If a player uses his head intentionally to move the ball, a five minute penalty is given by the referee. But I don't understand how you can say that hockey is an elegant and gentlemanly sport and bandy not. While a bandy rink is about the same size as a football pitch, rink bandy is played on ice hockey rinks. The English rules of bandy were adopted in Sweden, Finland and Norway, where bandy survived while it died out in England and continental Europe in the early 20th century. The rule book is available online. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. Bandy was held as a demonstration sport at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Each team consists of a maximum of 11 players (not counting substitutes). |state=expanded: {{Bandy rules|state=expanded}} to show the template expanded, i.e., fully visible |state=autocollapse : {{Bandy rules|state=autocollapse}} shows the template collapsed to the title bar if there is a {{ navbar }} , a {{ sidebar }} , or some other table on the page with the collapsible attribute Bandy, also called Banty, a game similar to ice hockey. The offside rule is applied. Sweden won the tournament. At the time, the rules of ice hockey were also more similar with the bandy rules than they are today. The Finnish national bandy team has taken part in all the Bandy World Championships for men since the competition was launched for the first time in 1957. The two rule books had some differences but were similar enough that the game can be seen as being the same. The five-nation competition was held in February 1913 in Saint-Moritz, Switzerland. Bandy Playing Rules is the name of the rule book for bandy, edited by the Federation of International Bandy. The tournaments are governed by the Federation of International Bandy. The idea is to get the ball and direct it to the opponent’s goal using bowed sticks. Four nation bandy tournament in 1954 was a tournament of friendlies played in Moscow, Soviet Union, in February 1954, contested by Finland, Norway, the Soviet Union and Sweden. By 1955 the four countries had agreed upon a common set of rules and International Bandy Federation was created, which since then has been the governing body for the sport, although it changed its name to Federation of International Bandy in the first decade of the 3rd millennium. The current book was adopted in September 2013. It is played on a rectangular field, just like field hockey, but this time the terrain is ice, hence players have to skate on ice. In the 1930s, Sweden, Finland and Norway started to cooperate on the development of the rules, so they would be the same in all three countries. Bandy also has other rules that are similar to soccer: each team has 11 players, one of which is a goalkeeper. The weathersituation here in Sweden has also changed, it's getting warmer and we can't depend on natural ice any longer. Pages in category "Bandy rules" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. I think it would be possible to play bandy in Cambridgeshire on artificial ice too. The first rules for bandy was developed and written down in the late 19th Century in England, by Charles Goodman Tebbutt, and in Russia. Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to manoeuvre a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. Mostly the English rules prevailed, the most noteworthy exception being the 15 cm high border along the sidelines from the Soviet rule book. Like ice hockey, there are two goals, and the game is played with a curved stick, which is called the Bandy: “That’s where the game gets its name,” says Bob. Bandy World Championship for youth teams are held in a number of age classes for boys and young men and in one age class for girls playing bandy. But I don't understand how you can say that hockey is an elegant and gentlemanly sport and bandy not. Men and women play indoors with 96–115.5 cm-long (37.8–45.5 in) sticks and a 22–23 cm-circumference (8.7–9.1 in) plastic ball with holes. There was a famous exhibition match at Windsor Castle in 1853 in the presence of Queen Victoria, with Prince Albert playing as one of the goalkeepers!”. However, there are slight modifications for women, juniors, and veterans. The rule book and the rules are overseen by the Rules and Referee Committee. The Soviet Union national bandy team represented the Soviet Union in bandy. The idea is to get the ball and direct it to the opponent’s goal using bowed sticks. A goal cannot be scored from a stroke-in or goal throw, but unlike soccer, a goal cannot be scored directly from a stroke-off or corner stroke. Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bandy_Playing_Rules&oldid=942685903, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 February 2020, at 05:31. Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points. It is based in The Fens part of Cambridgeshire, East Anglia. Bandy was one of the sports for which the Ball Association of Finland, founded in 1907, was created. Most games are played on artificial ice. This layout is called team’s formation. There are many types of hockey such as bandy, field hockey, and ice hockey. After a pause, the match can be resumed by a corner stroke, a free stroke, or a penalty shot. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annual international tournament. “Not quite as elegant and gentlemanly as ice hockey. It is played on a rectangular field, just like field hockey, but this time the terrain is ice, hence players have to skate on ice. The rule book is available online. You are in: Cambridgeshire > History > local history > A handy Bandy guide... What do you mean you’ve never heard of it? The first rules for bandy was developed and written down in the late 19th century in England, by Charles Goodman Tebbutt, and in Russia. Agreements were made to play friendlies against Sweden in the late 1940s, but the plans did not come to realization. Bob Burn-Murdoch, curator of The Norris Museum in St Ives, tells BBC Radio Cambridgeshire presenter Jeremy Sallis more about the history of Bandy: “Very few people have heard of the sport because we don’t have the winter weather you need for it. Best regards. Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. At the time, the rules of ice hockey were also more similar with the bandy rules than they are today. The World Bandy Championships took place in Stockholm in January 2006, but the game was perfected in our county by James Tebbutt, a Bluntisham local, in 1891. Players can switch positions at any time. The rule book is available online. Pictures from the county's favourite events and places... BBC Cambridgeshire Website, Broadcasting House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, I find the commentary good. A team is composed of from 8 to 11 players who wear skates and use curved sticks to hit a ball. The Great Britain Bandy Federation is the governing body of the sport of bandy in the United Kingdom. The BBC reserves the right to edit comments submitted. Bandy Playing Rules is the name of the rule book for bandy, edited by the Federation of International Bandy. Similarly, the opponents can try to take control of the ball by intercepting a pass or by tackling a player and then try to dribble away the ball. 1913 European Bandy Championships was the first, and so far the only, European Championship tournament in bandy. Sweden has a total population of 10.2 million of which 2.4 million has a foreign background.