About IBF Falun

Success came early. In its very first years, IBF Falun established itself in the Swedish top flight on the women's side and became one of the country's leading teams during the second half of the 1990s. Between 1995 and the early 2000s, Falun consistently made deep runs in the Swedish Championship playoffs, claiming silver in 1998, 1999, and 2001, alongside several bronze medals. The team reached another Swedish Championship final in 2009. This early era of success put the young club on the national floorball map and laid an important foundation for the elite culture that would come to define IBF Falun.

During the 2000s, the club's next major sporting endeavor began to take shape. Following promotion to the top tier in 2004, Falun gradually established itself among the country's best teams. Rasmus Enström was signed in 2009, followed a year later by his childhood friend Alexander Carlström, who later added his mother's surname – Galante. In the early 2010s, results truly began pointing toward the top, leading to the ultimate breakthrough in the spring of 2013.

The gold medal marked the start of the most successful era in the club's history and one of the most dominant spells by any team in modern floorball.

An Era at the Top of the World

Between 2013 and 2022, IBF Falun won seven Swedish Championships: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Over the same period, the team was a near-constant fixture in the hunt for gold, repeatedly reaching the deciding matches in Swedish floorball.

The success was not limited to Swedish borders. Immediately following their first Swedish Championship gold in 2013, Falun won the Champions Cup to claim the title of Europe's best club team. They successfully defended the title in both 2014 and 2015. A fourth international gold followed in 2017, and in 2023 Falun claimed their fifth Champions Cup title.

With seven Swedish Championship golds and five Champions Cup titles, IBF Falun firmly established itself during this period as one of the world's most successful floorball teams.

When the Swedish Cup was reintroduced, it too became part of the club's list of honours. IBF Falun won the cup in 2023 and captured its second title in 2025.

However, this dominance cannot be measured solely in trophies. For more than a decade, Falun has remained at the absolute pinnacle season after season. Even in years without gold, the team has continued to reach Swedish Championship finals, semifinals, and international title matches. As recently as 2025 and 2026, IBF Falun once again contested the Swedish Championship final.

This extended era of success has also made Falun home to some of floorball's biggest stars. Players like Rasmus Enström, Alexander Galante Carlström, Emil Hallqvist Johansson, Jonas Adriansson, and Johan Rehn have played central roles in the team at various points during this era, achieving great success both with IBF Falun and on the international stage.

Together with many other players and coaches, they have built a culture where the goal remains unchanged year after year: IBF Falun will compete for the biggest titles.

The Women's Return to the Top Flight

At the same time, the ambition to re-establish IBF Falun at the very top of the women's game lived on.

Following relegation from the top tier in 2016, a renewed elite initiative began a few years later. The vision was clear, and by 2020 Falun was back in the Svenska Superligan.

In the years that followed, the team once again established itself at the highest level. The greatest sporting success of this new effort came during the 2022/23 season, when IBF Falun reached the Swedish Championship semifinals. This connected the modern drive with the club's long tradition of elite women's floorball, bridging the gap from the finals of the 1990s and early 2000s to a new generation of players in SSL.

However, following the 2024/25 season, the club faced financial strain. Despite securing their place in SSL for another season, the decision was made not to participate the following year. The elite program was discontinued, and women's operations were carried forward under IBF Falun Utveckling.

It was a difficult decision that closed an important chapter in the club's history. At the same time, the players, coaches, and staff who built the women's program—from the early years of success to the recent SSL initiative—remain an integral part of IBF Falun's identity and history.

Floorball for Everyone

At the same time, IBF Falun's journey has come to encompass much more than the pursuit of medals and championships.

In 2020, the club took an important step by launching its adaptive sports initiative. The initiative came from Elvira Lövén, then a player for IBF Falun, who had encountered para floorball through her work in disability support services (LSS). After visiting a para floorball tournament at Lugnet, the idea emerged that IBF Falun, with its organizational strength and resources, should also offer opportunities for people with disabilities to play floorball.

The core principle was simple: floorball should be for everyone.

For IBF Falun, sport has always been about performance and the drive to improve. But floorball is also about movement, joy, community, and the feeling of belonging to a team. The adaptive sports program thus became a way to make that sense of community accessible to more people.

The initiative received recognition during its very first year. In 2020, Falu Municipality awarded the club its Accessibility Award for creating opportunities for individuals with disabilities to play floorball. In its citation, the municipality highlighted that IBF Falun, despite its strong elite focus, had taken responsibility for promoting a more inclusive sporting community.

Adaptive sports have thus become another chapter in the story that began in 1993.

A story encompassing the Swedish Championship finals of the early years, a historic era of domestic and international titles, iconic players, and unforgettable matches—alongside the ambition to use floorball for something greater.

To compete at the highest level while creating opportunities for more people to experience the joy and community of being part of IBF Falun.