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Women´s WFC 2017 Qualifications - AOFC - New Zealand

31st January - 5th February 2017
ASB Arena
Wellington, New Zealand

	FINAL STANDINGS
1.	Japan	Qualified to WFC
2.	Australia	Qualified to WFC
3.	Singapore	Qualified to WFC
4.	Thailand	Qualified to WFC
5.	Republic of Korea
6	New Zealand
7.	Malaysia
8.	China

All-Star Team

Goalkeeper: Maria Hegarty (NZL)

Defender: Blaise Hodges (AUS)

Defender: Alexandra Staib (AUS)

Forward: Yui Goto (JPN)

Forward: Yejin Shim (KOR)

Forward: Jill Quek (SGP)

Match Results

31.01.	09:59	Group B: JPN W - MAS W	6-2
31.01.	12:59	Group B: SGP W - KOR W	5-3
31.01.	15:57	Group A: THA W - AUS W	1-6
31.01.	19:28	Group A: NZL W - CHN W	13-0
01.02.	09:59	Group B: SGP W - JPN W	2-3
01.02.	12:57	Group A: AUS W - CHN W	26-0
01.02.	15:57	Group A: THA W - NZL W	3-2
01.02.	18:57	Group B: KOR W - MAS W	4-3
02.02.	10:00	Group A: CHN W - THA W	2-21
02.02.	12:57	Group B: JPN W - KOR W	7-2
02.02.	15:57	Group B: MAS W - SGP W	0-8
02.02.	18:57	Group A: AUS W - NZL W	2-0
03.02.	15:59	Quarter-final 1: THA W - KOR W	5-4
03.02.	18:59	Quarter-final 2: SGP W - NZL W	7-1
04.02.	09:58	5-8th M1: NZL W - MAS W	4-3 ps.
04.02.	12:59	5-8th M2: KOR W - CHN W	11-0
04.02.	15:56	Semi-final 1: AUS W - SGP W	2-1 ot.
04.02.	18:57	Semi-final 2: JPN W - THA W	3-2 ot.
05.02.	09:30	7th place: MAS W - CHN W	13-1
05.02.	12:13	5th place: NZL W - KOR W	2-3
05.02.	14:58	3rd place: SGP W - THA W	6-3
05.02.	17:59	Final: AUS W - JPN W	0-4

Scoring leaders

	Player	Team	M	G	A	PTS	PIM
1.	Yejin Shim	KOR W	6	8	3	11	2
2.	Yui Goto	JPN W	5	6	4	10	0
3.	Tikhamporn Sakunpithak	THA W	6	7	2	9	8
4.	Jill Quek	SGP W	6	7	2	9	10
5.	Thanaporn Tongkham	THA W	6	6	3	9	0
6.	Alexandra Staib	AUS W	5	5	4	9	0
7.	Tara Meyer	AUS W	5	7	1	8	4
8.	Yuki Shiba	JPN W	5	3	5	8	2
9.	Carolyn Margetts	AUS W	5	5	2	7	0
10.	Sophie Scott	NZL W	6	5	2	7	4

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Goalkeeper Statistics

	Player	Team	M	S	G	%
1.	Rachel Bertschinger	NZL W	6	1	0	100.00
2.	Priscilla Tan	SGP W	6	40	2	95.23
3.	Leith Woods	AUS W	5	29	2	93.54
4.	Chika Sato	JPN W	5	50	6	89.28
5.	Sarah Moulton	AUS W	5	28	4	87.50
6.	Maria Hegarty	NZL W	6	109	16	87.20
7.	Heather Graves	NZL W	6	13	2	86.66
8.	Miko Yamanaka	JPN W	5	6	1	85.71
9.	Anna Iwasaki	JPN W	5	6	1	85.71
10.	Sooyeon Choi	KOR W	6	22	4	84.61

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A total of 31 teams have registered for the 11th Women´s World Floorball Championships 2017 - a new record. Four countries will make their debut at this level - Ukraine, Iran*, Thailand & China. For Iran and China this will be the first-ever international appearance for their women´s team, while Thailand will be hoping to follow up from their strong international start at the 2015 SEA Games, where they finished second to Singapore. Korea are returning to compete at this level after a break of several years.

*Iran withdrawn due to visa issues.

Qualification System

All teams, apart from the host country (Slovakia), will have to qualify for the Final Round via the qualifications. In Asia-Oceania, 8 teams will compete for four qualification spots.

In AOFC, the teams are divided into two groups and the teams will play once against each of the other teams in their group. Based on the results from these group matches the teams will progress to the play-off rounds, as follows:

- 1st in Group A & Group B progress to the semifinals and qualify directly to the WFC Final round

- 2nd in each group play a quarter final against the 3rd placed team from the other group. The winners of this progress to the semifinals and qualify directly to the WFC Final round

- The losers of the quarter-finals will play for 5th-8th place together with the 4th placed teams from the groups

Other regional qualifications will be held in the Americas and Europe (Italy & Spain). From Americas 1 team will qualify, in Europe 10 teams will qualify and from Asia-Oceania, four teams will qualify.

Final Round

Slovakia will for the first time host an adult World Championship final round event. They are experienced IFF event organisers, having hosted the Women´s U19 WFC, WFC Qualifications for both men & women, and several EuroFloorball Cup events.

WFC 2017 will be played in Bratislava in two arenas - Arena Ondreja Nepelu & Hant Arena, which are located 500m from each other in central Bratislava. The main arena, renovated in 2011, can seat 10,000 spectators and is used mainly for ice hockey and concerts.