Tag: Floorball

  • U19 WFC Champion & Floorball Official Special Olympics sport

    Poland, May 4, 2014: The match between Sweden and Switzerland was expected to be a more even and exciting match than in the end was the fact. The higher ranked Slovakia was on beforehand favourite to win against Hungary and also took a slight grip of the happenings in the beginning of the match. Sweden…

  • Referee nominations & Match schedule for WFC

    Helsinki – Finland, Oct 18, 2013: The IFF Referee Committee has nominated the referees and the referee observers for the 9th Women´s World Floorball Championships. There are eight referee pairs from seven different countries and also Asia is represented. Four referee observers will take care of the observations during the WFC. The nominated referees are:…

  • IWGA decided to approve IFF as a new member

    IWGA decided to approve IFF as a new member

    Finland, May 27, 2013: This decision was taken during the IWGA Annual General Meeting organised in connection with the SportAccord Convention 2013 in St. Petersburg. The IWGA is the body organising the multi-sport event – the World Games every fourth year. This year’s edition of the World Games will be organised in Cali, Columbia. IFF…

  • Sweden regained the title of Men´s U19 Floorball

    Sweden regained the title of Men´s U19 Floorball

    Floorball, A new spectator record was also made in the MU19 WFC Final Round. The previous record was from Weissenfels two years ago and now the new number is 16 477. There were over 2000 spectators in the arena to see the Final match. Switzerland has played very well in this tournament especially in the…

  • Lielvarde Men’s EFC Champion and Sveiva gold

    Lielvarde Men’s EFC Champion and Sveiva gold

    Helsinki – Finland, Oct 15, 2012: Like in the Women´s finals these two teams had come from the same group so had already met in this tournament. In that game Lielvarde got out to a 7-2 lead and Slevik could never get it back. In this game it was Lielvarde who found themselves behind after Slevik…

  • IFF; Special Olympics (SO) & SO Floorball

    IFF; Special Olympics (SO) & SO Floorball

    Helsinki – Finland, Sept 26, 2012: Special Olympics (SO) is the largest sports organisation for persons with Intellectual Disability with more than 3,7 million officially registered athletes and 0,5 million coaches in 183 countries in all Regions of the World. Special Olympics include 33 different sports, 26 summer sports, 7 winter sports Floorball being the youngest…

  • Athletes Commission was elected by the IFF CB

    Athletes Commission was elected by the IFF CB

    Helsinki – Finland, Sept 26, 2012: The IFF Athletes Commission consists of 4 female and 4 male athletes, out of which the players of each World Floorball Championships are entitled to elect three to four representatives and the IFF CB can based on regional aspects elect one member to the Athletes Commission. We now invite…

  • Announcement of the IFF General Assembly 2012

    Announcement of the IFF General Assembly 2012

    Helsinki – Finland, Sept 10, 2012: The IFF Central Board has invited all the member associations of the IFF to participate in the 11th General Assembly of the International Floorball Federation in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday the 8th of December, 2012. The IFF 11th General Assembly 2012 will be held during the Men’s 9th World…

  • IFF Referee Committee nominated Referees

    IFF Referee Committee nominated Referees

    Helsinki – Finland, August 29, 2012: The referees and the referee observers for the World Championships, Champions Cup, EuroFloorball Cup and Friendly International Matches are nominated by the IFF Referee Committee. All IFF member Associations shall inform the IFF when organising Friendly International Matches, with the IFF Form Information form for International Matches and Nomination…

  • RACC Competition Seminar was held Aug 17-19

    RACC Competition Seminar was held Aug 17-19

    Helsinki – Finland, August 29, 2012: The aim of the seminar was to set a common objective for the development of the IFF Events. There were 29 participants from 18 Member Associations – Australia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. The participants…