Flemming Kühl called for the second time – and the stars of floorball made their way to Hamburg again. On 12th July 2025, it was time for the second edition of the FZ17 All-Star Game at ETV Hamburg sports hall at Lokstedter Steindamm in the Northern German city. The teams were lead by two Swiss goalies, Lara Heini and Lukas Genhart. They both came with a nice squad of international and local big names. Here is my report.
This posting comes with a section of 677 major size pictures in the sports galleries.











FZ17 All-Star Game – Special Rules
To have a more entertaining and somehow also more relaxed match, the rules of the game of floorball have been adopted for this match:
- The match time has been split into quarters, 4 quarters of fifteen minutes, semi-effective timing (i.e. time only stops at goals and penalties)
- The intermissions have been used for other floorball fun elements. So the desired intermission time was typically stretched a bit.
- There was no court change
- There were twelve all-stars by team, two goalies, five male field players, five female field players. The coaches coordinated that practically all of the time, the male and the female lines faced each other.
- The coaches had for “power cards”, which they could use any time in the game. In that case, the play immediately stopped and the card was applied. The ball possession did not change thereafter. Namely, the cards had the following effect:
- You play three on three for two minutes
- The other team is getting short-handed (for two minutes)
- You are awarded a penalty shot
- There is a two minute power time. In case there is a goal, it counts twice.
The teams were coached by two regional ones this time, Mathis Wittneben (Team Heini) and Tillmann Gebhardt (Team Genhart).

FZ17 All-Star Game – Match Report
Team Heini – Team Genhart 8-7 SO SD (1-3, 2-0, 2-0, 2-4*, 0-0, 1-x)
The teams started quite intensively with good opportunities on both sides. However, the defensive lines and the captains both being the starting goalie blocked some nice ones. Team Genhart scored their first goal a bit of luckily, the second one was a much nicer snipe. The team even raised the lead to three goals by a Dominika Buczek penalty shot, before Lara Heini’s squad could close up before the first intermission. The intermissions were quite fun, by the way. In the first one, spectators challenged the all-star goalies in penalty shots, the major break featured a penalty shot style contest among the stars.













Team Heini closed up early in the second quarter and took the 3×3 power card right thereafter. They made use of the opportunity, leveling the score. You have to say though that while the first period was really fun to watch, the second period felt significantly slower. I thought about whether you should give the power time (double score) cards to the referees or the match secretaries, so that they can boost the match in these situations. The score stayed at 3-3 until halftime.












A Close Battle in the Second Half
The second half of the game started kind of slow. However, after some nine minutes in the third quarter, Team Heini took the first time lead of this All-Star Game. After they quickly scored another one, Wittneben now went now for the momentum. He took his Power Play card – but the Team Genhart box and some nice saves by Jana Christianova kept the game interesting. Three seconds before the buzzer, Gebhardt went for a penalty shot. However, Buczek, who has been rather unlucky in this discipline in the fun events of that day, failed against Nicolas Flathmann, so that team Heini saved the 5-3 lead.












The fourth period was more interesting again. Team Genhart took the 3×3 early and indeed managed to take profit of that situation. However, Team Heini still had the penalty shot card, which they took soon and brought the score back to a two goal gap. Again there was one goal of each team, so that the match went into its final minutes with a 7-5 score. Lukas Genhart’s team took the double score joker and pulled Christianova. This lead to the interesting situation that German floorball idol Jakob Heins joined the all-female line in attack. Team Genhart could not score in that setup, but with the male lines on the field (and Dominika Buczek), Tomas Hanak tied the score with his third goal and the extra point with twenty seconds left to play.
















The players decided to change the rules
After the three minute overtime, the game was still tied. While Flemming Kühl initially wanted to stop at that point and call it a tie, the players persuaded him to go for the final decision in sudden death shoout-out. In that decider, Michaela Kubeckova surpassed Christianova and thus decided the second edition of the FZ17 All-Star Game.












FZ17 All-Star Game – Lineups
Team Heini: 94 Lara Heini, 1 Nicolas Flathmann – 10 Celine Stettler, 14 Kristina Svensson, 4 Michaela Kubeckova, 17 Nina Metzger, 8 Vanessa Weikum – 98 Jan Prochazka, 29 Markus Lindgjerdet, 44 Philipp Wilbrand, 7 Andre Andersson, 20 Jonathan Nilsson
Team Genhart: 69 Lukas Genhart, 37 Jana Christianova – 15 Sarka Stankova, 20 Vanessa Schmucki, 27 Ellen Kunigk, 7 Anna Lena Best, 8 Dominika Buczek – 4 Nils Conrad, 65 Philip Weigelt, 7 Levin Conrad, 77 Tomas Hanak, 29 Jakob Heins
FZ17 All-Star Game 2025- Gallery
In the sports gallery, there is a designated major size picture gallery with 677 pictures of this match at
FZ17 All-Star Game – My View
A huge thanks a a lot of respect to Flemming Kühl – this event has been outstanding. If he gets more support, so that it can be moved to a major arena, it has the potential that the world of floorball is focusing to Germany for one day. A lot of ideas based on its first try have been incorporated. If you go for some better hosting and of the event and maybe prevent some of the slower phases of the match, it has the potential to be a really branding event for the sports. The 2025 event was already on a great level. It is also amazing to see some of the stars of our sports competing in there. I was absolutely impressed what Flemming and his team achieved on this Saturday in Hamburg.




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