Contents: 1 UPCOMING EVENTS 1.1 EuroFloorball Cup 2008 1.2 World University Floorball Championships 2008 1.3 Men s 7th WFC in Czech Republic 2008 1.4 Men s U19 WFC 2009 1.5 Women's WFC 2009 1.5.1 Women's WFC 2009 Qualification 1.6 World Schools Championships in Floorball 2. DEVELOP- MENT PROGRAM 3 REFEREE NOMINATIONS 4 REFEREE OB- SERVER NOMINA- TIONS 5 PARTNER- SHIP AGREEMENT 6 GENERAL AS- SEMBLY Information Letter 3/2008 1 UPCOMING EVENTS Men s Group A AIK IBF (SWE) SV Wiler-Ersigen (SUI) Tatran Stresovice (CZE) 1.1 EuroFloorball Cup 2008 The EFC 2008 Final round will be played in Winterthur (close to Zürich)Switzerland the 8th 12th of October 2008. Men s Group B The tournament is played in Eulachhallen in two arenas. The schedule and information about the tickets is found in the organiser s webpage www.efc2008.ch. Warberg IC (SWE) SSV Helsinki (FIN) Tapanilan Erä (FIN) Latvijas Avize (LAT) Sarpsborg IBK (NOR) Office contacts: Phone: +358 (0)9 45421425 Fax: +358 (0)9 45421450 E-mail:office@floorball.org Alakiventie 2 00920 Helsinki Web: www.floorball.org Women s Group A Women s Group B UHC Dietlikon (SUI) IKSU (SWE) HFK Dekanka (Cze) SC Classic (FIN) Holmlia SK (NOR) FC Outlaws (DEN) Balrog B/S IK (SWE) Rubene (LAT) EFC 2008 TV and Internet matches There will be matches broadcasted from the EFC 2008 Final round. At least the Swiss TV and Finnish TV have shown interest to broadcast EFC matches. The Swiss TV will show the finals in case a Swiss team is participating and the Finnish TV is interested in the Men s final. Also Eurosport 2 will show the Men s final delayed. Further more is working on a test project to stream all the matches in the Men s group via the Internet. Please look for further information on the web-page during the upcoming weeks.
PAGE 2 Referees for the EFC 2008 Jesper Juul / Ricky Kronow (DEN) Jukka Paso / Anssi Silvo (FIN) Johan Kruseman / Eelco Hoogwout (NED) Jan Magnar Ingebrigstli / Hans Petter Fagernes (NOR) Aleksander Bienkowski / Marek Chominicki (POL) Johan Råsbrink / Håkan Grahn-Gustavsson (SWE) Thomas Baumgartner / Thomas Kläsi (SUI) Thomas Erhard / Philippe Renz (SUI) 1.2 World University Floorball Championships 2008 The 3rd World University Floorball championships will be played in Kuortane and Seinäjoki, the 6th 9th of November. This tournament will be the first FISU event in which both women s and men s tournaments are played. Read more from the official WUC 2008 webpage:www.wucfloorball2008.com Coaching seminar during WUC 2008 The Finnish Floorball Federation is organising a Coaching Seminar at the Kuortane Sports Institute in cooperation with the. The seminar is organised on the 5th of November starting at 13:00. Men's teams: Czech Republic Georgia Hungary Japan Latvia Sweden Women's teams: Japan Georgia Sweden Switzerland (the teams still to be confirmed by FISU) The seminar is meant for the coaching staff of the participating countries of the World University Floorball Championships but also for other interested Floorball coaches. The theme in the seminar is offensive play and the following topics will be emphasized during the approximately three hour seminar: basics in the offensive play, counter attacks, openings and transition game. All participants will receive a CD including the seminar material. The seminar lecturers are the head of education and coaching in the Finnish Floorball Federation, Mr. Jari Oksanen and Mr. Petri Kettunen and the seminar language is English. The seminar is free of charge, but the participants need to register for the seminar by e-mail maarit.laitinen@kuortane.com latest the 31st of October 2008. 1.3 Men s 7th WFC in Czech Republic 2008 The Championships will be played the 6th-14th of December in the Czech Republic. All A-division and B-division group matches will be played in Ostrava and the final days in Prague. The top 7 teams from the A-division and the winner of the B-division are directly qualified for the WFC 2010. WFC A-division: WFC B-division: Group A Group B Group C Group D Sweden Germany Hungary Czech Republic Switzerland Slovenia Netherlands Latvia Denmark Austria Japan Italy Norway Singapore USA Russia Estonia Great Britain Poland
