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) 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.
ČT Sport is a Czech national sports channel, operated by Czech Television.
Sports play a significant part in the life of many Czechs who are generally loyal supporters of their favourite teams or individuals.
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. As of 2023, those are Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, both for men and women. The tournament takes place every year in January both for men's and women's teams, that won in the previous season in their national leagues. Those are Finnish F-liiga, Swedish Svenska Superligan, Czech men's Superliga florbalu and women's Extraliga žen ve florbale and Swiss Unihockey Prime League. Since 2024, winners of national cups will also attend. That means, there will 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.
BK Mladá Boleslav is a Czech ice hockey team, which plays in the Czech Extraliga, the country's highest level. They were promoted into the league on 18 April 2014 after a two-year absence. They play their home games at Ško-Energo Aréna.
The 2009–10 Czech Extraliga season was the 17th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993. In the regular season, Plzeň 1929 finished atop the league, Roman Červenka led the league in points and assists, and Petr Ton led the league in goals.
The 2016–17 Czech Extraliga season was the 24th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993.
Superliga florbalu is the highest league in the league system of Czech men's floorball and comprises the top 14 Czech floorball teams. The season culminates in a play-off played by the best ten teams. The first season began in 1993–94.
Tatran Střešovice is a floorball team based in Prague, Czech Republic. The team was founded in 1991.
1. SC Vítkovice is a floorball team based in the Vítkovice district of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The team was founded in 1992.
Florbal MB is a floorball team based in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic. The current club was formed in 2003 by merging FbK Mladá Boleslav (1999) and Sokol Mladá Boleslav (1998).
FBC Ostrava is a floorball team based in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The team was founded in 1993.
Livesport Ltd. is a Czech based media and technology company headquartered in Prague, founded in 2006 by Martin Hájek and Jiří Mareš. Livesport provides websites and mobile apps with live scores, sports news, statistics and other information from over 35 major sports. Livesport's flagship product, the Flashscore network, is visited by approximately 100 million monthly users.
Fanseat is an Internet streaming service specializing in live sports broadcasts, established in 2015. Early on, it served as an online extension of Fanseat 1 and 2, basic tier television channels available to customers of Finnish telecommunications provider Elisa. In 2017, the Fanseat channels were renamed and merged into a new 8-channel premium tier called Elisa Viihde Sport. The online version of Fanseat remained its own brand, and was refocused on foreign markets.
In 2019, the platform was acquired by Spring Media, a Swedish sports marketing agency. Fanseat's managing director is Jean-Maël Gineste, a former sales director at Eurosport.
FBC Třinec is a floorball team based in Třinec, Czech Republic. The team was founded in 2011. The women's team has been playing in the Extraliga žen ve florbale since the 2023/2024 season, to which they advanced for the first time in history in 2023 after a playoff win over the Panthers Prague team 3:1 for matches. Among the team's greatest successes is the promotion to the quarterfinals of the Pohár Českého Florbalu in 2022.
Extraliga žen ve florbale is the highest league in the league system of Czech women's floorball and comprises the top 11 Czech floorball teams. The season culminates in a play-off played by the best 8 teams. The first season began in 1994–95.
FBS Olomouc is a floorball team based in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The team was founded in 2001.
Extraliga žen may refer to any of several premier women's national championship sports leagues in the Czech Republic:
TJ Znojmo is a floorball club based in Znojmo, Czech Republic. The team was founded in 2011.
