The IFF Central Board held its first meeting of the year in Stockholm, Sweden on March 20th 2016. The Uganda Floorball Association was approved as a new IFF member during the meeting.

Uganda new IFF Member

The Uganda Floorball Association was approved as IFF Member Association number 60. Uganda is the sixth IFF member from Africa. The headquarters of the association are based in Kampala and Mr. Dylan Robert Ziula is the President of the association. More on Uganda: www.floorball.org/pages/EN/Uganda

IFF License System 2.0

On Saturday 19th of March, the CB worked on planning the License System 2.0. based on the feedback received during the IFF Member Associations´ Meeting 2015. The IFF CB agreed that the License System 2.0 will be based on three different tiers based on the different Member Associations´ phase of development. The IFF CB also agreed that there will be incentives of reaching the different tiers and organising IFF Events. The implementation of the IFF License System 2.0 is planned to be used for the registration to the Men´s World Floorball Championships 2020 which takes place in 2018.

A final License System 2.0 proposal will be approved by the IFF CB for the IFF General Assembly 2016.

New IFF Referees

The IFF CB decided to nominate four new referee pairs to the AOFC referee development group according to the IFF Referee Committee´s proposal:

Kenny Khoo/Jaey Jetpuria (Malaysia)
Jong Suk Shin/Young June Lee (Korea)
Lee Hong Sheng Marcus/Owen Tan (Singapore)
Fajar Nurrohmanu Hidayat/Yongky Dwi Adi Priyanto (Indonesia)

New Athletes´ Commission Election System

Starting from 2016, the Athletes’ Commission Members will be elected for a term of 4 years. The proposal is also to move the elections from being held during the WFC final round to the WFC Qualification events. This to ensure that a greater number of athletes have the opportunity to both nominate for and vote in the ATC
elections. To implement this new system completely, a progressive change-over system will be used:

Male ATC Elections
During WFC 2016 (December 2016), four male representatives will be elected by the players from the participating teams at WFC 2016. These players will be elected to the ATC for the following term: 1st January 2017 – 28th February 2020. Elections for the male representative for the next term will be held during the Men’s WFC Qualifications held in February 2020. Once elected, the term of these ATC members will be 1st March 2020 – 28th February 2024.

Female ATC Elections
The next elections for the female representative for the ATC will be held during the Women’s WFC Qualifications held in February 2017. Once elected, the term of these ATC members will be 1st March 2017– 28th February 2021.

IFF Development

The Asia Oceania (AOFC) region is growing and the AOFC today consists of 13 members. The AOFC General Assembly had a total of 12 of the 13 AOFC members present. Mr. Chaiyapak Siriwat was elected as the new AOFC President and Mr. Steven King will continue as the Senior Vice President. The IFF Athletes Commission´ members Jun-oh Lee (KOR) and Jill Roberts (AUS) are also now members of the AOFC CB. The AOFC General Assembly and AOFC CB meeting minutes will be published soon on the IFF AOFC web page: www.floorball.org/pages/EN/AOFC

IFF Development Seminars
The IFF has organised seminars in Thailand and USA during the first months of the year and more seminars are planned. The IFF will also organise a Floorball Development seminar in Quezon City, the Philippines, for both coaches and referees 20 – 22.5.2016. The IFF is also discussing about organising a Floorball Development seminar in India during May or June.

International Floorball Day

The IFF Central Board decided to launch the International Floorball Day, which will take place on April 12th, the same day that the International Floorball Day was founded. The first International Floorball Day will take place 12.4. 2016 to celebrate the IFF´s 30th Anniversary. More information to be published on the IFF website soon.

Upcoming IFF Events

Women’s U19 World Floorball Championships 2016
The Women’s U19 WFC is played in Belleville, Canada, May 4th– 8th 2016 with 16 teams. More information on the official WU19 WFC 2016 website: http://floorball2016.ca
Official U19 WFC in social media accounts:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/U19WFC
Twitter: twitter.com/U19WFC
Instagram: instagram.com/u19wfc
#u19wfc #floorball

World University Floorball Championships 2016
FISU has set the dates for the 7th World University Floorball Championships 2016 (WUFC 2016), which will be played in Porto, Portugal. The WUFC dates 2016 are July 19th – 24th. More information on: http://wucfloorball2016.com & https://www.facebook.com/wucfloorball2016

So far the following countries have registered:
Men (10): CZE, ESP, FIN, JPN, KOR, POR, RUS, SVK, SWE, SUI
Women (7): CZE, ESP, FIN, JPN, POL, SWE, SUI

Floorball Champions Cup 2016
The 6th IFF Floorball Champions Cup in Borås, Sweden, September 30th – October 2nd 2016. Greåker Men (NOR) and Nauka Women (RUS) won the EuroFloorball Cup 2015 and are qualified to the Champions Cup 2016. In addition, Pixbo Wallenstam, won both the men´s and women´s regular season in Sweden and are qualified to the Champions Cup 2016.

Official CC social media accounts:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/FloorballChampionsCup
Twitter: https://twitter.com/floorballcc
Instagram: instagram.com/floorballcc
#iffcc2016 #floorball

Men’s World Floorball Championships 2016
The 11th Men’s WFC is played in Riga, Latvia, December 3rd – 11th 2016.
Official WFC social media accounts:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/worldfloorballchampionships
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iffwfc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iffwfc
#WFCRiga #floorball

Men’s WFC 2016 Group Ballot & Tickets
The Group Ballot for the Men´s WFC will be organised in April during the Latvian Floorball League Super Final. The ballot takes place on April 9th at 17:30, in the Arena Riga. The WFC ticket sales is planned to start on April 8th 2016.

Wroclaw World Games 2017
Floorball will be on the programme of the 2017 World Games in Wroclaw. The World Games will be held 20th – 30th July and floorball has been assigned four competition days for the six teams participating.
The Polish Open, September 7th – 11th 2016, will act as the test event for the 2017 World Games tournament.

Teams in the World Games
The top three teams from the Men’s WFC 2016 together with the best ranked neighbouring team to Poland (Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine), the best ranked non-European team (must be ranked ate least 12th in the WFC) and Poland are participating in the tournament.

For more information on the World Games visit www.theworldgames.org
World Games 2017 social media accounts:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TWG2017
Twitter: twitter.com/twg2017
#twg2017

Upcoming organisers

The IFF has asked for interested organisers for the U19 WFC 2019 and U19 WFC 2020. The interest shall be handed in by the 25th of April 2016.

Men´s U19 2019 – preliminary to be played in the period 29.04 – 05.05.2019
Women´s U19 2020 – preliminary to be played in the period 27.04 – 03.05.2020

Rules of the Game Edition 2018

The work with the Edition 2018 of the IFF Rules of the Game started in January 2016 and a working group was been formed to take on the task. The RACC formed the Rules Group consisting of Mr. Martin Klaberle as chair with the following members:

Mr. Martin Sykora (CZE)
Mr. Pasi Kylmämaa (FIN)
Mr. Mattias Linell (SWE)
Mr. Niklaus Güpfert (SUI)

Mr. Stefan Kratz from the IFF office will act as the secretary of the group.

The IFF received 133 rule change proposals and these will be further considered by the IFF Rules Group.