Sakarias Ulriksson

Last updated
Sakarias Ulriksson
Personal information
National teamFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Born (2004-07-25) 25 July 2004 (age 21)
Sport
Sport Floorball
PositionForward
League Swedish Super League Flag of Sweden.svg
Team
  • Frötuna IBF (–2020)
  • RIG Umeå IBF (2020–2023)
  • Storvreta IBK (2023–)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
World Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Chengdu
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Sweden
Under-19 World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Denmark

Sakarias Ulriksson (born 25 July, 2004) is a Swedish floorball forward and national team player. He is a silver medallist at the 2024 World Championship, a two-time winner of the Swedish Super League, and the world's best floorball player of 2025. He has been playing in Swedish competitions since 2020.

Contents

Club career

Ulriksson began playing floorball with Frötuna IBF. From the 2020–21 season, he played in the second-highest division, Allsvenskan, for RIG Umeå IBF  [ sv ], a club affiliated with a sports-oriented gymnasium. [1]

In 2023, he transferred to Storvreta IBK and began playing for the club in the Swedish Super League. [1] [2] In his first season with Storvreta, the team successfully defended their league title. They repeated the achievement in the 2024–25 season, in which Ulriksson scored the winning goal in the Superfinal. It was his 19th goal of the playoffs, equalling a 24-year-old record held by Jonathan Kronstrand. In the regular season, he finished as the second-highest scoring player. [3] [4] [5]

International career

Ulriksson won a gold medal with the Swedish under-19 national team at the 2023 junior world championships. He finished the tournament as the top scorer, was selected to the All-Star Team, scored a goal and provided an assist in the final, and was named player of the match. [6]

He made his debut for the senior national team at the 2024 World Championship, where Sweden finished second. [7] He won a gold medal at the 2025 World Games. [8]

YearTeamEventResult
2023 Sweden U-19 WFC U-19 Gold medal icon.svg
2024 Sweden WFC Silver medal icon.svg
2025 Sweden WG Gold medal icon.svg

Awards

In 2025, he was named the world's best floorball player in the Innebandymagazinet Award, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the award. [2] [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sakarias Ulriksson klar för Storvreta IBK!" (in Swedish). Storvreta IBK. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Sakarias Ulriksson och Veera Kauppi världens bästa spelare" (in Swedish). 13 January 2026. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  3. ↑ "Sakarias Ulriksson Tangerar Rekord i SM-slutspel 2025 - 19 Mål" (in Swedish). 27 April 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  4. ↑ "Veera Kauppi och Sakarias Ulriksson utses till slutspelets MVP" (in Swedish). 15 May 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  5. 1 2 "World's Best Floorball Player 2025: Sakarias Ulriksson" (in Swedish). 13 January 2026. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  6. ↑ "Sveriges U19-herrar världsmästare – efter 10 års väntan" (in Swedish). 30 April 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  7. ↑ "Finland floorball world champions for the fifth time". blue News. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
  8. ↑ "World Games: Chengdu 2025 Floorball gold goes to Sweden Men and Finland Women". Livesport. 13 August 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.