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Sweden women's national bandy team represent
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
in the
Women's Bandy World Championship The Women's Bandy World Championships is an international sports tournament for women and the premier international competition for women's bandy among bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy ...
in the winter team sport of
bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, 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 playin ...
. The team is controlled by the
Swedish Bandy Association The Swedish Bandy Association () is the governing body of the winter team sport of bandy in Sweden. It organizes the bandy leagues, Elitserien and Allsvenskan for men and Damallsvenskan for women, and the men's and women's national teams. It w ...
. Sweden won the first ever bandy world championship for women in 2004.


History

The first recorded international match between women's bandy teams from Sweden and Finland took place in
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in 1935 at the Helsingfors Ice Stadium, where a portion of the match was captured by
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. Another international friendly between women's national teams was played in
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in 1980, where Sweden beat Finland by 14-3.


Women's Bandy World Championship

The team has participated in all
Women's Bandy World Championship The Women's Bandy World Championships is an international sports tournament for women and the premier international competition for women's bandy among bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy ...
s since the first tournament in
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
. The team has won every championship tournament except in
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, when they lost the final to
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. For the
2016 Women's Bandy World Championship 2016 Women's Bandy World Championship was held in Roseville, Minnesota, USA, on February 18–21, 2016. The Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval hosted the games. This was the eighth Women's Bandy World Championship and the second Women's Bandy World ...
, the team got an official song, "Watch Out" by Furfobia.


See also

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Bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, 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 playin ...
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Rink bandy Rink bandy is a variant of the larger sport of bandy. Unlike bandy which is played on a large bandy field, rink bandy is played on significantly smaller ice hockey-sized ice rinks. While a bandy field is about the same size as a football pi ...
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Women's Bandy World Championship The Women's Bandy World Championships is an international sports tournament for women and the premier international competition for women's bandy among bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy ...
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Great Britain women's national bandy team Great Britain women's national bandy team represents the United Kingdom in the sport of bandy. It is governed by the Great Britain Bandy Association. The team made its international debut at the 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship, finishing i ...
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United States women's national bandy team United States women's national bandy team represents the United States in the Women's Bandy World Championship. The team has participated in all Bandy World Championships for women since the first tournament in 2004. Women's World Championship ...
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Russia women's national bandy team Russia women's national bandy team is the women's team representing Russia in the sport of bandy. The team competes in the Women's Bandy World Championship. On the International Olympic Committee's recommendations following the 2022 Russian invasi ...
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Finland women's national bandy team The Finland women's national bandy team (, ) represents Finland in the Women's Bandy World Championship and other international bandy competitions. It is governed by the Finnish Bandy Association, a member of the Federation of International Ba ...
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Norway women's national bandy team 240px, The Norway women's national bandy team in 2006 Norway Women's National Bandy Team represents Norway in international bandy competitions and friendly matches against other nations in the sport of bandy. The team has participated in all Wor ...
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Switzerland women's national bandy team Switzerland women's national bandy team represents Switzerland in international bandy tournaments. It is controlled by the Federation of Swiss Bandy and made its debut at the 2018 Women's Bandy World Championship. See also *Bandy *Rink bandy *Wo ...
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China women's national bandy team China women's national bandy team represents China in the sport of bandy. It is governed by the China Bandy Federation. It made its Women's Bandy World Championship, World Championship debut in the 2016 Women's Bandy World Championship, 2016 tourna ...
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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 ...
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Hungary women's national bandy team Hungary women's national bandy team competes for Hungary in international bandy tournaments. The team has so far only made appearances in two world championship tournaments, in 2007 (as the host country) and 2008 (in Sweden). It has lost all its m ...
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Soviet Union women's national bandy team Soviet Union women's national bandy team represented the former Soviet Union in the sport of bandy. It was governed by the Bandy and Field Hockey Federation of the USSR. The Soviet women did not form a national team until around 1990. In 1990 and ...


References

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