2012 Men's World Floorball Championships

Floorball competition Men's World Floorball Championships 2012 Switzerland 1–9 December 2012 16 2 2 yes SWE FIN SUI 41 75178 Scoring leader(s) SUI Emanuel Antener MVP SWE Kim Nilsson 2010 2014 The 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships were the ninth World Championships in men's floorball. It was held in Switzerland from 1 to 9 December 2012. Sixteen countries from three continents participated. The matches were played in sports arenas in Bern and Zurich. The Finnish national team did not defend its title from the previous two championships, finishing second behind the victorious Swedes.Švédští florbalisté znovu vládnou světu, ve finále MS zničili Finy https://www.idnes.cz/sport/ostatni/svycarsko-vyhralo-na-florbalovem-mistrovstvi-sveta-bronz-zlato-ma-svedsko.A121209_145157_florbal_elv iDNES.cz 16 October 2026 cs 9 December 2012 Germany achieved its best result in history by reaching the semifinals. It was the first time since 2000, and the last time until 2024, that a country other than the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland reached the top four.MS 2012: Historicky nejhorší umístění českého týmu https://www.ceskyflorbal.cz/reprezentace/muzi/zpravy/detail/ms-2012-historicky-nejhorsi-umisteni-ceskeho-tymu 16 October 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20211026151249/https://www.ceskyflorbal.cz/reprezentace/muzi/zpravy/detail/ms-2012-historicky-nejhorsi-umisteni-ceskeho-tymu 2021-10-26 2 December 2014 dead Qualification 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. Method ofqualification Slots Qualified Finalsappearances Lastappearance Previous bestperformance 2010 World Championships 5 FIN 9 2010 01 Winner (2008, 2010) SWE 9 2010 01 Winner (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006) CZE 9 2010 02 Runner-up (2004) SUI 9 2010 02 Runner-up (1998) LAT 8 2010 05 5th (2006, 2008, 2010) European qualification 1 2 NOR 9 2010 03 Third (1996) GER 7 2010 08 8th (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004) European qualification 2 2 EST 4 2010 07 7th (2010) SVK 1 – 17 – European qualification 3 3 RUS 8 2010 06 6th (1996) POL 2 2010 09 9th (2010) HUN 2 1996 10 10th (1996) Asia–Oceania qualification 2 SIN 3 2010 12 12th (1996) JPN 2 2010 15 15th (2010) Americas qualification 2 USA 1 – 17 – CAN 2 2010 11 11th (2010) Format The teams are drawn into four groups of four. Two best-placed teams of each group advance into quarterfinals. The winners of the quarterfinals continue to the semifinals. The losers of the semifinals play two games and the winners of these games play for 5th and 6th place and for the losers of these two matches the tournament is over. The 7th team is the team losing to the team which achieves the 5th place on the tournament. Third and fourth placed teams in the group stage play for places 9–12 and 13–16 respectively.Men´s WFC 2012 — Tournament Mode http://windows3.salibandy.net/default.asp?sivu=5&alasivu=499&kieli=826 International Floorball Federation 6 February 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120607173809/http://windows3.salibandy.net/default.asp?sivu=5&alasivu=499&kieli=826 7 June 2012 dead Tournament groups The draw was made in the beginning of March. Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D SUI SWE CZE FIN     EST NOR LAT RUS SIN POL JPN GER SVK HUN USA CAN Preliminary round 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 main WDL Q n 2 SUI SUI SVK SVK EST EST SGP SGP 3 0 0 57 7 1 1 1 21 14 1 1 1 20 20 0 0 3 4 61 #ccffcc A A complete #eeeeee December 2, 2012 SVK SUI 4–8 #ffffff December 3, 2012 EST 13–2 SGP #eeeeee December 4, 2012 SUI 35–0 SGP #ffffff   SVK 4–4 EST #eeeeee December 5, 2012 SUI 14–3 EST #ffffff   SGP 2–13 SVK Group B main WDL Q n 2 SWE SWE NOR NOR POL POL HUN HUN 3 0 0 54 6 2 0 1 25 12 1 0 2 10 32 0 0 3 7 46 #ccffcc A A complete #eeeeee December 2, 2012 POL 3–14 SWE #ffffff   NOR 8–3 HUN #eeeeee December 3, 2012 NOR 16–2 POL #ffffff   HUN 2–33 SWE #eeeeee December 4, 2012 HUN 2–5 POL #ffffff December 5, 2012 SWE 7–1 NOR Group C main WDL Q n 2 LAT LAT CZE CZE USA USA JPN JPN 3 0 0 24 8 2 0 1 38 10 1 0 2 16 23 0 0 3 4 41 #ccffcc A A complete #eeeeee December 2, 2012 LAT 8–3 USA #ffffff   JPN 1–21 CZE #eeeeee December 3, 2012 CZE 13–4 USA #ffffff   JPN 1–11 LAT #eeeeee December 4, 2012 CZE 4–5 LAT #ffffff December 5, 2012 USA 9–2 JPN Group D main WDL Q n 2 FIN FIN GER GER RUS RUS CAN CAN 3 0 0 55 5 2 0 1 15 15 1 0 2 17 26 0 0 3 11 52 #ccffcc A A complete #eeeeee December 2, 2012 GER 1–10 FIN #ffffff December 3, 2012 CAN 6–13 RUS #eeeeee December 4, 2012 FIN 16–1 RUS #ffffff   GER 10–2 CAN #eeeeee December 5, 2012 RUS 3–4 GER #ffffff   FIN 29–3 CAN Playoff round A1 SUI 11 B2 NOR 5 D1 FIN 4 C2 CZE 1 C1 LAT 2 D2 GER 4 B1 SWE 18 A2 SVK 1 Q1 SUI 3 Q4 FIN 4 Q2 GER 0 Q3 SWE 13 W1 FIN 5 W2 SWE 11 Quarterfinals 6 December 2012 16:30 SUI 11–5 (3–1, 6–1, 2–3) Report NOR Sporthalle Wankdorf, Bern 1,674 #eeffff 6 December 2012 18:30 LAT 2–4 (1–2, 1–1, 0–1) Report GER Saalsporthalle, Zurich 613 6 December 2012 19:30 SWE 18–1 (5–0, 8–0, 5–1) Report SVK Sporthalle Wankdorf, Bern 1,289 #eeffff 6 December 2012 15:30 FIN 4–1 (1–0, 2–1, 1–0) Report CZE Saalsporthalle, Zurich 787 Semifinals 8 December 2012 16:32 SUI 3–4 OT (1–1, 2–0, 0–2, 0–1) Report FIN Hallenstadion, Zurich 7,085 #eeffff 8 December 2012 19:30 GER 0–13 (0–5, 0–4, 0–4) Report SWE Hallenstadion, Zurich 7,104 Bronze medal game #ffdab9 9 December 2012 12:31 SUI 8–0 (3–0, 3–0, 2–0) Report GER Hallenstadion, Zurich 10,518 Gold medal game #f7f6a8 9 December 2012 15:30 FIN 5–11 (0–3, 1–6, 4–2) Report SWE Hallenstadion, Zurich 10,518 Placement round 5th place bracket Matches 5th–8th 5th place NOR 5 CZE 4 LAT 6 SVK 2 NOR 7 LAT 5 5–8th place semifinals #eeeeee 7 December 2012 16:30 NOR CZE 5–4 PS (1–2, 3–2, 0–0, 0–0) Saalsporthalle, Zurich 486 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331022846/ #eeffff 7 December 2012 20:00 LAT SVK 6–2 (0–1, 4–0, 2–1) Saalsporthalle, Zurich 321 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331022936/ 5th place match #eeeeee 8 December 2012 13:30 NOR LAT 7–5 (4–1, 1–1, 2–3) Hallenstadion, Zurich 3,854 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331023064/ No 7th place match was played. 9th place bracket Matches 9th–12th 9th place 11th place EST 4 POL 3 USA 1 RUS 7 EST 9 RUS 3 POL 7 USA 6 9–12th place semifinals #eeeeee 6 December 2012 13:29 EST POL 4–3 (2–0, 2–2, 0–1) Sporthalle Wankdorf, Bern 784 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331021712/ #eeffff 6 December 2012 12:30 USA RUS 1–7 (0–3, 1–4, 0–0) Saalsporthalle, Zurich 994 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331021785/ 11th place match #eeeeee 7 December 2012 16:30 POL USA 7–6 PS (0–1, 3–1, 3–4, 0–0) Sporthalle Wankdorf, Bern 289 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331022495/ 9th place match #eeffff 7 December 2012 13:30 EST RUS 9–3 (5–1, 2–0, 2–2) Saalsporthalle, Zurich 654 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331022715/ 13th place bracket Matches 13th–16th 13th place 15th place SIN 3 HUN 11 JPN 2 CAN 6 HUN 7 CAN 8 SIN 3 JPN 5 13–16th place semifinals #eeeeee 6 December 2012 10:30 SIN HUN 3–11 (2–4, 0–4, 1–3) Sporthalle Wankdorf, Bern 486 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331021386/ #eeffff 6 December 2012 9:30 JPN CAN 2–6 (1–3, 0–1, 1–2) Saalsporthalle, Zurich 1,123 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331021607/ 15th place match #eeeeee 7 December 2012 13:30 SIN JPN 3–5 (0–2, 0–2, 3–1) Sporthalle Wankdorf, Bern 324 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331022398/ 13th place match #eeffff 7 December 2012 19:59 HUN CAN 7–8 OT (3–2, 1–2, 3–3, 0–1) Sporthalle Wankdorf, Bern 234 https://archive.floorball.sport/match/1331022578/ Ranking Official rankings according to the IFF: Rk.Team SWE FIN SUI 4. GER 5. NOR 6. LAT 7. CZE 8. SVK 9. EST 10. RUS 11. POL 12. USA 13. CAN 14. HUN 15. JPN 16. SIN References External links http://www.wfc2012.ch/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121219002918/http://www.wfc2012.ch/ Official results at app.floorball.sport Category:Floorball World Championships Category:International floorball competitions hosted by Switzerland Category:2012 in floorball Category:2012 in Swiss sport Category:December 2012 sports events in Europe Category:Sports competitions in Bern Category:Sports competitions in Zurich Category:21st century in Bern Category:21st century in Zurich Category:Floorball in Switzerland