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Romania
Nickname(s)	Tricolori (Three Colors)
Association	Romanian Ice Hockey Federation
General manager	Alexandru Hălăucă
Head coach	Július Pénzeš
Assistants	Nelu Alexe; Norbert Javorčík
Captain	Alpár Salló
Most games	Doru Tureanu (113)
Top scorer	Doru Tureanu (74)
Most points	Doru Tureanu (112)
Team colors
IIHF code	ROU
Ranking
Current IIHF	23 1 (28 May 2023)
Highest IIHF	24 (2021)
Lowest IIHF	29 (first in 2016)
First international
	United States 15–0 Romania; (Krynica, Poland; 2 February 1931)
Biggest win
	Romania 52–1 New Zealand; (Geel or Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium; 19 March 1989)
Biggest defeat
	Czechoslovakia 23–1 Romania; (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 17 February 1947)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	54 (first in 1931)
Best result	7th (1947)
Olympics
Appearances	4 (first in 1964)
International record (W–L–T)
	332–379–57

The Romanian men's national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey of Romania, and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. They are currently ranked 27th in the 2019 IIHF World Rankings and currently compete in Division IA. They have competed in four Olympic ice hockey competitions, the most recent being in 1980.

Olympic Games edit

Romania started Olympic hockey in 1964 in the B division. In the tournament, the team finished 12th out of 16 teams and managed 3 wins against Austria, Italy, and Hungary also with a tie against Yugoslavia.

In 1968, Romania lost its qualification match against West Germany 7–0 and was forced to compete in the B division again. In the first two games, Romania beat Austria 3–2 and the Host, France 7–3. They lost their next three games and finished 12th out of 14 in the standings.

After skipping the 1972 competition, Romania returned for the 1976 tournament. This time Romania played Poland in the Qualification round and lost 7–4, keeping them in the B division once again. However, Romania battled back and won 4 of 5 games with only one loss against Yugoslavia, still winning the division. The team finished 7th out of 12.

In 1980, Romania was able to play with the top teams and was put into the Blue Division group, along with tough opponents such as Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and USA. In the first game Romania was down 4–2 to West Germany, but managed to score 4 goals to beat the former bronze medallists 6–4. In their next game Romania got shut out by Sweden 8–0. The Swedes scored 3 goals in the first period which left Romania out of it. After a lopsided loss to Czechoslovakia (7–2) the team then took on USA. The US jumped out to a 2–0 lead in the first period and added two more to it to lead 4–1 after two periods. Unlike other teams that the US had faced, the Romanians fought strong in the third period, despite being outshot 15–3, and scored a goal. The final score was 7–2. Romania played Norway for their final game, who had lost all four of their past games and had no chance to advance to the Medal Round. Romania fell behind less than a minute into the game, but stormed back to take the lead 3–1 in the third period. The Norwegian team battled back though, and scored once with a minute and a half left to play, and scored once more to tie it with only 29 seconds left. This tie still gave Romania one point but they had been hoping for a win. They finished the tournament with a 1–3–1 record, and were ranked 8th out of 12, just beating the Netherlands, West Germany, Norway, and Japan. This was the last time that the Romanians competed in the Olympic tournaments.

Tournament record edit

Postage stamp from Romania, 1980 Winter Olympics

Romanian national team in 2019

Olympic record edit

Games	GP	W	OW	T	OL	L	GF	GA	Coach	Captain	Finish	Rank
1964 Innsbruck	7	3	0	1	0	3	31	28	-	-	Consolation round (Group B)	12th
1968 Grenoble	5	2	0	0	0	3	22	23	-	-	Consolation round (Group B)	12th
1972 Sapporo	Did not qualify
1976 Innsbruck	5	4	0	0	0	1	23	15	-	-	Consolation round	7th
1980 Lake Placid	5	1	0	1	0	3	13	29	-	-	First round	8th
1984 Sarajevo	Did not qualify
1988 Calgary	Did not qualify
1992 Albertville	Did not qualify
1994 Lillehammer	Did not qualify
1998 Nagano	Did not qualify
2002 Salt Lake City	Did not qualify
2006 Turin	Did not qualify
2010 Vancouver	Did not qualify
2014 Sochi	Did not qualify
2018 Pyeongchang	Did not qualify
2022 Beijing	Did not qualify
2026 Milan-Cortina 2026	To be determined

