2015 Bandy World Championship

2015 Bandy World Championship
XXXVth Bandy World Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Russia
Dates 29 March – 4 April 2015
Teams 8
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions   Russia (9th title)
Runner-up   Sweden
Third place   Kazakhstan
Fourth place  Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played 22
Goals scored 294 (13.36 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Andrey Kabanov
(15 goals)
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Bandy World Championship 2015 is the XXXVth Bandy World Championship for men. At the FIB congress held during the XXXIVth World Championship in 2014, it was announced that Khabarovsk in Russia had been elected as host city. It was also decided the Group A tournament will be played around the end of March/begin of April, which means it will take place when the national bandy leagues in the major bandy playing countries, Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden, will be finished for the season.[1] Group B was played between February 1 and 6 and hit a new record attendance, already before the match for the bronze and the final.[2]

High profile people who visited the Group A tournament include the Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, and the President of Ice Hockey Federation of Russia, the legendary goaltender Vladislav Tretiak.[3]

Host selection

On 5 December 2013, the Russian news agency AmurMedia (which quoted Russian Internet site Sportbox.ru) reported that the decision on host city was made, after a decision by the working committee of FIB.[4]

The candidates were:

Minsk withdrew its candidacy in August 2013.[5] Khabarovsk won over Helsinki because there is an indoor arena in the city.

Participating teams

Participating countries in the Bandy World Championship 2015.
Blue: Division A
Red: Division B
Purple: both divisions
Green: members of the Federation of International Bandy not participating in the World Championship

Latvia won Division B in 2014 and was thus promoted to Division A for 2015. However, the Latvians made an application to play in Division B this year too, and this was approved by the Federation of International Bandy. Latvia is therefor playing in both divisions this year. This is made possible by the divisions not being played at the same time, Division B being played in early February while Division A is being played in late March/early April.[6]

Venues

Khabarovsk
Arena Yerofey
Capacity: 10,000

Division A

After drawn games in the group stage, a penalty shootout is held to determine final placings in the event of teams finishing on equal points

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Sweden 3 2 1 0 15 6 +9 5[lower-alpha 1] Seeded
2  Russia (H) 3 2 1 0 20 3 +17 5[lower-alpha 1]
3  Kazakhstan 3 0 1 2 8 22 −14 1[lower-alpha 2]
4  Finland 3 0 1 2 5 17 −12 1[lower-alpha 2]
Updated to match(es) played on 31 March 2015. Source: [7]
(H) Host.
Notes:
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sweden won after-match penalties against Russia 5–4.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kazakhstan won after-match penalties against Finland 4–3.

All times local (UTC+10)

29 March 2015
16:30
Sweden  5–1  Finland
D. Andersson  10', 89'
J. Nilsson  11'
P. Nilsson  36', 62' 		Report Laakkonen  59'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 2,222
Referee: Grigory Minaev (Russia)

29 March 2015
20:00
Kazakhstan  1–10  Russia
Morokov  30' Report Ivanushkin  8', 10', 40', 76'
Ryazantsev  12', 88', 90'
Dergayev  44', 82'
Lomanov  50'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 7,292
Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

30 March 2015
16:30
Sweden  9–4  Kazakhstan
P. Nilsson  1', 29', 81'
Esplund  30', 35'
Edlund  34' (pen), 71' (pen), 78'
Mossberg  63' 		Report Gorchakov  46'
Issaliev  49'
Golubkov  56' (pen)
Slautin  59'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 1,321
Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

30 March 2015
20:00
Russia  9–1  Finland
Lomanov  7', 49'
Zakharov  20', 60', 77'
Ivanushkin  25'
Dzhusoyev  50'
Ryazantsev  61'
Ishkeldin  85' 		Report Hauska  35'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 8,962
Referee: Peter Öhrlund (Sweden)

31 March 2015
16:30
Kazakhstan  3–3  Finland
Slautin  42'
Issaliev  48'
Bedarev  54' 		Report Hauska  36'
Lukkarila  44', 79'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 1,453
Referee: Grigory Minaev (Russia)

