IFF News

IFF ATC Blog by Jarno Ihme: making floorball dreams come true

25th September 2024 - News , Athletes Commission

Members of the IFF Athletes’ Commission have been contributing Blog posts on what they are up to. Jarno Ihme joined the ATC in 2020. He played in highest league in Sweden and Finland for 14 years and he won gold medals at WFC, U19 WFC and World...

Filip Šuman to run for the position of President of the International Floorball Federation

25th September 2024 - News , IFF News

The former president of Czech floorball and current IFF Vice President, Filip Šuman, will run for the position of President of the International Floorball Federation in December. His candidacy for the role of presidency was confirmed on Tuesday by...

IFF CB Meeting news 3/2024 - Strategy implementation, General Assembly and discussions on the new event structure

10th September 2024 - News , Central Board

The third IFF Central Board meeting of the year 2024 took place in Winterthur, Switzerland on the weekend. During the working sessions both on Friday and Saturday the CB discussed the new planned competition calendar as well as the CB documents for...

IFF mourns the passing of Ethics Commission (ETC) chair Mr. Harri Syväsalmi

12th August 2024 - News , IFF News

The IFF has learnt of the sad news that our Ethics Commission (ETC) chair Mr. Harri Syväsalmi has passed away last week, after a long illness.   Mr. Syväsalmi was elected as the IFF ETC Chair in 2000 and brought a lot of experience and...

IFF ATC meeting during U19 WFC and 3v3 WFC 2024 in Lahti

4th July 2024 - News , Athletes Commission

The IFF Athletes’ Commission (ATC) was incredibly busy in May, during the Women's U19 World Floorball Championships and 3v3 World Floorball Championships in Lahti, Finland. Chaired by Agata Plechan from Poland, the meeting brought together...

IFF ATC blog by Josefina Eiremo: adjustments and new beginnings after playing career

6th June 2024 - News , Athletes Commission

Members of the IFF Athletes’ Commission have been contributing Blog posts on what they are up to. Josefina Eiremo is the longest-serving member of the ATC. She retired as a player from international and top-level Floorball in 2017, but in 2018 she...

The IOC published its 2023 Olympic Movement Sustainability Case Studies - includes two floorball-related case studies

3rd June 2024 - IFF News , Sweden Floorball News , Switzerland Floorball News , Member Associations , Men's WFC 2022 , Men's WFC 2024 , Sustainability , Equality news

For the past 8 years, the IOC has been selecting impressive sustainability efforts by the Olympic Movement. Floorball has now been featured in two selections with the IFF Stick with it! campaign (2019) and Floorball's Development Towards...

Interactive database of sustainable best practices launched

31st May 2024 - IFF News , Men's WFC 2024 , Sustainability

A database of sustainable actions that sports event organisers and organisations can adopt has been established. Created by the GAMES project, an Erasmus+ funded initiative that explores ways sport can decarbonise, the database demonstrates ways...

Material support for Africa

28th May 2024 - IFF News , Development news , Partnerships and Sponsors , Côte d'Ivoire Floorball News , 3v3 WFC 2024 , Burkina Faso Floorball News

Two teams from Africa, Côte d'Ivoire and Burkindi (Burkina Faso) took part in the inaugural 3v3 World Floorball Championships 2024 (3v3 WFC) in Lahti during the 11th and 12th of May. The event proved to be an international floorball fest with teams...

Women's U19 WFC 2024 FairFloorball Player Awards

15th May 2024 - News , IFF News , Women's U19 WFC 2024

In the spirit of the FairFloorball campaign the IFF, in partnership with PUMA, paid tribute to players who live up to the values of FairFloorball: FairPlay – Anti-doping / Illegal betting / Match-fixing / Game rules FairAccess – Special...