2012 Men's World Floorball Championships

2012 Men's World
Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country   Switzerland
Dates 1–9 December
Teams 16
Venue(s) 2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Sweden
Scoring leader(s) Switzerland Emanuel Antener
MVP Sweden Kim Nilsson
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The 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships were the ninth world championships in men's floorball. The tournament took place in Bern and Zurich, Switzerland in December 2012.

Qualification

There are five qualification groups for 11 places in the final tournament:

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
 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

The draw was be 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 GP W D L GF GA +/- PTS
  Switzerland 3300577506
 Slovakia 3111211473
 Estonia 3111202003
 Singapore 3003461−570
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 GP W D L GF GA +/- PTS
 Sweden 3300546486
 Norway 32012512134
 Poland 31021032−222
 Hungary 3003746−390
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 GP W D L GF GA +/- PTS
 Latvia 3300248166
 Czech Republic 32013810284
 United States 31021623−72
 Japan 3003441−370
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 GP W D L GF GA +/- PTS
 Finland 3300555506
 Germany 3201151504
 Russia 31021726−92
 Canada 30031152−410
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 & Statistics

Official 2012 Rankings according to the IFF

Rk. Team
1st  Sweden
2nd  Finland
3rd   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. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  2. ↑ "Men´s WFC 2012". International Floorball Federation. Retrieved 11 March 2012.

External links

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