Austria men's national ice hockey team

Medal record
	World Championships
	European Championships

Austria
	; The Coat of Arms of Austria is the badge used on the players jerseys.
Nickname(s)	The Eagles
Association	Austrian Ice Hockey Association
Most games	Gerhard Unterluggauer (244)
Most points	Rudolf König (183)
IIHF code	AUT
IIHF ranking	13
Highest IIHF ranking	11 (first in 2004)
Lowest IIHF ranking	18 (2021)
Team colors
First international
	Bohemia 5–0 Austria ; (Prague, Austria-Hungary; 4 February 1912)
Biggest win
	Austria 30–0 Belgium ; (Stockholm, Sweden; 12 March 1963)
Biggest defeat
	Canada 23–0 Austria ; (Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; 27 January 1956)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	66 (first in 1930)
Best result	(1931, 1947)
European Championships
Appearances	7 (first in 1912)
Best result	(1927)
Olympics
Appearances	13 (first in 1928)
International record (W–L–T)
	429–572–83

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The Austrian National Team during their first international match against Bohemia in 1912.

The Austrian National Team is the national ice hockey team for Austria. The team is controlled by Austrian Ice Hockey Association. As of 2024 the Austrian team is ranked 13th in the IIHF World Rankings. Austria has not won a medal in a major tournament since 1947, and has not broken 10th place since 1994.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

Members of the Austrian national team at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Austria finished 12th in the tournament.

Games	Finish
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	tied in 7th place
1948 St. Moritz	6th place
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	10th place
1964 Innsbruck	13th place
1968 Grenoble	13th place
1976 Innsbruck	8th place
1984 Sarajevo	10th place
1988 Calgary	9th place
1994 Lillehammer	12th place
1998 Nagano	14th place
2002 Salt Lake City	12th place
2014 Sochi	10th place

World Championship

1930 – Finished in 4th place
1931 – Won bronze medal
1933 – Finished in 4th place
1934 – Finished in 7th place
1935 – Finished in 6th place
1938 – Finished tied in 10th place
1947 – Won bronze medal
1949 – Finished in 6th place
1951 – Finished in 11th place (4th in Pool B)
1953 – Finished in 11th place (2nd in Pool B)
1954 – Finished in 6th place (3rd in Pool B)
1955 – Finished in 11th place (2nd in Pool B)
1957 – Finished in 7th place
1959 – Finished in 15th place (3rd in Pool B)
1961 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B)
1962 – Finished in 10th place (2nd in Pool B)
1963 – Finished in 16th place (won Pool C)
1965 – Finished in 13th place (5th in Pool B)
1966 – Finished in 13th place (5th in Pool B)
1967 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B)
1969 – Finished in 13th place (7th in Pool B)
1970 – Finished in 15th place (won Pool C)
1971 – Finished in 13th place (7th in Pool B)
1972 – Finished in 14th place (won Pool C)
1973 – Finished in 12th place (6th in Pool B)
1974 – Finished in 14th place (8th in Pool B)
1975 – Finished in 17th place (3rd in Pool C)
1976 – Finished in 17th place (won Pool C)
1977 – Finished in 17th place (9th in Pool B)
1978 – Finished in 18th place (2nd in Pool C)
1979 – Finished in 15th place (7th in Pool B)
1981 – Finished in 17th place (won Pool C)
1982 – Finished in 10th place (2nd in Pool B)
1983 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B)
1985 – Finished in 12th place (4th in Pool B)
1986 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B)
1987 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B)
1989 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B)
1990 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B)
1991 – Finished in 13th place (5th in Pool B)
1992 – Finished in 13th place (won Pool B)
1993 – Finished in 11th place
1994 – Finished in 8th place
1995 – Finished in 11th place
1996 – Finished in 12th place
1997 – Finished in 16th place (4th in Pool B)

Division	Championship	Coach	Captain	Finish	Rank
Top Division	1998 Zürich/Basel	–	–	First round	15th
Top Division	1999 Oslo/Hamar/Lillehammer	–	–	Consolation round	10th
Top Division	2000 Saint Petersburg	–	–	Relegation round	13th
Top Division	2001 Nuremberg/Cologne/Hanover	–	–	Second round	11th
Top Division	2002 Gothenburg/Karlstad/Jönköping	–	–	Second round	12th
Top Division	2003 Helsinki/Tampere/Turku	–	–	Second round	10th
Top Division	2004 Prague/Ostrava	–	–	Qualifying round	11th
Top Division	2005 Vienna/Innsbruck	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2006 Tallin	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group B
Top Division	2007 Moscow	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2008 Innsbruck	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Top Division	2009 Bern/Kloten	–	–	relegated	14th
Division I	2010 Tilburg	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Top Division	2011 Bratislava/Košice	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2012 Ljubljana	–	–	Promoted	2nd in Group A
Top Division	2013 Stockholm/Helsinki	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2014 Goyang	–	–	Promoted	2nd in Group A
Top Division	2015 Prague/Ostrava	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2016 Katowice	–	–	Group stage	4th in Group A
Division I	2017 Kyiv	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Top Division	2018 Copenhagen/Herning	–	–	Group stage	14th
Top Division	2019 Bratislava/Košice	–	–	relegated	16th
Division I	2020 Ljubljana	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[1]
Division I	2021 Ljubljana	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[2]
Top Division	2022 Tampere/Helsinki	–	–	Group stage	11th
Top Division	2023 Tampere/Riga	–	–	Group stage	14th
Top Division	2024 Prague/Ostrava	–	–	Group stage	10th

