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TIME FOR FIB CONGRESS!
It is soon time for FIB Annual Congress 2020. This different autumn, the congress will be held virtually for all delegates from FIB Member National Federations.
The congress will be held on Tuesday, December 1 at 13.00 GMT + 1. Read more on the notice of the Congress below.
World Cup canceled!
FIB decided today, November 3, to cancel this year’s planned World Cup tournament for male club teams. The tournament was scheduled to take place in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, December 17-20.
The World Cup tournament is canceled due to the increased corona pandemic in many countries and current travel restrictions.
Bollnäs GIF, Sweden, is reigning World Cup Champions since the victory 2019 in Sandviken.
Bollnäs beat SKA Neftyanik, Russia, 5-2 in the final!
UPDATE ON PLANNED FIB TOURNAMENTS!
A decision will soon be made regarding the implementation of the planned World Cup tournament in Krasnoyarsk December 17-20. The decision will be published here on the FIB Website no later than Wednesday November 4.
The decision will of course be made on the basis of the then prevailing situation with the Covid19 pandemic in the countries concerned.
The World Cup tournaments for women in Växjö, Sweden and Girls Y17 in Vetlanda, Sweden have since earlier been canceled.
Other international FIB tournaments in the coming season will be moved to March 2021. Information on exact dates will be published here on the FIB Website as soon as they are decided.
SAIK Bandy first to the World Cup!
Sandvikens AIK, the elite club in Sweden, arranged the FIB World Cup for the past 11 years. The tournament was born in Swedish Ljusdal as a round-the-clock tournament back in 1974 and later the tournament was promoted to the World Cup. The first team to win the tournament in 1974 was Sandvikens AIK and when the tournament was played in 2019 Bollnäs GIF won the trophy after a final victory against SKA Neftyanik with 5-2.
December 17-20 this year, the World Cup will be played in Krasnoyarsk. Decisive for the tournament will of course be how the ongoing corona pandemic develops and what restrictions will apply in December.
Rafi Markarian
Rafi Markarian is the club manager of SAIK Bandy and he explains why his club is the first to register for this year’s World Cup in Krasnoyarsk:
-After arranging the tournament for 11 years, we of course want to be involved even when the World Cup is decided in Russia. But we were unsure whether we would be able to manage the participation financially. Since then, of course, the Covid19 pandemic has also created uncertainty for participation. We have worked hard to have a healthy economy, we can not incur large costs. But now the financial conditions are so favorable from the organizers in Russia that we immediately decided to participate. Now the costs will not be greater than if we have a training camp in Sweden, says Rafi.
What will it be like to play the World Cup for the first time in Russia?
-It will be exciting to see and above all if the Russians can create the public success that we may not have fully succeeded in, says Rafi Markarian.
The World Cup will be played December 17-20. A time that Rafi thinks feels logical:
-Normally, the national team players usually go to a 4-nation tournament then. Now all our players get an experience to go to Krasnoyarsk and play the World Cup instead. It will probably be especially cool and useful for the younger players.
What can his SAIK hope for in the World Cup?
-Very difficult to say. We have lost a couple of great national team players and instead got some new good players. It will be exciting to see how we can challenge not least the Russian teams, Rafi Markarian concludes.
Yenisei Arena, Krasnoyarsk
The majority of the participating teams will be Russian, just as it has been with the Swedish teams in previous tournaments. Six Swedish teams are invited. The ambition is to have the four best teams in Sweden to participate. However, it is currently unclear which Swedish teams will participate. Then the organizer will give Wild Cards to two more Swedish teams. One of the two clubs offered a Wild Card has also accepted the World Cup and it is AIK Bandy from Stockholm who this season has recruited a large number of international star players to fight in the top of Swedish Elitserien..
WORLD CUP TO KRASNOYARSK!
FIB has now decided that the World Cup for the club teams for men will be held in Krasnoyarsk this coming winter. The World Cup has been held in Sandviken, Sweden since 2009 but the tournament’s next place will be the home town of the Russian Super League team Yenisei.
World Cup in Krasnoyarsk will be played December 17-20 this year. We will publish further information here on the FIB website as soon as the details become clear.
