Sweden have won the gold medal on nine occasions while Finland are the only other winners of the competition.

Aside from those two countries, only the Czech Republic and Switzerland have ever reached the final.

The tournament, which features 16 teams, will start tomorrow and conclude on December 11. 

A total of 34 teams took part in qualification rounds to decide the 15 teams in the finals while Latvia, as hosts, qualified automatically.

The top two teams in Groups A and B will directly advance to the quarter-finals while teams placed third and fourth in these groups as well as teams placed first and second in Groups C and D will then compete in the first play-off round.

The winners of those games will then complete the quarter-final line up.

The WFC 2016 will also act as a qualifying event for the 2017 World Games with the gold, silver and bronze medallists all going through to the event.

Spread across two venues, the Arena Riga and Olympic Sports Centre Elektrum, tomorrow's first day of competition features a busy schedule of seven matches.

Finland, ranked second in the world, won every game of their qualifying campaign and feature in Group A alongside Germany, Switzerland and Estonia.

The imperious Sweden, led by captain Johan Samuelsson, headline Group B which also features the Czech Republic, hosts Latvia and Norway.

Brothers Daniel and Tomas Gartner will be in action for Australia as they both make the step up from their nation's successful under-19 team.

Joining them in Group C are a strong European contingent of Slovakia, Denmark and Poland.

Singapore qualified for the tournament after finishing second in a difficult Asia-Oceania qualifying campaign. 

Led by captain Tan Yiru, they will compete in Group D alongside the United States who will be aiming to reach the 2017 World Games as the team continues to develop.

American Alexander McVey has been tipped as a future floorball star and he will be hoping to steer his country through Group D which also includes Canada and Thailand.

Although floorball is not an Olympic sport, it is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) who have now opted to support it on its dedicated channel.

Select matches from the tournament will be shown on the Olympic Channel.

In all, 33 hours of competition - including the final - will be streamed after the International Floorball Federation and the channel penned a cooperation agreement last month.