European Championship

Games	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Finish	Rank
1910 Les Avants	did not participate.
1911 Berlin	did not participate.
1912 Prague*	2	0	0	2	1	9	Round-robin	1 !
1913 Munich	3	0	0	3	5	34	Round-robin	4th
1914 Berlin	did not participate.
1915–1920	No Championships (World War I).
1921 Stockholm	did not participate.
1922 St. Moritz	did not participate.
1923 Antwerp	did not participate.
1924 Milan	did not participate.
1925 Štrbské Pleso, Starý Smokovec	3	1	1	1	4	5	Round-robin	1 !
1926 Davos	7	4	1	2	15	13	Final round	1 !
1927 Vienna	5	5	0	0	13	2	Round-robin	1 !
1929 Budapest	6	4	0	2	13	9	3rd Place Game	1 !
1932 Berlin	4	1	3	0	6	3	Final round	1 !

1912 Championship was later annulled because Austria was not a member of the IIHF at the time of the competition.

All-time record

Updated as of 20 April 2024.^[3] Teams listed in italics are defunct.

Opponent	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Australia	1	1	0	0	17	0	+17
Belarus	22	5	1	16	50	83	-33
Belgium	13	12	0	1	106	36	+70
Bohemia	2	0	0	2	0	12	-12
Bulgaria	10	8	1	1	58	18	+40
Canada	36	1	3	32	37	213	-176
China	8	7	1	0	66	20	+46
Croatia	2	2	0	0	11	2	+9
Czech Republic	24	1	0	23	31	119	−88
Czechoslovakia	28	4	0	24	37	168	−131
Denmark	41	29	1	11	170	82	+88
East Germany	28	6	0	22	71	182	-111
Estonia	2	2	0	0	9	3	+6
Finland	14	0	1	13	24	76	−52
France	67	35	10	22	257	183	+74
Germany	51	13	4	34	80	166	-86
Great Britain	20	13	2	5	101	57	+44
Hungary	54	39	2	13	208	129	+79
Italy	97	46	12	39	298	277	+21
Japan	45	26	5	14	176	130	+46
Kazakhstan	12	4	1	7	34	39	-5
Latvia	25	4	0	21	56	98	-42
Lithuania	2	2	0	0	11	5	+6
Netherlands	37	26	4	7	198	89	+109
North Korea	1	1	0	0	10	0	+10
Norway	54	18	5	31	139	197	-58
Poland	60	31	3	26	181	183	-2
Romania	29	13	2	14	130	104	+26
Russia	17	1	0	16	29	95	−66
Serbia	1	1	0	0	13	0	+24
Slovakia	33	8	2	32	76	166	-90
Slovenia	37	13	4	20	80	106	-26
South Korea	7	6	0	1	37	16	+21
Soviet Union	4	0	0	4	5	54	-49
Spain	1	1	0	0	14	4	+10
Sweden	25	1	2	22	22	123	−101
Switzerland	77	12	14	51	187	340	-153
Ukraine	20	13	1	6	67	52	+15
United States	33	2	2	29	58	172	−114
Yugoslavia	39	22	0	17	154	134	+20
Total	1 088	429	83	576	3 308	3 933	-625

References

↑ "IIHF cancels Division I tournaments". iihf.com. 17 March 2019. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2020/wmia/news/18320/iihf-cancels-division-i-tournaments.
↑ "IIHF – IIHF Council announces more cancellations". International Ice Hockey Federation. https://www.iihf.com/en/news/23178/iihf-council-announces-more-cancellations.
↑ "Ice Hockey in Austria" (in en-US). https://nationalteamsoficehockey.com/austria/.

External links

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Defunct teams: Bohemia - - Bohemia and Moravia - CIS - Czechoslovakia
East Germany - Serbia and Montenegro - U.S.S.R. - West Germany - Yugoslavia
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