2012 Men's World Floorball Championships

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2012 Men's World
Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country  Switzerland
Dates1–9 December
Teams16
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Sweden
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg Finland
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg  
Tournament statistics
Matches played41
Attendance75,178 (1,834 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Switzerland
MVPSweden
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The 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships were the ninth men's Floorball World Championships. The tournament took place in Bern and Zurich, Switzerland in December 2012.

Qualification[]

Main article:

There are five qualification groups for 11 places in the final tournament:

  • Americas (2 teams)
  • Asia & Oceania (2 teams from 2012 Asia Pacific Floorball Championship)
  • Europe (7 teams from three groups)

Five best teams of 2010 World Championships automatically qualified for the competition:

Format[]

The teams will be drawn into four groups of four. Two best-placed teams of each group will move into quarter-finals. The winners of the Quarter-finals continue to the Semi-finals. The losers of the Semi-finals will play two games and the winners of these games will play for 5th and 6th place and for the losers of these two matches the tournament is over. The 7th team will be the team losing to the team which achieves the 5th place on the tournament. Third and fourth placed teams in the group stage will play for places 9–12 and 13–16 respectively.[1]

Teams[]

Team Method of
qualification 		Finals
appearance 		Last
appearance 		Previous best
performance
 Canada 2nd 2010 11th (2010)
 Czech Republic 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 Runner-up (2004)
 Estonia 4th 2010 7th (2010)
 Finland 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 Winner (2008, 2010)
  7th 2010 8th (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004)
  2nd 1996 10th (1996)
  2nd 2010 15th (2010)
 Latvia 2010 World Championships 8th 2010 5th (2006, 2008, 2010)
  9th 2010 Third (1996)
  2nd 2010 9th (2010)
  8th 2010 6th (1996)
 Singapore 3rd 2010 12th (1996)
 Slovakia 1st - -
 Sweden 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 Winner (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
   2010 World Championships 9th 2010 Runner-up (1998)
 United States 1st - -

Group stage[]

The draw was made in the beginning of March.[2]

Final groups[]

Group A Group B Group C Group D
    Sweden  Czech Republic  Finland    
 Estonia    Latvia  
 Singapore      
 Slovakia    United States  Canada

Championship schedule[]

Preliminary round[]

The top two teams from each group advanced to the quarter finals, while the last two teams play in the placement round.

     Team advanced to the quarter finals

Group A[]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
   3 3 0 0 57 7 +50 6
 Slovakia 3 1 1 1 21 14 +7 3
 Estonia 3 1 1 1 20 20 0 3
 Singapore 3 0 0 3 4 61 −57 0
Source:[citation needed]
December 2, 2012
Slovakia  4 – 8   
  • 1 - 5, Juraj Matejka (35.13)
  • 2 - 7 (PP), Ladislav Gál (43.15)
  • 3 - 7, Juraj Matejka (53.56)
  • 4 - 7, Ladislav Gál (58.55)
 Report
  • 0 - 1, Emanuel Antener (8.06)
  • 0 - 2, Christoph Hofbauer (9.58)
  • 0 - 3, Marc Dysli (11.13)
  • 0 - 4 (PP), Simon Stucki (18.16)
  • 0 - 5 (SH), Joel Krähenbühl (32.46)
  • 1 - 6, Philipp Fankhauser (36.46)
  • 1 - 7 (PP), Christoph Hofbauer (38.57)
  • 4 - 8, Emanuel Antener (59.49)
Sporthalle Wankdorf, Bern
December 3, 2012
Estonia  13 – 2  Singapore
December 4, 2012
   35 – 0  Singapore
 
Slovakia  4 – 4  Estonia
December 5, 2012
   14 – 3  Estonia
 
Singapore  2 – 13  Slovakia

Group B[]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Sweden 3 3 0 0 54 6 +48 6
  3 2 0 1 25 12 +13 4
  3 1 0 2 10 32 −22 2
  3 0 0 3 7 46 −39 0
Source:[citation needed]
December 2, 2012
  3 – 14  Sweden
 
  8 – 3  
December 3, 2012
  16 – 2  
 
  2 – 33  Sweden
December 4, 2012
  2 – 5  
December 5, 2012
Sweden  7 – 1  

Group C[]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Latvia 3 3 0 0 24 8 +16 6
 Czech Republic 3 2 0 1 38 10 +28 4
 United States 3 1 0 2 16 23 −7 2
  3 0 0 3 4 41 −37 0
Source:[citation needed]
December 2, 2012
Latvia  8 – 3  United States
 
  1 – 21  Czech Republic
December 3, 2012
Czech Republic  13 – 4  United States
 
  1 – 11  Latvia
December 4, 2012
Czech Republic  4 – 5  Latvia
December 5, 2012
United States  9 – 2  

Group D[]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Finland 3 3 0 0 55 5 +50 6
  3 2 0 1 15 15 0 4
  3 1 0 2 17 26 −9 2
 Canada 3 0 0 3 11 52 −41 0
Source:[citation needed]
December 2, 2012
  1 – 10  Finland
December 3, 2012
Canada  6 – 13  
December 4, 2012
Finland  16 – 1  
 
  10 – 2  Canada
December 5, 2012
  3 – 4  
 
Finland  29 – 3  Canada

Playoff round[]

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
A1    11
B2   5
Q1    3
Q4  Finland 4 (OT)
D1  Finland 4
C2  Czech Republic 1
W1  Finland 5
W2  Sweden 11
C1  Latvia 2
D2   4
Q2   0
Q3  Sweden 13
B1  Sweden 18
D2  Slovakia 1

Quarter finals[]

December 6, 2012
   11 – 5  
 
Finland  4 – 1  Czech Republic
 
Latvia  2 – 4  
 
Sweden  18 – 1  Slovakia

Semi-finals[]

December 8, 2012
   3 – 4 (OT)  Finland
 
  0 – 13  Sweden

Bronze medal game[]

December 9, 2012
   8 – 0
Report 		 

Gold medal game[]

December 9, 2012
Finland  5 – 11
Report 		 Sweden

Placement round[]

13-16[]

December 6, 2012
Singapore  3 – 11  
 
  2 – 6  Canada

9-12[]

December 6, 2012
Estonia  4 – 3  
 
United States  1 – 7  

15th place match[]

December 7, 2012
Singapore  3 – 5  

13th place match[]

December 7, 2012
  7 – 8 (OT)  Canada

11th place match[]

December 7, 2012
  7 – 6 (PS)  United States

9th place match[]

December 7, 2012
Estonia  9 – 3  

5-8[]

December 7, 2012
  5 – 4 (PS)  Czech Republic
 
Latvia  6 – 2  Slovakia

5th place match[]

December 8, 2012
  7 – 5  Latvia

Ranking[]

Official 2012 Rankings according to the IFF

Rk. Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)   
4.  
5.  
6.  Latvia
7.  Czech Republic
8.  Slovakia
9.  Estonia
10.  
11.  
12.  United States
13.  Canada
14.  
15.  
16.  Singapore

References[]

  1. ^ "Men´s WFC 2012 — Tournament Mode". International Floorball Federation. Archived from the original on 7 June 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Men´s WFC 2012". International Floorball Federation. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 11 March 2012.

External links[]

Men's World Floorball Championships
Preceded by
Helsinki, Finland
2010 		Bern and Zurich, Switzerland
2012 		Succeeded by
Gothenburg, Sweden
2014
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