1913 European Bandy Championships

1913 European Bandy Championships was, according to some sources, a European Championship tournament for national teams in bandy held in February 1913 in Saint-Moritz or in Davos, Switzerland. However, there are no known contemporary sources for this[1] and the oldest known source for the competition being held is from a Swedish book on bandy from the 1970s, itself not citing any sources.[2] It is likely that the information could be a mixup with the actual 1913 LIHG Championship, which was an ice hockey tournament between ice hockey club teams from different European countries.

While it probably should be considered a factoid, the tournament has still been referred to as if it was a historical fact in many books and magazines about bandy and even led to a centenary celebration tournament being arranged by the Federation of International Bandy in 2014.

  1. ^ "Чемпионат номер «ноль» или забытый чемпион мира - Архив новостей - Федерация хоккея с мячом России". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22.
  2. ^ this oldest identified source was Åke Dunér: Bandy genom åren, 1975