History

Floorball is a young sport and sees it's roots to come from USA in the fifties.

The sport was originally introduced as a team game for youngsters and played indoors with a light plastic puck and plastic sticks.

To start off with, the sticks looked very similar to ice hockey sticks, but with a soft blade that was easily bent. The new game was called floorhockey and the first tournament was played in Michigan in the sixties.

In the late sixties the game was introduced in Sweden by Swedish students who had seen it.

Floorball quickly became popular.