All teams, apart from the host country (Finland), had to qualify for the Final Round via the qualifications, and there was a total of 5 qualification groups - one in the Americas, one in Asia-Oceania and three in Europe.

The organisers of the European qualifications were Latvia (Valmiera), Poland (Poznan) and Slovakia (Nitra). Organiser for the American qualifier was Canada (Markham) and the AOFC qualifications was hosted by Australia (Pakenham).

Click on the Qualification group name below to go to that group´s event page.

The qualification groups were composed according to ranking as follows:

	EUR1 Poland		EUR2 Latvia		EUR3 Slovakia
	Sweden (1)*		Switzerland (3)		Czech Republic (4)
	Poland (7)		Latvia (6)		Norway (5)
	Germany (8)		Denmark (9)		Russia (10)
	Netherlands (14)		Hungary (13)		Slovakia (11)
	Estonia (18)		Spain (19)		Italy (23)
			France (-)**		Great Britain (27)

	AOFC Australia		Americas Canada
	Australia (12)		USA (16)
	Japan (15)		Canada (17)
	Singapore (20)
	New Zealand (-)

In Americas 1 team qualified and in AOFC the top 3 teams qualified.

In Europe, a total of 11 teams qualified according to the following:

- The three best teams from each qualification group qualified; and

- The the two best 4th placed teams qualified

The calculation of the best 4th teams followed this order: 1. Average number of points 2. Average goal difference 3. Average scored goals 4. Lottery drawing *