, - 6th overall
Group B
2nd 6th overall
Group B
2nd 7th overall
Group B
3rd 7th overall
Group B
2nd 9th overall
Group B
4th 8th overall
Group B
2nd 8th overall
Group B
2nd 8th overall
Group B
2nd 8th overall
Group B
2nd 8th overall
Group B
2nd 7th overall
Group B
1st
(lost qualification to Group A
in 2011) 8th overall
Group B
2nd 8th overall
Group B
2nd 8th overall
Group B
2nd 8th overall
Division A
Last place 9th overall
Group B
1st
(moving up to group A) 14th overall
Group B
6th , - The Canada national bandy team ( French: ''Équipe nationale de bandy du Canada'') refers to the

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teams representing Canada. Only a national men's senior team exists at present. There is the men's national team and the women's national team. Both teams are overseen by the Manitoba Bandy Federation and Canada Bandy whose organizations are members of the

Federation of International Bandy The Federation of International Bandy (FIB; french: Fédération internationale de bandy, russian: Международная федерация хоккея с мячом, sv, Internationella Bandyförbundet) is the international governing bo ...

. This article deals chiefly with the national men's team. For the women's team please see

Canada women's national bandy team , - , - , - Canada's women's national bandy team (French: ''Équipe nationale féminine de bandy du Canada'') is the women's bandy team representing Canada. Historically the squad has been based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The women's ...

. Bandy was first introduced to Canada in the city of

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

in 1986. The initial organizations for bandy in Canada were called the "Bandy Federation of Manitoba" and "Canada Bandy Association/Federation". The men compete in the

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. Canada's national men's bandy team made their world debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship. While Canada is a country with a strong tradition in

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and

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, both sports are played on an

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and Canada does not have artificial ice rinks large enough to qualify as regulation sized

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s. As a result, Canada's national men's team practices at home on

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s or other substitute surfaces. In the past, the Canadian women's bandy team practiced on a frozen water hazard on a Winnipeg golf course. Team Canada occasionally goes to the United States to practice in areas where full-sized bandy fields exist. The Canadian team also continues to play in the annual

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History

While early forms of what is now called "bandy" have been recorded to have been played in Canada as far back as the 1850s after having been introduced by British soldiers, Canada did not form a national bandy team until the 1980s. The game was initially called "hockey on the ice". However, the sport of

, (which used the smaller

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and pucks rather than the larger

s) and a

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, organized in Canada in 1875, absorbing bandy sports in the process and resulting in bandy's disappearance from North America. The sport did however formalize in England at the same time when ice hockey was being formalized in Canada. The first Team Canada for bandy was the Canadian men's national bandy team in 1991.

World Championship record

The men's team has competed in the annual

several times starting in

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Team Canada Senior

1991 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad made it's world debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship, in the championship in

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1993 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1993 Bandy World Championship in

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1995 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1995 Bandy World Championship in the

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1997 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1997 Bandy World Championship in

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1999 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 1999 Bandy World Championship.

2001 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2001 Bandy World Championship.

2003 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2003 Bandy World Championship.

2005 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed in the

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, where they lost to the

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for the "B" title.

2010 Seniors

At the

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Canada won Group B for the first time. Canada, however, lost the Group A qualification match against the United States by a score of 6–9, and thus would again play in Group B at the 2011 Bandy World Championship in

. For this Championship Canada's team included 4 players playing professionally in club teams in

2012 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the

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2014 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 2014 Bandy World Championship in

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, Russia, 26 January – 2 February 2014.

2015 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the 2015 Bandy World Championship. There were reports about them returning to the tournament for the

2016 Bandy World Championship Bandy World Championship 2016, the XXXVI Bandy World Championship, was held with Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, as host region. Most of the games was played at the Volga-Sport-Arena in Ulyanovsk. Because of its higher spectator capacity, the group sta ...

(2016 WCS), but in the end they did not.

2016 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the

2017 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad participated in the 2017 Bandy World Championship, where they won the Gold Medal of the Division B tournament, qualifying for Division A in 2018.

2018 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the 2018 Bandy World Championship.

2020 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2020 Bandy World Championship.

2022 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the

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Gallery

File:Team Canada Bandy 1991.jpg, Team Canada (1991) - World bandy debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship in

File:Canada national bandy team.JPG, Team Canada (2012) at the

References

External links

Official SiteCanadian 2010 World Championship Bandy Team RosterWinnipeg Free Press Article on 2009 World Championship Team
{{National bandy teams National bandy teams

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Bandy in Canada