Floorball, also known as innebandy or salibandy, is an indoor team sport played with light sticks and a plastic ball pierced with 26 holes. Two teams try to outscore each other on a 40 by 20 metre rink enclosed by a low board with rounded corners. The International Floorball Federation (IFF), founded in 1986, governs the game worldwide.
Players, sticks and a goalkeeper without one
No more than six players per team may be on the rink at once: five field players and a goalkeeper, or six field players with the goalkeeper taken off. Up to 20 players can be named in the match record. A field player's stick usually has a carbon fibre shaft and a plastic blade. The goalkeeper is not allowed a stick at all and plays in a face mask.
How long a match lasts
The IFF Rules of the Game, in the edition valid from 1 July 2026, set the clock as follows:
Regular time is three periods of 20 minutes, with two 10-minute intermissions, and the teams change ends after each period;
Time is effective, so the clock stops at every whistle and restarts when the ball is played;
A governing body may allow a shorter game, but never below 2 x 15 minutes.
Sweden, the Czech Republic and Switzerland
Only five nations have ever won a World Championship medal: the Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Three men's top divisions from this group:
Swedish Super League (SSL) fixtures: the highest Swedish league, run by the Swedish Floorball Federation and founded in 1995 as Elitserien. Its 14 teams play 26 rounds home and away; the top eight reach the play-offs and the bottom two drop to Allsvenskan. The 2026/27 men's season began on 18 September 2026, with Storvreta as the 2025/26 champions.
Czech Superliga: run by ΔeskΓ½ florbal since 1993, also 14 teams and 26 rounds, but the top ten go through to the play-offs. Florbal MB won the 2025/26 title.
Swiss National League A: the top Swiss division, played as the Prime League, had 12 men's teams in 2025/26 and best-of-seven series from the quarter-finals.
All three leagues decide the title in a single match, the Superfinal. In the Czech Republic it is staged at the same event as the final of the women's Extraliga.
Floorball in the 1xBet pre-match line
Floorball fixtures are listed before the start, grouped by country and division as on the site; the line changes with the calendar, and in mid-October it holds, among others, the Czech Republic. League 1 fixtures, the Finland. F-League. Women matches, Sweden's Allsvenskan and League 2, Russian leagues and national-team friendlies. Every other discipline sits in the complete list of pre-match sports.
