The Slovakia men's national floorball team is the national floorball team of Slovakia.
The Slovak Floorball Association was founded in 1998, and the men's national team made its first appearance at a tournament in Leipzig in 2003. They debuted at the World Championship in 2004 in Division C, where they finished in fourth place (23rd overall). The team also competed in Division C in the next two championships. However, the performance-based division system was later abolished, and for the 2010 Championship, a qualification system was introduced. In the qualification round, Slovakia lost a decisive match against Estonia and failed to advance.
Slovakia made its first appearance among the world’s elite at the 2012 World Championships, where they managed to reach the quarterfinals (as the eleventh team overall) and finished in 8th place. Since then, the team has participated in every World Championship, but did not reach the quarterfinals again until 2020; since then, it has played them regularly.
The team's best result is a 6th-place finish at the 2024 World Championship. In the IFF ranking, Slovakia is ranked sixth (behind Switzerland and ahead of Germany) following their 6th place in 2024 and 7th place in 2022.
World Championship
YearHosting CountryRankFinal match2004 C Spain23rd place2006 C Spain23rd placeRound-robin2008 C Slovakia21st place2010 SpainDid not qualify2012 Switzerland8th place—2014 Sweden10th place2016 Latvia9th place2018 Czech Republic9th place2020 Finland7th place2022 Switzerland7th place2024 Switzerland6th place
World Championship record
Lower divisions YearResultGPWDLGFGA+/-Spain 20044th41032134–13Spain 20063rd54013211+21Slovakia 20081st65018313+70
Top division World Championship recordQualifying RecordYearResultGPWDLGFGA+/-YearGPWDLGFGA+/-Finland 2010 Did not qualifySpain 2010 421128 11 +17Switzerland 20128th51132438–14Slovenia 2012 5 4 0 1 33 17 +16Sweden 201410th64024025+15Slovakia 2014 4 2 0 2 25 20 +5Latvia 20169th64023623+13Slovakia 2016 5 4 0 1 50 31 +19Czechia 20189th65016520+45Slovakia 2018 5 4 0 1 24 18 +19Total231418165106+59Total 23161616097+76
Gallery
References
External links
Slovak Floorball Association Team page on app.floorball.sport Team page on archive.floorball.sport