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2012 Men's World Floorball Championships

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2012 Men's World Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country  Switzerland
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates1–9 December 2012
Teams16
Final positions
Champions  Sweden
Runner-up  Finland
Third place   Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played41
Attendance75,178 (1,834 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Switzerland Emanuel Antener
MVPSweden Kim Nilsson
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The 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships were the ninth men's World Floorball Championship. The tournament took place in Bern and Zurich, Switzerland in December 2012.

Qualification

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There were five qualification groups for 11 places in the final tournament:

  • Americas (2 teams)
  • Asia & Oceania (2 teams from 2012 Asia Pacific Floorball Championship)
  • Europe (7 teams from three groups)

Five best teams of 2010 World Championships automatically qualified for the competition:

Format

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The teams will be drawn into four groups of four. Two best-placed teams of each group will move into quarter-finals. The winners of the Quarter-finals continue to the Semi-finals. The losers of the Semi-finals will play two games and the winners of these games will play for 5th and 6th place and for the losers of these two matches the tournament is over. The 7th team will be the team losing to the team which achieves the 5th place on the tournament. Third and fourth placed teams in the group stage will play for places 9–12 and 13–16 respectively.[1]

Teams

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Team Method of
qualification 		Finals
appearance 		Last
appearance 		Previous best
performance
 Canada 2nd, Americas qualification 2nd 2010 11th (2010)
 Czech Republic 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 Runner-up (2004)
 Estonia 1st, European qualification 2 4th 2010 7th (2010)
 Finland 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 Winner (2008, 2010)
 Germany 2nd, European qualification 1 7th 2010 8th (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004)
 Hungary 3rd, European qualification 3 2nd 1996 10th (1996)
 Japan 2nd, Asia & Oceania qualification 2nd 2010 15th (2010)
 Latvia 2010 World Championships 8th 2010 5th (2006, 2008, 2010)
 Norway 1st, European qualification 1 9th 2010 Third (1996)
 Poland 2nd, European qualification 3 2nd 2010 9th (2010)
 Russia 1st, European qualification 3 8th 2010 6th (1996)
 Singapore 1st, Asia & Oceania qualification 3rd 2010 12th (1996)
 Slovakia 2nd, European qualification 2 1st – –
 Sweden 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 Winner (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
  Switzerland 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 Runner-up (1998)
 United States 1st, Americas qualification 1st – –

Group stage

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The draw was made in the beginning of March.[2]

Final groups

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Group A Group B Group C Group D
  Switzerland  Sweden  Czech Republic  Finland    
 Estonia  Norway  Latvia  Russia
 Singapore  Poland  Japan  Germany
 Slovakia  Hungary  United States  Canada

Championship schedule

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Preliminary round

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The top two teams from each group advanced to the quarter finals, while the last two teams play in the placement round.

     Team advanced to the quarter finals

Group A

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Switzerland 3 3 0 0 57 7 +50 6
 Slovakia 3 1 1 1 21 14 +7 3
 Estonia 3 1 1 1 20 20 0 3
 Singapore 3 0 0 3 4 61 −57 0
Source: [citation needed]
December 2, 2012
Slovakia  4–8   Switzerland
December 3, 2012
Estonia  13–2  Singapore
December 4, 2012
Switzerland  35–0  Singapore
 
Slovakia  4–4  Estonia
December 5, 2012
Switzerland  14–3  Estonia
 
Singapore  2–13  Slovakia

Group B

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Sweden 3 3 0 0 54 6 +48 6
 Norway 3 2 0 1 25 12 +13 4
 Poland 3 1 0 2 10 32 −22 2
 Hungary 3 0 0 3 7 46 −39 0
Source: [citation needed]
December 2, 2012
Poland  3–14  Sweden
 
Norway  8–3  Hungary
December 3, 2012
Norway  16–2  Poland
 
Hungary  2–33  Sweden
December 4, 2012
Hungary  2–5  Poland
December 5, 2012
Sweden  7–1  Norway

Group C

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Latvia 3 3 0 0 24 8 +16 6
 Czech Republic 3 2 0 1 38 10 +28 4
 United States 3 1 0 2 16 23 −7 2
 Japan 3 0 0 3 4 41 −37 0
Source: [citation needed]
December 2, 2012
Latvia  8–3  United States
 
Japan  1–21  Czech Republic
December 3, 2012
Czech Republic  13–4  United States
 
Japan  1–11  Latvia
December 4, 2012
Czech Republic  4–5  Latvia
December 5, 2012
United States  9–2  Japan

Group D

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Finland 3 3 0 0 55 5 +50 6
 Germany 3 2 0 1 15 15 0 4
 Russia 3 1 0 2 17 26 −9 2
 Canada 3 0 0 3 11 52 −41 0
Source: [citation needed]
December 2, 2012
Germany  1–10  Finland
December 3, 2012
Canada  6–13  Russia
December 4, 2012
Finland  16–1  Russia
 
Germany  10–2  Canada
December 5, 2012
Russia  3–4  Germany
 
Finland  29–3  Canada

Playoff round

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Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
A1   Switzerland 11
B2  Norway 5
Q1   Switzerland 3
Q4  Finland 4 (OT)
D1  Finland 4
C2  Czech Republic 1
W1  Finland 5
W2  Sweden 11
C1  Latvia 2
D2  Germany 4
Q2  Germany 0
Q3  Sweden 13
B1  Sweden 18
A2  Slovakia 1

Quarter finals

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December 6, 2012
Switzerland  11–5  Norway
 
Finland  4–1  Czech Republic
 
Latvia  2–4  Germany
 
Sweden  18–1  Slovakia

Semi-finals

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December 8, 2012
Switzerland  3 – 4 (OT)  Finland
 
Germany  0–13  Sweden

Bronze medal game

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December 9, 2012
Switzerland  8 – 0
Report 		 Germany

Gold medal game

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December 9, 2012
Finland  5 – 11
Report 		 Sweden

Placement round

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13–16

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December 6, 2012
Singapore  3–11  Hungary
 
Japan  2–6  Canada

9–12

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December 6, 2012
Estonia  4–3  Poland
 
United States  1–7  Russia

15th place match

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December 7, 2012
Singapore  3–5  Japan

13th place match

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December 7, 2012
Hungary  7 – 8 (OT)  Canada

11th place match

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December 7, 2012
Poland  7 – 6 (PS)  United States

9th place match

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December 7, 2012
Estonia  9–3  Russia

5–8

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December 7, 2012
Norway  5 – 4 (PS)  Czech Republic
 
Latvia  6–2  Slovakia

5th place match

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December 8, 2012
Norway  7–5  Latvia

Ranking

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Official 2012 Rankings according to the IFF:

Rk. Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)   Switzerland
4.  Germany
5.  Norway
6.  Latvia
7.  Czech Republic
8.  Slovakia
9.  Estonia
10.  Russia
11.  Poland
12.  United States
13.  Canada
14.  Hungary
15.  Japan
16.  Singapore

References

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  1. ^ "Men´s WFC 2012 — Tournament Mode". International Floorball Federation. Archived from the original on 7 June 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Men´s WFC 2012". International Floorball Federation. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
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