Women's World Floorball Championship
Upcoming season or competition: 2025 Women's World Floorball Championships | |
| Sport | Floorball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| No. of teams | 16 (finals) |
| Continent | International (IFF) |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Sweden(2023, 11th title) |
| Most titles | Sweden (11 titles, the last in 2023) |
| Official website | floorball.sport |
The Women's World Floorball Championship is an international floorball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the International Floorball Federation (IFF). It is held regularly in odd years since 1997. In even years, the men's championship is played. The tournament takes place in December.
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Sweden is the reigning champion and the most successful team, with eleven titles.[1] Finland has won five times, and Switzerland once. The only other medalists are the Czech Republic and Norway, each with two bronze medals.
The most recent Women's World Championship in 2023 was held in Singapore, and the next one will take place in 2025 in the Czech Republic.[2]
Format
[edit]There are 16 teams participating in the tournament. The host country is automatically guaranteed a spot, while the remaining 15 spots are determined through regional qualifiers. These qualifiers, typically comprising several European tournaments and one each for the Americas and Asia-Oceania, are held about a year before the championship.[3]
The teams are then drawn into four groups (A–D), each consisting of four teams. Groups A and B are drawn from the top-ranked teams according to the IFF rankings, while Groups C and D are drawn from the remaining teams. Within a group, teams play against each other. The top two teams from Groups A and B advance directly to the quarter-finals. The other two teams from Groups A and B and the top two teams from Groups C and D compete in a playoff preliminary round.[3]
Next, the playoffs are played by elimination. The eliminated teams, including the teams that did not qualify for the playoffs, participate in additional placement matches.
The entire tournament spans nine days, from one weekend to another.
Tournaments
[edit]
Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweden |
11 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 |  Finland |
2 | 9 | 3 | 14 |
| 3 |  Switzerland |
1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 |  Norway |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 |  Czech Republic |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 | |
Participation details
[edit]| Team | 1997 |
1999 |
 2001 |
2003 |
 2005 |
 2007 |
2009 |
2011 |
2013 |
2015 |
 2017 |
2019 |
2021 |
2023 |
2025 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Australia |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15th | 12th | 12th | 15th | 11th | WD | 16th | 7 | |
 Austria |
9th | – | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
 Canada |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13th | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Czech Republic |
6th | 5th | 5th | 7th | 7th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | q | 15 |
| Denmark |
– | – | – | – | – | 6th | 9th | 8th | 11th | 10th | 9th | 10th | 8th | 8th | q | 10 |
 Estonia |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11th | 14th | 13th | 13th | q | 5 |
| Finland |
2nd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | q | 15 |
 France |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15th | – | 1 |
 Germany |
8th | 6th | 7th | 8th | – | – | – | 11th | 8th | 6th | 10th | 7th | 10th | 10th | q | 12 |
 Hungary |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14th | 14th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
 Italy |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16th | – | – | 1 |
 Japan |
10th | – | – | – | 8th | – | – | 16th | 15th | 15th | 14th | 13th | WD | 9th | 8 | |
| Latvia |
7th | 7th | 6th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 7th | 5th | 5th | 6th | 8th | 9th | 7th | q | 15 |
 Netherlands |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13th | – | 14th | – | – | – | – | q | 3 |
| Norway |
3rd | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 8th | 7th | 5th | 6th | 9th | 8th | 9th | 7th | 11th | q | 15 |
 Poland |
– | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | 6th | 7th | 7th | 7th | 5th | 5th | 6th | q | 9 |
 Russia |
5th | 8th | – | 5th | 6th | 7th | 5th | 10th | 10th | 11th | – | – | 11th | – | – | 10 |
| Singapore |
– | – | – | – | – | 10th | – | – | – | 16th | 16th | 12th | 14th | 12th | 6 | |
| Slovakia |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | 9th | 8th | 5th | 6th | 6th | 5th | q | 8 |
 South Korea |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16th | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Sweden |
1st | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | q | 15 |
| Switzerland |
4th | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | q | 15 |
 Thailand |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13th | 15th | 15th | – | 3 | |
 United States |
– | – | – | – | – | 9th | 10th | 9th | – | 13th | 12th | 16th | 12th | 14th | 7 |
Debut of national teams
[edit]| Year | Debuting teams | Successor teams | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams | No. | Cum. | ||
| 1997 | Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland
|
10 | 10 | |
| 1999 | - | 0 | 12 | |
| 2001 | - | 0 | 16 | |
| 2003 | - | 0 | 18 | |
| 2005 | - | 0 | 17 | |
| 2007 | Singapore
|
1 | 23 | |
| 2009 | Denmark, Poland, United States
|
3 | 20 | |
| 2011 | Australia, Hungary, Netherlands, Slovakia
|
4 | 15 | |
| 2013 | Canada, South Korea
|
2 | 18 | |
| 2015 | - | 0 | 23 | |
| 2017 | Thailand
|
1 | 30 | |
| 2019 | Estonia
|
1 | 28 | |
| 2021 | Italy
|
1 | 25 | |
| 2023 | France
|
1 | 28 | |
See also
[edit]- List of floorball world champions
- Men's World Floorball Championship
- Under-19 World Floorball Championships
References
[edit]- ^ "Sweden stave off Finland comeback to win ninth straight Women's World Floorball Championship". The Straits Times. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ^ Muzika, Rudolf (24 May 2023). "Český florbal se raduje. Získal pořadatelství dalšího světového šampionátu". Deník.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ^ a b "Women's World Championships". IFF Main Site. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ^ "IFF CB Meeting News 2/2023: WFC hosts awarded, Future of Floorball status and upcoming events". 24 May 2023.