2022 Men's World Floorball Championships

Tournament details
Host country	Switzerland
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	5–13 November 2022
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Sweden
Runner-up	Czech Republic
Third place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	588 (12.25 per match)
Attendance	155,485 (3,239 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Mathias Glass (23 points)
MVP	Alexander Galante Carlström
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The 2022 Men's World Floorball Championships was the 14th World Championships in men's floorball. The tournament was played in Zürich and Winterthur, Switzerland, and took place during 5–13 November, 2022.

Sweden defended their title against Czechia, which took their first silver medal since WFC 2004. Finland earned the bronze after defeating Switzerland.^[1][2]

WFC 2022 qualification

36 teams registered for the 14th IFF Men's World Floorball Championships. 16 have qualified to reach to the final championship. Host country, Switzerland, qualified automatically. Côte d'Ivoire has participated in the European qualifiers for the second time in a row, remaining the only team from Africa to have ever participated in the World Floorball Championship Qualifiers. Malaysia was the lone nation to register in 2020 but failed to do so in 2022. Philippines registered in 2020, but was not able to participate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and did so for the first time in 2022.^[3] However both China and India ultimately did not compete in the Asia-Oceania qualifiers.

	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Participants	Qualified
Host nation			1	Switzerland	Switzerland
Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation	31 May – 5 June 2022	Singapore	4	Group G  Australia  Japan  South Korea  Philippines Group H  Malaysia  New Zealand  Singapore  Thailand	Philippines  Thailand  Australia  Singapore
European Qualification 1	25 – 28 May 2022	Valmiera	10	Group A  Finland  Estonia  Netherlands  Great Britain Group B  Denmark  Latvia  Iceland  Ukraine	Finland  Latvia  Denmark  Estonia  Sweden  Norway  Poland  Slovakia  Czech Republic  Germany
European Qualification 2	25 – 28 May 2022	Kocēnia		Group C  Sweden  Hungary  France Group D  Norway  Poland  Belgium  Liechtenstein
European Qualification 3	23 – 27 May 2022	Celano		Group E  Czech Republic  Spain  Slovenia  Italy Group F  Germany  Slovakia  Austria  Ivory Coast
Americas Qualification	29 – 30 April 2022	Arlington	1	Canada  United States	Canada
Total					16

a. ^ City may be changed to Katowice.^[4]

Venues

Zürich	Winterthur
Swiss Life Arena	AXA Arena

Draw

The draw took place on 8 June 2022 in Zürich, Switzerland.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Sweden (1)  Finland(2)  Czech Republic (3)   Switzerland (hosts) (4)	Latvia (5)  Norway (6)  Germany (7)  Slovakia (8)	Estonia (9)  Denmark (10)  Canada (11)  Poland (12)	Australia (13)  Thailand (14)  Singapore (15)  Philippines (16)

Tournament groups

After the group ballot, 16 teams were divided into 4 groups. In the group stage each team has played each other once, while the second stage of the event included play-offs and placement matches.

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

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland (H)	3	2	1	0	20	12	+8	5	Quarterfinals
2	Finland	3	2	0	1	20	10	+10	4
3	Slovakia	3	1	0	2	11	23	−12	2	play-off round
4	Norway	3	0	1	2	12	18	−6	1

5 November 2022 15:00

Finland

8–1 (5–1, 0–0, 3–0)

Slovakia

AXA Arena Attendance: 1343

Game reference
	Eemeli Salin  02:03 Nico Salo  10:59 Eetu Sikkinen  12:28,  44:39 Miko Kailiala  14:33 Justus Kainulainen  19:40 Sami Johansson  40:20 Oskari Heikkila  59:34 Goals  09:10 Lukas Ujhelyi

5 November 2022 17:00

Switzerland

4–4 (2–0, 1–3, 1–1)

Norway

Swiss Life Arena Attendance: 8742

Game reference
	Michael Schiess  15:06 Claudio Laely  16:46,  51:58 Manuel Maurer  31:37 Goals  28:29 Joachim Terjesen  38:47 Ketil Kronberg

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6 November 2022 14:00

Finland

5–7 (2–3, 1–2, 2–2)

Switzerland

Swiss Life Arena Attendance: 10,359

Game reference
	Mikko Leikkanen  14:31 Ville Lastikka  16:57 No Player  31:01 Sami Johansson  53:43 Justus Kainulainen  55:33 Goals  02:32 Tobias Heller  08:57,  49:53 Manuel Maurer  10:55 Partrick Mendelin  23:12 Noel Seiler  33:41 Jan Zaugg  53:37 Michael Schiess

6 November 2022 17:00

Slovakia

7–6 (2–3, 4–0, 1–3)

Norway

Swiss Life Arena Attendance: 6672

Game reference
	Ladislav Gal  15:15,  30:55 Ronald Gasparik  19:55 Michal Dudovic  22:42,  33:59,  53:06 Lukas Ujhelyi  39:51 Goals  04:19 Fredrik Frafjord  08:00 Joachim Terjesen  12:50,  59:41 Markus Lindgjerdet  51:51 Daniel Gidske  57:39 Patrick Hjemgard

