Floorball is an invasive sport specially played with e eld players and a goalkeeper on each

side. It is played with aplastic stick and a plastic hollow ball, with holes. During the

25years of Floorball, the development and growth of the sport has been amazing.

It was founded in 1981 in Sweden

The main objective is to score as many goals as possible in

the opponent’s goal and of course to prevent the opponent

from scoring in your own goal.

The players adapted

to Floorball easily because of the similarity of the games, like

it is with all stick and ball sports. They were also impressed

because of the skill and no contact part of the sport. The safe-

ness of the sport can be used as an attraction especially with

younger children. In Asia and Australia, a lot of the players

who pick up Floorball have a background in ln hockey

The st Cosmo-plastic stick was introduced in Sweden 1968 and after that a lot of different
versions of games with balls and pucks were played in Sweden. In the middle of the 1970 ́s the
idea of trying to establish ONE sport based on the Cosmo-material and within once from
basketball and ice hockey. Floorball was first

brought to Sweden by students and from there it has been

spread throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

Advantages of playing floorball:

-Improved levels of health – mental and physical

-Increased social interaction, social inclusion and involve-

ment skills,
The IFF is promoting

Men and Women World Floorball Championship’s equally

and the World Championships have been played for both

men and women since the IFF foundation.

It has very strict rules for

the stick, ball and rink dimensions, due to the safety of the

players.

BASIC RULES

Teams consist of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 20

players.

When given a free hit, the opponent must be at least

3 meters away from the ball (sticks included)

. The ball may be played from the air if it is below the

knee level.

No form of pushing or physically tackling the body is allowed, but you may play shoulder to
shoulder.

In order to play the game, you need to know how to execute

certain skills. Theses kills are

Shooting

Passing and receiving

Dribbling

Floorball is easy to start because it doesn’t require much

equipment. You only need a stick, ball and shoes

-The length of the stick should reach to somewhere

between your chest and belly button.

-The ball is hollow and made of plastic and is found in a wide

variety of colors.

The best way to develop the sport in a new country is how-

ever through the local population. For example, in Turkey the sport got started by Finnish and

Swedish telecommunication personnel working there in

the early 90’s. They invited friends and local co-workers to

join in.

Finding the appropriate facilities is one of the primary tasks

when creating the environment for a new sport also Finding the equipment might be one of
the hardest chal-

lenges when starting to play

For recorder money one of the things that you can do is:

-Selling (i.e. food products, household objects)

-Social events(dances,movies,dinner

• Government and government agencies

• Industrial companies

• The trades union movement

Floorball is one of the most popular sports in the schools

in which the sport has been introduced. The popularity of

Floorball in both the pupils and teachers’ eyes derives from

the fact that Floorball is one of the few team sports in which

everyone can participate. and it as also quite inexpensive for the schools

to buy Floorball equipment packagesfor the pupils.

The development of Floorball was started in the universities

as it was the students who brought and spread the sport to

Europe.