Romania women's national ice hockey team: Difference between revisions

	; The Coat of arms of Romania is the badge used on the players jerseys.
Association	Romanian Ice Hockey Federation
Team colors
First international
	Austria 12 – 0 Romania ; (Spittal an der Drau, Austria; 7 January 2016)
Biggest defeat
	Kazakhstan 15 – 0 Romania ; (Spittal an der Drau, Austria; 8 January 2016)
IIHF World Women's U18 Championships
Appearances	1 (first in 2016)
Best result	22nd (2016)
International record (W–L–T)
	0–4–0

	; The Coat of arms of Romania is the badge used on the players jerseys.
Nickname(s)	Tricolori
Association	Romanian Ice Hockey Federation
Most games	Ibolya Sandor (31)
Most points	Magdolna Dobondi (41)
IIHF code	ROU
IIHF ranking	37
Highest IIHF ranking	25 (first in 2003)
Lowest IIHF ranking	38 (2014)
Team colors
First international
	Netherlands 14–1 Romania ; (Bucharest, Romania; March 5, 2001)
Biggest win
	Romania 27–0 Turkey ; (Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania; March 26, 2007)
Biggest defeat
	Italy 15–0 Romania ; (Bucharest, Romania; March 8, 2001)
IIHF World Women's Championships - Division III
Appearances	2 (first in 2003)
Best result	5th (2004)
International record (W–L–T)
	12-26-1

Revision as of 15:01, 7 August 2024

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The Romanian women's national ice hockey team represents Romania at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships. The women's national team is controlled by Romanian Ice Hockey Federation. As of 2015, Romania has 53 female players.^[1] The Romanian women's national team is no longer ranked in the IIHF since they have not participated since 2011.

History

The Romanian women's national team made their debut at the 2001 IIHF Women's World Championship. They finished 9th out of ten in the qualification event for Division II and thus entered the newly founded Division III in the following year. At the 2004 Women's World Championship, they were relegated to Division IV, which is where they have been competing since then. As the lower divisions saw no match play in 2009,^[2] and there was no IIHF World Women's Championship in the Olympic year 2010, the Romanian team will play their first World Championship match in three years at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship.

Olympic record

The Romanian women's hockey team has never qualified for an Olympic tournament.

World Championship record

Main article: IIHF World Women's Championships

2001 – Finished in 25th place (9th in Division I qualification)
2003 – Finished in 26th place (6th in Division III)
2004 – Finished in 26th place (5th in Division III)
2005 – Finished in 29th place (3rd in Division IV)
2007 – Finished in 29th place (2nd in Division IV)
2008 – Finished in 30th place (3rd in Division IV)
2009 – Division IV cancelled
2011 – Finished in 30th place (4th in Division IV)
2016 – Finished in 33rd place (1st in Division II qualification, promoted to Division II)

U18 Team

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The Romania women's national under-18 ice hockey team is the women's national under-18 ice hockey team of Romania. The team is controlled by the Romanian Ice Hockey Federation, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. In 2016 the team debuted at the IIHF World Women's U18 Championships where they competed in the Division I Qualification tournament, finishing in last place.

History

In January 2016 the Romanian women's national under-18 ice hockey team debuted at the IIHF World Women's U18 Championships where they played in the 2016 Division I Qualification tournament in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria.^[3] Romania was placed in Group A with Austria, China and Kazakhstan.^[4] The team finished last in Group A's preliminary round after losing all three of their games, which included their largest loss on record after Kazakhstan defeated them 15–0.^[4] Romania then progressed to the seventh place classification game against Australia, who had finished last in Group B.^[4]^[5] Romania was defeated by Australia 6–7 following a shootout and finished the tournament in eighth place.^[5]^[6] Alina Oprea was selected as the best Romanian player of the tournament.^[7]