31 March 2015
20:00
Russia  1–1  Sweden
Tyukavin  53' Report Mossberg  53'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 9,889
Referee: Simo Pyysing (Finland)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Norway 3 2 1 0 23 15 +8 5 Seeded
2  Belarus 3 2 0 1 27 22 +5 4
3  United States 3 1 1 1 20 20 0 3
4  Latvia 3 0 0 3 10 23 −13 0
Updated to match(es) played on 29 March 2015. Source: [7]

All times local (UTC+10)

29 March 2015
10:00
United States  5–2  Latvia
Richardson  46', 68'
Keseley  71'
Blucher  78'
Brown  81' 		Report Blems  47'
Matveevs  54'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 1,276
Referee: Simo Pyysing (Finland)

29 March 2015
13:00
Belarus  5–9  Norway
Bratchenko  15'
Kabanov  17', 30', 46', 66' (pen) 		Report Austad  3' (pen)
Waaler  8'
Hammerstad  11'
Jensen  26'
Kristoffersen  39', 50'
C. Randsborg  60'
F. Randsborg  70', 87'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 1,342
Referee: Peter Öhrlund (Sweden)

30 March 2015
10:00
Latvia  4–10  Belarus
Ziemins  52', 75', 90'
Blems  90' 		Report Kabanov  3', 14'
Kozlov  7'
Yusupov  26', 37', 49', 77'
Savchenko  30'
Chernetskiy  45'
Bratchenko  58'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 418
Referee: Simo Pyysing (Finland)

30 March 2015
13:00
Norway  6–6  United States
Kristoffersen  7', 9', 35'
F. Randsborg  30'
Jensen  51'
Tjomsland  62' 		Report Blucher  16', 80'
Richardson  34'
Keseley  46'
Brown  47', 52'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 746
Referee: Grigoriy Minaev (Russia)

31 March 2015
10:00
Latvia  4–8  Norway
Kudrjavtsev  23'
Ziemins  38'
Befus  57'
Kadnajs  85' (pen) 		Report Waaler  15', 48', 50', 73'
Jensen  25'
Moen  45'
Kristoffersen  46', 63'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 501
Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

31 March 2015
13:00
Belarus  12–9  United States
Chernetskiy  6'
Kabanov  7', 58', 84'
Kozlov  10', 60'
Yusupov  23', 31', 34'
Bratchenko  38', 56'
Savchenko  81' 		Report Keseley  5', 79'
Richardson  28' (pen), 45' (pen), 59'
Carman  32', 64'
Blucher  74'
Brown  86'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 1,211
Referee: Peter Öhrlund (Sweden)

Knockout stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
1 April – Khabarovsk
 
 
 Finland13
 
2 April – Khabarovsk
 
 Norway5
 
 Finland1
 
1 April – Khabarovsk
 
 Sweden10
 
 Sweden14
 
4 April – Khabarovsk
 
 Latvia2
 
 Sweden3
 
1 April – Khabarovsk
 
 Russia5
 
 Kazakhstan26
 
2 April – Khabarovsk
 
 Belarus8
 
 Kazakhstan0
 
1 April – Khabarovsk
 
 Russia14 Third Place
 
 Russia17
 
3 April – Khabarovsk
 
 United States2
 
 Finland6
 
 
 Kazakhstan8
 

Quarter-finals

1 April 2015
10:00
Kazakhstan  26–8  Belarus
Report

1 April 2015
13:00
Finland  13–5  Norway
Report

1 April 2015
16:30
Sweden  14–2  Latvia
Report

Semi-finals

2 April 2015
16:00
Finland  1–10  Sweden
Lukkarila  82' Report Gilljam  13', 79'
Berlin  21'
D. Andersson  42', 53', 81'
Edlund  50', 61'
Säfström  51'
P. Nilsson  73'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 2,323
Referee: Grigoriy Minaev (Russia)

