2016 Men's World Floorball Championships

The 2016 Men's World Floorball Championships were the 11th World Championships in men's floorball. The tournament took place in Latvia in December 2016.

2016 Men's World Floorball Championships

Tournament details
Host country	Latvia
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	3–11 December 2016
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Finland
Runner-up	Sweden
Third place	Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Attendance	85,110 (1,773 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Peter Kotilainen
Awards
MVP	Peter Kotilainen
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Qualification

  Host

  Qualified

  Did not qualify

Main article: 2016 Men's World Floorball Championships qualifying

Qualification events were conducted between 2 and 14 February 2016.

	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation			1	Latvia
European Qualification 1	3–7 February 2016	Nitra	2	Sweden  Slovakia
European Qualification 2	3–7 February 2016	Tallinn	3	Finland  Estonia  Denmark
European Qualification 3	3–7 February 2016	Lochow	3	Switzerland  Germany  Poland
European Qualification 4	2–6 February 2016	Škofja Loka	2	Czech Republic  Norway
Asia-Oceania Qualification	2–6 February 2016	Pattaya	3	Australia  Singapore  Thailand
Americas Qualification	12–14 February 2016	Colorado Springs	2	Canada  United States
Total			16

Venues

Arena Riga	Olympic Sports Centre	Riga
Capacity: 10,300 The main competition arena.	Capacity: 800 The second competition arena and practice arena.

Draw

The teams will be divided into four pots according to the world ranking.^[1] (World rankings shown in parentheses).^[2]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Sweden (1)  Finland (2)   Switzerland (3)  Czech Republic (4)	Latvia (hosts) (5)  Norway (6)  Germany (7)  Estonia (8)	Slovakia (9)  United States (10)  Denmark (12)  Canada (13)	Poland (14)  Australia (16)  Singapore (18)  Thailand (35)

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Finland	3	3	0	0	28	8	+20	6	Quarterfinals		—	6–4	10–3	12–1
2	Switzerland	3	2	0	1	23	13	+10	4			4–6	—	8–4	11–3
3	Estonia	3	0	1	2	13	24	−11	1	Play-off round		3–10	4–8	—	6–6
4	Germany	3	0	1	2	10	29	−19	1			1–12	3–11	6–6	—

Source: IFF

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	3	3	0	0	23	8	+15	6	Quarterfinals		—	8–4	8–2	7–2
2	Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	21	15	+6	4			4–8	—	8–4	9–3
3	Norway	3	0	1	2	11	21	−10	1	Play-off round		2–8	4–8	—	5–5
4	Latvia (H)	3	0	1	2	10	21	−11	1			2–7	3–9	5–5	—

Source: IFF
(H) Hosts

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	3	3	0	0	17	5	+12	6	Play-off round		—	5–2	4–2	8–1
2	Slovakia	3	2	0	1	20	11	+9	4			2–5	—	6–4	12–2
3	Poland	3	0	1	2	10	14	−4	1	13th–16th place playoff		2–4	4–6	—	4–4
4	Australia	3	0	1	2	7	24	−17	1			1–8	2–12	4–4	—

Source: IFF

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	2	0	1	18	14	+4	4	Play-off round		—	8–1	5–4	5–9
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	8	13	−5	4			1–8	—	5–4	2–1
3	Thailand	3	1	0	2	16	12	+4	2	13th–16th place playoff		4–5	4–5	—	8–2
4	Singapore	3	1	0	2	12	15	−3	2			9–5	1–2	2–8	—

Source: IFF

Knock-out stage

	Play-off 7 December					Quarterfinals 8–9 December					Semifinals 10 December					Final 11 December
						Sweden		11
	Germany		6			Germany		0
	United States		5								Sweden		7
											Switzerland		2
						Switzerland		7
	Norway		4			Norway		2
	Slovakia		3													Sweden		3
																Finland (pen.)		4
						Finland		7
	Latvia		5			Denmark		0
	Denmark (pen.)		6								Finland		4			Third place
											Czech Republic		3
						Czech Republic		8								Czech Republic		5
	Estonia		16			Estonia		2								Switzerland		8
	Canada		4

