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'''Bandy''' is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYyN8q44mX8 |title=Edsbyn Sandviken SM – Final in Upssala |publisher=YouTube |accessdate=7 February 2014}}</ref>

The sport is considered a form of hockey and has a common background with [[ice hockey]] and field hockey. Bandy has also been influenced by the rules of association football (soccer): both games are normally played in halves of 45 minutes, there are 11 players on each team, and the fields in both games are about the same size. Bandy is played, like ice hockey, on ice but players use bowed sticks and a small ball, as in field hockey.

A variant of bandy, rink bandy, is played to the same rules but on a field the size of an ice hockey rink, with ice hockey goal cages and with six players on each team, or five in USA Rink Bandy League. Traditional eleven-a-side bandy and rink bandy are recognized by the International Olympic Committee. More informal varieties also exist, like seven-a-side bandy with normally sized goal cages but without corner strokes. Those rules were applied at Davos Cup in 2016.

Based on the number of participating athletes, bandy is the world's second-most participated winter sport after [[ice hockey]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldbandy.com/news/bandy-versus-the-50-olympic-winter-games-disciplines/|title=Bandy versus the 50 Olympic Winter Games Disciplines|date=4 December 2015|publisher=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222141905/http://worldbandy.com/news/bandy-versus-the-50-olympic-winter-games-disciplines/|archivedate=22 December 2015}}</ref><ref name=FIBOct16>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbandy.com/newspost_7640.html|title=Bandy destined for the Olympic Winter Games!|publisher=Federation of International Bandy|date=21 October 2016|access-date=15 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017132109/http://www.worldbandy.com/newspost_7640.html|archive-date=17 October 2018|dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref>''Bandyportföljen'' magazine, no. 4 20017/18, pp. 12-13</ref> Bandy is also ranked as the number two winter sport in terms of tickets sold per day of competitions at the sport's world championship.<ref name=FIBOct16/>

Bandy and ice hockey were not clearly defined until the early 1900s. The terms were synonymous and often interchangeable throughout the 19th century and into the early 20th century.

However, compared with the seven Winter Olympic sports, bandy's popularity among other winter sports across the globe is considered by the International Olympic Committee to have a, "gap between popularity and participation and global audiences", which is a roadblock to future Olympic inclusion.<ref name=bid>{{cite web|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1061027/new-sports-face-struggle-to-be-added-to-winter-olympic-games-programme-ioc-warn|title=New sports face struggle to be added to Winter Olympic Games programme, IOC warn|last=Butler|first=Nick|date=4 February 2018|website=Insidethegames.biz|publisher=Dunsar Media|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
;Competitions
*[[1913 European Bandy Championship]]
*[[Austrian Bandy Cup]]
*[[Austrian Bandy Championship]]
*[[Davos International Bandy Tournament]]
*[[Estonian Bandy Championship]]
*[[Grindelwald Cup]]
*[[Latvian Bandy Championship]]
*[[National Bandy Association]]

;Overviews
*[[Origins of Bandy and Ice Hockey in Europe]]
*[[Bandy and Ice Hockey in Austria (1894-1923)]]
*[[Bandy and Ice Hockey in Finland (1894-1930)]]
*[[Bandy and Ice Hockey in the Netherlands (1890-1945)]]
*[[Bandy and Ice Hockey in Norway (1888-1940)]]
*[[Bandy and Ice Hockey in Sweden (1894-1930)]]
*[[Early Hungarian Hockey]]
*[[Early Russian Bandy and Ice Hockey]]
*[[Early Swiss Hockey]]
;Teams
*[[Bury Fen Bandy Club]]
*[[Scottish Bandy Club]]
*[[Virginia Water Bandy Club]]

;Misc.
*[[A Handbook of Bandy; or, Hockey on the Ice]]
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire Hedley Park and Aflalo, F.G. ''Bandy'' (includes definition and rules), pp. 71–72, 1897. Published by Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd., 16 Henrietta St., Covent Garden, London.

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