# 2015 Bandy World Championship

2015 Bandy World Championship 2015 was the XXXVth Bandy World Championship. At the FIB congress held during the XXXIVth World Championship in 2014, it was announced that Khabarovsk in Russia had been elected as host city. It was also decided the Group A tournament would be played around the end of March/beginning of April, which means it would take place when the national bandy leagues in the major bandy playing countries, Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden, would be finished for the season. Group B was played between February 1 and 6 and hit a new record attendance, already before the match for the bronze and the final.
High-profile people who visited the Group A tournament include the Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, and the President of Ice Hockey Federation of Russia, the legendary goaltender Vladislav Tretiak.
The mascots of the games were a bear and a tiger, named Тоша and Ероша, were inspired by the animals in the coat of arms of Khabarovsk.
Ukraine refused to take part in the Russian-hosted championship because of the Russian annexation of Crimea the previous year.

## Host selection

On 5 December 2013, the Russian news agency AmurMedia (which quoted Russian Internet site Sportbox.ru) reported that the decision on host city was made, after a decision by the working committee of FIB.
The candidates were:
* Minsk, Belarus
* Helsinki, Finland
* Khabarovsk, Russia
Minsk withdrew its candidacy in August 2013. Khabarovsk won over Helsinki because there is an indoor arena in the city.

## Participating teams
### Division A

* Belarus
* Finland
* Kazakhstan
* Latvia
* Norway
* Russia
* Sweden
* United States

### Division B

* China
* Estonia
* Germany
* Hungary
* Japan
* Latvia
* Mongolia
* Netherlands
* Somalia
Latvia won Division B in 2014 and was thus promoted to Division A for 2015. However, the Latvians made an application to play in Division B this year too, and this was approved by the Federation of International Bandy. Latvia was therefore playing in both divisions this year. This was made possible by the divisions not being played at the same time, Division B was being played in early February while Division A was being played in late March/early April.

## Venues

* Khabarovsk
* Arena Yerofey
* Capacity: 10,000

## Division A

After drawn games in the group stage, a penalty shootout is held to determine final placings in the event of teams finishing on equal points

### Preliminary round
#### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Sweden | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 | +9 | 5 |
| 2 | Russia (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 3 | +17 | 5 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 22 | −14 | 1 |
| 4 | Finland | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 17 | −12 | 1 |
* 1 2 Sweden won after-match penalties against Russia 5–4.
* 1 2 Kazakhstan won after-match penalties against Finland 4–3.
All times are local (UTC+10).

#### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Norway | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 15 | +8 | 5 |
| 2 | Belarus | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 22 | +5 | 4 |
| 3 | United States | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Latvia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 23 | −13 | 0 |

### Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 1 April – Khabarovsk | 1 April – Khabarovsk | | | |
| Finland | 13 | | | |
| Finland | 13 | 2 April – Khabarovsk | 2 April – Khabarovsk | | |
| Norway | 5 | 2 April – Khabarovsk | 2 April – Khabarovsk | |
| Norway | 5 | Finland | 1 | |
| 1 April – Khabarovsk | 1 April – Khabarovsk | | Finland | 1 | |
| 1 April – Khabarovsk | 1 April – Khabarovsk | Sweden | 10 | |
| Sweden | 14 | Sweden | 10 | |
| Sweden | 14 | | | | 4 April – Khabarovsk | 4 April – Khabarovsk |
| Latvia | 2 | | | | 4 April – Khabarovsk | 4 April – Khabarovsk |
| Latvia | 2 | | | | Sweden | 3 |
| 1 April – Khabarovsk | 1 April – Khabarovsk | | | | | Sweden | 3 |
| 1 April – Khabarovsk | 1 April – Khabarovsk | | | | Russia | 5 |
| Kazakhstan | 26 | | | | Russia | 5 |
| Kazakhstan | 26 | 2 April – Khabarovsk | 2 April – Khabarovsk | | | |
| Belarus | 8 | 2 April – Khabarovsk | 2 April – Khabarovsk | | | |
| Belarus | 8 | Kazakhstan | 0 | | | |
| 1 April – Khabarovsk | 1 April – Khabarovsk | | Kazakhstan | 0 | | | |
| 1 April – Khabarovsk | 1 April – Khabarovsk | Russia | 14 | | Third place | Third place |
| Russia | 17 | Russia | 14 | | Third place | Third place |
| Russia | 17 | | | | 3 April – Khabarovsk | 3 April – Khabarovsk |
| United States | 2 | | | | 3 April – Khabarovsk | 3 April – Khabarovsk |
| United States | 2 | | | | Finland | 6 |
| | | | | | Kazakhstan | 8 |

#### Final
### Consolation tournament
#### 5th place game
### Final standings

| 1. | Russia |
| 2. | Sweden |
| 3. | Kazakhstan |
| 4. | Finland |
| 5. | Norway |
| 6. | Belarus |
| 7. | Latvia |
| 8. | United States |

### Statistics
#### Goalscorers
##### 15 goals

* Andrey Kabanov

##### 13 goals

* Yevgeny Ivanushkin

##### 11 goals

* Patrik Nilsson
* Sergey Yusupov

##### 9 goals

* Nikolai Rustad Jensen
* Sondre Kristoffersen
* Sergey Lomanov, Jr.

