The Finnish final was played in Porvoo on Saturday, March 13 and Akilles won a convincing victory 3-1 (3-1). Seen throughout the season, we can say that the victory for Achilles was fair as the team won the series too on 28 points. Second was the final opponent...
The final in the Finnish Bandyliiga will be played on Saturday, March 13 in Porvoo at 6 pm (UTC +2). The finalists in this year’s final are Akilles from Porvoo and Veiterä from Lappeenranta, two teams that also were number one and two in the regular season. The final...
Wiipurin Sudet Finnish Champions 2021 Wiipurin Sudet has won the women’s Finnish Bandy Championship for the 8th consecutive time. The team beat Botnia 6-1 in the final game played on Sunday March 7th. Sudet beat Vastus in the semifinal 21-0 and Botnia beat...
Chris Middlebrook, President of US Bandy and member of FIB Olympic Committee has in a particularly exciting and interesting article compared the costs of establishing bandy as a part of the Olympic family with some of the current Olympic winter sports. The reader also...
Per Hellmyrs was born in 1983, in the heart of Swedish Bandy country, in the County of Gävleborg, the municipality of Ovanåker in a city by the name of Edsbyn. Edsbyn has a population of almost 4000 people. Its small size has not, however, kept Edsbyn from being one...
This Monday, February 22, we celebrate the FIB General Secretary Mr Bo Nyman on his 75th birthday! Bo Nyman has worked as General Secretary since 2007. But he has been involved in the sport of bandy a long time before that. The club in his heart since many years is...
The sport of bandy wants to take place in the Winter Olympics. Many fans all over the world thinks it is time for that. Bandy is the world’s second largest winter sport after icehockey – in terms of number of participants. But as early as 1952, when the...
THE BACKGROUND The background for the Winter Games in Oslo 1952 was quite peculiar. It was not an expressed wish from the various Norwegian winter sports federations to arrange these Games, but it was purely a political idea from the beginning and through to the final...
On February 12, 1955 the International Bandy Federation was formed in connection with the first congress in Stockholm, Sweden. The founders were the four nations Sweden, Norway, USSR and Finland. The name was “International Bandy Federation” until the 2001...