Bandy betting in Morocco: Sweden's Elitserien and the winter game on ice

Bandy is played on ice with sticks and a small ball, eleven a side, on a rink as long as a football pitch, between 90 and 110 metres. A match lasts two halves of forty-five minutes with a quarter of an hour's break, and the only unit on the scoreboard is the goal. Whoever has scored more after ninety minutes wins; in league play, level scores stay level.

Morocco has no bandy league and no bandy federation, and the country does not belong to the Federation of International Bandy, whose only African member is Somalia, admitted in 2013. For a reader in Rabat, Casablanca or Marrakesh, this page is a window onto the Swedish rinks: the Elitserien supplies most of the fixtures priced below. Under this text, 1xBet lists the Bandy competitions open for betting in 2026, each match with its date, start time and pre-match markets.

League first, then the fixture, then the markets: reading the bandy line 🧭

The line is arranged in layers:

1. the competition, which means the Elitserien for most of the winter;

2. the fixture, filed by round and by start time, shown in Rabat time;

3. the match card, where the markets live: the 1X2 at the top, then handicaps, totals, the half markets and the correct score.

The league title sits in its own entry with no kick-off time and stays open until the play-off final. Every sport priced before kick-off follows the same order on the pre-match line for all sports.

Offside, direct free kicks and three colours of card: football rules on ice ❄️

Bandy borrowed its rulebook from football. There is offside, every free kick is direct, a corner may be scored without a second touch, and a foul in the area brings a penalty shot. Substitutions are unlimited, and a side may start with eight players on the ice. Time penalties come in colours: a white card sends a player off for five minutes, a blue card for ten, a red card for the rest of the match, and the team plays short-handed until the clock runs down.

A draw is a league result only. In the play-offs a winner is required: two extra periods of ten minutes, then a shoot-out of five shooters a side, continued one shot at a time until one team is ahead. For the line, the boundary is fixed: the match result and the correct score are read at the end of ninety minutes, and anything played beyond that belongs to separate markets, where the card offers them.

A handicap of −2.5 asks for a win by three goals or more; at +2.5 the chosen side may lose by two and the bet still pays. The total pays no attention to who wins: 6–4 and 2–8 sit on the same side of the line. The second-half winner counts only the goals of that period, without the first-half score carried over. Depending on the fixture, the card adds a team total and the both-teams-to-score market.

Season 2026/27: the Elitserien from 16 October, and a winter without a group A World Championship 📅

Sweden's top flight, the source of most of this line, resumes on 16 October 2026 with fourteen clubs and ends with play-offs that begin at the round of sixteen. Edsbyn holds the title: on 14 March 2026 in Västerås the club beat Villa Lidköping 8–2 in the final, its fourteenth championship. The calendar keeps its traditions: annandagsbandy on 26 December, the day after Christmas, when seven matches are played on one day, and the New Year fixture on 31 December, Hammarby against Västerås at Zinkensdamm.

• 16 October 2026 — first round of the Elitserien, fourteen clubs.

• 26 December 2026 — annandagsbandy, seven league matches in a single day.

• 31 December 2026 — Hammarby v Västerås at Zinkensdamm, the New Year match.

• 29 March to 4 April 2027 — under-17 and under-19 World Championships in Uppsala.

• Season 2026/27 — no group A World Championship, by the FIB decision of 21 May 2026.

The national teams will go through the winter without a World Championship. On 21 May 2026 the FIB cancelled the group A tournaments of 2026/27 for men and women after Sweden, Finland and Norway withdrew on financial grounds; friendly tournaments of three or four national sides, hosted by Norway or Sweden, take their place, and a working group is drafting a format from 2027/28 onward. The last title was decided in Pori, Finland, between 12 and 18 January 2026, when Sweden won its fifteenth World Championship. In Russia, the Superliga crowned Dynamo Moscow at the end of 2025/26, the club's tenth title, after a season of twelve teams, twenty-two rounds and an eight-team play-off played from 12 November 2025 to 21 March 2026; Russia's national team has been kept out of FIB tournaments since 2022.

Daytime in Rabat: in-play bandy, the phone and a dirham account 📱

Morocco now stays on GMT the whole year, and Elitserien rounds reach Rabat in the daytime. At kick-off the card moves from this page to bandy in play, goal by goal: the first-half score is frozen at the break and the second-half markets start again from nothing, as the card allows. The same card fits a phone screen before and during the match. The balance of a player in Morocco is kept in Moroccan dirhams (MAD), and deposits go through Attijari, CIH, Cash Plus, Al Barid or Lbankalik; whoever registers with 1xBet from Morocco finds this season's Elitserien already on the page.

Ball, not puck: bandy beside ice hockey and football in the line 🏒

Ice hockey is the nearest neighbour and a different game: a puck instead of a ball, a much shorter rink, and its own competitions on the ice hockey page of the line. Football gave bandy its pitch, its eleven players, its offside and its corners, and the football competitions in the pre-match line are read along the same path, from league to match card. Everything else on the Moroccan site, from the in-play section to the games, begins at the 1xBet home page for Morocco.