HISTORY OF FLOORBALL

 

Some roots of Floorball are already from 1958. The idea of plastic sticks (with both shaft and blade) was born in a plastic industry in Lakeville, Minneapolis, USA. They introduced

sticks and other plastic material under the name Cosom. Cosom floorhockey has grown afterwards in both USA and Canada. Since many years game series have been played

in North America and Canada, but mainly for children and youth. One of the biggest tournaments, Floorhockey Tournament, was arranged for the first time in the beginning of 1960´s in Battle Creek Michigan. The first Cosom-plastic stick was introduced in Sweden 1968 and after that a lot of different versions of games with balls and pucks were played in Sweden. In the middle of the 1970´s the idea of trying to establish ONE sport based on the Cosom-material and with influence from basketball and ice hockey.

 

Floorball has developed to its present form, from a game which was first played in Gothenburg, Sweden in the early 1970´s. The sport has been influenced quite a lot by street hockey, the street version of ice hockey. Floorball was first brought to Sweden by students and from there it has been spread throughout Europe and the rest of the world.