The 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships were the ninth men's World Floorball Championship. The tournament took place in Bern and Zurich, Switzerland in December 2012.
Qualification There were five qualification groups for 11 places in the final tournament: Americas (2 teams) Asia & Oceania (2 teams from 2012 Asia Pacific Floorball Championship) Europe (7 teams from three groups)
Five best teams of 2010 World Championships automatically qualified for the competition:
Format The teams will be drawn into four groups of four. Two best-placed teams of each group will move into quarter-finals. The winners of the Quarter-finals continue to the Semi-finals. The losers of the Semi-finals will play two games and the winners of these games will play for 5th and 6th place and for the losers of these two matches the tournament is over. The 7th team will be the team losing to the team which achieves the 5th place on the tournament. Third and fourth placed teams in the group stage will play for places 9–12 and 13–16 respectively.
Teams Team Method ofqualification Finalsappearance Lastappearance Previous bestperformance 2nd, Americas qualification 2nd 2010 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 1st, European qualification 2 4th 2010 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 2nd, European qualification 1 7th 2010 3rd, European qualification 3 2nd 1996 2nd, Asia & Oceania qualification 2nd 2010 2010 World Championships 8th 2010 1st, European qualification 1 9th 2010 2nd, European qualification 3 2nd 2010 1st, European qualification 3 8th 2010 1st, Asia & Oceania qualification 3rd 2010 2nd, European qualification 2 1st – 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 2010 World Championships 9th 2010 1st, Americas qualification 1st –
Group stage The draw was made in the beginning of March.
Final groups Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
Championship schedule
Preliminary round The top two teams from each group advanced to the quarter finals, while the last two teams play in the placement round.
Team advanced to the quarter finals
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Playoff round
Quarter finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Placement round
13–16
9–12
15th place match
13th place match
11th place match
9th place match
5–8
5th place match
Ranking Official 2012 Rankings according to the IFF:
Rk.Team 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
References
External links Official 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships site Official results