Champions Cup (floorball)

The Champions Cup is floorball tournament organized by the International Floorball Federation for the best clubs from the top four countries according to IFF World Ranking. As of 2020, those are Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, both for men and women. The tournament takes place every year in January both for men's and women's teams, that won in the previous season in their national leagues. Those are Finnish F-liiga, Swedish Svenska Superligan, Swiss National League A (both men's and women's leagues in all three countries) and Czech men's Superliga florbalu and women's Extraliga žen ve florbale. That means, there are eight teams in the tournament in total. The competing countries alternate in hosting the tournament. The event lasts two days.[1]

IFF Champions Cup
Sportfloorball
Founded1993
No. of teams4 men's and 4 women's
CountriesFinland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic
ConfederationIFF
Most recent
champion(s)		Men: Storvreta IBK
Women: Täby FC
(2020)
Most titlesMen:  Sweden (22)
Women:  Sweden (22)
Related
competitions		EuroFloorball Cup, EuroFloorball Challenge
Official websitehttps://floorballchampionscup.sport/
UHC Dietlikon celebrate their 2007–08 EuroFloorball Cup after narrowly defeating IKSU Innebandy 3:2 in a penalty shootout in the final match.

In various formats, the tournament took place 27 times, the last time in 2020. The first tournament was played in 1993. The current format for four teams is used since 2019. Swedes won most titles, 22, in both men's and women's tournaments.[2]

There are other tournaments organized for clubs from European countries at lower ranks: EuroFloorball Cup for countries at the fifth through tenth rank, and EuroFloorball Challenge for the rest.[2]

History of the tournament

The first international club tournament was European Cup. It took place the first time in 1993.[2] In 2008, the tournament was renamed to EuroFloorball Cup due to a naming conflict.

In 2011, the tournament was split to the Champions Cup for six teams and the EuroFloorball Cup for the rest. The Champions Cup was played by teams from the top five ranked countries. The hosting country had two teams in the tournament. In all tournaments played in this format, teams from the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland competed. The sixth participant in men's tournament varied throughout the years from Germany, Latvia and Norway. In women's tournament, they were from Latvia, Norway and Russia.

The tournament was further split in 2019 to the Champions Cup for clubs from the top four countries, and EuroFloorball Cup and EuroFloorball Challenge for rest. At the same time, a tournament term was changed from October to January of the next year. For this reason, there was no tournament in 2018.

Men's Tournament
Tournament Champion Runner-up Score Location Website
2021 Champions Cup Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[3] Winterthur Website
2020 Champions Cup Storvreta IBK[4] SV Wiler-Ersigen 10:4 Ostrava Website
2019 Champions Cup Classic[5] Storvreta IBK 10:3 Gävle Website
2017 Champions Cup IBF Falun[6] Classic 7:4 Seinäjoki Website
2016 Champions Cup Storvreta IBK Classic 2:1 Borås Website
2015 Champions Cup IBF Falun SV Wiler-Ersigen 3:2 Mladá Boleslav Website
2014 Champions Cup IBF Falun Happee Jyväskylä 12:0 Zürich Website
2013 Champions Cup IBF Falun SPV 7:5 Tampere Website
2012 Champions Cup Storvreta IBK IBK Dalen 6:3 Umeå Website
2011 Champions Cup SSV Helsinki Tatran Omlux Střešovice 4:3 Mladá Boleslav Website
2010 Euro Floorball Cup Storvreta IBK 1. SC WOOW Vítkovice 6:3 Valmiera & Kocēni Website
2009 Euro Floorball Cup SSV Helsinki Tapanilan Erä 6:5 OT Frederikshavn Website
2008 Euro Floorball Cup AIK IBF SV Wiler-Ersigen 5:2 Winterthur Website
2007–08 Euro Floorball Cup AIK IBF Warberg IC 2:1 OT Vantaa Website
2006–07 European Cup AIK IBF Warberg IC 6:5 Varberg Website
2005–06 European Cup Warberg IC SSV Helsinki 7:6 PS Ostrava Website
2004–05 European Cup SV Wiler-Ersigen Pixbo Wallenstam IBK 9:1 Zürich Website
2003–04 European Cup Pixbo Wallenstam IBK Espoon Oilers 10:7 Weissenfels Website
2002–03 European Cup Haninge IBK Pixbo Wallenstam IBK 3:2 PS Prague Website
2001–02 European Cup Haninge IBK SSV Helsinki 7:3 Botkyrka Website
2000–01 European Cup Helsingfors IFK Haninge IBK 2:0 Gothenburg Website
1999 European Cup Warberg IC Haninge IBK 7:5 Bern Website
1998 European Cup Warberg IC SSV Helsinki 5:4 OT Helsinki Website
1997 European Cup Fornudden IB Balrog IK 5:0 Stockholm Website
1996 European Cup Balrog IK Kista IBK 5:2 Stockholm Website
1995 European Cup Kista IBK Balrog IK 5:2 Karlstad Website
1994 European Cup Balrog IK Fornudden IB 6:3 Chur Website
1993 European Cup Balrog IK SSV Helsinki 9:2 Stockholm Website

