Czech Open is an international

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tournament. It takes place every year in August in

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, Czech Republic. It is one of the largest floorball tournaments in the world. Every year over 200 teams from around the world participate. The first season was played in 1993. The tournament is organized by Prague floorball club

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. Usually, there are six categories in the tournament. Men have three categories (Elite, Pro and Open), women have two (Elite and Open) and juniors have one. Czech teams have a number of places reserved, which are assigned according to standings of the teams in Czech floorball leagues (such as

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). The most successful team in the history of the tournament is Swedish Pixbo IBK, with nine titles in men's and women's elite categories. By 2023, the men Elite category has been won only by three teams from the Czech Republic – 1. SC Vítkovice,

and

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. They won in 1998, 1999, 2020, 2021 and 2022. With an exception of Tatran win in 2022, those were years, when the strong Scandinavian teams did not arrive. Women Elite has also only three Czech winners – Děkanka (2006 through 2010, 2012), Tatran (1997, 2004) and Vítkovice (2020, 2021).

List of Elite Czech Open winners

List of winners in other categories

References

External links

Official web site
{{Czech Open Floorball competitions in the Czech Republic International floorball competitions