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 held from 6 to 14 December 2025 in Brno and Ostrava in the Czech Republic. [1] [2] [3] Sweden are the 7-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] Czech Floorball Federation president, Daniel Novák, said: [8]

"We are happy that the championship will return to a place where we all know it very well. In Ostrava they also hosted the Women's World Championship in 2013, and we also played here the men's World Championship group stage in 2008 and two great editions of the Superfinal and we must not forget the final tournament of the Champions Cup. All of these events that took place enjoyed great interest from fans and I believe that we will be able to build on them in terms of quality organization, and a great spectator backdrop".

Qualification

Qualification will be held in early 2025.

DateVenueVacanciesQualified
Host nationMay 24, 20231Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
European Qualification 128 January–2 February 2025 Flag of Latvia.svg Valmiera 11
European Qualification 229 January–2 February 2025 Flag of Italy.svg Lignano Sabbiadoro
Americas Qualification8–10 March 2025 Flag of the United States.svg Austin 1
Asia-Oceania Qualification18–23 March 2025 Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore 3
Total16

Venues

Similar to 2013, Brno and Ostrava are the Czech venues. [1] The Czech Floorball Federation had considered using different arenas for the competition, but decided to choose the same facilities that held the 2013 edition. [5]

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. [9]

Marketing

On 4 April 2024, the logo was announced, 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. [10] [11] A website was also created at the same time. [12]

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