The 2014

Bandy World Championship The Bandy World Championship is a competition between bandy-playing nations' men's teams. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup, a club competition, and from the Wom ...

was held between 26 January and 2 February 2014, in

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and

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. 17 nations participated in the tournament, playing in two divisions partitioned into two subdivisions. A team representing

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...

took part, the first squad from Africa to play in the

Participating teams

Division A

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Division B

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Venues

* Trud Stadium,

(capacity: 16,500) * Rekord Stadium, Irkutsk (capacity: 5,300) *

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, Irkutsk (capacity: 4,000) * Stroitel Stadium,

(capacity: 4,000)

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

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)''.

Group B

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third place game

Final

Consolation tournament

5–8th place semifinals

7th place game

5th place game

Final standings

Division B

* 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 C

Group D

*Matches in Group D are 60 minutes in duration rather than the standard 90 minutes

Knockout phase

Quarterfinals

Match for 7th place (60 mins)

Match for 5th place (60 mins)

Match for 8th place (60 mins)

Semi-finals

Match for third place

Final

Final standings

Sources

Bandy World Championships 2014 Official Website
(English and Russian)
Federation of International Bandy Official Website
(English)

References

External links

Russia - Sweden game of 29 Jan 2014 at Youtube
with Russian commentators (the game starts about 17:40 in) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bandy World Championship,2014 2014 in Russian sport

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