2 April 2015
20:00
Kazakhstan  0–14  Russia
Report Lomanov  4', 52'
Ishkeldin  28'
Ivanushkin  29', 40', 45', 77', 89'
Zakharov  42'
Shaburov  57'
Shevtsov  60', 65'
Ivanov  76'
Dergayev  82'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 7,274
Referee: Peter Öhrlund (Sweden)

Third place play-off

3 April 2015
20:00
Finland  6–8  Kazakhstan
Report

Final

4 April 2015
16:00
Sweden  3–5  Russia
D. Andersson  3'
Hellmyrs  7'
P. Nilsson  83' 		Report Lomanov  37', 85'
Tyukavin  84'
Ryazantsev  87'
Ishkeldin  90'
Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

Consolation tournament


7th place play-off

5th place play-off

3 April 2015
16:00
Belarus  6–16  Norway
Report

Final standings

1.  Russia
2.  Sweden
3.  Kazakhstan
4.  Finland
5.  Norway
6.  Belarus
7.  Latvia
8.  United States

Statistics

Goalscorers

15 goals
13 goals
  • Russia Yevgeny Ivanushkin
11 goals
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
  • Latvia Maksim Blem
  • Kazakhstan Rauan Issaliev
  • Finland Sami Laakkonen
  • Russia Pavel Ryazantsev
  • Russia Pyotr Zakharov
5 goals
  • United States Jacob Blucher
  • Russia Yevgeny Dergayev
  • Kazakhstan Pavel Dubovik
  • Russia Nikita Ivanov
  • Kazakhstan Alexander Nasonov
  • Latvia Lauris Ziemins
4 goals
  • Norway Marius Austad
  • Belarus Vyacheslav Bratchenko
  • United States Kevin Brown
  • Sweden Adam Gilljam
  • United States Jonathan Keseley
  • Belarus Alexander Kozlov
  • Norway Fredrik Randsborg
  • Russia Ivan Shevtsov
3 goals
  • Kazakhstan Leonid Bedarev
  • Belarus Sergey Chernetsskiy
  • Finland Tommi Hauska
  • Russia Maksim Ishkeldin
  • Sweden Jonas Nilsson
  • Kazakhstan Iskander Nugmanov
  • Belarus Konstantin Savchenko
2 goals
  • Latvia Artur Befus
  • United States Mike Carman
  • Sweden Johan Esplund
  • Kazakhstan Maxim Gavrilenko
  • Norway Fritjof Hagberg
  • Norway Sondre Hammerstad
  • Finland Pekka Hiltunen
  • Norway Magnus Hogevold
  • Latvia Julijs Kadnajs
  • United States Mikael Lickteig
  • Finland Teemu Maata
  • Norway Petter Renstrom Moem
  • Finland Ilari Moisala
  • Sweden Daniel Mossberg
  • Sweden Erik Säfström
  • Russia Aleksandr Tyukavin
1 goal
  • Finland Ville Aaltonen
  • Sweden Daniel Berlin
  • Russia Alan Dzhusoyev
  • Sweden Johan Östblom
  • Kazakhstan Ruslan Galyautdinov
  • Latvia Romans Glazkov
  • Kazakhstan Anatoly Golubkov
  • Kazakhstan Sergey Gorchakov
  • Russia Vasily Granovskiy
  • Sweden Per Hellmyrs
  • Belarus Maxim Koshelev
  • Latvia Jegor Kudrjavcev
  • Finland Markus Kumpuoja
  • Latvia Maksim Matveev
  • Kazakhstan Andrey Morokov
  • Finland Eetu Peuhuri
  • United States David Plaunt
  • Norway Christian Randsborg
  • Russia Sergey Shaburov
  • United States Brett Stolpestad
  • Norway Jonas Tjomsland

Source: [8]

Division B

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Estonia 3 2 1 0 17 14 +3 5 Seeded
2  Latvia 3 2 0 1 12 6 +6 4
3  Hungary 3 1 0 2 12 14 −2 2 Unseeded
4  Japan 3 0 1 2 6 13 −7 1
Updated to match(es) played on completed. Source: [9]

