2022 Men's World Floorball Championships

The 2022 Men's World Floorball Championships will be the 14th World Championships in men's floorball. The tournament will be played in Zürich and Winterthur, Switzerland, and will take place from 5-13 November, 2022.

2022 Men's World Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country  Switzerland
Dates5–13 November 2022
Teams16
← 2020

WFC 2022 Qualification

36 teams registered for the 14th IFF Men's World Floorball Championships. 16 will qualify reach to the final championship. Host country, Switzerland, qualifies automatically. Côte d'Ivoire will participate in the European qualifiers for the second time in a row, remaining the only team from Africa to ever participate in the World Floorball Championship Qualifiers. India will be participating in the qualifiers for the first time since 2010. China registered for the first time ever, while Malaysia was the lone nation to register in 2020 but fail to do so in 2022. Philippines registered in 2020, but was not able to participate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will be doing so for the first time in 2022.[1]

Date Venue Vacancies Participants Qualified
Host nation 1   Switzerland   Switzerland
Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation 31 May - 5 June 2022a Singaporea 4  Australia

 China

 India

 Japan

 South Korea

 New Zealand

 Philippines

 Singapore

 Thailand

 TBD
European Qualification 1 25 - 28 May 2022 Valmiera 10 Group A

 Finland

 Estonia

 Netherlands

 Great Britain

Group B

 Denmark

 Latvia

 Iceland

 Ukraine

 TBD
European Qualification 2 25 - 28 May 2022 Kocēnib Group C

 Sweden

 Hungary

 France

Group D

 Norway

 Poland

 Belgium

 Liechtenstein

European Qualification 3 23 - 27 May 2022 Celano Group E

 Czech Republic

 Spain

 Slovenia

 Italy

Group F

 Germany

 Slovakia

 Austria

 Ivory Coast

Americas Qualification 29 - 30 April 2022 Arlington 1  Canada

 United States

 TBD
Total 16

a. ^ Details on the Asia-Oceania qualifier have not yet been confirmed, but a proposed solution is to use the results of the 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games as a qualifier.[2]

b. ^ City may be changed to Katowice.[3]

References
  1. "36 teams registered for Men's World Floorball Championships 2022". IFF Main Site. 2021-04-08. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  2. "Men's WFC 2022 qualification tournaments confirmed". WFC 2022. 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  3. "Qualifications". WFC 2022. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
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