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The team is controlled by the Latvian Ice Hockey Federation. Their best ever finish at the World Championships was in 2023, when they won the bronze medal. Latvia reached the quarterfinals at the 2014 Winter Olympics, losing 2–1 to Canada. Latvia has 7,898 registered players (0.43% of its population).
Quarter-finalists were paired according to their positions in the groups: the first-place team in each preliminary-round group played the fourth-place team of the other group, while the second-place team played the third-place team of the other group.
In 1936, Latvia participated for the first time in Winter Olympics, but all three games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen were lost: 0:11 to Canada, 2: 9 to Poland and 1: 7 against Austria. The first international match against the USA dates back to 1938, when Latvia scored a respectable 0: 1.
The Poland national men's ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Poland, and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. They are ranked 21st in the world in the IIHF World Rankings, but prior to the 1980s they were ranked as high as 6th internationally. They are one of eight countries never to have played below the ...
Latvia: 7 1 3 0 3 19 29 −10 9 Qualification for 2025 IIHF World Championship: 6 Kazakhstan: 7 2 0 0 5 12 31 −19 6 7 France: 7 1 0 1 5 13 26 −13 4 8 Poland: 7 0 0 1 6 11 29 −18 1 Relegation to 2025 Division I A
The 2024–25 Latvian Hockey League season is the 34th season of the Latvian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Latvia. This season is contested by seven teams – four from Latvia, two from Lithuania, and one from Estonia. [1] [2] The regular season started on 7 September 2024 and is scheduled to end on 15 March 2025. [3]
After the restoration of the independence of Latvia, the Latvian Hockey Federation was established in 1991 and re-admitted to the IIHF during its congress in Prague on May 6, 1992. [6] However, the Latvian national men's team was not restored back to the top division and had to play in Group C in its first World Championships since 1939 .
The 2000 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships were the 64th such event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. 42 teams representing their countries participated in several levels of competition.