Romania women's national ice hockey team
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.[2] The Romanian women's national team is no longer ranked in the IIHF since they have not participated since 2011.
The Coat of arms of Romania is the badge used on the players jerseys. | |
| Nickname(s) | Tricolori |
|---|---|
| Association | Romanian Ice Hockey Federation |
| Head coach | Sándor Barabás |
| Assistants | András Varga |
| Captain | Timea Csiszér |
| Most games | Magdolna Popescu (54) |
| Top scorer | Magdolna Popescu (33) |
| Most points | Magdolna Popescu (69) |
| Team colors | |
| IIHF code | ROU |
| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | 39 1 (28 August 2023)[1] |
| Highest IIHF | 25 (first in 2003) |
| Lowest IIHF | 40 (2022) |
| First international | |
| Netherlands 14–1 Romania (Bucharest, Romania; 5 March 2001) | |
| Biggest win | |
| Romania 27–0 Turkey (Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania; 26 March 2007) | |
| Biggest defeat | |
| Italy 15–0 Romania (Bucharest, Romania; 8 March 2001) | |
| World Championships | |
| Appearances | 14 (first in 2003) |
| Best result | 25th (2001) |
| International record (W–L–T) | |
| 22–47–0 | |
History edit
The Romanian women's national team made their debut at the 2001 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships. 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,[3] 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 edit
The Romanian women's hockey team has never qualified for an Olympic tournament.
World Championship record edit
- 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 IIB qualification, promoted to Division IIB)
- 2017 – Finished in 32nd place (6th in Division IIB)
- 2018 – Finished in 33rd place (6th in Division IIB)
- 2019 – Finished in 34th place (6th in Division IIB, relegated to Division IIBQ)
- 2020 – Finished in 37th place (3rd in Division III)
- 2021 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4]
- 2022 – Withdrawn due to the COVID-19 pandemic[5]
- 2023 – Finished in 36th place (4th in Division IIIA)
- 2024 – Finished in 36th place (2nd in Division IIIA)
All-time record against other nations edit
As of 14 September 2011
| Team | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 1 |
| Estonia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 |
| Iceland | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 |
| South Africa | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 12 |
| South Korea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| New Zealand | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 21 |
| Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| Slovenia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Austria | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 |
| Belgium | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 16 |
| Hungary | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 15 |
References edit
- ^ "IIHF Women's World Ranking". IIHF. 28 August 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ IIHF, http://www.iihf.com/iihf-home/countries/romania.html
- ^ 2009 Women's Division III, IV and V all Cancelled, http://forums.internationalhockey.net/showthread.php?t=7423
- ^ "IIHF – IIHF Council announces more cancellations". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "New dates and one withdrawal". IIHF.com. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
External links edit
- Official website
- IIHF profile
- National Teams of Ice hockey Romania