Czech Open (floorball)

Czech Open is an international floorball tournament. It takes place every year in August in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of the largest floorball tournaments in the world. Every year over 200 teams from around the world participate. The first season was played in 1993. The tournament is organized by Prague floorball club Tatran Střešovice.[1]

Czech Open
Sportfloorball
Founded1993
Most recent
champion(s)
Men: Czech Republic Tatran Střešovice
Women: Sweden Pixbo IBK
(2024)
Most titlesMen: Sweden Pixbo IBK (9)
Women: Sweden Pixbo IBK (10)
Official websitehttps://www.czechopen.cz/

There are sever categories in the tournament. Both men and woken have three categories (Elite, Pro and Open) and juniors have one.[2] Czech teams have a number of places reserved, which are assigned according to standings of the teams in Czech floorball leagues (such as Superliga florbalu or Extraliga žen ve florbale).

The most successful team in the history of the tournament is Swedish Pixbo IBK, with nine titles in men's and ten in women's Elite categories.[3][4] By 2024, the men Elite category has been won only by three teams from the Czech Republic – 1. SC Vítkovice, Tatran Střešovice and FBC Ostrava. They won in 1998, 1999, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024. With an exception of Tatran wins in 2022 and 2024, those were years, when the strong Scandinavian teams did not arrive.[5][6] Women Elite has also only three Czech winners – Děkanka (2006 through 2010, 2012),[7] Tatran (1997, 2004)[8][9] and Vítkovice (2020, 2021).[10][6]

List of Elite Czech Open winners

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Year Men's Elite Women's Elite
2024[2]   ESA logistika Tatran Střešovice   Pixbo IBK
2023[4]   Pixbo IBK   Pixbo IBK
2022[11]   Tatran Střešovice   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK
2021[6]   Tatran Střešovice   1. SC TEMPISH Vítkovice
2020[10]   1. SC TEMPISH Vítkovice   1. SC TEMPISH Vítkovice
2019[12]   IBF Falun   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK
2018[13]   IBF Falun   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK
2017[14]   IBF Falun   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK
2016[15]   EräViikingit   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK
2015   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK   SB-Pro
2014   IBF Falun   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK
2013   IBK Dalen   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK
2012   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK   Herbadent SJM Praha 11
2011   IBK Dalen   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK
2010   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK   Herbadent SJM
2009   IBK Dalen   Herbadent Tigers SJM
2008   Sirius IBK   Děkanka Tigers
2007[16]   SSV Helsinki   Děkanka Tigers
2006   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK   Triggers
2005   IBK Dalen   Galna Finnar
2004   Balrog Oilers   Tatran Střešovice
2003   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK   Balrog Oilers
2002   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK   Husqvarma IK
2001   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK   UHC Bern OST
2000   Helsinginfors IFK   SSV Helsinki
1999   Tatran Střešovice   Nizhny Novgorod
1998   FBC Ostrava   Jona-Uznach Flames
1997   Fornudden IB   Tatran Střešovice
1996   Pixbo Wallenstam IBK   RA Rychenberg
1995   Fornudden IB   RA Rychenberg
1994   Sjöstad IF   Sjöstad IF
1993   IKSU Innebandy   Kristineberg AIS

List of winners in other categories

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Year Men's Intermediate Women's Intermediate Junior
2024   Florbal Vary   Crazy Girls FBC Liberec   SV Wiler-Ersigen
2023   RIG Umeå IBF   Crazy Girls FBC Liberec   FAT PIPE Florbal Chodov
2022   RIG Umeå IBF   TJ Sokol Královské Vinohrady   Tatran Střešovice
2021   FB Hurrican Karlovy Vary   FbŠ Bohemians B
2020   ASK Orka Čelákovice   TJ Sokol Královské Vinohrady
2019   Black Angels   SB Limits   SV Wiler-Ersigen
2018   Sokol Pardubice   FbŠ Bohemians
2017   RIG Umeå IBF   Panthers Praha
2016   Floorball Thurgau   Tatran Střešovice   itelligence Bulldogs Brno
2015   Sokol Pardubice   Hagfors IF Ungdom   Technology Florbal MB
2014   1. MVIL Ostrava   KAIS Mora UIF   FBC ČPP Bystroň Group Ostrava
2013   TJ Sokol Královské Vinohrady   KAIS Mora UIF   FBC ČPP Software Ostrava
2012   RIG Umeå IBF yellow   Elite Praha   BILLY BOY Mladá Boleslav
2011   AC Sparta Praha   Chuchichäschtli   FBC ČPP Remedicum Ostrava
2010   Tatran Střešovice   Cerna Hora   x3m team SSK Future
2009   SBS Kings   Cerna Hora   x3m team SSK Future
2008   Höpöhöpö   Elite Praha   SSK Future
2007   Sokol Pardubice   Sagene Ladies   FBC Pepino Ostrava
2006   FBC Liberec   Sagene Ladies   Tatran Střešovice
2005   CelTik / Lekrings   Koo-Vee   SSK Future
2004   Rubene   Tapanilan Erä
2003   FB Topgrandma   SSK Future
2002   Röke IBK   SSK Future
2001   SSK Future   Frosta IBF
2000   Röke IBK   SSK Future
1999   Kirkkonummi Rangers   Nizhny Novgorod
1998   Team 88 Konolfingen   Storvreta IBK
1997   IBK Succe   Baldersnas IK
1996   Kirkkonummi Rangers
1995   Challengers-93

References

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  1. ^ "Legenda Czech Open v čase, Díl I.: Jak to celé začalo" [Legend Czech Open in time, Part I.: How it all began] (in Czech). florbal.cz. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Florbalisté Střešovic ovládli Czech Open, ve finále zdolali Pixbo". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 11 August 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Pixbo smetlo Köniz! Z titulu se radují i Fridrich s Vávrou" [Pixbo swept Köniz! Fridrich and Vávra are happy for the title too] (in Czech). florbal.cz. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Florbalistky Pixba s Krupnovou obhájily triumf na Czech Open" [Pixbo floorball players and Krupnová defended their triumph at the Czech Open] (in Czech). iDNES.cz. 13 August 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Legenda Czech Open v čase, Díl VIII.: Když se poprvé hrálo o velké peníze" [Legend Czech Open in time, Part VIII.: When they played for big money for the first time] (in Czech). florbal.cz. 30 July 2014.
  6. ^ a b c "Results from the Czech Open 2021". IFF. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  7. ^ ČTK (19 August 2012). "Pixbo vyhrálo florbalové Czech Open, na trůn se vrátil i Herbadent" [Pixbo won the floorball Czech Open, Herbadent returned to the throne too] (in Czech). lidovky.cz.
  8. ^ "Legenda Czech Open v čase, DÍL V.: Když přijel Johan poprvé do Prahy" (in Czech). Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Švédští mistři vyhráli Czech Open". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 8 August 2004. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  10. ^ a b "Vitkovice won the double at Czech Open 2020". IFF. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  11. ^ "Czech Open 2022, 30 years of elite competition in Prague!". IFF. 16 August 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  12. ^ "Pixbo Wallenstam and IBF Falun winners of Czech Open 2019". IFF. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  13. ^ "Pixbo and Falun winners of the Czech Open 2018". IFF. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  14. ^ "Falun and Pixbo Czech Open Champions 2017". IFF. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  15. ^ "Pixbo and EräViikingit winners of Czech Open 2016". IFF. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  16. ^ "SSV and Dekanka won the Czech Open". IFF. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
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