Belgian national ice hockey team

Belgium
Association	Koninklijke Belgische IJshockey Federatie
World ranking	34th place
Trainer	Jozef Lejeune
Assistant coach	Danny Gyesbreghs
Most games	Tim Vos (118)
Most of the points	Tim Vos (67)
statistics
First international match Belgium 3-0 France Brussels , Belgium ; March 4 , 1905
Biggest win Belgium 21-2 New Zealand Geel , Belgium ; March 21 , 1989
Biggest defeat Ukraine 37: 2 Belgium Bled , Slovenia ; March 13 , 1993
Olympic games
Participation	1920 , 1924 , 1928 , 1936
Best result:	7th place (1920, 1924)
World Championship
Participation	since 1920
best result	7th place (multiple)
(As of April 21, 2013)

The Belgian national ice hockey team is ranked 32nd in the IIHF world rankings after the 2017 World Cup and plays in Division II at the World Cup .

history

In the first four decades of the 20th century, Belgium was one of the top nations in ice hockey and could boast numerous successes. During their first four participations in the European ice hockey championship , the Belgians were able to win a medal each, three bronze medals and in 1913 even the gold medal as European champions. Only the participation in the EM 1912 was waived, which was later declared invalid by the IIHF due to the lack of association membership of Austria .

Belgium took part in the first three Olympic ice hockey tournaments, which were also considered the World Cup. Like most European participants, Belgium decided not to take part in the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid for reasons of cost, but entered the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . From relegation in 1950 to the Criterium Eurepéen (the later B World Championship), Belgium could not recover in the following period and from 1961 only played in the C and D World Championship. While ice hockey was becoming increasingly professional in other European countries, it developed into a marginal sport in Belgium. Only in 2004 did Belgium play again in Division I, the second highest performance level of the World Championships, but rose straight back to Division II, in which it has played since then. In the course of the IIHF structural reform for the 2012 World Cup, Belgium was classified in the fifth class Division II, Group B. The direct promotion to the next higher division (Division II, Group A) could be realized in the same year.

Results at world championships

• 1920 - 7th place
• 1924 - 7th place
• 1928 - 8th place
• 1930 - 10th place
• 1933 - 12th place
• 1934 - 11th place
• 1935 - 14th place
• 1936 - 14th place
• 1939 - 12th place
• 1947 - 8th place
• 1949 - 9th place
• 1950 - 7th place
• 1951 - 4th place Criterium Eurepéen
• 1952 - 5th place B-WM
• 1955 - 6th place B-WM
• 1956 - 3rd place B-WM
• 1961 - 6th place C-WM
• 1962 - did not take part
• 1963 - 6th place C-WM
• 1970 - 7th place C-WM
• 1971 - 8th place C-WM
• 1975 - 7th place C-WM
• 1977 - 6th place C-WM
• 1978 - 8th place C-WM
• 1987 - 8th place C-WM
• 1989 - 1st place D-WM
• 1990 - 8th place C-WM
• 1991 - 9th place C-WM
• 1992 - 5th place C1-WM
• 1993 - 8th place C-WM
• 1994 - 5th place C2-WM
• 1995 - 5th place C2-WM
• 1996 - 4th place D-WM
• 1997 - 8th place D-WM
• 1998 - 4th place D-WM
• 1999 - 4th place D-WM
• 2000 - 2nd place D-WM
• 2001 - 5th Division II, Group B
• 2002 - 2nd place Division II, Group A
• 2003 - 1st place Division II, Group B
• 2004 - 6th place Division I, Group B
• 2005 - 4th Division II, Group B
• 2006 - 3rd place Division II, Group A
• 2007 - 2nd place Division II, Group A
• 2008 - 2nd place Division II, Group A
• 2009 - 2nd place Division II, Group B
• 2010 - 3rd place Division II, Group A
• 2011 - 4th Division II, Group A
• 2012 - 1st Division II, Group B
• 2013 - 2nd place Division II, Group A.
• 2014 - 5th Division II, Group A
• 2015 - 2nd place Division II, Group A.
• 2016 - 3rd place Division II, Group A
• 2017 - 4th Division II, Group A
• 2018 - 5th place Division II, Group A.
• 2019 - 6th place Division II, Group A.

Web links

• Belgian Ice Hockey Federation (nl./frz.)