1 February 2015
Estonia  8–6  Hungary

1 February 2015
Latvia  4–0  Japan

2 February 2015
Estonia  5–4  Latvia

2 February 2015
Hungary  5–2  Japan

3 February 2015
Japan  4–4  Estonia

3 February 2015
Latvia  4–1  Hungary

Group B

Matches in Group B are 60 minutes in duration rather than the standard 90 minutes.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Netherlands 4 3 1 0 32 4 +28 7 Seeded
2  Germany 4 3 0 1 25 9 +16 6
3  Mongolia 4 2 1 1 19 6 +13 5 Unseeded
4  China 4 1 0 3 12 19 −7 2
5  Somalia 4 0 0 4 2 52 −50 0
Updated to match(es) played on completed. Source: [9]

1 February 2015
Mongolia  3–2  China

1 February 2015
Somalia  0–18  Netherlands

1 February 2015
Germany  4–2  Mongolia

2 February 2015
China  1–9  Netherlands

2 February 2015
Somalia  1–12  Germany

2 February 2015
Mongolia  14–0  Somalia

2 February 2015
Netherlands  5–3  Germany

3 February 2014
China  8–1  Somalia

3 February 2014
Germany  6–1  China

Knockout stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
4 February – Khabarovsk
 
 
 Estonia14
 
5 February – Khabarovsk
 
 China3
 
 Estonia8
 
4 February – Khabarovsk
 
 Netherlands2
 
 Japan2
 
6 February – Khabarovsk
 
 Netherlands4
 
 Estonia3
 
4 February – Khabarovsk
 
 Latvia8
 
 Latvia11
 
5 February – Khabarovsk
 
 Mongolia5
 
 Latvia7
 
4 February – Khabarovsk
 
 Hungary5 Third Place
 
 Hungary5
 
6 February – Khabarovsk
 
 Germany4
 
 Netherlands1
 
 
 Hungary9
 

Quarter-finals

4 February 2014
Estonia  14–3  China

4 February 2014
Japan  2–4  Netherlands

4 February 2014
Latvia  11–5  Mongolia

4 February 2014
Hungary  5–4  Germany

7th place play-off

The match was 60 minutes rather than standard 90 minutes.

5 February 2015
Mongolia  7–5  China

5th place play-off

The match was 60 minutes rather than standard 90 minutes.

5 February 2015
Japan  1–3  Germany

8th place play-off

The match was 60 minutes rather than standard 90 minutes.

5 February 2014
 China 11–1  Somalia

Semi-finals

5 February 2015
Estonia  8–2  Netherlands

5 February 2015
Latvia  7–5  Hungary

Third place play-off

6 February 2015
Netherlands  1–9  Hungary

Final

6 February 2015
Estonia  3–8  Latvia

Final standings

1.  Latvia
2.  Estonia
3.  Hungary
4.  Netherlands
5.  Germany
6.  Japan
7.  Mongolia
8.  China
9.  Somalia

Broadcasting

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ GS-brevet: Äntligen VM!
    2. ↑ Khabarovsk hit the record in attendance of matches in Group B
    3. ↑ http://www.rusbandy.ru/news/6928/
    4. ↑ "Чемпионат мира-2015 по хоккею с мячом пройдет в Хабаровске". Amurmedia.ru, 2013-12-03. Retrieved 14 January 2014. |language=Russian translation:
    5. ↑ Norman, Marcus (2013-09-01): "Förbundet: Rapport från första styrelsemötet". Idrottonline.se. Retrieved 14 January 1014.
    6. ↑ "Team Latvia will play in both groups of World Championship 2015", Bandy World Championship Khabarovsk 2015, read on 31 March 2015
    7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://bandyvm2015.ru/en/gameprogramresults/group-a/
    8. ↑ http://bandyvm2015.ru/en/teams/group-a/goals/
    9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://bandyvm2015.ru/schedule/group_b/

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