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
Dates	December 3–11, 2021
Teams	16
← 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.

External links

• Tournament webpage