##### 8 goals

* Daniel Andersson
* Christian Waaler

##### 7 goals

* Christoffer Edlund
* Mikko Lukkarila
* Sergey Pochkunov
* Daren Richardson
* Denis Slautin

##### 6 goals

* Maksim Blem
* Rauan Issaliev
* Sami Laakkonen
* Pavel Ryazantsev
* Pyotr Zakharov

##### 5 goals

* Jacob Blucher
* Yevgeny Dergayev
* Pavel Dubovik
* Nikita Ivanov
* Alexander Nasonov
* Lauris Ziemiņš

##### 4 goals

* Marius Austad
* Vyacheslav Bratchenko
* Kevin Brown
* Adam Gilljam
* Jonathan Keseley
* Alexander Kozlov
* Fredrik Randsborg
* Ivan Shevtsov

##### 3 goals

* Leonid Bedarev
* Sergey Chernetsskiy
* Tommi Hauska
* Maksim Ishkeldin
* Jonas Nilsson
* Iskander Nugmanov
* Konstantin Savchenko

##### 2 goals

* Artur Befus
* Mike Carman
* Johan Esplund
* Maxim Gavrilenko
* Fritjof Hagberg
* Sondre Hammerstad
* Pekka Hiltunen
* Magnus Hogevold
* Jūlijs Kadnajs
* Mikael Lickteig
* Teemu Määttä
* Petter Renstrom Moem
* Ilari Moisala
* Daniel Mossberg
* Erik Säfström
* Aleksandr Tyukavin

##### 1 goal

* Ville Aaltonen
* Daniel Berlin
* Alan Dzhusoyev
* Johan Östblom
* Ruslan Galyautdinov
* Romans Glazkov
* Anatoly Golubkov
* Sergey Gorchakov
* Vasily Granovskiy
* Per Hellmyrs
* Maxim Koshelev
* Jegor Kudrjavcev
* Markus Kumpuoja
* Maksim Matveev
* Andrey Morokov
* Eetu Peuhuri
* David Plaunt
* Christian Randsborg
* Sergey Shaburov
* Brett Stolpestad
* Jonas Tjomsland
Source:

## Division B
### Preliminary round
#### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Estonia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 14 | +3 | 5 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Latvia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 4 | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | Hungary | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 14 | −2 | 2 | Quarterfinals |
| 4 | Japan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 1 | Quarterfinals |

#### Group B

Matches in Group B are 60 minutes in duration rather than the standard 90 minutes.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Netherlands | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 4 | +28 | 7 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Germany | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 9 | +16 | 6 | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | Mongolia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | +13 | 5 | Quarterfinals |
| 4 | China | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 19 | −7 | 2 | Quarterfinals |
| 5 | Somalia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 52 | −50 | 0 | 8th place game |

### Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 4 February – Khabarovsk | 4 February – Khabarovsk | | | |
| Estonia | 14 | | | |
| Estonia | 14 | 5 February – Khabarovsk | 5 February – Khabarovsk | | |
| China | 3 | 5 February – Khabarovsk | 5 February – Khabarovsk | |
| China | 3 | Estonia | 8 | |
| 4 February – Khabarovsk | 4 February – Khabarovsk | | Estonia | 8 | |
| 4 February – Khabarovsk | 4 February – Khabarovsk | Netherlands | 2 | |
| Japan | 2 | Netherlands | 2 | |
| Japan | 2 | | | | 6 February – Khabarovsk | 6 February – Khabarovsk |
| Netherlands | 4 | | | | 6 February – Khabarovsk | 6 February – Khabarovsk |
| Netherlands | 4 | | | | Estonia | 3 |
| 4 February – Khabarovsk | 4 February – Khabarovsk | | | | | Estonia | 3 |
| 4 February – Khabarovsk | 4 February – Khabarovsk | | | | Latvia | 8 |
| Latvia | 11 | | | | Latvia | 8 |
| Latvia | 11 | 5 February – Khabarovsk | 5 February – Khabarovsk | | | |
| Mongolia | 5 | 5 February – Khabarovsk | 5 February – Khabarovsk | | | |
| Mongolia | 5 | Latvia | 7 | | | |
| 4 February – Khabarovsk | 4 February – Khabarovsk | | Latvia | 7 | | | |
| 4 February – Khabarovsk | 4 February – Khabarovsk | Hungary | 5 | | Third place | Third place |
| Hungary | 5 | Hungary | 5 | | Third place | Third place |
| Hungary | 5 | | | | 6 February – Khabarovsk | 6 February – Khabarovsk |
| Germany | 4 | | | | 6 February – Khabarovsk | 6 February – Khabarovsk |
| Germany | 4 | | | | Netherlands | 1 |
| | | | | | Hungary | 9 |

#### 7th place game

The match was 60 minutes rather than standard 90 minutes.

#### 5th place game

The match was 60 minutes rather than standard 90 minutes.

#### 8th place game

The match was 60 minutes rather than standard 90 minutes.

#### Final
### Final standings

| 1. | Latvia |
| 2. | Estonia |
| 3. | Hungary |
| 4. | Netherlands |
| 5. | Germany |
| 6. | Japan |
| 7. | Mongolia |
| 8. | China |
| 9. | Somalia |

## Broadcasting

* Russia: VGTRK
* Sweden: TV12
* International: Online at http://bandyvm2015.ru/en/news/?newsid=268