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==Variants of bandy and sports developed from bandy==
===7-a-side bandy===
Varieties of bandy exist, utilising the same rules only with slight differences, like seven-a-side bandy with regulation sized goal cages but without corner strokes and often on a smaller sized rink. Seven-a-side bandy was popular in central Europe and in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, while eleven-a-side bandy was preferred in the Nordic countries and in Russia. Seven-a-side bandy rules were applied at the [[Davos Cup]] in 2016.

===Rink bandy===
[[Rink bandy]] is a bandy variant played on an ice hockey-size rink.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalbandy.com/viewNavMenu.do?menuID=26 |title=Official rules, bandy and rink bandy |publisher=Internationalbandy.com |date=23 September 2009 |access-date=3 March 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018073415/http://www.internationalbandy.com/viewNavMenu.do?menuID=26 |archive-date=18 October 2011 }}</ref> It was originally conceived as a way of practicing bandy in the summertime, when there were no bandy sized indoor rinks but ice hockey rinks had started to be built indoors. Rink bandy is played by basically the same rules as regular bandy but on a playing surface the size of an [[ice hockey rink]] with ice hockey goal cages and six players on each team (or five in the case of the [[USA Rink Bandy League#League play|USA Rink Bandy League]]).

There have been international competitions for rink bandy played by the best bandy players in the 1980s and 1990s, both for club teams and for national teams, there were world championships in rink bandy in those days and the [[Hofors World Cup]] for clubs was played annually from 1984 to 1998. When more indoor bandy rinks have been built, rink bandy has more become a sport for lower league teams and recreational play.

Rink bandy was played in the 2012 [[European Company Sports Games]] program.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visitsodradalarna.se/en/ECSG-2012/Sports/Rinkbandy/ |title=Rinkbandy – Visit Sodra Dalarna |publisher=Visitsodradalarna.se |date=24 May 2011 |access-date=7 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130428144147/http://www.visitsodradalarna.se/en/ECSG-2012/Sports/Rinkbandy/ |archive-date=28 April 2013 |url-status = dead}}</ref>

Some member nations of the Federation of International Bandy, which is the international governing body for rink bandy as well as bandy, do not have [[Ice rink#Bandy|regulation sized bandy surfaces]] which are larger than the more common ice hockey [[ice rink]] and therefore only play rink bandy at home; this includes most of the World Championships Group B participants.

===Short bandy===
In Czechia, the national federation has developed its own version of rink bandy with somewhat different rules, which is meant to help the players transition to playing on a full-sized bandy rink. This is called [[short bandy]].<ref name="short bandy"/> Read more in the section on Czechia below.

===Rinkball===
Rink bandy has in turn led to the creation of the sport of [[rinkball]]. The sport of rinkball has at times been referred to as a variant of bandy, however it organized by the 1980s and has since become an established organized sport with its own governing body and differs considerably from both bandy and [[ice hockey]], the sport's two major influences.

===Floorball===
Bandy is also the predecessor of [[floorball]], which was invented when people started playing with plastic bandy shaped sticks and lightweight balls when running on the floors of indoor gym halls.⁣

===Landbandy===
In Sweden, informal games played like bandy but on ice-free ground (usually on gravel or asphalt concrete) are called ''landbandy'' (see [[:sv:landbandy|landbandy at the Swedish language Wikipedia]]). The term should not be confused with ''landhockey'', the Swedish term for field hockey.

===No roller or parasport variants exist===
There is no formal [[roller sport]] companion to bandy involving either [[inline skates]] or parallel wheel [[roller skates]], even if [[rink hockey]] can be considered to have some similarities with bandy. There is also no formally organized skateless ice variant of bandy, and bandy does not have any [[Parasports|parasport]] variant.