Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. It is played indoors with 96–115.5 cm-long (37.8–45.5 in) sticks and a 70–72 mm-diameter (2.76–2.83 in) hollow plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role in the game's development.
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg, commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it is the only club in the Nordic countries that has won one of the main UEFA competitions, having won the UEFA Cup in both 1982 and 1987. IFK is affiliated with Göteborgs Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Gamla Ullevi. The club colours are blue and white, colours shared both with the sports society which the club originated from, Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, and with the coat of arms of the city of Gothenburg. The team colours have influenced the historical nickname Blåvitt. The blue and white are in stripes, with blue shorts and socks.
Falu Bandysällskap, Falu BS, is a bandy club from Falun in Sweden.
Hammarby IF Innebandy, is a Swedish floorball club based at Stockholm. The men's first team currently plays in Division 4 which is the 6th tier level of the Swedish floorball league system, while the ladies' first team plays in "Damer Division 1" which is 2nd tier level. Hammarby IF Innebandy has about 217 licensed players today.
Swedish Super League is the highest league in the league system of Swedish floorball and comprises the top 14 Swedish floorball teams. The first season began in 1995–96. The season ends with a play-off and a final.
AIK Innebandy is a Swedish floorball club and a department of AIK. The men's team played in Sweden's highest division, SSL, from the year 2000, but was relegated to Herrar Allsvenskan Norra in 2018 after ending the season 2017/2018 as second last. AIK won their first championship in 2006 when they defeated Pixbo Wallenstam IBK in the SSL final. In 2009 they won their second championship, beating Warberg IC in the final. The team is back in Sweden’s highest division SSL the season 2022/2023.
Balrog Botkyrka IK is a Swedish floorball team from Botkyrka, a suburb of Stockholm. Balrog is currently playing in the third tier floorball league in Sweden. They have previously played in the highest tier league - the Swedish Super League. They debuted in SSL in the 1990/91 season. Balrog won their first championships in 1993 and has after that won 2 more, in 1996 and 2004.
Lugnet is a large sport complex located in Falun, Sweden. 58 of the Swedish Sports Confederation's 67 special sports can be practiced there.
Pixbo IBK, also known as Redfox, is a Swedish floorball club, based in Mölnlycke, Västra Götaland, near Gothenburg. It was known officially as Pixbo Wallenstam IBK after its sponsor until June 2023. The club was founded in 1981 and is one of the oldest Swedish floorball clubs.
Jānis Jansons is a Latvian floorball player who is currently playing for Pixbo Wallenstam IBK in the SSL.
Mika Kohonen is a retired Finnish floorball player and nowadays a floorball coach. He currently coaches Storvreta IBK, a club in the Swedish Super League. He has also played for Balrog IK in SSL and Happee in Salibandyliiga. He also used be a part of Finland's national floorball team for many years both as a player and assistant coach.
The Champions Cup is floorball tournament organized by the International Floorball Federation for the best clubs from the top four countries according to IFF World Ranking. Since 2019, those are Sweden, the Czech Republic, Finland and Switzerland, both for men and women. The tournament culminates every year in January both for men's and women's teams, that won in the previous season in their national league and cup competitions. That means, there are eight men's and either women's teams in the tournament in total.
Czech Open is an international floorball tournament. It takes place every year in August in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of the largest floorball tournaments in the world. Every year over 200 teams from around the world participate. The first season was played in 1993. The tournament is organized by Prague floorball club Tatran Střešovice.
Swedish Super League is the highest league in the league system of Swedish women's floorball and comprises the top 14 Swedish floorball teams. The first season began in 1997–98. The season ends with the playoffs and a final.
The Storvreta Innebandyklubb or Storvreta IBK, is a floorball club based in Storvreta, Sweden. The team plays its home matches in IFU Arena in Uppsala.
Tenhults IBK was a floorball club in Tenhult, Sweden, established 1988.
Skellefteå Innebandy IF is a floorball club in Skellefteå, Sweden, established in 1986. The women's team debuted in the SSL in the 2006-2007 season.
Anna Wijk is a Swedish former floorball player. She was named by Innebandymagazinet as female floorball player of the year in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2019, as well as the best female player of all time. She was part of the Swedish national team that won gold in the Women's Floorball World Championship in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019.
Tatran Střešovice is a floorball club based in Prague, Czech Republic. The team was founded in 1991.
The 2023–24 Men's Floorball Champions Cup was the 29th edition of the premier competition for floorball clubs and the first in a new format for league and cup winners. The reigning champions were IBF Falun. Tatran Střešovice became the first Czech team to win the cup by beating Falun 6–4 in Prague.
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