World Championship edit

1931 – 10th place
1933 – 9th place
1934 – 10th place
1935 – 11th place
1937 – 10th place
1938 – 13th place
1947 – 7th place
1959 – 13th place (1st in Pool B)
1961 – 15th place (1st in Pool C)
1963 – 11th place (3rd in Pool B)
1966 – 10th place (2nd in Pool B)
1967 – 10th place (2nd in Pool B)
1969 – 12th place (6th in Pool B)
1970 – 13th place (7th in Pool B)
1971 – 15th place (1st in Pool C)
1972 – 10th place (4th in Pool B)
1973 – 10th place (4th in Pool B)
1974 – 12th place (6th in Pool B)
1975 – 11th place (5th in Pool B)
1976 – 9th place (1st in Pool B)
1977 – 8th place
1978 – 12th place (4th in Pool B)
1979 – 11th place (3rd in Pool B)
1981 – 13th place (5th in Pool B)
1982 – 13th place (5th in Pool B)
1983 – 15th place (7th in Pool B)
1985 – 20th place (4th in Pool C)
1986 – 20th place (4th in Pool C)
1987 – 19th place (3rd in Pool C)
1989 – 26th place (2nd in Pool D)
1990 – 20th place (4th in Pool C)
1991 – 19th place (3rd in Pool C)

1992 – 18th place (6th in Pool B)
1993 – 18th place (6th in Pool B)
1994 – 19th place (7th in Pool B)
1995 – 20th place (8th in Pool B)
1996 – 26th place (6th in Pool C)
1997 – 25th place (5th in Pool C)
1998 – 26th place (2nd in Pool C)
1999 – 26th place (2nd in Pool C)
2000 – 30th place (6th in Pool C)
2001 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group B)
2002 – 25th place (5th in Division I, Group A)
2003 – 26th place (5th in Division I, Group B)
2004 – 25th place (5th in Division I, Group B)
2005 – 27th place (6th in Division I, Group B)
2006 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group A)
2007 – 27th place (6th in Division I, Group B)
2008 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group A)
2009 – 28th place (6th in Division I, Group B)
2010 – 31st place (2nd in Division II, Group B)
2011 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group B)
2012 – 26th place (4th in Division I, Group B)
2013 – 26th place (4th in Division I, Group B)
2014 – 28th place (6th in Division I, Group B)
2015 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group A)
2016 – 28th place (6th in Division I, Group B)
2017 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group A)
2018 – 27th place (5th in Division I, Group B)
2019 – 23rd place (1st in Division I, Group B)
2020 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[2]
2021 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[3]
2022 – 21st place (5th in Division I, Group A)
2023 – 21st place (5th in Division I, Group A)

Winter Universiade edit

1966 – 2nd place (Silver medal)
1983 – 3rd place (Bronze medal)

All-time record edit

Updated as of 5 May 2023.^[4] Teams in italics are defunct.

Opponent	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Australia	3	3	0	0	15	5	+10
Austria	29	14	2	13	104	130	–26
Belarus	1	0	0	1	3	5	–2
Belgium	15	15	0	0	133	24	+109
Bulgaria	40	34	2	4	249	91	+158
Canada	4	0	0	4	3	29	–26
China	23	18	2	3	131	68	+63
Croatia	13	7	1	5	52	41	+11
Czechoslovakia	8	0	0	8	6	78	–72
Denmark	20	10	1	9	80	75	+5
East Germany	43	4	2	37	91	264	–173
Estonia	12	5	0	7	50	43	+7
Finland	4	1	1	2	16	27	–11
France	28	12	4	12	139	114	+25
Germany	21	4	0	17	57	100	–43
Great Britain	25	4	1	20	59	131	–72
Hungary	68	39	5	24	290	239	+51
Iceland	5	4	0	1	25	10	+15
Ireland	2	2	0	0	43	1	+42
Israel	4	4	0	0	55	2	+53
Italy	27	11	3	13	91	114	–23
Japan	30	11	2	17	109	138	–29
Kazakhstan	6	2	0	4	11	30	–19
Kyrgyzstan	1	1	0	0	18	2	+16
Latvia	8	2	0	6	7	49	–42
Lithuania	16	8	1	7	56	59	–3
Mexico	1	1	0	0	19	0	+19
Netherlands	29	13	2	14	113	93	+20
North Korea	6	6	0	0	51	14	+37
Norway	31	13	3	15	112	134	–22
New Zealand	2	2	0	0	66	2	+64
Poland	62	7	5	50	106	390	–284
Serbia	4	4	0	0	24	6	+18
Serbia and Montenegro	6	6	0	0	47	11	+36
Slovakia	7	1	1	5	7	53	–46
Slovenia	8	0	0	8	6	48	–42
South Africa	2	2	0	0	33	3	+30
South Korea	11	5	0	6	53	39	+14
Soviet Union	1	0	0	1	1	18	–17
Spain	10	10	0	0	86	12	+74
Sweden	5	0	1	4	4	35	–31
Switzerland	38	13	3	22	121	187	–66
Ukraine	20	3	0	17	20	116	–96
United States	11	1	0	10	21	85	–64
Yugoslavia	58	30	15	13	254	208	+46
Total	768	332	57	379	3 037	3 323	–286

References edit

^ "IIHF Men's World Ranking". IIHF. 28 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
^ "IIHF cancels Division I tournaments". iihf.com. 17 March 2019.
^ "IIHF – IIHF Council announces more cancellations". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
^ "Romania - National Teams of Ice Hockey". nationalteamsoficehockey.com. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2023.