The game of floorball is also known by many other names, such as salibandy ( in Finland ), innebandy ( in Sweden and Norway ), and unihockey ( in Switzerland and Germany ).

A floorball game is controlled by two referees with equal power.

Power hockey is a floor hockey game similar to floorball that has been designed for players confined to electric wheelchairs.

A wiffle gag is a simple ball gag that replaces the standard solid rubber ball with a light plastic ball similar to the one used for the game of floorball.

In addition to those four countries, floorball is gaining popularity in countries such as Latvia, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States.

A floorball stick is short compared with ice hockey ; the maximum size for a stick is 114 cm.

Checking is disallowed in floorball.

Freebandy is a sport that developed in the 2000s from floorball fanatics who specialize in a technique called " zorro ", which involves lifting the ball onto a stick and allowing air resistance and fast movements to keep the ball " stuck " to the stick.

Floorball at Special Olympics is slightly modified from the " regular " form of floorball.

Swiss floorball is a revised version of a floorball match.

The match is played on a slightly smaller court and often involves only three field players playing on each side, in 3-on-3 floorball.

This form of floorball is also slightly shorter, with only two periods of 15 to 20 minutes each played.

Originally developed for players with disabilities, wheelchair floorball is played with exactly the same rules as " regular " floorball.

It is the largest floorball club tournament outside of Europe, and attracts 55 + clubs from worldwide, every year.

It is a part of NAFC series with Canada Cup and Falls floorball classic.

The NAFC-North American Floorball Championship is an international club tournament series currently including three tournaments: Canada Cup, Falls floorball classic and USA Cup.

Tychy is also home to several other sports teams, including basketball team Big Star Tychy, futsal team GKS Jachym Tychy and floorball team TKKF Pionier Tychy.

NST plays floorball in the Salibandyliiga and Rajaritarit is an American Football team in the Vaahteraliiga.

* 1998-The successful floorball team KS Szarotka Nowy Targ is founded.

IK Akerselva is a floorball club competing on the highest national level.

In sports such as bandy, ice hockey and floorball, the concept of promotion and relegation is used also for the World Championships, as well as the Athletics European Cup.

One variation, especially popular in Europe, is floorball.

By the time of the first men's world championships in 1996, 20 nations played floorball, with 12 of them participating at the tournament.

As of 2009, the sport of floorball has been played in almost 80 countries.

This form of floorball was developed for the intellectually disabled, and has yet to be played at the Special Olympics.

The first ever IFF-sanctioned wheelchair floorball matches were played between the men's teams of the Czech Republic and Sweden, during the 2008 Men's World Floorball Championships in Prague, Czech Republic.

Larsson has played competitive floorball in 1989.

Further speculation began on 21 October 2009 as Larsson discussed the possibility of taking up floorball on a full-time basis, as he had previously played floorball with FC ( Floorball Club ) Helsingborg during the football close season.

Kvisvik has also played for the Norwegian national floorball team ( four games ), and has won the Norwegian championships four times as a player with Greåker Bulldogs.

He has also played in the highest Norwegian league in floorball.

The club currently provides for football, floorball and futsal and has over 300 registered players.

With the addition of Sierra Leone, Africa's first floorball nation, the IFF has at least one national association on each continent of the world, with the exception of Antarctica.

Bälinge Idrottsförening was established on March 15, 1936 and is currently active in men's and ladies football, cross country skiing, floorball and table tennis.

Typical equipment for a floorball player consists of a stick, a pair of shorts, a shirt, socks, and indoor sport shoes.

In freebandy, the rules are very much the same of those of floorball, with the exception of high nets and no infractions for high sticking.

The floorball team has been in the Eliteserie for 11 years running.

* Canada Cup ( floorball ) for men, women's, and youth floorball

The town also has a primary school, Bittern Primary School, and a small basketball and netball stadium known as Graham Myers Sports Stadium or Bittern Memorial Stadium, which features an indoor court used for basketball, netball or floorball and four outside courts used for netball.

* extensive sports facilities including two sports halls equipped for a wide range of sports including badminton, basketball, floorball and volleyball ; an Olympic-sized swimming pool ; fitness centre and gymnasium ; flood-lit tennis courts ; playing areas-three of them Astroturf-for cricket, hockey, netball, rugby, and soccer ; high-ropes course and rock-climbing walls

* International Floorball Federation, the global governing body for the sport of floorball

Mikkola has made brief appearances since then, including re-uniting with his co-driver Gunnar Palm for the 25th anniversary run of the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally ( Mikkola won the original 1970 event and the 1995 re-run ) and competing in the London-Sydney Marathon 2000 Rally, re-united with his 1968 1000 Lakes Rally winning Ford Escort RS1600 and co-driven by his oldest son, Juha Mikkola, founder of Canada Cup ( floorball ).