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8 November 2022 18:00

Norway

2–7 (1–0, 1–5, 0–2)

Finland

Swiss Life Arena Attendance: 753

Game reference
	Marius Pedersen  13:37 Patrick Hjemgard  27:33 Goals  22:18,  26:48 Justus Kainulainen  26:35 Oskari Heikkila  28:30 Eetu Sikkinen  38:56,  52:46 Sami Johansson  59:47 Joona Rantala

8 November 2022 20:00

Slovakia

3–9 (2–4, 0–2, 1–3)

Switzerland

AXA Arena Attendance: 2000

Game reference
	Michal Pazak  16:53 Peter Nehila  19:32 Michal Dudovic  43:02 Goals  04:38 Tim Braillard  06:59 Jan Zaugg  07:37 Tobias Heller  13:30 Michael Schiess  28:53,  30:22 Claudio Laely  46:53 Patrick Mendelin  57:13 Jan Burki  57:21 Joel Ruegger

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	3	2	1	0	33	9	+24	5	Quarterfinals
2	Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	17	12	+5	5
3	Germany	3	1	0	2	16	31	−15	2	play-off round
4	Latvia	3	0	0	3	9	23	−14	0

5 November 2022 12:00

Germany

4–19 (0–5, 3–6, 1–8)

Sweden

AXA Arena Attendance: 1189

Game reference
	Julian Nihlen  20:46 Michel Wocke  26:54,  31:09,  47:05 Goals  03:16,  22:26,  59:59 Albin Sjögren  07:35 Tobias Gustafsson  16:16,  18:00,  41:11 Alexander Galante Carlström  16:56 Linus Nordgren  25:25,  34:39,  37:51 Kim Nilssson  36:46 Jesper Sankell  37:17,  55:58 Kevin Haglund  43:57 Rasmus Enström  48:27 Casper Backby  53:13 Malte Lundmark  59:46 Linus Malmström

5 November 2022 13:30

Czech Republic

6–3 (3–0, 1–2, 2–1)

Latvia

Swiss Life Arena Attendance: 6975

Game reference
	Marek Benes  00:53,  36:54 Matej Havlas  11:39,  16:56 Josef Rypar  41:33 Mikulas Krbec  58:12 Goals  29:08 Klavs Jansons  34:41 Peteris Trekse

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6 November 2022 12:00

Sweden

11–2 (3–0, 5–1, 3–1)

Latvia

AXA Arena Attendance: 985

Game reference
	Malte Lundmark  07:11,  33:07 Kevin Haglund  18:15,  29:51 Jesper Sankell  18:35,  39:00 Tobias Gustafsson  23:45 Alexander Galante Carlström  38:47 Albin Sjögren  46:15 Kim Nillsson  49:30 Goals  35:22 Andris Rajeckis  41:02 Janis Ragovskis

6 November 2022 15:00

Germany

6–8 (0–2, 1–6, 5–0)

Czech Republic

AXA Arena Attendance: 1158

Game reference
	Julian Nihlen  31:19,  59:28 Jakob Heins  45:12,  49:11 Svenson Hope  54:05 Michel Wocke  55:33 Goals  02:54 Martin Kisugite  12:43,  32:30 Josef Rypar  20:57 Adam Delong  27:06 Jiri Besta  31:04 Mikulas Krbec  32:03 Jonas Kreysa  38:54 Filip Langer

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7 November 2022 19:00

Latvia

4–6 (1–2, 1–2, 2–2)

Germany

Swiss Life Arena Attendance: 503

Game reference
	Artis Raitmus  13:05 Kalvs Jansons  25:50 Peteris Treske  45:46 Arturs Jursevskis  58:30 Goals  14:57 Tino Von Pritzuber  18:50 Svenson Hoope  22:29 Mark-Oliver Bothe  23:41,  54:34,  57:29 Michel Wocke

7 November 2022 18:00

Sweden

3–3 (1–0, 1–2, 1–1)

Czech Republic

AXA Arena Attendance: 1094

Game reference
	Alexander Galante Carlström  14:57,  55:48 Linus Nordgren  25:43 Goals  30:13 Martin Tokos  32:56 Jiri Besta  47:01 Ondrej Nemecek

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Estonia	3	3	0	0	41	13	+28	6	play-off round
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	22	21	+1	4
3	Thailand	3	1	0	2	19	32	−13	2	13–16th place playoff
4	Singapore	3	0	0	3	15	31	−16	0

5 November 2022 18:00

Singapore

4–12 (0–3, 3–4, 1–5)

Estonia

AXA Arena Attendance: 645

Game reference
	Siraaj Ramadhan  21:56 Juin Jie Ng  31:48 Chee Yong Lee  34:06 Zong Wei Tng  45:35 Goals  11:36,  58:04 Patrik Kareliusson  14:10,  51:07 Mathias Einamann  19:53,  46:42 Tanel Kasenurm  20:56 Adam Widercrantz  29:04 Lauri-Robert Indus  33:19,  59:20 Stenver Savi  38:54,  42:00 Ken Pahn

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