Bandy Federation of England

Bandy Federation of England is the present governing body of the sport of bandy in England. It is based in Bury, Cambridgeshire.

Although the Bandy Federation of England was just formed and joined the Federation of International Bandy in 2010, bandy has a proud history in England. England is seen as one of the sport's birthplaces, beside Russia (where a similar game developed simultaneously, but modern bandy is based more on the English rules). The first English governing body for bandy, the National Bandy Association, was founded in 1891. The first rules were written down by Charles Goodman Tebbutt in 1882.

The match which later has been dubbed the original bandy match, was a match held at The Crystal Palace in London in 1875. However, at the time, the game was called "hockey on the ice", probably as it was considered an ice variant of field hockey. The first international match took place in 1891 between the English Bury Fen Bandy Club and Haarlemsche Hockey & Bandy Club (the present HC Bloemendaal) from the Netherlands. The same year, the National Bandy Association was started in England. England national bandy team won the 1913 European Bandy Championships in Davos, Switzerland, where national teams from eight countries played. Following the outbreak of the First World War, the interest for bandy vanished in England and the National Bandy Association was discontinued.

Almost a hundred years later, bandy was reintroduced to England. England now has both a men's national team and a women's national team, which hopefully will compete in the future World Championships.