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. It will be the second time that the Czech Republic hosts the Women's World Floorball Championships. The first time was in 2013, in the same cities.[1][2][3]
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] The Moravian-Silesian Region has given its financial support to this tournament.[2]
Qualification
The final tournament will feature 16 national teams. The Czech Republic has secured its participation in advance as the host country. The remaining spots will be determined among the registered teams through regional qualifiers.
Two European qualifiers took place between January 29 and February 1, 2025, in Valmiera, Latvia, and Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. The Latvian qualifier included ten teams divided into two groups, with the top three teams from each group advancing. In Italian qualification, held in conjunction with qualification tournament for the 2025 Men's U19 World Championships, eight teams competed, divided also into two groups. The top two teams from each group qualified, along with the winner of the playoff match between the third-placed teams. For the first time since 2015, the Netherlands qualified for the championship.[7]
The American qualifier took place from 8 to 10 March in Austin, USA, and the home team qualified.[8]
The Asia-Oceania qualifier was held from 18 to 22 March in Singapore. Eight national teams divided into two groups competed for three spots. The top two teams also qualified for the 2025 World Games. The qualifying teams were to be determined in the play-offs, which included the top two teams from each group. Thailand, which had advanced to the final, withdrew from the championship in advance due to a scheduling conflict with the SEA Games, which it is hosting. As a result, the remaining three play-off participants automatically qualified for the championship. The knockout stage of the tournament then only served to determine the qualifiers for the World Games.[9]
In previous years, the Brno hall also hosted the 2021 Men's U19 World championships, while the Ostrava arena hosted the Czech floorball Superfinals in 2018 and 2019.[1][3]
In the group stage each team plays each other once, while the second stage of the event includes play-offs and placement matches.
The two best teams of group A and B go directly to the quarter-finals. Teams placed third and fourth in group A and B and the teams placed first and second in group C and D go into the first play-off round (played before the quarter-finals).
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.[12][13] A website was also created at the same time.[14]
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