Floorball at the 2022 World Games

Floorball at the 2022 World Games
Venue	BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham, United States
Dates	8–12 July 2022
No. of events	1
Competitors	from 8 nations
Medalists
Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic

Floorball at the 2022 World Games

Tournament statistics
Games played	18
Goals scored	219 (12.17 per game)
Attendance	5,687 (316 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Eemeli Salin (15 points)

The floorball competition at the 2022 World Games took place in July 2022,[1] in Birmingham, United States, at the BJCC East Exhibition Hall. Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]

Qualification

Main article: Floorball at the 2022 World Games – Qualification

Qualification for the floorball event of the 2022 World Games was determined through the 2020 Men's World Floorball Championships. The United States as host qualified automatically. The top five finishing teams at the 2020 World Championships as well as the best finishing team from the Americas and Asia Oceania qualified for the World Games.[3][4] However the qualified Asia-Oceania team had to be confirmed by the IFF Central Board and General Assembly since qualification for Asia Oceania teams for the World Championship was not held.[5]

Qualified teams

Team	Method of qualification
United States	Hosts
Sweden	2020 Men's World Floorball Championships winners
Finland	2020 Men's World Floorball Championships runners-up
Czech Republic	2020 Men's World Floorball Championships third-placed team
Switzerland	2020 Men's World Floorball Championships fourth-placed team
Latvia	2020 Men's World Floorball Championships fifth-placed team
Canada	2020 Men's World Floorball Championships best finishing team from the Americas
Thailand	2020 Men's World Floorball Championships best finishing team from Asia-Oceania

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	1	0	0	1
2	Finland	0	1	0	1
3	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Sweden Hampus Ahrén Rasmus Enström Tobias Gustafsson Kevin Haglund John Hedlund Linus Holmgren Emil Johansson Malte Lundmark Måns Parsjö-Tegnér Ludwig Persson Niklas Ramirez Johan Samuelsson Jesper Sankell Albin Sjögren	Finland Eemeli Akola Oskari Fälden Sami Johansson Justus Kainulainen Ville Lastikka Otto Lehkosuo Mikko Leikkanen Joonas Pylsy Joona Rantala Eemeli Salin Nico Salo Eetu Sikkinen Lassi Toriseva Konsta Tykkyläinen	Czech Republic Lukáš Bauer Dominik Beneš Martin Beneš Jiří Besta Adam Delong Filip Forman Matěj Havlas Adam Hemerka Mikuláš Krbec Filip Langer Ondřej Němeček Lukáš Punčochář Josef Rýpar Matyáš Šindler

Results

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC–5).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	3	2	1	0	29	7	+22	5	Semifinals
2	Latvia	3	2	1	0	27	13	+14	5
3	Switzerland	3	1	0	2	15	12	+3	2	Fifth place game
4	Thailand	3	0	0	3	6	45	−39	0	Seventh place game

Source: IFF

8 July 2022 09:30

Sweden

6–6 (2–1, 2–4, 2–1)

Latvia

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 456

IFF

8 July 2022 15:30

Switzerland

10–3 (4–0, 2–2, 4–1)

Thailand

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 247

IFF

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9 July 2022 09:30

Thailand

1–20 (0–6, 1–6, 0–8)

Sweden

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 259

IFF

9 July 2022 15:30

Switzerland

5–6 (2–2, 2–2, 1–2)

Latvia

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 603

IFF

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10 July 2022 09:30

Thailand

2–15 (1–5, 1–3, 0–7)

Latvia

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 156

IFF

10 July 2022 12:00

Switzerland

0–3 (0–2, 0–1, 0–0)

Sweden

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 281

IFF

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Finland	3	3	0	0	39	3	+36	6	Semifinals
2	Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	33	6	+27	4
3	Canada	3	1	0	2	9	38	−29	2	Fifth place game
4	United States (H)	3	0	0	3	4	38	−34	0	Seventh place game

Source: IFF
(H) Hosts

8 July 2022 12:00

Finland

18–0 (5–0, 6–0, 7–0)

Canada

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 119

IFF

8 July 2022 18:15

Czech Republic

13–1 (3–0, 6–0, 4–1)

United States

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 179

IFF

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9 July 2022 12:00

Finland

5–3 (2–0, 2–1, 1–2)

Czech Republic

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 667

IFF

9 July 2022 18:00

United States

3–9 (0–2, 1–2, 2–5)

Canada

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 703

IFF

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10 July 2022 15:30

Czech Republic

17–0 (4–0, 7–0, 6–0)

Canada

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 204

IFF

10 July 2022 18:00

United States

0–16 (0–6, 0–6, 0–4)

Finland

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 228

IFF

Final round

Bracket

	Semifinals				Final
	11 July
	Sweden	6
					12 July
	Czech Republic	1
					Sweden	6
	11 July
					Finland	5
	Finland	5
	Latvia	1
					Third place
					12 July
					Czech Republic	7
					Latvia	3

Semifinals

11 July 2022 09:30

Sweden

6–1 (3–0, 2–0, 1–1)

Czech Republic

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 135

IFF

11 July 2022 12:15

Finland

5–1 (1–0, 1–0, 3–1)

Latvia

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 131

IFF

Seventh place game

11 July 2022 15:00

United States

3–7 (2–5, 1–1, 0–1)

Thailand

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 163

IFF

Fifth place game

11 July 2022 17:45

Switzerland

12–1 (2–1, 0–0, 10–0)

Canada

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 112

IFF

Bronze medal game

12 July 2022 10:00

Czech Republic

7–3 (1–0, 2–1, 4–2)

Latvia

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 237

IFF

Gold medal game

12 July 2022 13:00

Sweden

6–5 (0–1, 3–0, 3–4)

Finland

BJCC East Exhibition Hall, Birmingham Attendance: 807

IFF

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	Sweden
	Finland
	Czech Republic
4	Latvia
5	Switzerland
6	Canada
7	Thailand
8	United States

References

1. "The World Games 2022 Sports programme". Archived from the original on 2022-03-08. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
2. "World Games postponed to 2022 to avoid Tokyo Olympics clash". reuters.com. Archived from the original on 2022-03-08. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
3. "TWG 2022 - Birmingham (USA)". IFF Main Site. International Floorball Federation. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
4. Lloyd, Owen (25 January 2022). "Sweden leads eight-strong field at World Games 2022 floorball tournament". Inside the Games.biz. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
5. "Time for Men's World Floorball Championships 2020 play-offs". International Floorball Federation. 6 December 2021. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.

External links

• The World Games 2022 Archived 16 April 2024 at the Wayback Machine
• The World Games 2022 at IFF website