The time clock stops the instant a goal is scored and restarts with the whistle for the resulting throw-off, taken by the team that just conceded the goal — reinforcing korfball's "real playing time" model, in which the clock only runs while the ball is genuinely in play.