Sakarias Ulriksson
| Personal information | |
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| National team |  Sweden |
| Born | 25 July 2004 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Floorball |
| Position | Forward |
| League | Swedish Super League |
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Sakarias Ulriksson (born 25 July, 2004) is a Swedish floorball forward and national team player. He is a silver medallist at the 2024 World Championship, a two-time winner of the Swedish Super League, and the world's best floorball player of 2025. He has been playing in Swedish competitions since 2020.
Club career
Ulriksson began playing floorball with Frötuna IBF. From the 2020–21 season, he played in the second-highest division, Allsvenskan, for RIG Umeå IBF, a club affiliated with a sports-oriented gymnasium.[1]
In 2023, he transferred to Storvreta IBK and began playing for the club in the Swedish Super League.[1][2] In his first season with Storvreta, the team successfully defended their league title. They repeated the achievement in the 2024–25 season, in which Ulriksson scored the winning goal in the Superfinal. It was his 19th goal of the playoffs, equalling a 24-year-old record held by Jonathan Kronstrand. In the regular season, he finished as the second-highest scoring player.[3][4][5]
International career
Ulriksson won a gold medal with the Swedish under-19 national team at the 2023 junior world championships. He finished the tournament as the top scorer, was selected to the All-Star Team, scored a goal and provided an assist in the final, and was named player of the match.[6]
He made his debut for the senior national team at the 2024 World Championship, where Sweden finished second.[7] He won a gold medal at the 2025 World Games.[8]
| Year | Team | Event | Result |
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| 2023 | Sweden U-19 | WFC U-19 | 
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| 2024 | Sweden | WFC | 
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| 2025 | Sweden | WG |
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Awards
In 2025, he was named the world's best floorball player in the Innebandymagazinet Award, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the award.[2][5]
References
- ^ a b "Sakarias Ulriksson klar för Storvreta IBK!" (in Swedish). Storvreta IBK. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ a b "Sakarias Ulriksson och Veera Kauppi världens bästa spelare" (in Swedish). 13 January 2026. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ "Sakarias Ulriksson Tangerar Rekord i SM-slutspel 2025 - 19 Mål" (in Swedish). 27 April 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ "Veera Kauppi och Sakarias Ulriksson utses till slutspelets MVP" (in Swedish). 15 May 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ a b "World's Best Floorball Player 2025: Sakarias Ulriksson" (in Swedish). 13 January 2026. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ "Sveriges U19-herrar världsmästare – efter 10 års väntan" (in Swedish). 30 April 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ^ "Finland floorball world champions for the fifth time". blue News. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
- ^ "World Games: Chengdu 2025 Floorball gold goes to Sweden Men and Finland Women". Livesport. 13 August 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2026.