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2012 Men's World Floorball Championships

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2012 Men's World Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country Switzerland
Venues2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates1–9 December 2012
Teams16
Final positions
Champions  Sweden
Runners-up  Finland
Third place   Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played41
Attendance75,178 (1,834 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Switzerland Emanuel Antener
Awards
MVPSweden Kim Nilsson
← 2010
2014 →

The 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships were the ninth men's World Floorball Championship. The tournament took place in Bern and Zurich, Switzerland in December 2012.

Qualification

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There were 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

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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

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Team Method of
qualification		 Finals
appearance		 Last
appearance		 Previous best
performance
 Canada2nd, Americas qualification2nd201011th (2010)
 Czech Republic2010 World Championships9th2010Runner-up (2004)
 Estonia1st, European qualification 24th20107th (2010)
 Finland2010 World Championships9th2010Winner (2008, 2010)
 Germany2nd, European qualification 17th20108th (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004)
 Hungary3rd, European qualification 32nd199610th (1996)
 Japan2nd, Asia & Oceania qualification2nd201015th (2010)
 Latvia2010 World Championships8th20105th (2006, 2008, 2010)
 Norway1st, European qualification 19th2010Third (1996)
 Poland2nd, European qualification 32nd20109th (2010)
 Russia1st, European qualification 38th20106th (1996)
 Singapore1st, Asia & Oceania qualification3rd201012th (1996)
 Slovakia2nd, European qualification 21st––
 Sweden2010 World Championships9th2010Winner (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
  Switzerland2010 World Championships9th2010Runner-up (1998)
 United States1st, Americas qualification1st––

Group stage

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

Final groups

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Group A Group B Group C Group D
  Switzerland  Sweden  Czech Republic  Finland    
 Estonia  Norway  Latvia  Russia
 Singapore  Poland  Japan  Germany
 Slovakia  Hungary  United States  Canada

Championship schedule

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Preliminary round

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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

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Switzerland 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]

Group B

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Sweden 3 3 0 0 54 6 +48 6
 Norway 3 2 0 1 25 12 +13 4
 Poland 3 1 0 2 10 32 −22 2
 Hungary 3 0 0 3 7 46 −39 0
Source: [citation needed]

Group C

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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
 Japan 3 0 0 3 4 41 −37 0
Source: [citation needed]

Group D

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Finland 3 3 0 0 55 5 +50 6
 Germany 3 2 0 1 15 15 0 4
 Russia 3 1 0 2 17 26 −9 2
 Canada 3 0 0 3 11 52 −41 0
Source: [citation needed]

Playoff round

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Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
A1   Switzerland 11
B2  Norway 5
Q1   Switzerland 3
Q4  Finland 4 (OT)
D1  Finland 4
C2  Czech Republic 1
W1  Finland 5
W2  Sweden 11
C1  Latvia 2
D2  Germany 4
Q2  Germany 0
Q3  Sweden 13
B1  Sweden 18
A2  Slovakia 1

Quarter finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal game

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Gold medal game

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Placement round

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13–16

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9–12

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15th place match

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13th place match

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11th place match

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9th place match

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5–8

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5th place match

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Ranking

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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)  Switzerland
4. Germany
5. Norway
6. Latvia
7. Czech Republic
8. Slovakia
9. Estonia
10. Russia
11. Poland
12. United States
13. Canada
14. Hungary
15. Japan
16. Singapore

References

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  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. Retrieved 11 March 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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