Champions Cup (floorball)

Ceremony at the end of a game at the Champions Cup 2014 in Zurich

The Champions Cup , until 2011 EuroFloorball Cup (abbreviated EFC , also known as the Unihockey European Cup ), is the European Cup in floorball . It is held every year by the International Floorball Federation between the best teams from different European countries for men and women. The tournament, which until 2007 was officially called the European Cup (or European Cup ; in English, European Cup ), was held for the first time in 1993.

Current titleholders (2017) ^[obsolete] are IBF Falun for men and IKSU for women.

history

The competition first took place in 1993. The first male winner in Stockholm was Balrog IK from Sweden, and the women's club in Helsinki was VK Rasket, also from Sweden . Up to and including 1999, the tournament and qualification were held within one year. In 1999, the qualification took place in November and the finals at the end of December. Between 2000 and 2008 the Cup took place eight times across the calendar year. Since 2008 it has been played again within a year. The Swedish teams AIK Innebandy (for men) and IKSU Innebandy (for women) are record holders of the EuroFloorball Cup. So far, all winning teams have come from Sweden, Finland or Switzerland.

From 2011 the format of the competition was changed. The Champions Cup was founded - the EuroFloorball Cup has since been the championship of the less well-classified national champions. While six teams from the five best leagues in Europe take part in the Champions Cup (the host country provides two teams each), six teams from the five less good leagues compete in the EuroFloorball Cup .

In 2015 the EuroFloorball Challenge was introduced, which replaces the qualification for the EuroFloorball Cup .

From 2019, one format will be played: The only participants are the champions from the four countries of Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. ^[outdated]

Attendees

• Champions Cup :
  • until 2017: the champions from the four best nations in the world rankings, a second team from the host country and last year's winner of the EuroFloorball Cup.
  • from 2019: the champions from the four countries Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
• EuroFloorball Cup : the champions of the best five to nine nations in the world rankings, hosts ¹ and last year's winner of the EuroFloorball Challenge.
• EuroFloorball Challenge : the champions of the following nations of the world rankings and the hosts ¹ .

¹ In addition to the host, a second team from that country can participate.

Title holder

Men

1993-2010

European Cup, from 2007 EuroFloorball Cup

season	master	Runner-up	Result	venue
1993	Balrog IK	SSV Helsinki	9: 2	Stockholm
1994	Balrog IK	Fornudden IB	6: 3	Chur
1995	Kista IBK	Balrog IK	5: 2	Karlstad
1996	Balrog IK	Kista IBK	5: 2	Stockholm
1997	Fornudden IB	Balrog IK	5-0	Stockholm
1998	Warberg IC	SSV Helsinki	5: 4 OT	Helsinki
1999	Warberg IC	Haninge IBK	7: 5	Bern
2000/01	Helsingfors IFK	Haninge IBK	2-0	Gothenburg
2001/02	Haninge IBK	SSV Helsinki	7: 3	Botkyrka
2002/03	Haninge IBK	Pixbo Wallenstam IBK	3: 2 hp	Prague
2003/04	Pixbo Wallenstam IBK	Espoon Oilers	10: 7	Weissenfels
2004/05	SV Wiler-Ersigen	Pixbo Wallenstam IBK	9: 1	Zurich
2005/06	Warberg IC	SSV Helsinki	7: 6 hp	Ostrava
2006/07	AIK Innebandy	Warberg IC	6: 5	Varberg
2007/08	AIK Innebandy	Warberg IC	2: 1 OT	Vantaa
2008	AIK Innebandy	SV Wiler-Ersigen	5: 2	Winterthur
2009	SSV Helsinki	Tapanilan Erä	6: 5 OT	Fredrikshavn
2010	Storvreta IBK	1. SC Vitkovice	6: 3	Valmiera and Koceni

As of 2011

Preliminary round game 2014 in Zurich

Champions Cup

season	master	Runner-up	Result	venue
2011	SSV Helsinki	Tatran Omlux Střešovice	4: 3	Mladá Boleslav
2012	Storvreta IBK	IBK Dalen	6: 3	Umeå
2013	IBF Falun	SSV Helsinki	7: 5	Tampere
2014	IBF Falun	Happee Jyväskylä	12: 0	Zurich
2015	IBF Falun	SV Wiler-Ersigen	3: 2	Mladá Boleslav
2016	Storvreta IBK	SC Classic	2: 1	Borås
2017	IBF Falun	SC Classic	7: 4	Seinäjoki
2019	SC Classic	Storvreta IBK	10: 3	Gävle

EuroFloorball Cup

season	master	Runner-up	Result	venue
2011	RTU / Inspecta	SK Augur	4: 3	Rakoniewice
2012	SK Lielvarde	Slevik IBK	9: 6	Košice
2013	Lekrings	Jögeva SK Tahme	5: 4	Trenčín
2014	Slevik IBK	Tunet IBK	8: 6	Fredrikstad
2015	Greåker IBK	Lekrings	6: 4	Cēsis
2016	UHC Weissenfels	FK Lielvārde	8: 6	Weissenfels
2017	Slevik IBK	Eesti Maaulikooli SK	10: 5	Valmiera

EuroFloorball Challenge

season	master	Runner-up	Result	venue
2015 1	did not take place	did not take place	---	Grimma
2016	Phoenix Fireball	Dunai Krokodilok SE	7: 4	Budapest
2017	Tsunami Záhorská Bystrica	FBC scale Melitopol	9: 4	Trenčín
2018	Phoenix Fireball SE	CDE El Valle	10: 5	Madrid

¹ The tournament was canceled due to a lack of reports from the champions who had been asked to do so.

