Roller hockey world championship 1953

The roller hockey world championship in 1953 was the ninth world championship in roller hockey . It took place in Geneva from May 29 to June 6, 1953 . The tournament was organized by the Federation Internationale de Patinage a Roulettes and was also the European roller hockey championship, despite the participation of Egypt and Brazil.

The 13 participating teams first played against each other in two groups. Then there was a final round. The top two in each group played against each other in a league system, while the others played against the other group who was placed equally.

46 games were played in which 282 goals were scored. The winner of the tournament was Italy. It was Italy's first title. For the Brazilians it was the first World Cup.

Attendees

The following 13 teams took part in the tournament:

11 from Europe	Belgium	France	Spain	Switzerland	Portugal (defending champion)	Italy (hosts)
	England	Netherlands	Germany	Ireland	Denmark

One from Africa

Egypt

One from South America

Brazil (first part name)

Group A

Results

Teams	Portugal	Spain	England	Netherlands	Brazil	Ireland	Egypt
Portugal	-
Spain	(1: 1)	-
England	(0: 3)	(1: 3)	-
Netherlands	(2: 7)	(2: 2)	(2: 4)	-
Brazil	(0: 8)	(0: 7)	(1: 7)	(4: 6)	-
Ireland	(0:10)	(1:10)	(1: 9)	(0: 5)	(2: 2)	-
Egypt	(1: 4)	(0:11)	(3:11)	(1: 5)	(2: 4)	(2: 4)	-

table

Colours

Qualified for the top four round

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Portugal	6th	5	1	0	33: 4	+29	11
2	Spain	6th	4th	2	0	34: 5	+29	10
3	England	6th	4th	0	2	32:13	+19	8th
4th	Netherlands	6th	3	1	2	22:18	+4	7th
5	Brazil	6th	1	1	4th	11:32	−21	3
6th	Ireland	6th	1	1	4th	8:38	−30	3
6th	Egypt	7th	0	0	6th	9:39	−30	0

Group B

Results

Teams	Italy	Switzerland	Belgium	BR Germany	France	Denmark
Italy	-
Switzerland	(2: 2)	-
Belgium	(1: 2)	(4: 0)	-
BR Germany	(3: 6)	(1: 4)	(4: 0)	-
France	(1: 3)	(1: 2)	(0: 5)	(1: 3)	-
Denmark	(1:13)	(0: 8)	(0:12)	(3: 8)	(2: 3)	-

table

Colours

Qualified for the top four round

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Italy	5	4th	1	0	26: 8	+18	9
2	Switzerland	5	3	1	1	16: 8	+8	7th
3	Belgium	5	3	0	2	22: 6	+12	6th
4th	BR Germany	5	3	0	2	19:14	+5	6th
5	France	5	1	0	4th	6:15	−9	2
6th	Denmark	5	0	0	5	6:44	−38	0

Final round

Game for eleventh place

	1	Ireland	5
	2	Denmark	1

Game for ninth place

	1	France	1
	2	Brazil	1

France finished ninth because of the better goal difference in the group stage.

Game for seventh place

	1	BR Germany	4th
	2	Netherlands	1

Game for fifth place

	1	Belgium	2
	2	England	1

Final round of the best four

Results

Teams	Italy	Switzerland	Belgium	BR Germany
Italy	-
Portugal	(0: 3)	-
Spain	(0: 1)	(1: 2)	-
Switzerland	(2: 4)	(1: 6)	(0: 1)	-

table

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	8: 2	+6	6th
2	Portugal	3	2	0	1	8: 5	+3	4th
3	Spain	3	1	0	2	3: 4	−1	2
4th	Switzerland	3	0	0	3	3:11	−8	0

Bottom line

space	team
1	Italy
2	Portugal
3	Spain
4th	Switzerland
5	Belgium
6th	England
7th	BR Germany
8th	Netherlands
9	France
10	Brazil
11	Ireland
12	Denmark
13	Egypt

Web links

• Results . Archived from the original on December 10, 2013. Retrieved September 1, 2017.