PAGE 3 WFC 2008 TV matches All in all there will as it looks now, be 15 matches broadcasted from the WFC 2008. So far the following TV companies have informed that they will show matches from the WFC: Denmark: DaFU has shown interest in Danish matches, discussions ongoing : YLE will broadcast the possible Finnish semi-final and medal match and also discussing additional group matches Latvia: LT7 will broadcast LAT-RUS, LAT- CZE and the final Norway: Discussions ongoing with NBF Sweden: TV4 will broadcast the match CZE-SWE, both the possible semi-final and final Switzerland: SFR will broadcast the final, if Switzerland plays, and in addition they have asked for highlights from all Swiss matches Eurosport: Eurosport2 will broadcast in total 10 or 11 matches Media accreditation Referees for the WFC 2008 The media accreditation for this event has started. All the media is asked to apply for the press and media accreditation directly from the Men's WFC official web-pages: www.wfc2008.cz. The last day for the accreditation is the 15th of October 2008. Daniel Bartosek & Michael Bartosek (CZE) Petr Cerny & Jiri Janousek (CZE) Mikko Alakare & Vesa Vilkki (FIN) Kim-Alexander Hofgaard Jorstad & Rune Ali Zouhar (NOR) Thomas Andersson & Kalle Fahlander (SWE) Mike Bengtsson & Martin Polverari (SWE) Thomas Baumgartner & Thomas Kläsi (SUI) Thomas Erhard & Philippe Renz (SUI) Ticket sale & prices: Tickets for the A-division final day matches in the O2 arena (previously Sazka arena) in Prague can be found at www.sazkaticket.cz. Tickets for the group stage matches in Ostrava s ČEZ arena can be bought through ticketportal.cz. The ticket sale for the B-division final day matches in the New Sparta arena in Prague starts in October. More important WFC 2008 information and the contacts to several official travel partners can be found on the WFC 2008 webpage www.wfc2008.cz Ostrava - ČEZ ARÉNA (main and B arena): Group matches Day ticket 4,- Group matches Day ticket Best Seats 10,- Group matches Five-day ticket 12,- Group matches Five-day ticket Best Seats 36,- All prices in EUR, all taxes included. Prague - O2 arena: Semifinals/Finals Day ticket: III. Category 10,- / 12,- II. Category 16,- / 18,- I. Category 24,- / 28,- Prague - New Sparta Arena: Division B games and Placement games: Day ticket 4,-
PAGE 4 1.4 Men s U19 WFC 2009 The 5th Men s U19 WFC will be played in Turku and Raisio (20 km in between), the 6th - 10th of May 2009. The arena of Raisio has 700 seats and Turku arena has the capacity up to 11.000 A-division: Sweden, Czech Republic,, Switzerland, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, Denmark B-division: Poland, Germany, Estonia, Austria, Japan, Canada, Russia and Hungary 1.5 Women's WFC 2009 The Women's 7th WFC will be played in Västerås, Sweden the 5th 12th of December 2009. Since 24 teams have registered for the event a qualification tournament will be played. Directly qualified teams are: A-division: Sweden,, Switzerland, Latvia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Russia, Norway, USA, Poland B-division: Singapore, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Canada In Västerås the whole tournament can be played in the Rocklunda area. The group matches will be played in two different arenas and the Play off matches will be played in the new ABB Arena. 1.5.1 Women's WFC 2009 Qualification to B-division The WFC Qualification is played in Slovenia the 4th - 8th of February 2009. Eight teams qualify for three spots in the B-division: Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Austria, Estonia, Slovenia, Georgia and Ukraine. 1.6 World Schools Championships in Floorball The International School Sport Federation (ISF) has decided to organise the World Schools Floorball Championships 2009 under the aegis of the ISF in Trencin in Slovakia from February 28th 7th of March 2009. Only school teams (one boy and one girl team/country) with players born in 1992, 1993 and 1994 may enter the event. The teams may include a maximum of 17 players + 2 goalkeepers that must have been enrolled at the same school since the beginning of the school year 2008-2009. More information is to be found on the ISF webpage www.isfsports.org/sports/ 2 DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM The United States Floorball Association is organising the first Floorball coaching seminar as a part of the Floorball Development Program. The seminar is organised for the Fresno State University students from the 26th - 28th of September 2008 in California. At the same time there will be a seminar organised for the Floorball clubs in the United States.
