ITHF table hockey

International Table Hockey Federation (ITHF) is an organization that oversees these competitions.

[2] Sweden has dominated the table hockey scene from the beginning and a couple of years into the new millennium.

But the new generation of players comes from Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Latvia, Canada, Denmark, the United States, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Norway, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania, and its current world champion, as of 2023 is Evgeniy Matantsev from Ukraine.

[4] Since the sport expands quickly in many countries, the table hockey map may have to be redrawn within a couple of years when nations other than the big eight (Sweden, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic, Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine) produce new talents.

The Swedish company Stiga started to make hockey tables in the late 1950s.

[8] Thanks to the enthusiasm of Swedish players, table hockey expanded to the rest of the world.

Especially in Sweden, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Latvia, table hockey is quite popular.

The league has changed name to World Table Hockey Tour (WT), and consists every year of around 15 tournaments.

Table hockey being played
Countries with at least one table hockey player in ITHF World ranking. In red are Top 8 countries.
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up-to-date: 20 July 2019 [ 1 ]
European Table Hockey Championship in Eskilstuna (SE), 2018
Maksim Borisov (RU), in centre - at awarding after his third winning of European Championship. Left from Borisov - Atis Sīlis (3. place), right - Edgars Caics (2. place), both from Latvia
A player figure with puck.
A plastic glass, which helps to keep the puck in play. It is attached to the table behind the goal.
Table hockey face-off
Table hockey mechanics of player movement.