SWEDEN-NORWAY IN THE WOMEN’S FINAL ON SUNDAY!
Norway qualified for the final when the team beat USA in the semifinal on Friday afternoon 5-1. USA will play the bronze game on Sunday morning against the winner between Finland and Netherlands in the qualifying game for bronze game on Saturday afternoon. Finland is on fourth place i Pool A and Netherlands won Pool B.
The women’s preliminary round is now ended also in Pool B. Ukraine won against Germany 2-1 and Netherlands beat Switzerland 10-1.
CONGRATULATIONS TO UKRAINE AND GERMANY!
The Ukraine women took their second victory in the World Championship today. We think the Ukraine girls are very satisfiend with their performance in this tournament and we all hope they will come back and show their skills again, despite the hard times they are facing. Very impressive to even participate in Lidköping!
Germany participated in a World Championship for the first time ever. We hope they will leave Lidköping with light and positive memories and hopefully come back again next championship!
TEAM UKRAINE Photo: Sara Hardingz
We have already experienced a couple of historical milestones in Women Pool B. Germany has entered the international stage for the first time by participating in this World Championship. It is so important for bandy in general, but especially for the development of international bandy. The second milestone was that Ukraine early this morning won its first match in a championship when the team beat Switzerland 2-1.
Another slightly historical moment was what happened in the Germany and Switzerland game after the draw result. The subsequent penalty shootout tournament seemed to never end. When a match in the preliminary round ends in a draw (2-2), a penalty shootout is carried out to separate the teams if they end up on the same points in the final table, since it is the head-to-head match that determines the placement of the teams.
34 penalty shots were needed for everything to be decided! The teams will probably have to practice penalty shots quite a lot until next season.
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Sweden ready for final!
Norway-Finland. Photo: Sara Hardingz.
Sweden-USA. Photo: Sara Hardingz
The newborn national team! Photo: Gert Holmér
The second game today was Netherlands heavy victory against Ukraine, 8-0 after 4-0 at half time. 3 goals each by Leanne van der Wielen and Esther de Jong!
Ukraine-Netherlands. Photo: Sara Hardingz
The women’s tournament started yesterday, Tuesday,with a big victory for USA. The team beat Finland in the firsta game in the preliminary round 4-1 after 1-1 at half time. The second game yesterday was Sweden-Norway 13-1 after 6-0 at half time. The World Championship tournament for women is arranged in Sweden and the venue is Sparbanken Lidköping Arena until Sunday 30 March.
Germany-Switzerland. Photo: Gert Holmér
Sweden-Norway, a lot of action. Photo: Team Fabbe/Sören
Sarah Ahlqvist – US Golie in action in the victory against Finland! Photo: Team Fabbe/Sören.
THE HOST CITY LIDKÖPING
The city of Lidköping is south of the southeastern part of Lake Vänern called Kinneviken. The city is divided into two parts by the river Lidan. The east side is called the old city and the west side the new city. In the new town square stands the statue of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie. Lidköping received its first known city privileges on June 17, 1446, by Sweden’s then king, Kristofer of Bavaria, and thus became the first city on Lake Vänern. Lidköping has a wide flora of industry and business.
40 494 people live in Lidköping municipality, and the arena “Sparbanken Lidköping Arena” was inaugurated on 25 December, 2009. Audience capacity is 1 250 seats and 3 000 stands.
Villa Lidköping BK is Swedish Champion for men after the victory 2025 against Edsbyns IF. Villa Lidköping women’s team won silver in the final when Västerås SK won the title 2025. Lidköpings AIK plays in the second series Bandyallsvenskan.