2010 Men's World Floorball Championships

2010 Men's World Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	4–11 December 2010
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Finland (2nd title)
Runner-up	Sweden
Third place	Czech Republic
Fourth place	Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	43
Goals scored	616 (14.33 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Matthias Hofbauer
MVP	Mika Kohonen
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The 2010 Men's World Floorball Championships were the eighth men's Floorball World Championships. The tournament was held from 4 December to 11 December 2010 in the cities of Helsinki, and Vantaa, Finland.

This was the first world championships under the International Floorball Federation's (IFF) FIFA-like continental qualification system. A total of 32 countries had registered for this event, which is the most nations to ever register for an IFF-sanctioned world championship event. The previous record was 29 for the 2008 Men's World Floorball Championships.

Qualifying

Under the IFF's new qualification system, the 32 countries registered for the world championships had to qualify for only 16 spots. 8 of these spots had already been pre-determined, with the top 7 teams from the 2008 Men's World Floorball Championships A-Division and the top team from the B-Division automatically qualifying. This left just 8 spots for the other 24 registered countries.

The countries already qualified are as follows:

Czech Republic	Finland
Germany	Latvia
Norway	Russia
Sweden	Switzerland

Asia/Oceania

Qualifying in the Asia/Oceanian region for the world championships will be overseen by the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation (AOFC).

Only 3 out of 5 registered AOFC countries qualified. The 5 countries were as follows:

Australia	Singapore
Japan	Korea
Malaysia

Note: India withdrew from world championships due to financial difficulties ^[1]

Europe

Only 4 out of 16 countries registered in Europe qualified. The 16 countries were as follows:

Austria	Belgium	Denmark	Estonia
France	Georgia	Great Britain	Hungary
Italy	Liechtenstein	Netherlands	Poland
Serbia	Slovakia	Slovenia	Spain

North America

Only 1 out of 2 countries registered in North America qualified. The 2 countries were as follows:

Canada	United States

Groups

Ballots for the groups in this event were drawn on May 9, 2009, during one of the semi-final matches of the 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships in Turku, Finland.

In the way the ballots were drawn, no team qualified from the AOFC played against each other in group stage matches, and no team qualified from Europe either.

The groups were assembled based on qualifying as follows:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Finland	Latvia	Germany	Czech Republic
Russia	Switzerland	Sweden	Norway
Europe 1	AOFC 1	AOFC 3	AOFC 2
North America	Europe 2	Europe 4	Europe 3

Final groups

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Finland	Latvia	Germany	Czech Republic
Russia	Switzerland	Sweden	Norway
Denmark	Singapore	Australia	Japan
Canada	Poland	Estonia	Italy

Championship schedule

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Finland	3	3	0	36	5	+31	6
Russia	3	2	1	17	23	−6	4
Canada	3	1	2	14	27	−13	2
Denmark	3	0	3	8	20	−12	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

December 4, 2010

Canada	6–9	Russia
1–4 Michael Grönlund – 20:08 2–6 Michael Grönlund – 36:00 3–7 Paavo Parikka – 38:46 4–7 Stéphane Laporte – 41:18 5–8 Risto Parikka – 44:49 6–8 Patrice Pare – 53:53		0–1 Pavel Semenov – 0:46 0–2 Anatoly Bykov – 1:59 0–3 Sergey Yuryev – 3:59 0–4 Artem Olin – 11:10 1–5 Pavel Semenov – 23:40 1–6 Valery Maslov – 32:09 2–7 Alexander Tyapkov – 37:20 4–8 Artem Olin – 44:19 6–9 Yuriy Osin – 59:45

Qualifying

Asia/Oceania

Europe

North America

Groups

Final groups

Championship schedule

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Playoff round

Quarter finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Placement round

13–16

9–12

15th place match

13th place match

11th place match

9th place match

5–8

5th place match

3rd place match

See also

References

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