Bandy
Bandy is one of Russia’s National Sports, where it is known as Hockey with a Ball as opposed to Hockey with a Puck (Ice Hockey). It is played on Ice with a ball rather than a puck.
Versions of the sport include Innebandy (also known as Floorball in Europe or Ball Hockey in North America) where runners are used on a hard floor rather than blades or roller skates.
Bandy
Photo Credit: Competitions match in bandy. Russian hockey. Photo 166852358 | Bandy © Leolakur | Dreamstime.com [Accessed 21 January 2024][Edited by Enda Mulcahy for Eirball 21 January 2024]
Russian Bandy (Major League)
Russian Bandy Super League
Russian Bandy Super League
Irish Roller Hockey
Roller Hockey is the National sport of Portugal. Played on skates with four wheels – one at each corner (quads) rather than Inline – and with a ball rather than puck. It has an over 100-year history in Ireland, and is sometimes also known as Rink Hockey.
Irish Rink / Roller Hockey Associations
Photo Contributor: Match between Vila Praia vs Gulpilhares for the 2nd National Roller Hockey Championship [Internet] Photo 262708762 | Ball Hockey © Wirestock | Dreamstime.com [Accessed and Edited for Eirball by Enda Mulcahy]
IRHA
Irish Rink Hockey Association Senior Spring League (Seasons):
Irish Roller Hockey Association Roller Hockey League (Seasons):
County Roller Hockey
Roller / Rink Hockey County Leagues
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County Roller Hockey Leagues (Decade / Era Finals):
Waterford Roller Hockey League Olympia Cup Finals 1949-1950
Dublin Roller Hockey League Butlins Challenge Cup:
Dublin Roller Hockey League Classic Shield (League):
Drimnagh Civic Week Roller Hockey Matches:
Limerick Senior Roller Hockey League:
Inter-County Roller Hockey Challenge Matches:
Leinster Rink Hockey League:
Portugal Roller Hockey
Roller Hockey is the National Sport of Portugal, and the Portuguse Roller Hockey League is the Major League of Roller Hockey in the World.
Roller Hockey
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Portugal Roller Hockey
Portuguese Roller Hockey League
World Ball Hockey
Versions of Hockey are played in Europe and elsewhere with a ball rather than a puck. Bandy is a Russian and Scandinavian version of Ice Hockey played with a ball. Bandy is one of the National Sports of Russia. Similarly Roller Hockey is a version of Inline Hockey played with a ball and quad roller skates rather than a puck and inline skates. Roller Hockey is one of the National Sports of Portugal. Ball Hockey is very similar to Innebandy and Floorball, with the three sports played on a hard surface such as a community centre hall or inline/roller rink and a ball an runners rather than skates. Innebandy is the Russian version, Floorball the European version, and Ball Hockey the North American version of the sport.
Ball Hockey
Ball Hockey is a version of Ice Hockey played on ice with a ball rather than a puck, and with runners rather than skates.
Ball Hockey
Photo Contributor: Ball Hockey World Championship in Dmitrov 12-17.06.2018 [Internet] Photo 129684664 | Ball Hockey © Alexey Sizov | Dreamstime.com [Accessed 21 January 2024]
World Ball Hockey Federation
Ball Hockey (Overviews):
World Ball Hockey Federation World 5v5 Championships Women Pittsburgh 2015
Floorball
Floorball is a version of Ice Hockey played on a hard floor with a ball rather than a puck, and without skates. It has been included in the Special Olympics World winter Games since the early 21st Century. Below you will find the results & tables of various competitions.
Floorball
Floorball division 1, IBK Lulea vs Skelleftea IBK.Lulea, Sweden – february 25, 2017: Lulea Energi Arena, Floorball division 1, IBK Lulea vs Skelleftea IBK. Photo 125110718 © Modestil | Dreamstime.com
Special Olympics World Winter Games Floorball
Special Olympics World Winter Games Floorball
Special Olympics World Winter Games:
Unihoc
Unihoc is a version of Ice Hockey played in Community Centres with trainers or runners rather than skates.
Unihoc
Floorball division 1, IBK Lulea vs Skelleftea IBK.Lulea, Sweden – february 25, 2017: Lulea Energi Arena, Floorball division 1, IBK Lulea vs Skelleftea IBK. Photo 125110718 © Modestil | Dreamstime.com
All Ireland Youth Club Unihoc
All Ireland Youth Club Unihoc (Overviews):
Canadian Ringette
Also included here on eirball.hockey are the sports Native to Canada which aren’t Major League sports, such as Ringette (a version of Ice Hockey where no contact is allowed, that is played with a straight stick and ring rather than curved stick and puck)
Ringette
A young Ringette player throws the ring. Item ID: 65352292 Contributor: Brenda Carson [Internet] Available from: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/young-ringette-player-throws-ring-65352292 [Accessed 24 March 2022]
Ringette
Canadian Ringette
Canadian Ringette:
