What is Floorball

Floorball (also known as Innebandy, Salibandy or Unihockey) is an indoor team sport that originated during the 1970's in Sweden and Finland. Floorball is a fast-paced, low-contact type of floor hockey that has two teams of 3 to 5 players plus a goalie competing to score the most goals. There are more then 250,000 officially registered Floorball players (and millions more unofficial players) worldwide playing in over 30 countries.

The Australian Floorball scene has grown rapidly with the Australian Floorball Association (AFA) forming in 1996. The number of players in Australia continues to grow quickly with many schools adding Floorball to their physical education curriculum and recreation centres creating Floorball competitions. With Floorball now recognised by the International Olympic Committee the Australian National Teams are training hard as can be seen in the 2008 World Floorball Championships - Australia vs France (below).

Floorball is a sport suitable for everyone including people with disabilities as can be seen here at the 2007 Electric Wheelchair Hockey Tournament (video) held in Trutnov and the Czech Wheelchair Floorball League (video) which plays all year round.

Floorball is still growing rapidly around the world and new styles of play are being developed by the players, this has led to new competitions based on demonstrating skill alone as can be seen here at a Floorball 'Zorro' (video) competition and in advertisements by major equipment manufacturers such as UNIHOC and ZONE (video).