2019 Bandy World Championship

2019 Bandy World Championship was held in Vänersborg, Sweden,^[2] between men's national teams among bandy playing nations. It was the XXXIXth Bandy World Championship.

2019 Bandy World Championship

XXXIXth Bandy World Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
City	Vänersborg
Venue(s)	Arena Vänersborg
Dates	26 January – 2 February (Division A) 21–25 January (Division B)
Teams	8 (Division A) and 12 (Division B)
Final positions
Champions	Russia (12th title)
Runners-up	Sweden
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	Kazakhstan
Tournament statistics
Scoring leader(s)	Division A Felix Callander (13 goals) Division B Aleksei Ibatulov (27 goals)[1]
Awards
MVP	Erik Pettersson
← Khabarovsk 2018 Irkutsk 2020 →

Main arena

Host selection

The tournament was supposed to be held in Irkutsk in Russia.^[3] However, the decision was reconsidered ^[4] and the tournament was held in Vänersborg in Sweden instead.^[2] Irkutsk might get the right to host the 2020 tournament, if FIB is given guarantees that the planned indoor arena will be ready for use in time.^[5] The Russian government has expressed its support for the building of such a stadium.^[6]

Venues

Vänersborg	Trollhättan	Surte	Borås
Arena Vänersborg Capacity: 5,700	Slättbergshallen Capacity: 4,000	Ale Arena Capacity: ≈2,000	Boda isstadion Capacity: ?

Qualified nations

A total of 20 nations took part in the championships.^[7]

Division A Pool A  Finland  Kazakhstan  Russia  Sweden Pool B  Germany  Netherlands  Norway  United States

Division B  Canada  China  Czech Republic  Estonia  Great Britain  Hungary  Japan  Latvia  Slovakia  Somalia   Switzerland  Ukraine

Division A

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden (H)	3	3	0	0	34	5	+29	6	Semifinals
2	Russia	3	2	0	1	29	9	+20	4
3	Finland	3	1	0	2	11	9	+2	2	Play-offs
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	0	3	2	53	−51	0

Source: FIB
(H) Hosts

Sweden	6–4	Russia
Pizzoni Elfving  19' Jansson  37' Edlund  44' Esplund  61' E. Pettersson  63' Berlin  90'	Report	Ishkeldin  36', 49', 81' Mirgazov  90+1'

26 January

16:15

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 3,223

Referee: Mats-Olof Gustafsson

Finland	9–0	Kazakhstan
Fedorov  10', 24', 73', 85' Tu. Määttä  53', 64', 79' Kumpuoja  69' (p) Te. Määttä  71'	Report

26 January

18:00

Boda IP, Borås

Attendance: 1,545

Referee: Christoffer Aidesjö

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Russia	22–1	Kazakhstan
Egorychev  4', 8', 46', 52', 78' Dzhusoev  10' Dergaev  17', 71', 80', 82' Bondarenko  30', 43', 45+1', 58', 84' Mirgazov  36', 39', 62', 81' Kalanchin  74' Vasilenko  87' Prokopyev  90'	Report	Vshivkov  15'

28 January

16:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 228

Referee: Petri Kuusela

Sweden	6–0	Finland
Andersson  24', 74' Esplund  51' E. Pettersson  55' (p), 66' (p) Löfstedt  68'	Report

28 January

19:00

Ale Arena, Surte

Attendance: 1,653

Referee: Dmitriy Dobryanskiy

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Finland	2–3	Russia
Liukkonen  3' Heinonen  40'	Report	Befus  18' Dergaev  50' (p) Ishkeldin  88'

30 January

16:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 972

Referee: Christoffer Aidesjö

Sweden	22–1	Kazakhstan
E. Pettersson  3', 6', 14', 40' (p) Andersson  9', 11', 37' Edlund  20', 82', 88', 90' Löfstedt  27' Sjöström  30' Jansson  35', 51' Fagerström  60', 69', 84' Esplund  62', 80' Gilljam  65' Pizzoni Elfving  67'	Report	Utebaliyev  58'

30 January

19:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 744

Referee: Petri Kuusela

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	3	3	0	0	45	4	+41	6	Play-offs
2	United States	3	1	1	1	23	15	+8	3[a]
3	Germany	3	1	1	1	21	42	−21	3[a]	7th place game
4	Netherlands	3	0	0	3	12	40	−28	0

Source: FIB
Notes:

1. United States won after-match penalties against Germany 2–0.

Norway	6–3	United States
Kristoffersen  2', 45' Callander  12', 39', 83' Jerner  51'	Report	Lickteig  69' Carman  88' Fabie  90'

