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This is a list of men's national ice hockey teams in the world. There are fewer than 100 national ice hockey teams in total, [ 1 ] with teams representing UN member states, as well as several dependent territories , sub-national entities and states who are not members of the United Nations .
Withdrew from affiliate membership due to a lack of ice hockey activity. Maintains an inline hockey national team and is a member of World Skate. Oxford Canadians: 17 February 1911 [102] 1914 [103] Oxford Canadians Ice Hockey Club Club ceased to exist following the outbreak of World War I. Canada later joined the IIHF in 1920. Russian Empire
The top six teams in the IIHF Women's World Ranking after the 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship received automatic berths into the ice hockey event. Lower ranked teams had an opportunity to qualify for the event. Teams ranked 16th and below were divided into three groups where they played in a preliminary qualification round in the October 2021.
The IIHF World Ranking is a ranking of the performance of the national ice hockey teams of member countries of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It is based on a formula giving points for each team's placings at IIHF-sanctioned tournaments over the previous four years.
Interliga (1999–2007) – multinational professional league with teams from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia; also known as the International Ice Hockey League Inter-National League (2012–2016) – multinational league with teams from Austria, Italy, and Slovenia
The International Hockey League (IHL) was a minor professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1945 to 2001. The IHL served as the National Hockey League's alternate farm system to the American Hockey League (AHL). After 56 years of operation, financial instability led to the league's demise.
The International Ice Hockey Federation was founded on 15 May 1908 at 34 Rue de Provence in Paris, France, as Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG). [6] The 1920 Olympics were the first to integrate hockey into their program. The Poland men's national ice hockey team debuted at the 1928 Winter Olympics.
The country has a team, the Veg Group Beirut. There is a small recreational hockey league known as the Lebanese Minor Hockey League, co-founded by Gordon Penney and Jiří Vlk from the Canadian and Czech embassies, respectively, and a Lebanese native Tony Abi Almeh, at the Ice Skating Arena in Zouk Mosbeh in 2003. The league was set to visit ...