The 2025 Women's World Floorball Championships will be the 15th edition of Women's World Floorball Championship, the biennial international floorball championship organised under the auspices of the IFF for the women's national teams across the world. It will be held from 6 to 14 December 2025 in Brno and Ostrava in the Czech Republic. The final will be in Ostrava.
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]
For the eighth time, 16 teams will take part. Regional qualifiers in Americas, Asia and Oceania, and Europe took place between January to March 2025. Fifteen teams return from 2023, with the only difference being Netherlands replacing France. The Dutch return after a 10 year absence.[4]
Advertising panel in Prague, promoting the championships
Sweden are the nine-time defending champions, most recently beating Finland, 6–4, in the 2023 final in Singapore.
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).[5][6]
The Czechs were given the hosting rights unopposed on 24 May 2023.[1][7] The Moravian-Silesian Region has given its financial support to this tournament.[2] 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.
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.[8]
The American qualifier took place from 8 to 10 March in Austin, USA, and the home team qualified.[9]
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.[10][11]
The group stage matches will take place in Brno at the STAREZ Aréna Vodova. For the play-offs, the tournament will move to Ostravar Aréna in Ostrava. The same venues hosted the championship in 2013. Both venues will use two halls for the tournament.
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).
Because the tournament is held in two cities, the schedule is slightly different from usual. The group stage will be played over three days instead of the usual four. The play-off qualification round will already take place on the fourth day. On the fifth day, the teams advancing to the quarterfinals will have a rest day to transfer from Brno to Ostrava.[22]
Preliminary round
The schedule was announced on 24 June 2025.[23] Times are CET (UTC+1)
Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches.
If the ranking of one of these teams is determined, the above criteria are consecutively followed until the ranking of all teams is determined. If no ranking can be determined, a drawing of lots will decide the outcome.
On 14 April 2024, at the Czech SuperFinal in Prague, merchandise was sold for the competition was sold.[26]
On 28 November 2024, KFC was announced as a sponsor for the tournament.[27]
On 24 January 2025, president of the Czech Floorball Federation, Daniel Novák said their aim is to fill out stands plus reaching out and positively addressing the widest possible public, even outside of floorball or sports in general.[28]
On 17 April 2025, in connection with the tournament, the Czech Floorball Federation announced the project FLOORBALL POWER, aiming to help individuals and floorball clubs across the country to be active.[29]
On 19 June 2025, the submissions to be a volunteer was opened.[30]
On 23 September 2025, applications for media accreditation was opened with the deadline on 5 November 2025.[31]
On 22 October 2025, the mascots duo was shown for the first time, with one named Florian and the other one's name being decided by a vote.[32]
On 10 November 2025, the name, Floora, was announced as the name of the mascot.[33] Floora was chosen after receiving the highest amount of votes among four potential options.
Tickets
On 4 December 2024, a pre-sale priority phase for people with a Czech floorball ID account was opened.[34]
On 11 December 2024, the first set of tickets were put out.[35]
On 26 June 2025, a second batch of tickets were put on sale.[36]
The third wave of tickets were released on 9 September 2025, with single-game tickets now available.[37]
On 4 April 2024, the logo 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.[38][39] A website was also created at the same time.[40][26]
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