After 2 years without a national competition, the Brazilian Floorball Championship took place on October 8 to 9 2022, in the city of Curitiba. The tournament put together seven teams on the competition with the best structure ever held in Brazil.
Floorball Arca, from the city of São Paulo, was the champion team 🥇, displacing Hockstar 🥈, one of the hosts. Luzeiro, from Minas Gerais, won the 3rd place 🥉 over the Falcões, from a city near Curitiba. Invictus from Campinas, Braves and FdR, in the same order, complete the classification.
The 8th edition of the Brazilian Championship took place in Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, in the southern region of Brazil.
Floorball Arca obtains its 2nd national title, the first being achieved in 2013. Finalists of the competition since 2017, Floorball Arca manages to break a hegemony of 3 consecutive titles over Hockstar Floorball.
– It is the 1st time that the Brazilian Championship is hosted outside the state of São Paulo and that the format of the tournament held on 2 consecutive days, in addition to a big step towards the Brazilian standard, also helped to value the competition more, said Rafael Pasqua, vice-president of ABF.
ABF evolved how floorball is practiced on it’s competitions. From referees applying the training offered by ABF courses, matches with a minimum duration of 30 minutes, 40x20m court, IFF’ certified rink, and six players per team on the court. For Tiago Macarin, Sports Director of the ABF, it was the closest the competitions got to official standards, and teams and players see great value on it.
João Victor dos Reis, secretary general of ABF, emphasizes that this year’s Brazilian championship was the best organized, even considering the low cost involved and that partnerships with other entities were fundamental for an excellent outcome.
– Without the partnership with Floorball4All Brasil, with the NGO Recanto Esperança and the Municipality of Curitiba, the Brazilian Floorball Championship 2022 would not have the success it had. Each support was fundamental and added to the greatness of the event. The teams had a new experience in the tournament, and we hope to always be able to take a step forward in each edition, says Adriano Serafim, president of ABF.
Lucas Gabriel Bombana Ribeiro was the top scorer and was also MVP from a team established this year at FDR, a well-structured NGO established 16 years ago.
Individual Awards
– MVP Female | Ellen Souza Fernandes | Arca
– MVP Male | Lucas Gabriel Bombana Ribeiro | FDR
– Better Goalkeeper | Yago de Souza Santos | Arca
– Top Scorer | Lucas Gabriel Bombana Ribeiro | FDR
– Goalkeeper with less goals
o Yago de Souza Santos | Arca
o Luciano Ramthun Neima | Hockstar
Teams results
1º Arca
2º Hockstar
3º Luzeiro
4º Falcões
5º Invictus
6º Braves
7º FDR
