Romania men's national ice hockey team

Romania
	; The Coat of arms of Romania is used as the badge on the team jerseys
Nickname(s)	Tricolori (Three Colors)
Association	Romanian Ice Hockey Federation
Most games	Doru Tureanu (112)
Top scorer	Doru Tureanu (74)
Most points	Doru Tureanu (113)
IIHF code	ROU
IIHF ranking	23
Highest IIHF ranking	23 (2022, 2023–24)
Lowest IIHF ranking	29 (2016–18)
Team colors
First international
	United States 15–0 Romania (Krynica, Poland; February 1, 1931)
Biggest win
	Romania 52–1 New Zealand (Geel or Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium; March 19, 1989)
Biggest defeat
	Czechoslovakia 23–1 Romania (Prague, Czechoslovakia; February 17, 1947)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	55 (first in 1931)
Best result	7th (1947)
Olympics
Appearances	4 (first in 1964)
International record (W–L–T)
	332–379–57

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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 have competed in four Olympic ice hockey competitions, the most recent being in 1980.

Olympic Games

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

Postage stamp from Romania, 1980 Winter Olympics

Olympic record

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	Did not qualify

World Championship

Romanian national team in 2019

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)

Division	Championship	Coach	Captain	Finish	Rank
C	1990 Budapest	–	–	Group stage	4th in Group C
C	1991 Brøndby	–	–	Promoted	3rd in Group C
B	1992 Klagenfurt	–	–	Group stage	6th in Group B
B	1993 Eindhoven	–	–	Group stage	6th in Group B
B	1994 Copenhagen	–	–	Group stage	7th in Group B
B	1995 Bratislava	–	–	relegated	8th in Group B
C	1996 Jesenice	–	–	Group stage	6th in Group C
C	1997 Tallinn	–	–	Consolation	25th
C	1998 Budapest	–	–	Final Round	26th
C	1999 Eindhoven	–	–	Final Round	26th
C	2000 Beijing	–	–	Consolation	30th
Division II	2001 Bucharest	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group B
Division I	2002 Székesfehérvár	–	–	Group stage	5th in Group B
Division I	2003 Budapest	–	–	Group stage	5th in Group A
Division I	2004 Gdańsk	–	–	Group stage	5th in Group B
Division I	2005 Eindhoven	–	–	relegated	6th in Group B
Division II	2006 Sofia	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Division I	2007 Ljubljana	–	–	relegated	6th in Group A
Division II	2008 Miercurea Ciuc	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Division I	2009 Toruń	–	–	Group stage	6th in Group B
Division II	2010 Narva	–	–	Group stage	2nd in Group B
Division II	2011 Zagreb	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group B
Division I	2012 Krynica	–	–	Group stage	4th in Group B
Division I	2013 Donetsk	–	–	Group stage	4th in Group B
Division I	2014 Vilnius	–	–	relegated	6th in Group B
Division II	2015 Reykjavík	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Division I	2016 Zagreb	–	–	relegated	6th in Group B
Division II	2017 Galați	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Division I	2018 Kaunas	–	–	Group stage	5th in Group B
Division I	2019 Tallinn	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group B
Division I	2020 Ljubljana	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[1]
Division I	2021 Ljubljana	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[2]
Division I	2022 Ljubljana	–	–	Group stage	6th in Group A
Division I	2023 Nottingham	–	–	Group stage	5th in Group A
Division I	2024 Bolzano	–	–	Group stage	4th in Group A
Division I

Winter Universiade

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

Romania national team from 1979

All-time record

Updated as of 5 May 2023.^[3] 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

↑ "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.
↑ "Romania - National Teams of Ice Hockey" (in en-US). 2016-08-07. https://nationalteamsoficehockey.com/romania/.

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Hong Kong - Hungary - Ireland - Iceland - Indonesia - Iran - Israel - Italy
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New Zealand - The Netherlands - Philippines - Poland - Romania - Russia - Serbia
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Sweden - Switzerland - Thailand - Turkey - Turkmenistan - Ukraine - UAE
United States
Defunct teams: Bohemia - - Bohemia and Moravia - CIS - Czechoslovakia
East Germany - Serbia and Montenegro - U.S.S.R. - West Germany - Yugoslavia
Teams that do not participate in IIHF competitions:
Algeria - Andorra - Argentina - Azerbaijan - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Egypt
India - Jamaica - Lebanon - Liechtenstein - Morocco - North Macedonia
Oman - Portugal - Puerto Rico - Tunisia - - Qatar - Uzbekistan
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