Women's Tournament
Tournament Champion Runner-up Score Location Website
2021 Champions Cup Winterthur Website
2020 Champions Cup Täby FC[7] SB-Pro 10:3  Ostrava Website
2019 Champions Cup IKSU[5] 1. SC Tempish Vítkovice 8:3 Gävle Website
2017 Champions Cup IKSU[8] Classic 5:1 Seinäjoki Website
2016 Champions Cup Pixbo Wallenstam Classic 6:2 Borås Website
2015 Champions Cup KAIS Mora IF Classic 13:6 Mladá Boleslav Website
2014 Champions Cup Djurgårdens IF IBF[9] 1. SC Vítkovice 10:4 Zürich Website
2013 Champions Cup Rönnby IBK SB-Pro 4:3 Tampere Website
2012 Champions Cup IKSU SC Classic 10:5 Umeå Website
2011 Champions Cup IF Djurgårdens IBF SC Classic 9:5 Mladá Boleslav Website
2010 Euro Floorball Cup IKSU Innebandy Pirhana Chur 5:4 Valmiera & Kocēni Website
2009 Euro Floorball Cup IKSU Innebandy UHC Dietlikon 9:5 Frederikshavn Website
2008 Euro Floorball Cup IKSU Innebandy Balrog IK 3:2 OT Winterthur Website
2007–08 Euro Floorball Cup UHC Dietlikon IKSU Innebandy 3:2 PS Vantaa Website
2006–07 European Cup UHC Dietlikon IKSU Innebandy 4:3 Varberg Website
2005–06 European Cup IKSU Innebandy Tikkurilan Tiikerit 7:4 Ostrava Website
2004–05 European Cup RA Rychenberg Tikkurilan Tiikerit 3:2 Zürich Website
2003–04 European Cup SC Classic Södertälje IBK 6:3 Weissenfels Website
2002–03 European Cup Balrog IK RA Rychenberg 3:2 Prague Website
2001–02 European Cup Balrog IK RA Rychenberg 8:4 Botkyrka Website
2000–01 European Cup Balrog IK RA Rychenberg 5:4 PS Gothenburg Website
1999 European Cup Tapanilan Erä RA Rychenberg 5:1 Bern Website
1998 European Cup Högdalens AIS Vantaa FT 1:0 Helsinki Website
1997 European Cup Högdalens AIS RA Rychenberg 4:2 Stockholm Website
1996 European Cup Högdalens AIS Sjöstad IF 5:0 Stockholm Website
1995 European Cup Sjöstad IF IBK Lockerud 5:1 Karlstad Website
1994 European Cup Sjöstad IF VK Rakset 3:2 Chur Website
1993 European Cup VK Rasket RA Rychenberg 8:3 Helsinki Website

References
  1. "IFF Champions Cup". IFF. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  2. "Tournament History". IFF. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  3. "Champions Cup 2021 in Switzerland cancelled". IFF. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  4. "Storvreta IBK seize Men's Champions Cup 2020". IFF. 12 January 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  5. "IKSU and Classic win Champions Cup 2019". IFF. 6 January 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  6. "IBF Falun Champions Cup winners again". IFF. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  7. "Täby FC win Women's Champions Cup 2020". IFF. 12 January 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  8. "IKSU from Umeå take the title!". IFF. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  9. "Djurgårdens IF IBF wins the Champions Cup 2014". IFF. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

See also
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