Play-off

7 December 2016 10:00

Germany

6–5 (2–1, 1–1, 3–3)

United States

Arena Riga Attendance: 724

Game reference
				Referees: Māris Kumerdanks Kaspars Kristapsons
	2 min	Penalties	2 min

7 December 2016 13:00

Estonia

16–4 (7–2, 3–0, 6–2)

Canada

Arena Riga Attendance: 497

Game reference
				Referees: Vesa Vilkki Mikko Alakare
	4 min	Penalties	11 min

7 December 2016 16:00

Norway

4–3 (1–1, 2–2, 1–0)

Slovakia

Arena Riga Attendance: 608

Game reference
				Referees: Mārtiņš Larinovs Mārtiņš Gross
	2 min	Penalties	4 min

7 December 2016 19:30

Latvia

5 – 6 PS (1–2, 4–0, 0–3) OT (0–0) PS (0–1)

Denmark

Arena Riga Attendance: 2,633

Game reference
				Referees: Kamil Sojka Tomáš Sojka
	10 min	Penalties	8 min

Quarterfinals

8 December 2016 16:00

Czech Republic

8–2 (2–2, 4–0, 2–0)

Estonia

Arena Riga Attendance: 833

Game reference
				Referees: Vesa Vilkki Mikko Alakare
	2 min	Penalties	2 min

8 December 2016 19:00

Sweden

11–0 (2–0, 5–0, 4–0)

Germany

Arena Riga Attendance: 979

Game reference
				Referees: Mārtiņš Larinovs Mārtiņš Gross
	0 min	Penalties	4 min

9 December 2016 16:10

Switzerland

7–2 (1–0, 3–0, 3–2)

Norway

Arena Riga Attendance: 2,960

Game reference
				Referees: Tero Fordell Lasse Vuola
	4 min	Penalties	4 min

9 December 2016 19:00

Finland

7–0 (1–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Denmark

Arena Riga Attendance: 3,422

Game reference
				Referees: Thomas Andersson Rickard Wissman
	2 min	Penalties	5 min

Semifinals

10 December 2016 12:45

Sweden

7–2 (2–0, 0–2, 5–0)

Switzerland

Arena Riga Attendance: 5,774

Game reference
				Referees: Vesa Vilkki Mikko Alakare

10 December 2016 16:30

Finland

4–3 (2–0,1–2,1–1)

Czech Republic

Arena Riga Attendance: 6,445

Game reference
				Referees: Håkan Söderman Glenn Boström

Bronze medal game

11 December 2016 14:45

Czech Republic

5–8 (2–3, 1–2, 2–3)

Switzerland

Arena Riga Attendance: 6,870

Game reference
				Referees: Thomas Andersson Rickard Wissman

Final

11 December 2016 17:40

Finland

4 – 3 PSO (2–2, 0–1, 1–0) 0–0 OT 4–2 PSO

Sweden

Arena Riga Attendance: 8,350

Game reference
				Referees: Mārtiņš Larinovs Mārtiņš Gross

Placement matches

13th place bracket

	Matches 13th–16th				13th place
	7 December – Olympic Sports Centre
	Thailand	4
					9 December – Olympic Sports Centre
	Australia	3
					Thailand	4
	7 December – Olympic Sports Centre
					Poland	5
	Poland	14
	Singapore	3
					15th place
					9 December – Olympic Sports Centre
					Australia	9
					Singapore	3

Matches 13th–16th

7 December 2016 12:00

Thailand

4–3 (0–0, 2–1, 2–2)

Australia

Olympic Sports Centre, Riga Attendance: 190

Game reference
				Referees: Håkan Söderman Glenn Boström
	4 min	Penalties	4 min

7 December 2016 15:00

Poland

14–3 (6–1, 2–1, 6–1)

Singapore

Olympic Sports Centre, Riga Attendance: 166

Game reference
				Referees: Tero Fordell Lasse Vuola
	0 min	Penalties	11 min

15th place match

9 December 2016 12:00

Australia

9–3 (1–1, 3–1, 5–1)

