1953 Roller Hockey World Cup

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1953 Roller Hockey World Cup

Roller Hockey Men's World Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Switzerland
Dates	29 May 1953 (1953-05-29)– 6 June 1953 (1953-06-06)
Teams	13 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (1st title)
Runners-up	Portugal
Third place	Spain
Fourth place	Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	46
Goals scored	282 (6.13 per match)
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The 1953 Roller Hockey World Cup was the ninth roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Patinage a Roulettes (now under the name of Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports). It was contested by 13 national teams (11 from Europe, 1 from Africa and for the first time, 1 from South America) and it is also considered the 1953 European Roller Hockey Championship (despite the presences of Egypt and Brazil). All the games were played in the city of Geneva, in Switzerland, the chosen city to host the World Cup. Also for the first time there was a two-group stage, with the first two teams from each group qualifying to a final-four group.

Group stage[]

Group A[]

Team	POR	ESP	ENG	NED	BRA		EGY
Portugal
Spain	1–1
England	0–3	1–3
Netherlands	2–7	2–2	2–4
Brazil	0–8	0–7	1–7	4–6
	0–10	1–10	1–9	0–5	2–2
Egypt	1–4	0–11	3–11	1–5	2–4	2–4

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Portugal	6	5	1	0	33	4	+29	11	Advancing to final-four
Spain	6	4	2	0	34	5	+29	10
England	6	4	0	2	32	13	+19	8
Netherlands	6	3	1	2	22	18	+4	7
Brazil	6	1	1	4	11	32	−21	3
	6	1	1	4	8	38	−30	3
Egypt	6	0	0	6	9	39	−30	0

Group B[]

Team	ITA	SWI			FRA
Italy
Switzerland	2–2
	1–2	4–0
	3–6	1–4	4–0
France	1–3	1–2	0–5	1–3
	1–13	0–8	0–12	3–8	2–3

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Italy	5	4	1	0	26	8	+18	9	Advancing to final-four
Switzerland	5	3	1	1	16	8	+8	7
	5	3	0	2	22	6	+16	6
	5	3	0	2	19	14	+5	6
France	5	1	0	4	6	15	−9	2
	5	0	0	5	6	44	−38	0

Final phase[]

4th to 12th play-offs[]

11th place play-off

		5 – 1		Geneva, Switzerland

9th place play-off

	France	1 – 1	Brazil	Geneva, Switzerland

7th place play-off

		4 – 1	Netherlands	Geneva, Switzerland

5th place play-off

		2 – 1	England	Geneva, Switzerland

• France classified in 9th place, by greater goal average in the group phase.

Final-four[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		ITA	POR	ESP	SWI
	Italy (C)	3	3	0	0	8	2	+6	6
	Portugal	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	4		0–3
	Spain	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	2		0–1	1–2
4	Switzerland	3	0	0	3	3	11	−8	0		2–4	1–6	0–1

Standings[]

	Team
	Italy
	Portugal
	Spain
4th	Switzerland
5th
6th	England
7th
8th	Netherlands
9th	France
10th	Brazil
11th
12th
13th	Egypt

See also[]

• FIRS Roller Hockey World Cup
• CERH European Roller Hockey Championship

External links[]

• 1953 World Cup in rink-hockey.net historical database