2025 Women's World Floorball Championships

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2025 Women's World Floorball Championships
2025 Women's World Floorball Championships logo.png
Tournament details
Host countryFlag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates6 December – 14 December
Teams16
Tournament statistics
Matches played48
  2023
2027  

The 2025 Women's World Floorball Championships will be the 15th edition of this competition. It will be held from 6 to 14 December 2025 in Brno and Ostrava in the Czech Republic. [1] [2] [3] Sweden are the 9-time defending champions.

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Host selection

In late 2019, the Czech Floorball Federation announced they were considering bidding for either the 2023 or 2025 edition. They ended up choosing to bid for 2025 after Singapore and Thailand stated they wanted to bid for 2023 as they wanted to give a country outside of Europe a chance to host (Singapore hosted the 2023 event). [4] [5]

The Czechs were given the hosting rights unopposed on 24 May 2023. [1] [6] [7] The Moravian-Silesian Region has given its financial support to this tournament. [2]

Qualification

Qualification will be held in early 2025 with 28 teams for 15 quota. Asia-Oceania qualification will also serve as qualification for 2025 World Games. [8] [9] [10]

DateVenueVacanciesQualified
Host nation24 May 20231Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
European Qualification 1 (10) [11] 28 January–2 February 2025 Flag of Latvia.svg Valmiera 11Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
European Qualification 2 (8) [12] 29 January–2 February 2025 Flag of Italy.svg Lignano Sabbiadoro Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Americas Qualification (2) [13] 8–10 March 2025 Flag of the United States.svg Austin 1
Asia-Oceania Qualification (8) [14] 18–23 March 2025 Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore 3
Total16

Venues

As 2013, Brno and Ostrava are chosen as the host cities. [1]

Brno Ostrava
Vodova Aréna
Capacity: 2,900
Ostravar Aréna
Capacity: 10,000
Sideview of City gym Vodova in Brno, Brno District.jpg CEZ arena.JPG

Preparations

Chairman of the Czech National Sports Agency, Ondřej Šebek, went to Singapore during the 2023 Women's World Floorball Championships to speak at a meeting with the International Floorball Federation. [15]

Marketing

On 4 April 2024, the logo was was publicly disclosed, showcasing a W that stands for women. The logo is about how women have limitless power and was developed for many in cooperation with Czech national team players and players from the Czech league. [16] [17] A website was also created at the same time. [18]

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