Floorball

Floorball is a kind of floor hockey in which each team consists of five players and a goalie. Men and women play inside with sticks that are 96–115.5 cm long (37.8–45.5 in) and a plastic ball with holes that is 70–72 mm in diameter (2.76–2.83 in) in diameter. Matches are divided into three twenty-minute halves to ensure fair play. When the World Games were held in Wroclaw, Poland, in 2017, floorball was featured for the first time. Sweden became the first country to earn a gold medal in the World Games.

The game was created in Sweden in the late 1960s and is still in use today. The fundamental principles of floorball were developed in 1979, when the first floorball club in the world, Sala IBK from Sala, in Sweden, was formed. In 1981, the first set of official regulations for matches was drawn out.

The International Floorball Federation is in charge of organising the sport on a global scale (IFF). As of 2019, there were around 377 000 registered floorball players throughout the globe, an increase from approximately 300 000 in 2014. The yearly Champions Cup, EuroFloorball Cup, and EuroFloorball Challenge for club teams, as well as the biannual World Floorball Championships, which include distinct divisions for men and women, are among the events on the calendar. Finland's F-liiga, Sweden's Svenska Superligan, Switzerland's National League A, and the Czech Republic's Superliga florbalu are just a few of the professional club leagues in the world.

Despite the fact that the International Floorball Federation (IFF) has 74 members, floorball is most popular in countries where it has been developed for the longest period of time, such as the Czech States, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden, and Swiss. Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, Canadians, Germans and Irish people are becoming more interested in it. It is also becoming more popular in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.