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The Sweden men's national floorball team is the national
floorball
Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...
team of
Sweden
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, and a member of the
International Floorball Federation
The International Floorball Federation (IFF) is the worldwide governing body for the sport of floorball. It was founded on 12 April 1986 in Huskvarna, Sweden, by representatives from the national floorball associations of Finland, Sweden and Swit ...
. It has won ten out of 14
men's world championships (
1996
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1998
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2000
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2002
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2004
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2006
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2012
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2014
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2020
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and
2022
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). Its dominance has decreased somewhat though – in 1996 the overall goal difference was 83–3, while ten years later, the team suffered its first draw in the tournament versus Switzerland, and needed
sudden victory to defeat
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
in the final. In 2008, Finland defeated Sweden in overtime, giving Sweden its first loss in the World Floorball Championships. This loss happened in the final match, and therefore Sweden did not retain their 12-year title as world floorball champions. In 2012, Sweden defeated Finland and won the title for the first time in six years.
Current roster
''The roster for the 2020 WFC in Helsinki''
World Championships Record
Rankings and records
Rankings
All-time World Championship records
References
External links
*
Team page on IFF site
{{National floorball teams
Floorball in Sweden
Men's
Sweden
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