World Floorball Championships in Czech

The 2018 Men’s Floorball World Championships in the Czech capital Prague in December was the most attended and watched ever, International Floorball Federation (IFF) management are confident that demonstrates the rise popularity of the sport in Central Europe (CE).

Floorball federation secretary general as well as ex head coach of the Finlands women’s national team Mr John Liljelund states there is certainly incredible growth and development for the somewhat undiscovered indoor sport.

“It is actually the quickest growing team sport worldwide in regards to volume of active players,” Liljelund explains to Around the Rings at the O2 Arena in Prague.

As indicated by Liljelund there were 356,000 registered floorball players and 4 ml leisure players in the last study which was done in 2017. In 2008, there was only 266,000 registered with just 1.6 million playing recreationally.
Liljelund additionally highlighted that there are now more registered floorball players when compared to ice hockey players in Finland. It's the 2nd most significant} sport in Sweden as well as , the 3rd leading sport in the Czech Republic.