International Floorball Federation

International Floorball Federation

Official logo of the International Floorball Federation
Formation	April 12, 1986
Founded at	Huskvarna, Sweden
Type	Sports federation
Headquarters	Helsinki, Finland
Membership	62 members
Secretary General	John Liljelund
Website	www.floorball.org

The International Floorball Federation (IFF) is the worldwide governing body for the sport of floorball. It was founded on 12 April 1986 in Huskvarna, Sweden, by the national floorball associations of Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. As of June 2016, it had 62 member associations, with 4,330 clubs and 309,307 registered players.^[1] It is recognized by the IOC and is an ordinary member of the GAISF.

Members

The map of IFF members. Dark-green are ordinary members, light-green are provisional members.

This is a list of International Floorball Federation member nations. It includes associations, committees, confederations, federations, and unions.

There are currently 62 IFF members (43 ordinary members and 19 provisional members). The newest member is China and Haiti.

Ordinary members

Flag	Member name[2]	Founded in	IFF member	Website
	Australian Floorball Association	1996	1996	www.floorball.org.au
	Austrian Floorball Association	1996	1997	www.floorball.at
	Floorball Federation of Belarus	2009	2009	www.floorball.by
	Belgian Floorball Federation	1995	1995	www.floorballbelgium.be
	Brazilian Floorball Association	1998	1999	www.floorball.com.br
	Floorball Canada	2001	2001	www.floorballcanada.ca
	Czech Floorball Union	1992	1993	www.cfbu.cz
	Danish Floorball Federation	1989	1991	www.floorball.dk
	Estonian Floorball Union	1993	1994	www.saalihoki.ee
	Finnish Floorball Federation	1985	1986	www.salibandy.net
	French Floorball Federation	2002	2003	www.francefloorball.com
	Georgian Floorball Association	2002	2002	www.geofloorball.org
	German Floorball Association	1992	1994	www.floorball.de
	Hungarian Floorball Federation^1	1989	1992	www.hunfloorball.hu
	Italian Unihockey and Floorball Association	2000	2001	www.fiuf.it
	Icelandic Floorball Committee ^2	2005	2005	www.isisport.is
	Indian Floorball Federation	2001	2002	indianfloorballfederation.org/
	Indonesian Floorball Association	2009	2009	www.floorball.or.id
	Floorball Association of Iran^3	2008	2009	www.iranfloorball.com
	Israeli Floorball Association	2007	2007
	Jamaica Floorball Association		2007	www.floorballjamaica.org
	Japan Floorball Association	1983	1994	www.floorball.jp
	Korea Floorball Federation	2004	2005	www.floorball.or.kr
	Latvian Floorball Union	1993	1994	www.floorball.lv
	Liechtenstein Floorball Association ^4	1987	2005	www.unihockey.li
	Malaysian Floorball Association	2001	2002
	Netherlands Floorball and Unihockey Association	1993	1994	www.nefub.nl
	Floorball New Zealand	2009	2009	www.floorball.org.nz
	Norwegian Floorball Federation^5	1991	1992	www.innebandy.no
	Pakistan Floorball Federation	2003	2004
	Floorball Philippines	2011	2011	www.floorballphilippines.tk
	Polish Floorball Federation	1995	1999	www.pzunihokeja.pl
	Russian Floorball Federation	1992	1993	www.ffrus.ru
	Serbian Floorball Association	2007	2007	www.floorball.org.rs
	Singapore Floorball Association	1995	1995	www.sfa.sg
	Slovak Floorball Association	1998	1999	www.szfb.sk
	Slovenian Floorball Association	2000	2001	www.floorballzveza.si
	Spanish Unihockey and Floorball Association	1998	2001	www.unihockey.es
	Swedish Floorball Federation	1981	1986	www.innebandy.se
	Swiss Floorball Association	1985	1986	www.swissunihockey.ch
	Ukraine Floorball Federation	2004	2005	www.floorball.org.ua
	United Kingdom Floorball Federation^6	1995	2009	www.ukfloorball.org
	United States Floorball Association	2001	2001	www.usafloorball.org

