Welcome to the London Crusaders Website

London Crusaders is an open floorball club based in South London.

This web site is being constructed afresh and, since we're not webpage artists, it only attempts to give you the vital information about the club.

If you want to know more, then please get your sports kit and trainers, and come on down for a game at one of our training sessions.

Floorball is an indoor team game played using lightweight sticks with a plastic vented blade that is often curved at one end, and a light plastic ball.

It is played in a court ("rink"). A floorball team consists of 5 field players and a goalkeeper who wears protective clothing, but is not permitted a stick. More players wait on the bench, and all players will typically substitute every few minutes. This leads to a fast and energetic game.

The objective of the game is to score goals by playing the ball into the opponent's goal net. The players may control and redirect the ball using the stick, and may use their feet to trap the ball, but not to score goals or pass to team-mates. Players must not use their hands, arms or head to intentionally manipulate the ball, although other body parts can be used.

Floorball is very popular in Europe, but is dominated by 4 nations in particular: Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic. It is rapidly gaining popularity in many other countries outside of Europe, such as Canada, Japan, Australia, the United States, and Singapore.

Wikipedia about Floorball: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball