IFF News

Athletes' Commission Meeting 2019

14th June 2019 - News , Athletes Commission

The IFF Athletes' Commission held their annual meeting in Nijmegen, Netherlands last weekend. During the two days the members discussed a variety of topics, the most important being the proposals for the new playing system and the development of the...

IFF CB Meeting news 3/2019: Kuwait new IFF member

11th June 2019 - News , IFF News , Central Board , Kuwait Floorball News

The IFF floorball family now has a total of 73 members when the Kuwait Floorball Committee (KFC) was approved by the IFF Central Board (CB) as the newest IFF member association. The IFF CB also discussed the working process for the IFF Strategy...

A tech-savvy, active target group - Floorball Fan Survey results

10th June 2019 - News , IFF News

The floorball fan survey was conducted during December 2018 and April 2019 as an online survey by the students of Glion Institute of Higher Education. The questionnaire was distributed via International Floorball Federation's (IFF) and several...

Monika Kraus hired as the IFF Competition Coordinator

6th June 2019 - News , IFF News

Ms. Monika Kraus, 26, has been employed as the IFF Competition Coordinator. She started working for the IFF from the beginning of June. Monika is based in Gdańsk, Poland where she will be working from.  Monika graduated with a degree in...

IFF Athletes' Commission member Yui Takahashi stays in Dalen

22nd May 2019 - News , Athletes Commission

Yui Takahashi, the IFF Athletes' Commission member and Japan's national team forward, has extended her contract with IBF Dalen (Dalen's second team). The contract is set for three new years and this will be Takahashi's fourth season in Dalen....

Prague and floorball benefit from record-breaking World Championships 2018

15th May 2019 - News , IFF News , Men's WFC 2018

The IFF Men’s World Floorball Championships 2018 generated €7.8 million of direct economic impact and broke all previous attendance records for a floorball event, revealed a new study produced by Sportcal, a UK-based sports market intelligence...

Happy 4th International Floorball Day

12th April 2019 - News , IFF News

On this day 33 years ago in Huskvarna, Sweden the International Floorball Federation was founded by the floorball associations of Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. Four years ago the IFF declared 12th of April as the International Floorball Day as a...

Play True Day 2019

10th April 2019 - IFF News , Anti-Doping

The Play True Day is dedicated to clean sport and is intended to raise awareness among athletes, the sporting public and others about the global fight against doping. The inspiration for this initiative stems from a WADA-hosted Education...

Number of licensed floorball players in 2018

2nd April 2019 - News , IFF News

Based on the 2018 statistics the number of licensed floorball players was over 361 000 in the end of 2018. The number of recreational players was close to 3,5 million globally. The IFF also received three new members during 2018 when Burkina Faso,...

IFF CB Meeting news 2/2019: Central African Republic and Kiribati new IFF members

11th March 2019 - News , IFF News , Central Board , Kiribati Floorball News , Central African Republic News

The IFF floorball family continues to grow when the IFF Central Board (CB) approved the Central Africa Floorball Federation as IFF member no. 71 and the Kiribati Floorball National Federation as member no. 72. The IFF Central Board held it second...