The 2017

Women's World Floorball Championships The Women's World Floorball Championship is an international floorball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the International Floorball Federation, International Floorball Federation (IFF). It is held regula ...

was the 11th World Championships in women's

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. The tournament took place in

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between 1–9 December 2017. Sixteen teams participated and the competition was won by

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Qualification

All teams, apart from the host country (Slovakia), will have to qualify for the Final Round via the qualifications, and there will be a total of 6 qualification groups - one in the Americas, one in Asia-Oceania and four in Europe. Thailand participated in the women's event for the first-ever time.

Venues

The games of the 2017 Floorball World Championship will take place in

in the

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and in HANT Arena.

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Playoff round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze-medal game

Final

Placement round

13th–16th-place semifinals

9th–12th-place semifinals

5th–8th-place semifinals

15th-place game

13th-place game

11th-place game

9th-place game

7th-place game

5th-place game

Statistics

Scoring leaders

''GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties In Minutes''
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Tournament awards

* MVP: Emelie Wibron * Best goalkeeper: Tiltu Siltanen * Best defender: Moa Tschöp * Best defender:

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* Best forward: Emelie Wibron * Best centre: Corin Rüttimann * Best forward: Paulína Hudáková

Final ranking

External links

Official site

References

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