Press Conference: Main Goals, Media Coverage and Fanzones – 28.11.2018

Three days before the first match of the Men’s World Floorball Championships 2018, the official press conference took place right there inside the O2 Arena, Prague.

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Aiming the attendance record

One of the main goals for the organisers is to overcome the overall attendance record – 104 406 (Gothenborg, 2014); opening day record – 13 280 (Riga, 2016); and gold match record – 15 106 (Stockholm, 1996). And it’s already looking very promising. Final weekend games are almost sold out but there are still some free places left.

The tournament will take place at O2 Arena and Arena Sparta. „It’s going to be real fun. In the O2 Arena, there will be four special multimedia screens, we will try to support the atmosphere as much as possible. Lights, even some pyrotechnics. Floorball has never experienced such things we’ve prepared,“ explains Filip Šuman, president of Český florbal.

Media coverage

-          More than 200 journalists accredited

-          More than 100 media

-          From 20 countries

-          TV broadcasters streaming live to 11 countries

Fanzones

There will be 12 fanzones prepared all over the Czech Republic for the play-off games (Dec 6 – Dec 9) with live #WFCPrague projections and accompanying program. Participating cities: Liberec, Ústí nad Labem, Karlovy Vary, Plzeň, České Budějovice, Jihlava, Pardubice, Hradec Králové, Brno, Zlín, Olomouc and Ostrava.

„It’s a really big project, almost as big as the tournament as such. We would like to enable the whole country to enjoy the tournament,“ says Zuzana Svobodová, general secretary of Men’s World Floorball Championships 2018.

#WFCPrague budget: 75 million CZK (approximately 3 million EUR)