2018 Men's World Floorball Championships

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2018 Men's World
Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country Czech Republic
Dates1–9 December
Teams16
Venue(s)(in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Finland
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg Sweden
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg  
Tournament statistics
Matches played48
Goals scored507 (10.56 per match)
Attendance181,518 (3,782 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Slovakia (21 point)
MVPSwitzerland
2016
2020

The 2018 Men's World Floorball Championships were the 12th World Championships in men's floorball. The tournament took place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 1 to 9 December 2018.

WFC 2018 Qualification[]

  Host
  Qualified
  Did not qualify

33 teams have registered for the 12th IFF Men’s World Floorball Championships, only 16 of them to reach the final group consisted of 16 teams. Host country, Czech Republic, qualifies automatically.

In Europe, there were four qualification groups with three event locations - Talinn (Estonia), Nitra (Slovakia) and Valmiera (Latvia). The Asia-Oceania group tournament took place in Jeju Island, South Korea. It was the first IFF event hosted by Korea. USA and Canada played their qualification in Toronto, Canada.[1]

Date Venue Vacancies Qualified
Host nation 1  Czech Republic
Asia-Oceania Qualification 22–27 January 2018 South Korea Jeju Island 4  
 Singapore
 Thailand
 
European Qualification 1 31 January – 4 February 2018 Estonia Tallinn 3  Finland
 Estonia
 Poland
European Qualification 2 31 January – 4 February 2018 Slovakia Nitra 3  Sweden
 
 Slovakia
European Qualification 3 30 January – 3 February 2018 Latvia Valmiera 2   
 Latvia
European Qualification 4 31 January – 4 February 2018 Slovakia Nitra 2  
 
Americas Qualification 10–11 February 2018 Canada Toronto 1  Canada
Total 16

Venues[]

O2 arena Arena Sparta - Podvinny mlyn
Capacity: 17 000

The main competition arena.

Capacity: 1 300

The second competition arena and practice arena.

Libeň O2 aréna a busy.jpg
Address: Českomoravská 2345/17, 190 93 Praha 9

Opened since: 2004

Distance to City Center: cca 10 km[2]

Address: Kovanecká 2405/27, 190 00 Praha 9

Opened since: 2008

Distance to City Center: cca 10 km[2]

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).[3]

Group A Group B Group C Group D

  
 Czech Republic (hosts)
 Latvia
 

 Sweden
 Finland
 
 

 
 Estonia
 Poland
 Thailand

 Canada
 Slovakia
 Singapore
 

Results[]

All times are local (UTC+1).

Preliminary Round[]

Group A[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Czech Republic (H) 3 2 0 1 19 13 +6 4 Quarterfinals 6–4 10–5 3–4
2    3 2 0 1 24 10 +14 4 4–6 13–1 7–3
3   3 1 0 2 11 27 −16 2 Play-off round 5–10 1–13 5–4
4  Latvia 3 1 0 2 11 15 −4 2 4–3 3–7 4–5
Source: IFF
(H) Host

Group B[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Sweden 3 3 0 0 39 5 +34 6 Quarterfinals 5–4 9–1 25–0
2  Finland 3 2 0 1 20 7 +13 4 4–5 9–1 7–1
3   3 1 0 2 11 21 −10 2 Play-off round 1–9 1–9 9–3
4   3 0 0 3 4 41 −37 0 0–25 1–7 3–9
Source: IFF

Group C[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Estonia 3 3 0 0 26 2 +24 6 Play-off round 11–5 4–3 11–4
2   3 2 0 1 13 16 −3 4 5–11 4–2 4–3
3  Poland 3 1 0 2 10 10 0 2 13th-16th place playoff 3–4 2–4 5–2
4  Thailand 3 0 0 3 9 20 −11 0 4–11 3–4 2–5
Source: IFF

Group D[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Slovakia 3 3 0 0 45 6 +39 6 Play-off round 12–3 18–2 15–1
2  Canada 3 1 1 1 21 18 +3 3 3–12 4–4 14–2
3  Singapore 3 1 1 1 15 27 −12 3 13th-16th place playoff 2–18 4–4 9–5
4   3 0 0 3 8 38 −30 0 1–15 2–14 5–9
Source: IFF

Knock-out stage[]

Play-off Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                           
    6 December – O2 Arena        
5 December – O2 Arena
  Czech Republic  10
    3 8 December – O2 Arena
       1  
  Estonia  2     Czech Republic  2
  7 December – O2 Arena
5 December –     Finland  7  
  Finland  6
    7 9 December – O2 Arena
      1  
  Canada  2     Finland  6
  7 December – O2 Arena
5 December – O2 Arena     Sweden  3
  Sweden  14
  Latvia  6 8 December – O2 Arena
    Latvia  1  
  Slovakia  1     Sweden  5 (P) Bronze medal game
  6 December – O2 Arena
5 December –        4   9 December – O2 Arena
     3 (OT)
    10   Czech Republic  2
      2  
    0        4