Women

1993-2010

European Cup, from 2007 EuroFloorball Cup

season	master	Runner-up	Result	venue
1993	VK Rasket	Red Ants Rychenberg	8: 3	Helsinki
1994	Sjöstad IF	VK Rasket	3: 2	Chur
1995	Sjöstad IF	IBK Lochrud	5: 1	Karlstad
1996	Högdalens AIS	Sjöstad IF	5-0	Stockholm
1997	Högdalens AIS	Red Ants Rychenberg	4: 2	Stockholm
1998	Högdalens AIS	Vantaa FT	1-0	Helsinki
1999	Tapanilan Erä	Red Ants Rychenberg	5: 1	Bern
2000/01	Balrog IK	Red Ants Rychenberg	5: 4 hp	Gothenburg
2001/02	Balrog IK	Red Ants Rychenberg	8: 4	Botkyrka
2002/03	Balrog IK	Red Ants Rychenberg	3: 2	Prague
2003/04	SC Classic	Södertälje IBK	6: 3	Weissenfels
2004/05	Red Ants Rychenberg	Tikkurilan Tiikerit	3: 2	Zurich
2005/06	IKSU Innebandy	Tikkurilan Tiikerit	7: 4	Ostrava
2006/07	UHC Dietlikon	IKSU Innebandy	4: 3	Varberg
2007/08	UHC Dietlikon	IKSU Innebandy	3: 2 hp	Vantaa
2008	IKSU Innebandy	Balrog IK	3: 2 OT	Winterthur
2009	IKSU Innebandy	UHC Dietlikon	9: 5	Fredrikshavn
2010	IKSU Innebandy	Piranha Chur	5: 4	Valmiera and Koceni

As of 2011

Champions Cup

season	master	Runner-up	Result	venue
2011	Djurgårdens IF IBF	SC Classic	4: 3	Mladá Boleslav
2012	IKSU	SC Classic	6: 3	Umeå
2013	Rönnby IBK	SB-Pro	4: 3	Tampere
2014	Djurgårdens IF IBF	1. SC Vitkovice	10: 2	Zurich
2015	KAIS Mora IF	SC Classic	13: 6	Mladá Boleslav
2016	Pixbo Wallenstam IBK	SC Classic	6: 2	Borås
2017	IKSU	SC Classic	5: 1	Seinäjoki
2019	IKSU	Vítkovice	8: 3	Gävle

EuroFloorball Cup

season	master	Runner-up	Result	venue
2011	RSU / runway	Holmlia SK	5: 1	Rakoniewice
2012	Sveiva IBK	Nauka-Trevelstroy	4: 3	Košice
2013	Nauka-Trevelstroy	Tunet IBK	5: 3	Trenčín
2014	Sveiva IBK	Tunet IBK	6: 3	Fredrikstad
2015	Nauka MP	Rubene	7: 3	Cēsis
2016	Sveiva IBK	UHC Weissenfels	5-0	Weissenfels
2017	ŠK 98 Pruské	Interplastic Olimpia Osowa Gdańsk	2: 1	Weissenfels

EuroFloorball Challenge

season	master	Runner-up	Result	venue
2015 1	did not take place	did not take place	---	Grimma
2016	CDE El Valle	Neumann Pillangok	2: 1	Budapest
2017 1	did not take place	did not take place	---	Trenčín
2018	CDE El Valle	CUF Leganes	5: 3	Madrid

¹ The tournament was canceled due to a lack of reports from the champions who had been asked to do so.

Web links

• Champions Cup (IFF)
• EuroFloorball Cup (IFF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.floorball.org/news.asp?id_tiedote=4470 Information on the EuroFloorball Cup 2015 and the EuroFloorball Challenge 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b} IFF Champions Cup 2019. In: IFF. Retrieved September 21, 2018 . 
3. ↑ REGULATION FOR ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAMPIONS CUP. Edition 2017. (PDF) In: International Floorball Federation. November 6, 2016, accessed September 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ http://floorball-mfbc.de/2015_07_30/mfbc-damen-reisen-nach-lettland/
5. ↑ http://floorball-mfbc.de/2015_07_30/mfbc-damen-reisen-nach-lettland/
6. ↑ http://www.floorball.org/pages/EN/EF-Challenge-2017