27 January

12:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 546

Referee: Petri Kuusela

Netherlands	10–13	Germany
Cras  5', 52', 61' (p), 78' Vriezen  21' Speijers  48', 86' S. Tveitan  57' Hinsbroek  83' Geenen  90'	Report	Dunaev  2', 32', 64' Koch  8', 20', 54' Kuznetsov  11' Kolyagin  22', 36', 75', 87' Wang-Norderud  27', 66'

27 January

15:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 164

Referee: Dmitriy Dobryanskiy

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United States	13–2	Netherlands
Zitouni  11', 39', 47' Brown  13', 43', 49' Richardson  17' (p), 46', 68' Palmer  24' Lickteig  75', 85' Knutson  79'	Report	Cras  45+3' Den Brok  56'

28 January

09:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 83

Referee: Christoffer Aidesjö

Germany	1–25	Norway
Dunaev  8'	Report	Callander  2', 18', 26', 54', 90+1' Kristoffersen  5', 19', 21' (p), 31', 64', 77', 79' Randsborg  28' Jerner  38', 61', 87' J. Löyning  53', 56', 63', 83', 90+2' Högevold  66' Cras  68' Hagen  72' Sterkeby  86'

28 January

13:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 222

Referee: Mats-Olof Gustafsson

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Norway	14–0	Netherlands
Svenn  3' Fremstad  6', 31' Callander  11', 36', 40', 76' Jerner  20', 62' Kristoffersen  24', 58' (p) Remman  42' Sterkeby  64' Randsborg  87'	Report

30 January

08:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 38

Referee: Dmitriy Dobryanskiy

United States	7–7	Germany
Lickteig  1' Fabie  12', 68' Brown  65' Richardson  69', 78' Zitouni  81'	Report	Dunaev  22', 37', 82' Koch  40' (p), 42' (p), 55' Kuznetsov  47'
Penalties
	2–0

30 January

11:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 554

Referee: Mats-Olof Gustafsson

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Play-offs				Semifinals				Final
					1 February
					Sweden	20
	31 January
					Kazakhstan	1
	Kazakhstan	4
									2 February
	Norway	1
									Sweden	5
									Russia (OT)	6
					1 February
					Russia	6
	31 January
					Finland	2			Third place
	Finland	10
									2 February
	United States	1
									Finland	8
									Kazakhstan	2

Play-offs

Kazakhstan	4–1	Norway
Isaliyev  44', 64' (p) Shadrin  84' Nugmanov  89' (p)	Report	Callander  27'

31 January

15:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 522

Referee: Mats-Olof Gustafsson

Finland	10–1	United States
Kumpuoja  3' Lukkarila  7', 41', 55' Liukkonen  14' Tu. Määttä  45+1', 70' Heinonen  53', 72' To. Määttä  60'	Report	Sawatske  67'

31 January

19:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 347

Referee: Christoffer Aidesjö

Seventh place game

Germany	12–6	Netherlands
Dunaev  3' Koch  10', 14', 31', 45+1', 64' (p) Wang-Norderud  48', 87' Kuznetsov  52', 79' Kolyagin  69', 71'	Report	Cras  9', 13', 51' S. Tveitan  12' Hengst  45', 90+1'

1 February

09:00

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Attendance: 64

Referee: Petri Kuusela

Fifth place game

Norway	9–3	United States
Guldbrandsen  8', 90+2' Callander  14', 90' Kristoffersen  21' Jerner  48' P. Löyning  68', 80' Randsborg  81'	Report	Brown  49', 62', 74'

1 February

12:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Attendance: 101

Referee: Dmitriy Dobryanskiy

Semifinals

Russia	6–2	Finland
Dergaev  15', 81' Vasilenko  22' Mirgazov  51' Ishkeldin  52' Bondarenko  67'	Report	Kumpuoja  8' Heinonen  37'

1 February

16:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 1,412

Referee: Christoffer Aidesjö

Sweden	20–1	Kazakhstan
Hellmyrs  4' E. Pettersson  5', 28', 33', 44', 48' Gilljam  10' Edlund  17', 25', 42', 61' Fagerström  24', 58', 77', 82' Pehrsson  35' (p), 65' Jansson  56' Löfstedt  79' Pizzoni Elfving  80'	Report	Vshivkov  41'

1 February

20:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 1,033

Referee: Mats-Olof Gustafsson

Third place game

Finland	8–2	Kazakhstan
Te. Määttä  12' Tu. Määttä  14', 56', 68' Hauska  43' Aaltonen  48' Peuhkuri  61' Fedorov  82'	Report	Isaliyev  50' (p), 86'

2 February

10:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 761

Referee: Dimitriy Dobryanskiy

Final

Sweden	5–6 (OT)	Russia
Edlund  2', 75' Esplund  39' Pettersson  42' Fagerström  67'	Report	Dergaev  13' (p), 71' Mirgazov  63', 79', 102' Vikulin  89'