Play-off[]

5 December 2018
10:00
Latvia 6–1
(2–1, 0–0, 4–0)
 SlovakiaO2 Arena
Attendance: 7,069
5 December 2018
12:45
 3–2
(1–0, 0–1, 2–1)
 EstoniaO2 Arena
Attendance: 4,013
5 December 2018
15:30
 10–0
(3–0, 4–0, 3–0)
 
Attendance: 365
5 December 2018
18:30
 7–2
(2–1, 3–1, 2–0)
 Canada
Attendance: 282

Quarterfinals[]

6 December 2018
16:30
  3–2 OT
(1–1, 0–0, 1–1, 1–0)
 O2 Arena
Attendance: 3,977
6 December 2018
19:30
Czech Republic 10–1
(3–1, 4–0, 3–0)
 O2 Arena
Attendance: 5,073
7 December 2018
15:10
Sweden 14–1
(7–0, 5–1, 2–0)
 LatviaO2 Arena
Attendance: 3,871
7 December 2018
18:00
Finland 6–1
(2–0, 2–1, 2–0)
 O2 Arena
Attendance: 3,772

Semifinals[]

Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 9 N2 = 0 PN = 9

8 December 2018
16:00
Czech Republic 2–7
(0–1, 0–2, 2–4)
 FinlandO2 Arena
Attendance: 12,811

Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 4 PN = 9

8 December 2018
19:00
Sweden 5–4 PS
(1–1, 2–1, 1–2, 0–0, 1–0)
  O2 Arena
Attendance: 10,267

Bronze medal game[]

9 December 2018
13:00
Czech Republic 2–4
(1–2, 1–1, 0–1)
  O2 Arena
Attendance: 16,112

Final[]

9 December 2018
16:00
Finland 6–3
(1–0, 1–1, 4–2)
 SwedenO2 Arena
Attendance: 16,276

Placement matches[]

5th place bracket[]

 
5–8th place semifinals5th place
 
      
 
8 December – O2 Arena
 
 
 2
 
9 December – O2 Arena
 
 4
 
 3
 
8 December –
 
 Latvia5
 
 Latvia6 (P)
 
 
 5
 
7th place
 
 
9 December –
 
 
 5
 
 
 9
5–8th place semifinals[]
8 December 2018
11:00
Latvia 6–5 (PS)
(1–2, 1–1, 3–2, 0–0, 1–0)
 
Attendance: 575
8 December 2018
13:00
 2–4
(1–0, 0–2, 1–2)
 O2 Arena
Attendance: 3893
5th place match[]
9 December 2018
10:00
 3–5
(0–2, 2–2, 1–1)
 LatviaO2 Arena
7th place match[]

Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 8 N2 = 0 PN = 14

9 December 2018
10:00
 5–9
(1–4, 3–3, 1–2)
 

9th place bracket[]

 
Matches 9th-11th9th place
 
      
 
6 December –
 
 
 3
 
7 December –
 
 Slovakia12
 
 Slovakia7
 
6 December –
 
 Estonia5
 
 Canada2
 
 
 Estonia9
 
11th place
 
 
7 December –
 
 
 5
 
 
 Canada6

13th place bracket[]

 
Matches 13th-16th13th place
 
      
 
6 December –
 
 
 Singapore3
 
7 December –
 
 Thailand4
 
 Thailand1
 
6 December –
 
 Poland9
 
 Poland6
 
 
 2
 
15th place
 
 
7 December –
 
 
 Singapore2
 
 
 4

Ranking and statistics[]

Final ranking[]

The official IFF final ranking of the tournament:

Gold medal icon.svg  Finland
Silver medal icon.svg  Sweden
Bronze medal icon.svg   
4  Czech Republic
5  Latvia
6  
7  
8  
9  Slovakia
10  Estonia
11  Canada
12  
13  Poland
14  Thailand
15  
16  Singapore

All-star team[]

Tournament all-star team:[4]

  • Best goalkeeper: Switzerland
  • Best defenders: Sweden , Sweden
  • Best center: Finland
  • Best forwards: Czech Republic , Sweden Kim Nilsson
  • Most valuable player: Switzerland [5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Men's WFC 2018 Qualifications". IFF. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  2. ^ a b "Arenas". IFF. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  3. ^ "Tournament Format". IFF. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  4. ^ "WFC 2018 All Star Team – 09.12.2018". WFC2018. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  5. ^ "Pascal Meier is the MVP of WFC 2018 – 09.12.2018". WFC2018. Retrieved 2018-12-09.

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