The international events last weekend around Europe showed that Sweden still remains as the top floorball country.

Sweden ruled the tournaments almost in all categories in Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Finland. Only the Finnish men’s team was able to challenge the Swedish by tying 4-4 in the final match of the Euro Floorball Tournament in Finland. The match was shown nationally at the Sportchannel, but still gathered almost 2500 spectators to see the match live at the Arena. The score was enough for Finland to win the men’s EFT.

Otherwise Sweden met Finland twice in the finals during the weekend, in the World Championships of Women under 19 and the Worlds University World Championships, which were both won by Sweden. Though in the University WC, the Czech team almost managed to surprise Sweden in the semi-final, which finally was won by Sweden on overtime. The Czech Rebublic was still beaten in the bronze game by Switzerland

Sweden also won all the three matches in men under 19, who played the EFT simultaneously with men in Finland. Finland, Switzerland or the Czech, did not manage to break the winning strike of the Swedes.

The Women’s EFT was played in Prague, and was also ruled by the Swedes. During the whole tournament they scored 24 times and let only 3 goals pass their goal line. Switzerland tied with the Czech and won over Finland. The home team lost to both Sweden and Finland. This was the second last time the teams met before the World Championships in Denmark 2007.

The events gathered sport fans and spectators to see the top floorball matches all around Europe. The teams were able to offer the spectators exciting and entertaining matches in all categories.

Although Sweden seems to be the top country at the moment, the following countries, Finland, Switzerland and The Czech Republic, are not that far behind. Also the development of the sport in other member countries of the IFF is tightening the gap between bigger and smaller countries. With the aid of such international events the sport is gaining more and more respect and the floorball world waits for the next events to start.

All final results of the International matches can be found here.

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