Australian Floorball Open Championship (AFO)

The Australian Floorball championships were recently held from 9th-12th July in Canberra ACT.

There were 12 men’s teams and 4 women’s teams. The teams came from right across Australia.The games were played with a round robin format for groups, then quarter and semi finals and the grand finals. The games were the closest ever with many games being decided by a goal or two. The men’s teams for the finals were only decided with the last game in each group match.

The men’s grand final was fought between the Vikings from Victoria and the Kookaburras from Western Australia. This was the first time a men’s team from Western Australia had made the grand final. In a very hard fought game the final score was Kookaburra’s 3 defeated Vikings 1. MVP of the Grand Final was Alex Peck from the Kookaburra’s.

The women’s grand final was fought between the Venom from Victoria and the Waratahs from New South Wales. This was the first a team a women’s team from New South Wales had made the grand final. In another very tight game the Waratahs 4 defeated the Venom 3. MVP of the Grand Final was Mel Lyons from Venom.The duel Highest Points Scorer and MVP for the tournament for women was Linda Hedensjo and for men was Thomas Isaksson.

The level of play at the tournament certainly has increased and the results show the growth across the sport in Australia. The tournament was covered each day on TV and in the print media and the finals crowd was in excess of 300 spectators.Next years AFO will be held in Sydney, dates will be announced shortly.

Thursday, 02 July 2009 21:24

Men's National Team

The AFA is very pleased to announce the appointment of Carl Lowenborg to the position of Australian Mens Team Victorian Coordinator.

Carl's role will involve helping to plan, coordinate and run training sessions in Victoria for players hoping to be selected to the mens national team, scouting for new players with the potential to step up to national standard, assisting with training camps and disseminating information as required in consultation with the national coaching staff.

We welcome Carl to the AFA Coaching team and look forward to his input into coming international campaigns.

Regards,
Barb. Summers
AFA President

Saturday, 20 June 2009 03:03

AFO 2009 Fixture

The fixture for AFO 2009 in ACT has been finalised and is below:

AFA Meeting Minutes

Minutes of May 2009 AFA Committee Meeting are below.

Australian Men's Coaches Appointed

The AFA is pleased to advise the following structure for the men’s national team progressing towards APAC2010 and then onto WFC2010.

Head Coach: Grant Mead
Assistant Coach: Peter Harris

State/Area Training Co-ordinators to be appointed by Grant and Peter to organise training sessions in each state and area.

The AFA believes this structure will help support the growth of our players and ensure the team is prepared to the best level yet to ensure we qualify for WFC 2010 where we have the opportunity to play the best teams in the world for the first time.”

We hope everyone will get behind Grant and Peter and the State training co-ordinators to ensure we are the best prepared team for APAC 2010.

Grant and Peter will be in contact with everyone over the next few weeks so please ensure you have sent your contact details to Steve King at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to ensure you get the information for training and camps

Saturday, 09 May 2009 03:01

Australian International Referee Pair

The AFA is very pleased to be able to congratulate Mel (Bubba) Cathie and Leith (Tomma) Woods on being accepted as an International Referee Pair by the IFF.

This is a great step forward for refereeing in Australia and we wish Mel and Leith all the best. This also shows we have the skills in Australia and hopefully this will encourage other pairs to aim for the position and nominate as well.

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