The 2020 Men's World Floorball Championships was the 13th World Championships in men's floorball. The tournament took place from 3 to 11 December 2021 in Helsinki, Finland. t was the third time that Finland hosted the men's world championship. The championship was originally scheduled to be held in December 2020, but due to measures against the spread of COVID-19, it was postponed by a year. As a result, the tournament partially overlapped with the Women's World Floorball Championship.

Sweden won their ninth world title after defeating Finland, the winners of the previous championship. The Czech Republic finished in third place, their first since the 2014 championship, after defeating Switzerland.

The championship also served as a qualification event for the 2022 World Games.

Qualification

35 teams registered for the championships. 16 qualified reach to the final tournament. Host country, Finland, qualified automatically. Though they did not ultimately qualify, Côte d'Ivoire became the first ever team from Africa to participate in the WFC Qualifiers.

In Europe, there were six qualification groups with three event locations – Frederikshavn in Denmark, Poprad in Slovakia, and Liepāja in Latvia. The Asia-Oceania qualifier in Bangkok, Thailand, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead the highest ranked countries of the region were qualified. USA and Canada both qualified automatically due to the World Games taking place in the United States in 2022.

DateVenueVacanciesQualifiedHost nation1Direct Qualification2Highest Ranked Asia-Oceania Countries2European Qualification 130 January – 2 February 2020 Frederikshavn3European Qualification 230 January – 2 February 2020 Poprad3European Qualification 330 January – 3 February 2020 Liepāja3Wildcard/Replacements2Total16

1.Australia and Japan confirmed to IFF that they were unable to travel due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, hence their withdrawal from the competition. 2.On September 28, 2021, the IFF Central Board confirmed the inclusion of Estonia and the Philippines to replace Australia and Japan.

Venues Helsinki Hartwall Arena Helsinki Ice Hall

Tournament groups After the group ballot, 16 teams are divided into 4 groups. In the group stage each team plays each other once, while the second stage of the event includes play-offs and placement matches.

The two best teams of group A and B go directly to the quarter-final. Teams placed 3rd and 4th in group A and B and the teams placed 1st and 2nd in group C and D make it to the first playoff round (played before the quarter-finals). Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D (hosts)

1.Estonia and the Philippines replaced Australia and Japan.

Preliminary round Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knock-out stage

Play-off

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Final

Placement matches 5th place bracket

5th–8th place semi-finals

5th place match

7th place match

9th place bracket

9th–12th place semi-finals

9th place match

11th place match

13th place bracket

13th–16th place semi-finals

13th place match

15th place match

Ranking and statistics

Final ranking The official IFF final ranking of the tournament: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Qualification for the 2022 World Games

Qualify to the 2022 World Games Qualify to the 2022 World Games via regional rank

# Overall Americas Asia Oceania1 2 3 4 5

All-star team

Tournament all-star team: Best goalkeeper: Best defenders: , Best center: Justus Kainulainen Best forwards: ,

References

External links Tournament webpage Official results