2020 Men's World Floorball Championships

The 2020 Men's World Floorball Championships will be the 13th World Championships in men's floorball. The tournament will take place in Helsinki, Finland, and was originally scheduled for December 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was rescheduled for December 3–11, 2021.

2020 Men's World Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country Finland
DatesDecember 3–11, 2021
Teams16
2018

WFC 2020 Qualification

  Host
  Direct qualification
  Qualified
  Did not qualify

35 teams registered for the 13th IFF Men's World Floorball Championships. 16 qualified reach to the final championship. Host country, Finland, qualified automatically. Though they did not ultimately qualify, Côte d'Ivoire became the first ever team from Africa to participate in the WFC Qualifiers.

In Europe, there were six qualification groups with three event locations – Frederikshavn in Denmark, Poprad in Slovakia, and Liepāja in Latvia. The Asia-Oceania qualifier in Bangkok, Thailand, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead the highest ranked countries of the region were qualified. USA and Canada both qualified automatically due to the World Games taking place in the United States in 2022.[1]

Date Venue Teams Vacancies Qualified
Host nation 1  Finland
Direct Qualification 2  United States
 Canada
Highest Ranked Asia-Oceania Countries 4  Australia
 Singapore

 Thailand

 Japan

European Qualification 1 30 January – 2 February 2020 Frederikshavn  Sweden

 Denmark

 Estonia

 Poland

 Slovenia

 Great Britain

 Iceland

 Ukraine

3  Sweden
 Poland

 Denmark

European Qualification 2 30 January – 2 February 2020 Poprad   Switzerland

 Norway

 Slovakia

 Russia

 Belgium

 Hungary

 Italy

 Ivory Coast

3   Switzerland
 Norway

 Slovakia

European Qualification 3 30 January – 3 February 2020 Liepāja  Czech Republic

 Germany

 Latvia

 Spain

 Netherlands

 Austria

 France

 Liechtenstein

3  Czech Republic
 Latvia

 Germany

Total 16

Tournament groups

After the group ballot, 16 teams are divided into 4 groups. In the group stage each team plays each other once, while the second stage of the event includes play-offs and placement matches.

The two best teams of group A and B go directly to the quarter-final. Teams placed 3rd and 4th in group A and B and the teams placed 1st and 2nd in group C and D make it to the first playoff round (played before the quarter-finals).[2]

Group A Group B Group C Group D
 Finland (hosts)

 Sweden

 Denmark

 Latvia

  Switzerland

 Czech Republic

 Germany

 Norway

 Slovakia

 Poland

 Thailand

 United States

 Canada

 Australia

 Singapore

 Japan

References

  1. "Qualifications". WFC 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  2. "Tournament". WFC 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
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