Czech Open (floorball)
File:Czech Open (floorball) Logo.png | |
Sport | floorball |
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Founded | 1993 |
Most recent champion(s) | Men: ![]() Women: ![]() (2022) |
Most titles | Men: ![]() Women: ![]() |
Official website | https://www.czechopen.cz/ |
Czech Open is an international floorball tournament. It takes place every year in August in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of the largest floorball tournaments in the world. Every year over 200 teams from around the world participate. The first season was played in 1993. The tournament is organized by Prague floorball club Tatran Střešovice.[1]
Usually, there are six categories in the tournament. Men have three categories (Elite, Pro and Open), women have two (Elite and Open) and juniors have one. In elite categories, usually sixteen teams compete.[2] Czech teams have a number of places reserved, which are assigned according to standings of the teams in Czech floorball leagues (such as Superliga florbalu).
The most successful team in the history of the tournament is Swedish Pixbo Wallenstam IBK, with eight titles in men's[3] and women's elite categories. By 2022, the men Elite category has been won only by three teams from the Czech Republic – 1. SC Vítkovice, Tatran Střešovice and FBC Ostrava. They won in 1998, 1999, 2020, 2021 and 2022. With an exception of 2022, those were years, when the strong Scandinavian teams did not arrive.[4][5] Women Elite has also only three Czech winners – Děkanka (2006 through 2010, 2012),[6] Tatran (1997, 2004) and Vítkovice (2020, 2021).
List of Czech Open winners
References
- ^ "Legenda Czech Open v čase, Díl I.: Jak to celé začalo" [Legend Czech Open in time, Part I.: How it all began] (in Czech). florbal.cz. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Florbalový turnaj Czech Open ovládli muži i ženy Vítkovic" [The men and women of Vítkovice dominated the Czech Open floorball tournament]. iDNES.cz. 9 August 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Pixbo smetlo Köniz! Z titulu se radují i Fridrich s Vávrou" [Pixbo swept Köniz! Fridrich and Vávra are happy for the title too] (in Czech). florbal.cz. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Legenda Czech Open v čase, Díl VIII.: Když se poprvé hrálo o velké peníze" [Legend Czech Open in time, Part VIII.: When they played for big money for the first time] (in Czech). florbal.cz. 30 July 2014.
- ^ a b "Results from the Czech Open 2021". IFF. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- ^ ČTK (19 August 2012). "Pixbo vyhrálo florbalové Czech Open, na trůn se vrátil i Herbadent" [Pixbo won the floorball Czech Open, Herbadent returned to the throne too] (in Czech). lidovky.cz.
- ^ "Czech Open 2022, 30 years of elite competition in Prague!". IFF. 16 August 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ "Vitkovice won the double at Czech Open 2020". IFF. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Pixbo Wallenstam and IBF Falun winners of Czech Open 2019". IFF. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Pixbo and Falun winners of the Czech Open 2018". IFF. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Falun and Pixbo Czech Open Champions 2017". IFF. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Pixbo and EräViikingit winners of Czech Open 2016". IFF. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "SSV and Dekanka won the Czech Open". IFF. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2020.