The 2023 Men's U-19 World Floorball Championships was the 12th edition of the championship. The tournament was played in Frederikshavn, Denmark, and took place from 26 to 30 April. Czech Republic were the two-time defending champions, but were beaten by Switzerland in the semifinals. Sweden won their sixth title after triumphing over the Swiss in the final.
This tournament broke the record for the most attended U-19 Floorball World Championship ever, with 18,316 spectators watching the games.
Bidding process
Denmark's bid was deemed superior and were given the hosting rights on 23 February 2021.
Qualified teams
29 teams entered, although this would be reduced to 25. The top nine from the last edition qualified directly, while qualifiers took place in Asia, Americas and Europe for the last seven tickets. This tournament saw the debut of Australia, Singapore and United States.
Date Venue Vacancies Qualified Automatically qualified from 2021 Brno 9 (H) European qualifier 1 24–28 January 2023 Salzburg 2 European qualifier 2 24–28 January 2023 El Escorial 2 Asian-Oceanian qualification 29 September–1 October 2022 Wellington 2 Americas qualification 2–3 September 2022 Draper 1 Total 16
Venues The venues for the tournament are in Frederikshavn at Arena Nord.
Frederikshavn Arena NordCapacity: 2,700 (in total)
Draw The draw took place on 13 December 2022 in Næstved, Denmark at 11:00 CET. The European qualifiers were not known at the time and ranking between the four qualifiers would decide who would take each place. Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (H) European qualifier (8) European qualifier (10) European qualifier (11) European qualifier (12) (14) (20) (27)
Preliminary round The schedule was announced on 30 January 2023.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Placement round 15th place game
C4 vs D4
13th place game
C3 vs D3
11th place game
C2 vs D2
7th–10th placement bracket Bracket
A4 vs D1
B4 vs C1
9th place game LPO1 vs LPO2
7th place game WPO1 vs WPO2
5th place game
A3 vs B3
Knockout stage Bracket
Semifinals A1 vs B2
B1 vs A2
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final standings 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Awards Team of the tournament Mathias Juon (Goalkeeper) Jonathan Berglund (Defender) Pascal Schmuki (Defender) David Hermle (Centre) Gabriel Kohonen (Forward) Sakarias Ulriksson (Forward)
Preparations For the tournament, the city of Frederikshavn and Sport Event Denmark gave 125,000 Euros.
Applications for volunteering was opened in October 2022.
The budget for the tournament were 217,600 Euros. Although this would increase to 260,000. To break even, they needed to earn up to 66,000 Euros in ticket sales. They ended up exceeding the target and reached 90,000 Euros.
Marketing Ticket sales and packages started to be put on sale on 20 October 2022. 2,500 tickets and packages were sold before the tournament.
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