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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 Zürich, Switzerland in December 2012.

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

Main article: 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships 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 edit

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 edit

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

Group stage edit

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

Final groups edit

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 edit

Preliminary round edit

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 edit

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]
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 edit

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]
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 edit

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]
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 edit

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]
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 edit

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 edit

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

Semi-finals edit

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

Bronze medal game edit

December 9, 2012
Switzerland   8 – 0
Report 		  Germany

Gold medal game edit

December 9, 2012
Finland   5 – 11
Report 		  Sweden

Placement round edit

13–16 edit

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

9–12 edit

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

15th place match edit

December 7, 2012
Singapore   3–5   Japan

13th place match edit

December 7, 2012
Hungary   7 – 8 (OT)   Canada

11th place match edit

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

9th place match edit

December 7, 2012
Estonia   9–3   Russia

5–8 edit

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

5th place match edit

December 8, 2012
Norway   7–5   Latvia

Ranking edit

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 edit

  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 edit

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