The International Floorball Federation (IFF) is the head organization of world Floorball and was founded by Sweden, Finland & Switzerland on 12th April 1986.
Asa global organization with a total 80 member countries, the IFF is committed to developing and promoting the sport of Floorball (sometimes referred to innebandy, salibandy, unihockey).
The Strategic vision for the Floorball is defined as follows in the IFF Vision statement:
“Floorball is the most inclusive team sport, played with over a million registered players on all continents.”
The IFF is a full member of the IOC, an ordinary member of GAISF (formerly SportAccord) and cooperates with FISU. It is a medal sport on The World Games program.
A partnership agreement was signed with Special Olympics on 9 December 2011 to promote and develop Floorball among Special Olympics athletes.
Floorball is a fast-growing sport played indoors in IFF and in Special Olympics in all continents.