The Czech men's national floorball team, presented as Czechia, is the national floorball team of the Czech Republic, and a member of the International Floorball Federation (IFF).
The team has participated in all World and European Championships as well as floorball tournaments at the World Games. Its biggest successes are silver medals from the 5th World Championships in 2004 and 14th World Championships in 2022, which both took place in Switzerland. The team also won four bronze medals in 2010, 2014, 2021 and 2024. That makes Czech team the third most successful team after Sweden and Finland and before fourth Switzerland.
At the last two World Games in 2022 and 2025, they won bronze medals. In the IFF ranking, the team is third (behind Sweden and Finland and ahead of Latvia), following their mentioned third and second-place finishes at the World Championships in 2024 and 2022.
Milestones
The Czech men's national floorball team was founded at the turn of 1993 and 1994. They have played their first friendly match in February 1994 against Switzerland and competed at the European Championships in the same year.
They first fought for medals at the first World Championships in 1996 in the bronze medal match against Norway. The Czechs defeated the Finnish team for the first time in the group stage at the 2002 World Championship. Since then, however, they have never won over Finland at the World Championship. In 2004, they have defeated Switzerland for the first time at World Championship. It was in semifinals, which earned the Czech team its first medal and the silver.
The Czechs defeated the Swedish team for the first time at the home Euro Floorball Tour in April 2014, where they also won against Finland and Switzerland, thus dominating the tournament for the first time. The Czechs have never won against Sweden at the World Championships. They won their first draw in the group stage at the 2022 championships, but lost to Sweden in the final. With their second silver, the Czechs overtook Switzerland's third place in the medal standings.
World Championship
YearHosting CountryRankFinal match1996 Sweden4th place1998 Czech Republic6th place2000 Norway6th place2002 Finland4th place2004 Switzerland2nd place2006 Sweden4th place2008 Czech Republic4th place2010 Finland3rd place2012 Switzerland7th place2014 Sweden3rd place2016 Latvia4th place2018 Czech Republic4th place2020 Finland3rd place2022 Switzerland2nd place2024 Sweden3rd place
World Games
YearHosting CountryRankFinal match20174th place20223rd place20253rd place
European Championships
YearHosting CountryRankFinal match 1994 6rd place 1995 5rd place
See also Czech Republic women's national floorball team Czech Republic men's national under-19 floorball team Czech Republic women's national under-19 floorball team
References
External links Official webpage of Czech National Floorball team Team page on app.floorball.sport Team page on archive.floorball.sport