# 2023 Men's U-19 World Floorball Championships

The 2023 Men's U-19 World Floorball Championships was the 12th edition of the championship. The tournament was played in Frederikshavn, Denmark, and took place from 26 to 30 April. Czech Republic were the two-time defending champions, but were beaten by Switzerland in the semifinals. Sweden won their sixth title after triumphing over the Swiss in the final.
This tournament broke the record for the most attended U-19 Floorball World Championship ever, with 18,316 spectators watching the games.

## Bidding process

* Denmark
* Slovakia
Denmark's bid was deemed superior and were given the hosting rights on 23 February 2021.

## Qualified teams

29 teams entered, although this would be reduced to 25. The top nine from the last edition qualified directly, while qualifiers took place in Asia, Americas and Europe for the last seven tickets. This tournament saw the debut of Australia, Singapore and United States.
| | Date | Venue | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Automatically qualified from 2021 | | Brno | 9 | Czech Republic Finland Sweden Switzerland Latvia Germany Slovakia Poland Denmark (H) |
| European qualifier 1 | 24–28 January 2023 | Salzburg | 2 | Norway Austria |
| European qualifier 2 | 24–28 January 2023 | El Escorial | 2 | Estonia Slovenia |
| Asian-Oceanian qualification | 29 September–1 October 2022 | Wellington | 2 | Australia Singapore |
| Americas qualification | 2–3 September 2022 | Draper | 1 | United States |
| Total | | | 16 | |

## Venues

The venues for the tournament are in Frederikshavn at Arena Nord.
| Frederikshavn | Frederikshavn |
| Arena Nord Capacity: 2,700 (in total) | Frederikshavn |
* ↑ Arena Nord used two arenas during the tournament. Arena A has a capacity of 2,100, while Arena B has a capacity of 600.

## Draw

The draw took place on 13 December 2022 in Næstved, Denmark at 11:00 CET. The European qualifiers were not known at the time and ranking between the four qualifiers would decide who would take each place.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Czech Republic (1)  Finland (2)  Sweden (3)  Switzerland (4) | Latvia (5)  Germany (6)  Slovakia (7)  Poland (8) | Denmark (9) (H) European qualifier (8) European qualifier (10) European qualifier (11) | European qualifier (12)  United States (14)  Australia (20)  Singapore (27) |
* ↑ The eventual team in this slot was Norway.
* ↑ The eventual team in this slot was Estonia.
* ↑ The eventual team in this slot was Slovenia.
* ↑ The eventual team in this slot was Austria.

## Preliminary round

The schedule was announced on 30 January 2023.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Czech Republic | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 9 | +20 | 6 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Finland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 9 | +17 | 4 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Latvia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 2 | 5th place game |
| 4 | Poland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 49 | −46 | 0 | Quarterfinal 1 |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sweden | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 9 | +32 | 6 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Switzerland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 12 | +16 | 4 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Slovakia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 34 | −24 | 1 | 5th place game |
| 4 | Germany | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 32 | −24 | 1 | Quarterfinal 1 |
* 1 2 Slovakia 6–6 Germany

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Denmark (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 6 | +21 | 5 | Quarterfinal 1 |
| 2 | Austria | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 21 | −2 | 4 | 11th place game |
| 3 | Estonia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 16 | +8 | 3 | 13th place game |
| 4 | United States | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 35 | −27 | 0 | 15th place game |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Norway | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 8 | +33 | 6 | Quarterfinal 1 |
| 2 | Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 26 | +1 | 2 | 11th place game |
| 3 | Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 33 | −14 | 2 | 13th place game |
| 4 | Singapore | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 33 | −20 | 2 | 15th place game |
* 1 2 3 Slovenia +4, Australia +1, Singapore –5

## Placement round
### 15th place game

| 15th place game | 15th place game |
| April 29 | April 29 |
| United States | 5 |
| Singapore | 12 |

#### C4 vs D4
### 13th place game

| 13th place game | 13th place game |
| April 29 | April 29 |
| Australia | 2 |
| Estonia | 10 |

#### C3 vs D3
### 11th place game

| 11th place game | 11th place game |
| April 29 | April 29 |
| Austria | 1 |
| Slovenia | 4 |

#### C2 vs D2
### Bracket

| 7th–10th semifinals | 7th–10th semifinals | 7th place | 7th place |
| 29 April | 29 April |
| Poland | 2 |
| Poland | 2 | 30 April | 30 April |
| Norway | 8 | 30 April | 30 April |
| Norway | 8 | Norway | 10 |
| 29 April | 29 April | | Norway | 10 |
| 29 April | 29 April | Denmark | 4 |
| Germany | 3 | Denmark | 4 |
| Denmark | 4 | | |
| Denmark | 4 | 9th place | 9th place |
| | | 30 April | 30 April |
| | | Poland | 1 |
| | | Germany | 15 |

#### B4 vs C1
### 9th place game
#### LPO1 vs LPO2
### 5th place game

| 5th place game | 5th place game |
| April 29 | April 29 |
| Latvia | 6 |
| Slovakia | 1 |

#### A3 vs B3
## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 29 April | 29 April |
| Czech Republic | 2 |
| Czech Republic | 2 | 30 April | 30 April |
| Switzerland | 7 | 30 April | 30 April |
| Switzerland | 7 | Switzerland | 4 |
| 29 April | 29 April | | Switzerland | 4 |
| 29 April | 29 April | Sweden | 7 |
| Sweden | 12 | Sweden | 7 |
| Finland | 10 | | |
| Finland | 10 | Third place | Third place |
| | | 30 April | 30 April |
| | | Czech Republic | 6 |
| | | Finland | 7 (SO) |

### Gold medal game
## Final standings

| | Sweden |
| | Switzerland |
| | Finland |
| 4 | Czech Republic |
| 5 | Latvia |
| 6 | Slovakia |
| 7 | Norway |
| 8 | Denmark |
| 9 | Germany |
| 10 | Poland |
| 11 | Slovenia |
| 12 | Austria |
| 13 | Estonia |
| 14 | Australia |
| 15 | Singapore |
| 16 | United States |

## Awards
### Team of the tournament

* Mathias Juon (Goalkeeper)
* Jonathan Berglund (Defender)
* Pascal Schmuki (Defender)
* David Hermle (Centre)
* Gabriel Kohonen (Forward)
* Sakarias Ulriksson (Forward)

## Preparations

For the tournament, the city of Frederikshavn and Sport Event Denmark gave 125,000 Euros.
Applications for volunteering was opened in October 2022.
The budget for the tournament were 217,600 Euros. Although this would increase to 260,000. To break even, they needed to earn up to 66,000 Euros in ticket sales. They ended up exceeding the target and reached 90,000 Euros.

## Marketing

Ticket sales and packages started to be put on sale on 20 October 2022. 2,500 tickets and packages were sold before the tournament.