The 2024 Women's U-19 World Floorball Championships will be the 11th edition of the championship. The tournament will be played in Lahti, Finland, and was to take place from 1–5 May, but the event dates changed to 8–12 May after a booking problem with the venue delayed the event by a week.[1][2][3] Sweden are the reigning champions.
Sweden won the tournament, beating Finland 4–2 in the final.[4]
This edition broke the record for the most attended Women's U-19 World Floorball Championships.[5] The single game record was also broken, with the final attracting 1,965 spectators.
Finland were the only bidders. The Finns were given the hosting rights on 23 February 2021.[6][7][1]
Eighteen teams entered the tournament but United States withdrew, bringing the number down to seventeen.[8] A qualifier in Besançon, France was organised between Denmark, France, Hungary and Italy to decide the final three spots.[9]
The 2023 Women's U-19 World Floorball Championships qualification tournament decided the final three places at the championships. The tournament was played in Besançon, France, from 25–27 August 2023.[9][11][12]
There were originally two spots on the line at this event but that increased to three after the United States (who had originally qualified automatically for the world championship) withdrew. France are making their debut at women's U19 level.[13]
The venue for the qualifying tournament was the Montboucons Gymnasium.[14]
The schedule was announced on 23 June 2023.[13]
The venues for the tournament are in Lahti at the Lahti Sports and Fair Centre.[14] The facility boasts two arenas.[15]
On 12 April 2024, the team lists were announced.[16]
The draw took place on 2 September 2023 at 17:15 EET at the Energia Areena in Vantaa during the Nordic Challenge event in Finland.[9][17][18]
Sweden (1) Czech Republic (2) Finland (3) Switzerland (4)
Slovakia (5) Poland (6) Norway (7) Latvia (8)
Germany (9) Hungary (10) Denmark (11) New Zealand (12)
Italy (13) Australia (15) Canada (16) Singapore (20)
Eight referee pairs were selected on 20 February 2024.[19]
The schedule was announced on 6 October 2023.[14] The times of some of the Arena B games were changed on 11 November 2023.[20] Times are EEST (UTC+3).
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 9 N2 = 0 PN = 9
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 17 N2 = 0 PN = 17
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 11 PN = 11
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 5 PN = 5
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 4 PN = 7
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 18 PN = 18
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 10 N2 = 1 PN = 10
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 9 PN = 12
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 9 N2 = 0 PN = 11
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 11 PN = 11
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 3 PN = 3
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 13 N2 = 0 PN = 13
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 8 PN = 8
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 8 PN = 11
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 4 N2 = 0 PN = 4
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 13 PN = 13
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 10 PN = 10
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 11 PN = 14
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 11 N2 = 0 PN = 14
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 0 PN = 6
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 16 N2 = 0 PN = 16
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 4 N2 = 1 PN = 15
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 14 N2 = 4 PN = 14
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 6 PN = 15
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 5 N2 = 0 PN = 9
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 0 PN = 4
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 10 PN = 14
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 8 PN = 17
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 1 PN = 5
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 4 PN = 7
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 6 N2 = 0 PN = 6
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 4 PN = 6
Ticket sales started on 19 October 2023, but tickets have sold slowly.[22] On 24 April 2024, previously sold tournament passes were put back on sale. But on 30 April, 200 tournament passes for the tournament were sold and a new batch of day passes were released.[23] So far, the ticket revenue has total to around 38,000 Euros.[24]
The recruitment of volunteers started on 22 November 2023 and ended on 31 January 2024.[22][25][26] Although, applications on volunteering for different roles was also announced on 4 April 2024.[27][28] The organising committee have recruited 150 volunteers.[24]
Finnish channel, YLE, will televise the matches involving Finland in the tournament.[29]
The inaugural 3v3 World Championship will be held during the championship event.[22] Registrations for the event were open on 9 February 2024.[30][31] By 20 March, 44 teams (30 men's and 14 women's teams) had registered for the tournament. The schedule was announced on 8 April,[32] while the team lists were confirmed on 2 May.[33]
Finland's women's and Latvia's men won the inaugural 3v3 World Championship.[34]