Current season, competition or edition: 2023 Women's Bandy World Championship | |
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| Sport | Bandy |
|---|---|
| First season | 2004 |
| No. of teams | 8 |
| Countries | Worldwide |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Sweden (11th title) |
| Most titles | Sweden (11 titles) |
| Official website | worldbandy.com |
The Women's Bandy World Championships is an international sports tournament for women and the premier international competition for women's bandy among bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy.
It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup Women which is a women's club competition, the Bandy World Cup which is a club competition for men, and from the Bandy World Championship which is the premier international bandy competition for men's teams.
A Youth Bandy World Championship also exists separately from the women's senior competition and has competitions in both the male and female categories, with the F17 WC tournament representing the youth World Championship in bandy for girls up to 17 years of age.
Although the sport of bandy has been played by both men and women since the 19th century, the first men's world championship didn't take place until 1957, and the first official women's international bandy tournament only began in 2004. However, an international match between women's bandy teams from Sweden and Finland took place in Helsinki, Finland in 1935 at the Helsinki Ice Stadium, where a portion of the match was captured by British Pathé. The archival short film has been uploaded and published on the video sharing site, YouTube.[1]
In 2023, the tournament will for the first time take place at the same time in the same arena as the equivalent among men.[2]