     IFF founded

• ¹ The Hungarian Floorball Federation was originally established in 1989, but reorganized into a new organization in 1997.
• ² The Icelandic Floorball Committee is a division of the Icelandic National Olympic Committee, and therefore governed by it.
• ³ The Floorball Association of Iran is a division of the Iran Federation of Sport Associations, and therefore governed by it.
• ⁴ The Liechtenstein Floorball Association was established as a single floorball club, UHC Schaan.
• ⁵ The Norwegian Floorball Federation is a division of the Norway's Bandy Association, and therefore governed by it.
• ⁶ The Great Britain Floorball & Unihockey Association was the originating governing body representing floorball within Great Britain, before being replaced by the United Kingdom Floorball Federation in 2012.

Provisional members

Flag	Member name[3]	Founded in	Member	Website (if applicable)
	Argentinian Floorball Association	2007	2007	www.argentinaunihockey.com.ar
	Armenian Floorball Federation	1999	2006	www.floorballarm.narod.ru
	Cameroon Floorball Association	2013
	China Floorball Federation	2016	2016
	Cote d´Ivoire Floorball Federation	2014	2015
	Haitian Floorball Federation	2014	2016
	Irish Floorball Association		2007
	Lithuanian Floorball Federation	2010	2010	www.lgrf.lt
	Malta Floorball Association	2015	2015
	Moldavian Floorball Federation	2007	2007
	Mongolian Floorball Federation	2005	2006
	Mozambique Floorball Association	2012	2012
	Portuguese Floorball Federation	2007	2007
	Romanian Floorball Federation	2008	2008	www.floorball.ro
	Floorball Association of Sierra Leone	2008	2008
	Floorball South Africa	2013
	Thai Floorball Federation	2007	2007
	Floorball Turkey	2004	2008	www.florbol.org
	Uganda Floorball Association	2015	2016

Other

Confederations

Confederation Name [4]	Founded	Headquarters
Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation (AOFC)	2005	Singapore City, Singapore

Possible future IFF members

The nations stated below all have had some sort of contact with the sport of floorball. They may not necessarily play the sport on a day-to-day basis, but they all are possible candidates for becoming recognized as a future member nation of the International Floorball Federation.

Flag	Country Name [5][6][7]
	Bulgaria [8]
	Burma [9]
	Kurdistan [10]

Registered Players

Based on the amount of registered floorball players and a country's population, a list of the top 25 countries has been compiled:

Country	Registered Players	% of Population
Sweden	117,301	1.203%
Finland	51,876	0.947%
Czech Republic	38,122	0.362%
Switzerland	30,153	0.367%
Germany	10,642	0.013%
Norway	7,409	0.143%
Denmark	6,500	0.115%
Slovakia	4,689	0.086%
Latvia	3,029	0.127%
Russia	3,000	0.002%
Japan	2,561	0.002%
Singapore	1,649	0.030%
Poland	1,617	0.004%
Australia	1,570	0.007%
South Korea	1,500	0.003%
Estonia	1,464	0.112%
Canada	1,210	0.003%
Netherlands	1,076	0.006%
Austria	1,067	0.012%
India	1,044	0.000%
France	1,029	0.002%
Belgium	939	0.008%
Hungary	905	0.009%
Brazil	882	0.000%
Great Britain	829	0.001%
Malaysia	688	0.001%

Notes and references

1. IFF
2. , IFF - History in short
3. , IFF - History in short
4. , IFF - AOFC
5. , IFF - Members
6. , Planet of Floorball
7. , Floorball 4 All
8. , IFF - News
9. , IFF - News
10. , IFF - News

See also

• IFF World Ranking
• SportAccord
• Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations

External links

• Official web site