Editing Bandy (section)

===United Kingdom===
[[File:Team England Bandy 1913.jpg|thumb|right|Members of the [[Bury Fen Bandy Club]], an English bandy team in 1913]]
[[File:Bury Fen.JPG|thumb|right|Bury Fen]]
The first recorded games of what may be considered bandy on ice took place in [[The Fens]] during the great frost of 1813–1814, although it is probable that the game had already been played there in the previous century. [[Bury Fen Bandy Club]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/c0.9.200.200/p200x200/15781800_361712414206271_5538446458443892035_n.jpg?oh=a8bca8924c8e5f2519aacf1301e0fb89&oe=59436595 |title=Club badge |access-date=2 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613053352/https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/c0.9.200.200/p200x200/15781800_361712414206271_5538446458443892035_n.jpg?oh=a8bca8924c8e5f2519aacf1301e0fb89&oe=59436595 |archive-date=13 June 2017 |url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/2049/English/Buryfen.gif |title=Photo of Bury Fen Bandy Club |access-date=3 March 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028160235/http://geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/2049/English/Buryfen.gif |archive-date=28 October 2009 }}</ref> from [[Bluntisham|Bluntisham-cum-Earith]], near [[St Ives, Cambridgeshire|St Ives]], was the most successful team, said to have remained unbeaten for a hundred years until the winter of 1890–1891. [[Charles Goodman Tebbutt]] of the Bury Fen Bandy Club was responsible for the first published rules of bandy in 1882, and also for introducing the game into the Netherlands and Sweden, as well as elsewhere in England where it became popular with cricket, rowing, and hockey clubs. Tebbutt's homemade bandy stick can be seen in the [[St Ives, Cambridgeshire#Culture|Norris Museum in St Ives]].

The first [[Ice Hockey Varsity Match]]es between [[Oxford University Ice Hockey Club|Oxford University]] and [[Cambridge University Ice Hockey Club|Cambridge University]] were played to bandy rules, even if it was called hockey on the ice at the time.<ref name="results">{{Cite web |url=http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ouihc/varsity_past.html |title=Oxford University Ice Hockey Club: Past Results |access-date=2007-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031173134/http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ouihc/varsity_past.html |archive-date=2006-10-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

It is sometimes claimed that a national team for England won the [[European Bandy Championships]] in 1913,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/2049/English/England.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028160236/http://geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/2049/English/England.html |archive-date=28 October 2009 |title=England in European Bandy Championships |date=28 October 2009 |access-date=3 March 2012}}</ref> but that tournament likely never took place. While bandy is often thought to have been a popular sport in England in the decades around 1900, few records seem to have been kept.

A statue of a bandy player, designed by Peter Baker, was erected at the village pond of [[Earith]] to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first documented game in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/village-focus-on-earith-8139754 | title= "Read about the history of the village of Earith"| author= Debbie Davies | publisher= The Hunts Post | date= 17 July 2021 | access-date= 7 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3549517,0.0311485,3a,75y,227.83h,91.16t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sobxZpygsnPwuAOaTlUfs5Q!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DobxZpygsnPwuAOaTlUfs5Q%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D155.85754%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656| publisher = Google Maps | title = Image at Google Maps}}</ref>

In March 2004, Norwegian ex-player [[Edgar Malman]] invited two big clubs to play a [[rink bandy]] exhibition game in [[Streatham]], London. Russian Champions and World Cup Winner [[Vodnik]] met Swedish Champions [[Edsbyns IF]] in a match that ended 10–10. In 2010 England became a [[Federation of International Bandy]] member. The national federation is based in Cambridgeshire, the historical heartland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldbandy.com/about-fib/members/ |title=Members |date=16 November 2015 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217153710/http://worldbandy.com/about-fib/members/ |archive-date=17 February 2016 }}</ref>

The England Bandy Federation, was set up on 2 January 2017 at a meeting held in the historic old skaters public house, the [[Lamb and Flag, Welney|Lamb and Flag]] in [[Welney]] in [[Norfolk]], England, replacing the Bandy Federation of England which had been founded in 2010 but had had dwindling activity. In September 2017, the federation decided to widen its territory to all of the United Kingdom and changed its name to [[Great Britain Bandy Association]].<ref>[https://worldbandy.com/great-britain/ Great Britain]</ref> Great Britain entered a national team in the 2019 World Championships Group B in January and undefeated up to the final, won the silver medal in their final match against Estonia. They were set to return to the 2020 World Championships, but were refused visas to Russia. Since then they have not participated. However, the comeback will come in 2025.<ref>[https://worldbandy.com/2024/11/24/the-teams-ready-for-world-championships-in-march/ THE TEAMS READY FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN MARCH!]</ref>

In 2022, Great Britain premiered its national women's bandy team at the [[2022 Women's Bandy World Championship]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19795374.first-ever-team-gb-bandy-team-founded-look-forward-first-championships/ |title=First ever Team GB bandy team founded as they look forward to first Championships |website= heraldscotland.com |date=20 December 2022 |access-date=2 January 2022 |author=Graeme Macpherson |publisher=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |language=en}}</ref>