PAGE 5 3 REFEREE NOMINATIONS The Member Associations have nominated Referees for Referees for 2008-2010. All in all there are two referee pairs more than during the past two years and for the first time referees have also been nominated from Spain and USA. The following Referees have been nominated as Referees for 2008-2010: Thomas Antretter / Hannes Dolzer (AUT) Michael Bartošek / Daniel Bartošek (CZE) Martin Sýkora / Ondřej Sýkora (CZE) Petr Černý / Jiří Janoušek (CZE) Ondřej Vašiček / Marek Nováček (CZE) Kim Falgren Vilger / Jens Christian Skrubbeltrang (DEN) Ricky Kronow / Jesper Juul (DEN) Mikko Alakare / Vesa Vilkki (FIN) Jukka Paso / Anssi Silvo (FIN) Marco Suvanto / Anssi Tuomi (FIN) Tommi Järventausta / Miikka Myllykangas (FIN) Tuija Kosonen / Heli Saario (FIN) Steven Piorun / Jörg Heuer (GER) Gábor Kelemen / László Vörös (HUN) Gergely Kovács / György Liebe (HUN) Edoardo Panighini / Fabrizio Ceccuto (ITA) Eisaburo Okano / Takashi Motoki (JPN) Vitālijs Ksenzovs / Andris Pīlups (LAT) Mārtiņš Larinovs / Mārtiņš Gross (LAT) Joost Schram / Bart Kroese (NED) Johan Kruseman / Eelco Hoogwout (NED) Kim-Alexander Hofgaard / Jørstad Rune Ali Zouhar (NOR) Jan Magnar Ingebrigtsli / Hans Petter Fagernes (NOR) Aleksander Bieńkowski / Marek Chomnicki (POL) Ismail Sharil Lim / Dennis Chi Minh (SNG) José Luis Jimémez / Manuel Elvira (ESP) Iván Martínez Ortega / Victor Manuel Rubio Feliu (ESP) Mike Bengtsson / Martin Polverari (SWE) Thomas Andersson / Kalle Fahlander (SWE) Jennie Fahlberg / Caroline Gestrup (SWE) Glenn Boström / Sven Hammerin (SWE) Johan Råsbrink / Håkan Grahn-Gustavsson (SWE) Tomas Haglund / Stefan Olsson (SWE) Daniel Skoog / Ola Pettersson (SWE) Thomas Baumgartner / Thomas Kläsi (SUI) Thomas Erhard / Philippe Renz (SUI) Niklaus Güpfert / Roland Servodio (SUI) Silvio Gmür / Tobias Wunden (SUI) Oleksandr Bakanychev / Tetiana Kulbaka (UKR) Vincent Faso / Carl Karlsson (USA)
PAGE 6 4 REFEREE OBSERVER NOMINATIONS The Member Associations also nominated Referee Observers for 2008-2010. For the first time there Referee Observers have been nominated from Australia, Singapore and Spain. Peter Harris (AUS) Petr Seda (CZE) Radek Hora (CZE) Ken Poulsen (DEN) Ronny Brännbacka (FIN) Klaus Koskela (FIN) Lauri Oksanen (FIN) Sami Rahikainen (FIN) Jan Nordli (NOR) Michel Boudville (SNG) Carlos Herrera Lopez (ESP) Björn Ingolf (SWE) Göran Norberg (SWE) Mats Öster (SWE) Beat Eggenberger (SUI) Lukas Gyger (SUI) Frank Leuenberger (SUI) 5 PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT The has signed a new sponsorship agreement with the office furniture company AJ for the next three seasons. AJ will have the visibility on the referee outfits and in the venues for the events. 6 GENERAL ASSEMBLY The General Assembly is held in Prague, Czech Republic on Saturday the 13th of December 2008 during the Men s 7th World Floorball Championships 2008 at the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague starting at 09.30 (address: Freyova 33, 19000 Prague 9, Vysocany). All Member Associations are welcome to participate in the General Assembly with two representatives each. Please remember to register the representatives no later than the 30th of November 2008 at the e-mail address: sahala@floorball.org. All member Associations are entitled to make proposals to the General Assembly, but only the ordinary member Associations are entitled to vote, see 30 Statutes. Nota bene that the ordinary members must have fulfilled all their obligations, i.e. amongst other things have no debts to the unless an approved payment plan is followed. See 32 Statutes. The position that the invites to nominate candidates are: President of the 6 members of the Central Board Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee (DC) 2 members and 2 substitutes of DC Chairman of the Appeal Committee (AC) 2 members and 2 substitutes of AC Nominations, motions and proposals shall be sent to:, Alakiventie 2, 00920 Helsinki,, or fax: +358-9-45421450 no later than 60 days before the GA (14th of October).