Somali National Bandy Association is the governing body for the sports of bandy and

rink bandy Rink bandy is a variant of the larger sport of bandy. Unlike bandy which is played on a large bandy field, rink bandy is played on significantly smaller ice hockey sized ice rinks. While a bandy field is about the same size as a football pitc ...

for

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 Constituti ...

. The organization was founded in 2013 and is formally a part of the

Somali Olympic Committee The Somali Olympic Committee ( so, Guddiga Olimbikada Soomaaliyeed) is the National Olympic Committee representing Somalia. Logo Image:SomaliOlympicCommittee.jpg, Former logo See also * Somalia at the Olympics References External linksSoma ...

. The same year, the Somalia national bandy team became the first squad from Africa to join the

Federation of International Bandy The Federation of International Bandy (FIB; french: Fédération internationale de bandy, russian: Международная федерация хоккея с мячом, sv, Internationella Bandyförbundet) is the international governing bo ...

. The team consists of Somalian nationals, mostly living in Sweden. It played in the

2014 Bandy World Championship The 2014 Bandy World Championship was held between 26 January and 2 February 2014, in Irkutsk and Shelekhov, Russia. 17 nations participated in the tournament, playing in two divisions partitioned into two subdivisions. A team representing Somalia ...

.SOMALIA SCORES ITS FIRST GOAL IN WORLD BANDY CHAMPIONSHIP
/ref> Somalia national bandy team in Borlänge 02

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Federation of International Bandy members Bandy governing bodies Bandy Bandy in Somalia 2013 establishments in Somalia {{sport-org-stub