European Club Competitions
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he national club champions, men and women, from the European countries play from 2011 either in the Champions Cup (CC) or in the EuroFloorball Cup (EFC) annually. The Champions Cup is for the national champions of the top four ranked nations and the winner of the previous EFC. The tournament is played in October with 6 men’s and 6 women’s teams. The EFC is from 2011 for the national champions of the 5th and lower ranked nations. The EFC consists of a Final Round and Qualification tournaments played in August. The Final round is played in October and there are 6 men’s teams and 6 women’s teams playing for the EFC title. Four teams, which always includes one from the organising country directly qualify to the EFC Final round. The remaining national champions have the chance to achieve the spot to the EFC Final round tournament in the EFC Qualifications as the winners of the Qualifications will proceed to the Final round. The first European club team championships were played already in 1993 and this European Cup was the first international event ever. The competition was reformed for the first time in 2007, when the qualification system was divided into three tournaments and the name was changed to EuroFloorball Cup. In 2011 the club competition system was further developed and Champions Cup was established. The first tournament in 1993 was played with 6 men’s teams and 4 women’s teams. Since then, the number of participating teams increased steadily. In the end of this decade the amount of teams has increased to approximately 20 per category (records: men 23 teams in 2008 and women 18 teams in 2009), so in total about 40 national champions take part in the European Club Competitions annually.
Champions in Men’s Club Competitions 1993-2011 Club AIK, SWE Warbergs IC-85, SWE Balrog IK, SWE SSV Helsinki, FIN Haninge IBK, SWE RTU/Inspecta, LAT Storvreta IBK, SWE SV Wiler-Ersigen, SUI Pixbo Wallenstam, SWE Helsingfors IFK, FIN Fornudden IB, SWE Kista IBK, SWE
Victories Year (Competition) 2006 (EC), 2007 (EFC), 2008 (EFC) 3 3 1998 (EC), 1999 (EC), 2005 (EC) 3 1993 (EC), 1994 (EC), 1996 (EC) 2 2009 (EFC), 2011 (CC) 2 2001 (EC), 2002 (EC) 1 2011 (EFC) 1 2010 (EFC) 1 2004 (EC) 1 2003 (EC) 1 2000 (EC) 1 1997 (EC) 1 1995 (EC)
First Player Profiles Jarmo “Japi” Perttilä (born 1961) – Finland Japi Perttilä, with his pair on the Floorball fields, Heikki “Vinski” Vienola dominated the Floorball fields in Finland from the end of the 80’s until 2000. Perttilä was a player type, who had the goal scoring in his blood. There was not a place from where he did not try to score. He shot regardless of the pass: from air, with his back turned and from the poorest scoring sector. During his best season he collected an average of three points per match.
Perttilä is one of the Floorball pioneers also outside the rink. In the 80’s he started as a stick manufacturer and the first Finnish Floorball stick brand, Pro Stick, emerged. He was the one in Finland to start Floorball equipment branding, producing balls with different colours etc. Perttilä later sold his brand and started in the Floorball arena business with his Floorball partner Vienola. Arena Center, Perttilä’s and Vienola’s company, renovated old industry halls into Floorball arenas and gave the playing possibility for tens of thousands of people in Helsinki capital area. The jewel in their arena business was built from scratch on 2002, when the world´s biggest Floorball arena with 8 full sized Floorball fields was built in Helsinki.
Champions in Women’s Club Competitions 1993-2011
Club Victories Year (Competition) IKSU, SWE 4 2005 (EC), 2008 (EFC), 2009 (EFC), 2010 (EFC) Balrog IK, SWE 3 2000 (EC), 2001 (EC), 2002 (EC) Högdalens AIS, SWE 3 1996 (EC), 1997 (EC), 1998 (EC) UHC Dietlikon, SUI 2 2006 (EC), 2007 (EFC) Sjöstad IF, SWE 2 1994 (EC), 1995 (EC) Djurgårdens IF IBF, SWE 1 2011 (CC) RSU/Runway, LAT 1 2011 (EFC) RA Rychenberg Winterthur, SUI 1 2004 (EC) SC Classic, FIN 1 2003 (EC) Tapanilan Erä, FIN 1 1999 (EC) VK Rasket, SWE 1 1993 (EC)
Most frequently participated Men’s clubs 1993-2011 Club Tatran Stresovice, CZE SSV Helsinki, FIN Greåker IBK, NOR Rot-Weiss Chur, SUI Warbergs IC-85, SWE SV Wiler-Ersigen, SUI
Times of participation 14 12 9 8 7 7
Most frequently participated Women’s clubs 1993-2011 Club RA Rychenberg Winterthur, SUI Tapanilan Erä, FIN FBC Liberec, CZE Rubene, LAT Tunet IBK, NOR IKSU, SWE SC Classic, FIN
Times of participation 15 7 7 7 6 6 6
Statistics from November 2011
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European championships: Gold 1995, Silver 1994 EuroFloorball Cup: Silver 1994 and 1999 with SSV. Bronze 1996 with SSV Finnish champion: 1991 with S.C. Dalmac, 1993, 1995 and 1996 with SSV, 1998 with Viikingit. Player of the year in Finland in 1989 Perttilä was for a long time the player who had scored the most points in the Finnish league with 315 (203+112) and this without the first four seasons from the 80’s, which are not in the statistics. Clubs: SSV, Viikingit, S.C. Dalmac