News from the IFF CB meeting

The IFF Central Board had its meeting in connection to the Women´s 6th WFC in Frederikshavn, Denmark. Here are the main topics that were decided upon during the meeting.

Upcoming IFF events

Men’s WFC 2008

The Championships will be played from 6-14th of December in the Czech Republic. All A-division and B-division group matches will be played in Ostrava. The Play-offs and placement matches will be played in Prague.

Men’s Under 19 WFC 2007

The U19 WFC will be played from 7th-11th of November in Kirchberg and Zuchwil in Switzerland.

EFC 2007-2008

The EFC 2007-2008 Final round will be played in Vantaa 9th-13th of January 2008. The main arena is Vantaa Energia Areena with a spectator capacity of 2500 persons. The second arena is Myyrmäki Sport Hall, only 800m from the main arena with a spectator capacity of 500.

The EFC Qualification tournaments will be played in Norway in Baerum 29.8.-2.9.2007 and in Ciampino in Italy 5.-9.9.2007. The registration for the EFC 2007-2008 will end on the 30th of May and after that the groups for the qualifications will be finalized.

Appointed organisers for future IFF events

The IFF CB appointed new organisers for the future IFF events:

EuroFloorball Cup Qualification 2007/2008 for 2nd best teams of the top 4 countries to Czech Floorball Union.
The tournament will be organised in the city of Liberec in Dukla arena (capacity 1200 spectators) the 7th-9th of September 2007.
EuroFloorball Cup 2010 to Latvian Floorball Union

Future WFC:s

As the IFF CB has previously decided the WFC “new style” will be implemented 2010 (men) and 2011 (women) and will consist of continental qualification tournaments and a final tournament with 16 teams. Of these 16 teams, eight are automatically qualified based on WFC 2008 (men) and WFC 2009 (women) and eight teams have to qualify through continental tournaments.

The WFC Quota system

The quota for the participating teams by continent shall always be based on the number of registered teams, using a deviation factor of 16 equalling the number of participating teams, and thereby determining the continental quota. The WFC 2010/2011 qualifications are played in continental tournaments or if there are less than three teams based on a mutual agreement.

The number of qualification tournaments has to be appointed well in advance and the qualifications shall be played during the first week of February the same year, with the ballot for the WFC to be made directly after the qualifications.