Singapore

Olympic Sports Centre, Riga Attendance: 239

Game reference
				Referees: Kamil Sojka Tomáš Sojka
	4 min	Penalties	6 min

13th place match

9 December 2016 15:00

Thailand

4–5 (0–2, 2–1, 2–2)

Poland

Olympic Sports Centre, Riga Attendance: 175

Game reference
				Referees: Māris Kumerdanks Kaspars Kristapsons
	2 min	Penalties	2 min

9th place bracket

	Matches 9th–11th				9th place
	8 December – Arena Riga
	Slovakia	7
					10 December – Arena Riga
	United States	3
					Slovakia(OT)	6
	8 December – Arena Riga
					Latvia	5
	Canada	1
	Latvia	11
					11th place
					9 December – Arena Riga
					United States	1
					Canada	0

Matches 9th–12th

8 December 2016 10:00

Slovakia

7–3 (1–1, 3–0, 3–2)

United States

Arena Riga Attendance: 367

Game reference
				Referees: Thomas Andersson Rickard Wissman
	4 min	Penalties	2 min

8 December 2016 13:00

Canada

1–11 (0–3, 1–5, 0–3)

Latvia

Arena Riga Attendance: 674

Game reference
				Referees: Håkan Söderman Glenn Boström
	6 min	Penalties	6 min

11th place match

9 December 2016 13:00

United States

1–0 (0–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Canada

Arena Riga Attendance: 726

Game reference
				Referees: Mārtiņš Larinovs Mārtiņš Gross
	4 min	Penalties	2 min

9th place match

10 December 2016 19:30

Slovakia

6–5 OT (0–1,2–2, 3–2,1–0)

Latvia

Arena Riga Attendance: 1,889

Game reference
				Referees: Kamil Sojka Tomáš Sojka
	2 min	Penalties

5th place bracket

	Matches 5th–8th				5th place
	10 December – Arena Riga
	Denmark (OT)	6
					11 December – Arena Riga
	Estonia	5
					Denmark(pen.)	5
	10 December – Olympic Sports Centre
					Norway	4
	Germany	5
	Norway (OT)	6
					7th place
					11 December – Arena Riga
					Estonia	4
					Germany	5

Matches 5th–8th

10 December 2016 10:00

Denmark

6–5 OT (2–0, 3–1, 0–4, 1–0)

Estonia

Arena Riga Attendance: 1,326

Game reference
				Referees: Tero Fordell Lasse Vuola
	8 min	Penalties

10 December 2016 11:00

Germany

5–6 OT (1–3, 1–0, 3–2, 0–1)

Norway

Olympic Sports Centre, Riga Attendance: 311

Game reference
				Referees: Māris Kumerdanks Kaspars Kristapsons
	7 min	Penalties	5 min

7th place match

11 December 2016 9:00

Estonia

4–5 (3–2,0–2, 1–1)

Germany

Arena Riga Attendance: 970

Game reference
				Referees: Māris Kumerdanks Kaspars Kristapsons
	2 min	Penalties

5th place match

11 December 2016 12:00

Denmark

5–4 PS (0–2, 1–0, 3–2) OT (0–0) (PS) (3–2)

Norway

Arena Riga Attendance: 2,297

Game reference
				Referees: Kamil Sojka Tomáš Sojka
	2 min	Penalties	4 min

Ranking and statistics

Final ranking

The official IFF final ranking of the tournament:

	Finland
	Sweden
	Switzerland
4	Czech Republic
5	Denmark
6	Norway
7	Germany
8	Estonia
9	Slovakia
10	Latvia
11	United States
12	Canada
13	Poland
14	Thailand
15	Australia
16	Singapore

All-star team

• Best goalkeeper: Pascal Meier
• Best defenders: Krister Savonen, Tatu Väänänen
• Best forwards: Alexander Galante Carlström, Matěj Jendrišák, Peter Kotilainen

External links

• Tournament webpage