Editing Bandy (section)

===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.