Finland Floorball News

Follow the first Finnish Super Cup on IFF YouTube channel

11/09/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News

The new Super Cup will start the floorball season in Finland on Saturday 12th of September. The event was originally planned to take place in Mikkeli, but due to the local coronavirus situation, the event will now be played at Ideapark in...

Finnish Floorball Federation intends to apply for postponement of WFC 2020

28/08/2020 - News , IFF News , Finland Floorball News , Men's WFC 2020 , World Floorball Championships

The Finnish Floorball Federation has informed today that they will apply to postpone the Men's World Floorball Championships 2020 with one year. The International Floorball Federation Central Board (CB) will discuss the application during its...

Super Cup to start the F-Liiga season 2020-21 in Finland

26/06/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News

The Finnish floorball season 2020-2021 will begin in Mikkeli on 12th of September. That is when the best teams of the previous season will play each other in Super Cup. Super Cup is an event where F-Liiga title holders are challenged by Finnish Cup...

Jani Lipsanen is the next head coach of the Finnish Women's U19 team

08/06/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News

The board of the Finnish Floorball Federation has named Jani Lipsanen as the head coach of the Women's U19 national team. Hannu Santanen and Ville Turunen were also elected to the coaching team.  The search for the Women's U19 head coach was...

Making floorball history: Finland’s highest floorball league is now F-Liiga

20/05/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News

The familiar Salibandyliiga brand becomes history today as it is time for F-Liiga. Also, all logos and colours have a new fresh look and Finland's highest floorball league now has its own website apart from the Finnish Floorball Federation's. The...

Pekka Ilmivalta new Executive director for Finnish Floorball Federation

19/05/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News

Finnish Floorball Federation appoint Pekka Ilmivalta as their new Executive director. Pekka Ilmivalta joins Finnish Floorball Federation from national betting company Veikkaus as new Executive director. The recruitment process for the new...

2019-2020 Season's best awarded in Finland

27/04/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News

The season's best in Finland were announced on Saturday 25th of April. Due to the premature ending of this season, the best club was not awarded. The season's best (excluding the best referees) were chosen by the Finnish Floorball Federation...

Luomaniemi and Rantanen continue working for women's floorball in Classic

24/04/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News

The former Finnish national team players Katri Luomaniemi and Nina Rantanen (nee Rantala) continue their work for women's floorball in the Floorball Club Classic. Luomaniemi will coach Classic's women's team next season and Rantanen will start as...

Miko Kailiala is looking forward to the WFC 2020 in Helsinki

17/04/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News , Men's WFC 2020

Miko Kailiala attended the Finnish Floorball Federation's quarantine live on Instagram on Tuesday. Kailiala has been waiting for the Men's WFC 2020 for a long time: he marked the dates to his calendar already in 2015.  In the Finnish Floorball...

We support each other - Welhot helps Croatian floorball players

31/03/2020 - News , Finland Floorball News , Croatia Floorball News

The Finnish Floorball club Welhot has decided to help the floorball players in Croatia. The equipment will be send to the city of Donja Stubica when the club can return back to their normal activities.  The earthquake that struck Croatia and...