Kazakhstan, Malta, Sri Lanka and US Virgin Islands have all joined the fold to take the number of countries and territories under the WFDF's wing up to 84.

It comes with the organisation hoping to bring up their century as part of their WFDF 100 project.

"WFDF is proud to welcome the four new member associations to the WFDF flying disc family concluding the latest admission process overseen by our executive director Volker Bernardi," said WFDF President Robert Rauch.

"Our ambitious WFDF 100 membership project has taken a great step towards completion and we expect to reach 90 member associations by the spring of 2019. 

"WFDF continues to benefit from the work begun five years ago to work closely with our local groups to institutionalise their governance infrastructure, allowing WFDF to expand our global reach and universality. 

"The leadership of the four new members from Kazakhstan, Malta, Sri Lanka, and US Virgin Islands have worked diligently through our application procedures over the last several years. 

"That ensures that participation in these countries is increasing and has reached the critical mass for them to be valuable members of the WFDF family from Asia, Europe and the Americas."

Denis Suslov, the chairman of the Kazakhstan Flying Disc Federation, was among those to welcome the news.

"Our team is very happy to be one with the big international WFDF family," he said. 

"We are grateful to the WFDF Congress and leadership of the International Federation.

"Аlthough we are still a very young organisation, we want to make every effort to be useful in the development of flying disc to promote the development of this sport in different parts of the world by laying the main foundation - the spirit of the game, not only in sports, but in all branches of life.

"From the whole team and from my own face, I want to wish a grand distribution of flying disc around the world, led by the WFDF, and to provide every possible assistance in the development of the sport."