2 February

16:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Attendance: 4,169

Referee: Petri Kuusela

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	Russia
	Sweden
	Finland
4	Kazakhstan
5	Norway
6	United States
7	Germany
8	Netherlands

Awards

Best players selected by the directorate:^[8]

• Best Goaltender: Kimmo Kyllönen
• Best Defenceman: Martin Johansson
• Best Midfielder: Maksim Ishkeldin
• Best Forward: Erik Pettersson
• MVP: Erik Pettersson
• Fair Play:  Sweden

Division B

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Estonia	5	4	0	1	35	18	+17	8[a]	Semifinals
2	Hungary	5	4	0	1	24	16	+8	8[a]
3	Canada	5	3	1	1	25	11	+14	7	5th place game
4	Czech Republic	5	2	0	3	10	16	−6	4	7th place game
5	Ukraine	5	1	1	3	11	20	−9	3	9th place game
6	Switzerland	5	0	0	5	6	30	−24	0	11th place game

Source: FIB
Notes:

1. Hungary 6–10 Estonia

Ukraine	3–3	Canada
	Report
Penalties
	1–2

21 January

08:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Hungary	6–10	Estonia
	Report

21 January

10:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Czech Republic	4–1	Switzerland
	Report

21 January

12:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Hungary	6–2	Ukraine
	Report

21 January

17:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

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Canada	2–0	Czech Republic
	Report

22 January

08:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Estonia	9–0	Switzerland
	Report

22 January

10:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Hungary	4–1	Canada
	Report

22 January

14:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Switzerland	0–2	Ukraine
	Report

22 January

17:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

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Estonia	7–2	Czech Republic
	Report

23 January

08:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Canada	11–3	Switzerland
	Report

23 January

10:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Czech Republic	1–4	Hungary
	Report

23 January

14:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Ukraine	2–8	Estonia
	Report

23 January

19:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

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Switzerland	2–4	Hungary
	Report

24 January

08:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Estonia	1–8	Canada
	Report

24 January

10:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Ukraine	2–3	Czech Republic
	Report

24 January

12:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Great Britain	5	5	0	0	39	2	+37	10	Semifinals
2	Japan	5	4	0	1	24	3	+21	8
3	Latvia	5	3	0	2	39	6	+33	6	5th place game
4	Slovakia	5	2	0	3	17	12	+5	4	7th place game
5	China	5	1	0	4	6	41	−35	2	9th place game
6	Somalia	5	0	0	5	1	62	−61	0	11th place game

Source: FIB

Somalia	1–8	Slovakia
	Report

21 January

08:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Japan	8–0	China
	Report

21 January

10:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Latvia	0–5	Great Britain
	Report

21 January

12:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Japan	12–0	Somalia
	Report

21 January

19:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

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Slovakia	0–3	Latvia
	Report

22 January

08:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

China	0–11	Great Britain
	Report

22 January

10:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Japan	2–0	Slovakia
	Report

22 January

14:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Great Britain	14–0	Somalia
	Report

22 January

19:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

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China	0–14	Latvia
	Report

23 January

08:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Slovakia	1–6	Great Britain
	Report

23 January

10:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Latvia	0–1	Japan
	Report

23 January

14:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Somalia	0–6	China
	Report

23 January

17:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

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Great Britain	3–1	Japan
	Report

24 January

08:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

China	0–8	Slovakia
	Report

24 January

10:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Somalia	0–22	Latvia
	Report

24 January

12:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semifinals				Final
	24 January
	Estonia	12
					25 January
	Japan	1
					Estonia	9
	24 January
					Great Britain	3
	Great Britain	5
	Hungary	4
					Third place
					25 January
					Japan	0
					Hungary	6

Semifinals

Estonia	12–1	Japan
	Report

24 January

17:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Great Britain	5–4	Hungary
	Report

24 January

19:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Eleventh place game

Switzerland	9–0	Somalia
	Report

25 January

08:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Ninth place game

Ukraine	7–2	China
	Report

25 January

08:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Seventh place game

Czech Republic	3–2 (OT)	Slovakia
	Report

25 January

10:30

Slättbergshallen, Trollhättan

Fifth place game

Canada	2–3	Latvia
	Report

25 January

10:30

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Third place game

Japan	0–6	Hungary
	Report

25 January

14:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Final

Estonia	9–3	Great Britain
	Report

25 January

16:00

Arena Vänersborg, Vänersborg

Final ranking

Rank	Team
1	Estonia
2	Great Britain
3	Hungary
4	Japan
5	Latvia
6	Canada
7	Czech Republic
8	Slovakia
9	Ukraine
10	China
11	Switzerland
12	Somalia