1. General
The International Floorball
Federation (IFF) is the sole international organization for Floorball.
IFF consists of totally 32
member Associations.
The popularity of Floorball
will continue to grow in the world and new members are expected not only from
Europe but also from Asia, America and Africa.
The members are expected to
be more and to become ordinary members. Plans and actions will be taken in
order to fulfil and meet with the IFF Vision to have more ordinary members in
2006.
The IFF Vision is, and was
decided by the IFF General Assembly in Helsinki on May 24th, 2002:
“To become the true efficient
governing body of an internationally recognised sport, played on five
continents with over 50 members before year 2012 and have participated in one
or more international multi-sport events (IWGA - World Games, FISU -
Universiade). To be recognised by the IOC before the year 2006 and to be an
Olympic sport before year 2020.”
2. Administration
The IFF office has since the
General Assembly in 1996 been located in Solna, Sweden.
Since January 1, 2000 the IFF
is financially self-financed.
When the financial situation
permits the administration will be strengthened during the period between the
General Assemblies 2004 and 2006.
The aim is to have an
administration of four employees until 2006, consisting of a secretary general,
a technical function, a marketing function and a clerk function.
3. Central Board
The Central Board of the IFF
will improve its efficiency by allocating specific areas of responsibility to
the Committees to create more time for development of finances and
administration.
The Central Board will have
approximately four meetings per year.
The formation of the
Executive Committee (ExCo) will increase the efficiency even further.
4. The Committees
More responsibilities will be
allocated to the Committees.
Guidelines for the Committee
work shall be established, and when the finances of IFF increases, more funds
will be allocated to the Committees for their work in developing Floorball.
5. Competitions
World Championships will be
played in 2004 for men in Switzerland, in 2005 for women in Singapore and in
2006 for men in Sweden.
World Championships for U19
will be played in 2004 for women in Finland, 2005 for men in Latvia.
When appointing
organizers of the IFF competitions the aim is to follow the schedule on how to
appoint organizers, meaning that a first letter asking for organizers will be
sent 72 months prior (six years) to the competition and the appointment will be
done 48 months (four years) prior to the competition.
5.
Competitions - continuation
The European Cup is played
every year for both Men and Women. Since 1999 the Final Round of the
EC consists of 8 teams in
each category, meaning that Qualification Rounds are played when needed. The
organizing member associations men and women’s teams are automatically
qualified for the finals for the EC.
In August in 2004 the
qualification for the EC is played in the Czech Republic.
In 2005 and in 2006 the
qualification rounds will be organized, place and organising association to be
decided.
In 2005 the final for the EC
is played in January 2005, in Switzerland. The final for 2006 is to be decided
upon.
6. The World Games organized by the IWGA
Efforts will be made for
Floorball to be part, on an observer’s basis, in the July 2005 World Games
organized in Duisburg in Germany. IFF needs to be an ordinary member of GAISF
before being able to apply for membership in IWGA.
7. The World University Championships in Floorball organized by the FISU
Efforts will be made to be
able to play the WUC in 2006 in Switzerland, organized by the FISU.
8. The Universiade organized by the FISU
Efforts will be made to be
able to take part in the Universiade in any aspects in 2005.
9. The Rules of the Game
The work with Edition 2006
(valid from July 1, 2006) will be completed during the period 2004-2006.
10. Development Board (DB) of IFF
The functions for the
Development Board, consisting of representatives from the manufacturers and the
IFF, will be looked upon. The surplus from the material approval system is
discussed in the DB, but decided by the IFF CB.
11. Information services
The development of the IFF
web site, www.floorball.org, will
continue.
The minutes from the CB
meetings will be sent to the member Associations and published on the web site
as they have been finalized.
Mainly information’s will be
distributed via e-mail instead of ordinary mail.
More promotion material, such
as video’s, DVD’s and brochures will be produced.
12. Economy
The income from sponsoring
and advertisements will have to continue to increase the coming years and
therefore the Marketing and Information Committee will do more efforts.
IFF will establish, during
2004, a selling- and marketing- portfolio for international Floorball.
The Budgets and Financial
Reports will be published on the IFF web site.