Bandy World Cup Women is an annual
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
competition for the best women's club teams from around the world hosted in
Sweden
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. It was named to correspond to the
Bandy World Cup
The Bandy World Cup is an international bandy competition played in Sweden at the beginning of the bandy season every year, in autumn. The participating teams qualify based on their results in the previous bandy season.
The World Cup is not playe ...
for men's club teams.
Participation
In 2015,
Canada
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sent a
Winnipeg
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-based
girls high school ice hockey team which had learned to play bandy to the tournament.
Winners
References
External links
Info
{{European sport club competitions
World Cup
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...
Bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
Sports club competitions
2003 establishments in Sweden
October sporting events
Recurring sporting events established in 2003
International bandy competitions hosted by Sweden
Multi-national professional sports leagues