Finland Floorball News

Ismo Haaponiemi General Secretary of WFC 2010

26th August 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Men's WFC 2010

Mr. Ismo Haaponiemi has been elected the General Secretary of the 8th Men´s World Floorball Championships played in Finland in December 2010. Haaponiemi s currently the General Secretary of the Finnish Floorball Federation and has been working...

Tapanilan Erä tied the Tigers to qualify to the EFC Final Round

23rd August 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , EFC 2009

Tigers started as expected with an active and maybe even too aggressive man-man defense, since Ales Zalesny took an unnecessary penalty for holding after only 21 seconds. Erä’s power play was still somewhat rusty and especially Jani Helenius...

Finnish Championships in Beach, Swamp and Street Floorball

14th August 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , International Club Tournaments

In Finland several forms of Finnish Championships in Floorball were played during the summer when the normal Floorball season is on holidays.  The 4th Finnish Championships in Beach Floorball took place in Kalajoki on 6th of June. Altogether...

Finnish Women´s national team player coaching in Australia

15th June 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Australia Floorball News

The Department of Sports and Recreation from Western Australia is funding Anne Suomalainen´s trip to Australia through its Coach in Residence Program and she has now arrived in Perth. This program helps various sports to bring experienced...

Season´s best elected in Finland

10th May 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News

Before the start of the U19 WFC 2nd semi-final yesterday the season´s best floorball profiles were elected in Finland. Male player: Tero Tiitu, SSV (Helsinki) Top class performances as both forward and defender and was one of the important...

Men´s Under 19 World Championships about to start

4th May 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News , Men's U19 WFC 2009

The 5th Men´s U19 WFC will start on Wednesday in Turku & Raisio, Finland. The U19 WFC is played with 16 teams, eight teams in the A- and B-division. A record amount of teams registered for these championships as the qualification, played...

Finnish Floorball Federation member of the National Olympic Committee

28th April 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News

The Finnish Floorball Federation (FFF) received the recognition by the Finnish Olympic Committee on April 28th. The Finnish Floorball Federation´s recognition is a result of a long process and the finally the recognition became possible when...

SSV is Finnish Champion for third time in a row

11th April 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News

SSV Helsinki is the Champion 2008-2009 in Finland. SSV won against Tapanilan Erä in the third Final and ended the Final series with three straight victories. This was already the third Championship victory for SSV in the past three years. The...

SC Classic Champion in the Finnish Women´s Salibandyliiga

9th April 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News

SC Classic from Tampere renewed their Championship title in Finland as they won the Finnish Women´s league for the second year in a row. In the Final series SC Classic played against Jyväskylän Happee. The third Final was played on Wednesday...

Exel sells its Floorball business to Cape Nordic

27th March 2009 - News , Finland Floorball News

Exel sells the Exel Sports Brands´ Floorball business to Cape Nordic Oy, a sports and fashion distributor based in Finland. According to Kauppalehti.fi - Financial market data in Finland, the net sales of Cape Nordic Group were approximately EUR...