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| Sport | floorball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1993 |
| Most recent champion(s) | Men:  Pixbo IBKWomen: Pixbo IBK (2023) |
| Most titles | Men: Pixbo IBK (9) Women: Pixbo IBK (9) |
| Official website | https://www.czechopen.cz/ |
Czech Open is an international floorball tournament. It takes place every year in August in Prague, Czech Republic. It is one of the largest floorball tournaments in the world. Every year over 200 teams from around the world participate. The first season was played in 1993. The tournament is organized by Prague floorball club Tatran Střešovice.[1]
Usually, there are six categories in the tournament. Men have three categories (Elite, Pro and Open), women have two (Elite and Open) and juniors have one.[2] Czech teams have a number of places reserved, which are assigned according to standings of the teams in Czech floorball leagues (such as Superliga florbalu or Extraliga žen ve florbale).
The most successful team in the history of the tournament is Swedish Pixbo IBK, with nine titles in men's and women's elite categories.[3][4] By 2023, the men Elite category has been won only by three teams from the Czech Republic – 1. SC Vítkovice, Tatran Střešovice and FBC Ostrava. They won in 1998, 1999, 2020, 2021 and 2022. With an exception of Tatran win in 2022, those were years, when the strong Scandinavian teams did not arrive.[5][6] Women Elite has also only three Czech winners – Děkanka (2006 through 2010, 2012),[7] Tatran (1997, 2004) and Vítkovice (2020, 2021).[citation needed]
