Floorball World Championships
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International Floorball Federation
The International Floorball Federation is the worldwide governing body for the sport of floorball. It was founded in 1986 in Huskvarna, Sweden, by the national floorball associations of Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. As of March 2011, it had 52 member associations, with 3,983 clubs and 277,752...
. They were preceded by the European Championships which were held twice in 1994 and 1995.
The men's world floorball championships take place in every even year while the women's championships take place in every odd year. The first men's world championships were held in 1996
1996 Men's World Floorball Championships
The 1996 Men's Floorball Championships were the first world championships in men's floorball. It was held in May 1996 in Sweden, and was won by the host nation...
. The first women's world championships were played a year later in 1997.
The under-19 world championships for men and women are also held bi-annually. Men's under-19 squads compete in the same year the women do and the women's under-19 squads compete in the same year men do. The men's under-19 world floorball championship has been played since 2001 and the women's under-19 world floorball championship since 2004.
In Division B, the winner was Australia, who has now earned a qualifying spot for the 2011 world championships in Switzerland and is the only non-European nation to do so. Latvia, Russia and Norway are the other qualified nations for 2011.