ANNUAL REPORT
2000-2002
1.
General The Central Board of IFF has admitted 20 provisional member
Associations: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany,
Great Britain, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the
United States. 2.
The IFF Central Board (CB) Tomas Eriksson, President Stefan Kratz, Secretary General There has altogether been nine CB meetings between the Congresses, held
as follows: Oslo 19.05 2000 The minutes of the meetings are published at www.floorball.org 3.
The Appeal Committee (AC) Lars Granqvist (Sweden), Chairman The Appeal Committee has had no meeting during the period. There has been no cases for the AC to deal with. 4.
The Disciplinary Committee (DC) Mika Hilska (Finland), Chairman The Disciplinary Committee has had no meeting during the period. Two
cases, filed from the RACC on January 14, 2002, were revoked from the
DC by the IFF CB and put forth to the IFF President and IFF vice
President to decide upon. The actual cases were Outlaw from Denmark
and Helsingfors IFK both concerning incidents at the European Cup
finals in Sweden January 3-6, 2002. 5.
The Education and Development Committee (EDC) Thomas Gilardi, Chairman The EDC has mainly carried out the development work through the three
IFF founding Associations, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland, that
continue to take a great responsibility when developing the floorball
world. EDC has tried to collocate the various needs of development help, i.e.
by asking for annual plans from the Associations. The feed-back has
been quite sparse so EDC has tried to implement certain activities on
its own such as the referee seminar, held in co-operation with RC, in
Hohenmölsen during the Men’s U19 World Championships 2001. 6.
The Material Committee (MC) John Liljelund, Chairman MC has mainly worked with following-up of the Material Regulations which
has involved several meetings with the Swedish Testing and Research
Institute (SP) as well as the manufacturers of floorball equipment. During the period a new version of the Material Regulations has been
worked out and put forward to the Congress 2002 to decide upon. 7.
The Marketing and Information Committee (MIC) Peter Lindström, Chairman MIC has during the period found two new sponsors, Gerflor (sports
flooring) and Salming (floorball equipment). The flyer “The World of Floorball” has been produced by MIC. 8.
The Rules- and Competition Committee (RACC) Renato Orlando, Chairman The RACC has been gathered for meetings four times between the
Congresses: 11.11 2000
in Zurich The main tasks during the period has been to work with the 2002 edition
of the Rules of the Game and to act as Jury of the IFF Competitions. During the period the RACC has
been the Jury in the following IFF Competitions: European Cup Qualification Round 2000 & 2001 in Czech Republic Other tasks for the RACC has been to follow up on International
Transfers, do preparation work for coming IFF events including
technical inspections etc. Following incidents in the competitions the Regulations were constantly
adapted. Several cases where reported to the Disciplinary Committee. 9.
The Referee Committee (RC) Karl-Heinz Seiler, Chairman The RC has been gathered for one meeting between the Congresses 08.11 2001 in Hohenmölsen The RC has mainly been involved in the preparations of the 2002 edition
of the Rules of the Game, but also appointed referees to the World
Championships’, European Cup’s and friendly Internationals. Education as well as observation of referees has mainly been made during
European Cups and World Championships, but also in some friendly
Internationals where the home Association has provided observers.
Education has been made in the means of observation. Specific efforts were made during the Men’s U19 World Championships
2001, where a referee management seminar was held in co-operation with
the EDC. IFF RC has also been represented, through Mr. Seiler, in the 4-Nations tournament organized by the Belgian Association (BFFU) in February 2001 and 2002. 10.
The Senior Adviser’s Group (SAG) Bengt Sevelius (Sweden, Engso President), Chairman 11.
The IFF Competitions A-division:
1) Sweden 2) Finland 3) Switzerland 4) Denmark 5) Norway 6) Czech
Republic 7)
Latvia 8) Russia (Russia relegated to the B-division 2002) B-division:
1) Germany 2) Austria 3) Estonia 4) Poland 5) Great Britain 6) Japan
7) Australia 8)
Hungary (Germany promoted to the A-division 2002) Women’s
3rd World Championships 2001 in Latvia A-division:
1) Finland 2) Sweden 3) Norway 4) Switzerland 5) Czech Republic 6)
Latvia 7) Germany 8)
Austria (Austria relegated to the B-division 2003) B-division:
1) Russia 2) Denmark 3) Singapore 4) Poland 5) Japan 6) Australia 7)
Hungary 8)
Great Britain (Russia promoted to the A-division 2003) b)
European Cup The
ranking of EC 2000-2001 for men: The
ranking of EC 2000-2001 for women: European Cup 2001-2002 The
ranking of EC 2001-2002 for men: The
ranking of EC 2001-2002 for women: 12.
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