Maja Viström
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.jpg) Viström in 2020 in Sweden's under-19 team | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| National team |  Sweden |
| Born | 26 April 2001 Sweden |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Floorball |
| League | Swedish Super League (2017–) |
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Medal record | |
Maja Viström (born 26 April 2001) is a Swedish floorball player and national team member. She is a two-time world champion, six-time Swedish champion, three-time Champions Cup winner, and was named the world's best floorball player in 2024. She has been playing in the Swedish Super League since 2017.
In her youth, Maja Viström also played football for several years and appeared for the Sweden's under-17 national team.[1][2] She started playing floorball at the age of 11 with the club Gullänget-Kroksta IBS.[3][2]
From the 2017–18 season, Viström began playing in the Swedish Super League for IKSU. In her first year, she won the championship title and later claimed gold in the Champions Cup.[4][5][3] They secured another league title in the 2019–20 season.
After the 2019–20 season, IKSU was dissolved, and its team, including Viström, was taken over by Team Thorengruppen. Despite the transition, the team maintained its dominant position in the league, securing the championship title for the next four seasons. Viström scored the game-winning goal in the finals of both 2022 and 2024.[3] Thorengruppen also won the Champions Cup in 2023 and 2024[6] and claimed the Swedish Cup three times.[3] In the absence of team captain Emelie Wibron, Viström repeatedly stepped in as her replacement.[7][8]
International career
As captain, Viström led the Swedish under-19 national team to a silver medal at the 2020 U-19 World Championships, where she was named to the All-star team.[8][9]
Viström made her debut for the Swedish women's national team at the Euro Floorball Tour in October 2021 in a match against the Czech Republic, where she scored two goals.[10] She played in her first World Championship later that year, assisting her club teammate Emelie Wibron on the game-winning goal in overtime during the final and was named the player of the match.[11] At the next championship in 2023, Sweden defended their gold medal, with Viström contributing two goals and an assist in the final, once again earning the title of the most valuable player of the match.[12]
| Year | Team | Event | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Sweden U-19 | WFC U-19 |  |
| 2021 | Sweden | WFC |  |
| 2023 | Sweden | WFC | |
| 2025 | Sweden | WG | |
| 2025 | Sweden | WFC | 4th |
Awards
In 2024, Viström was named the world's best floorball player in a poll conducted by Innebandymagazinet magazine.[13]
