SWEDEN WORLD CHAMPION!
Norway were well prepared for the World Championship final against Sweden, and the team chocked everybody in the arena when Norway took the lead already in the 11th minute. Norway kept the good spirit during the first half. But in the second half Sweden showed the teams full capacity and became far too difficult for the Norwegian women. Sweden won 8-1 and got the gold medals at the ceremony after the final. Norway got well deserved silver medals and USA the bronze medals.
Both Norway and USA have taken big steps the recent years and if that continues they might give Sweden even more difficult fights the coming years.
Photo: Sara Hardingz
Photo: FIB
Photo: FIB
Sweden World Champion! Photo: Team Fabbe/Sören
Silvermedals to Norway. Photo: Romus Ramström
USA Bronze winner. Photo: Sara Hardingz.
SPECIAL AWARDS FROM THE SWEDISH BANDY ASSOCIATION
GOAL KEEPER
Sarah Ahlquist Scheider, USA
DEFENDER
Amanda Vainio, Sweden
MIDFIELDER
Ida Friman, Sweden
FORWARD
Laura Andresen Follesoe, Norway
GOAL SCORER
Esther De Jong, Netherlands – 9 goals
Edit Ljung, Sweden – 8 goals
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
Agnes Ögren, Sweden
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Finland-Netherlands. Photo: Romus Ramström
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 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 won its first match in a championship when the team beat Switzerland 2-1. After that Ukraine also took the second victory during the tournament.
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.
Sweden ready for final!
Norway-Finland. Photo: Sara Hardingz.
Sweden-USA. Photo: Sara Hardingz
The newborn national team! Photo: Gert Holmér
Ukraine-Netherlands. Photo: Sara Hardingz
The women’s tournament started on Tuesday with a big victory for USA. The team beat Finland in the first 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.
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.