2012 Men's World Floorball Championships

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.

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 Sweden
Runner-up Finland
Third place  Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played41
Attendance75,178 (1,834 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Emanuel Antener
MVP Kim Nilsson
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Qualification

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
 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

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

Final groups
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

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
  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:
December 2, 2012
Slovakia  4 – 8   Switzerland
  • 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
Switzerland   35 – 0  Singapore
 
Slovakia  4 – 4  Estonia
December 5, 2012
Switzerland   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
 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:
December 2, 2012
Poland  3 – 14  Sweden
 
Norway  8 – 3  Hungary
December 3, 2012
Norway  16 – 2  Poland
 
Hungary  2 – 33  Sweden
December 4, 2012
Hungary  2 – 5  Poland
December 5, 2012
Sweden  7 – 1  Norway

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
 Japan 3 0 0 3 4 41 −37 0
Source:
December 2, 2012
Latvia  8 – 3  United States
 
Japan  1 – 21  Czech Republic
December 3, 2012
Czech Republic  13 – 4  United States
 
Japan  1 – 11  Latvia
December 4, 2012
Czech Republic  4 – 5  Latvia
December 5, 2012
United States  9 – 2  Japan

Group D
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:
December 2, 2012
Germany  1 – 10  Finland
December 3, 2012
Canada  6 – 13  Russia
December 4, 2012
Finland  16 – 1  Russia
 
Germany  10 – 2  Canada
December 5, 2012
Russia  3 – 4  Germany
 
Finland  29 – 3  Canada

Playoff round
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
D2  Slovakia 1

Quarter finals
December 6, 2012
Switzerland   11 – 5  Norway
 
Finland  4 – 1  Czech Republic
 
Latvia  2 – 4  Germany
 
Sweden  18 – 1  Slovakia

Semi-finals
December 8, 2012
Switzerland   3 – 4 (OT)  Finland
 
Germany  0 – 13  Sweden

Bronze medal game
December 9, 2012
Switzerland   8 – 0
Report		  Germany

Gold medal game
December 9, 2012
Finland  5 – 11
Report		  Sweden

Placement round

13-16
December 6, 2012
Singapore  3 – 11  Hungary
 
Japan  2 – 6  Canada

9-12
December 6, 2012
Estonia  4 – 3  Poland
 
United States  1 – 7  Russia

15th place match
December 7, 2012
Singapore  3 – 5  Japan

13th place match
December 7, 2012
Hungary  7 – 8 (OT)  Canada

11th place match
December 7, 2012
Poland  7 – 6 (PS)  United States

9th place match
December 7, 2012
Estonia  9 – 3  Russia

5-8
December 7, 2012
Norway  5 – 4 (PS)  Czech Republic
 
Latvia  6 – 2  Slovakia

5th place match
December 8, 2012
Norway  7 – 5  Latvia

Ranking

Official 2012 Rankings according to the IFF

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