Bulgarian national ice hockey team

Bulgaria
Association	Bulgarian Ice Hockey Federation
World ranking	39th place
Trainer	Daniel Cuomo
Assistant coach	Stanislav Kanchev
Most games	Malin Atanasov (143)
Most of the points	Stoyan Batschvarow (103)
statistics
First international match Bulgaria 4-2 Yugoslavia Bucharest , Romania ; January 17 , 1942
Biggest win Bulgaria 20-0 Turkey Pretoria , South Africa ; March 28 , 1998
Biggest defeat Kazakhstan 31: 0 Bulgaria Poprad , Slovakia ; March 25 , 1994
Olympic games
Participation	1976
Best result:	12th place
World Championship
Participation	since 1963
best result	14th place
(As of April 16, 2016)

The Bulgarian national ice hockey team ( Bulgarian Национален отбор по хокей на България ) occupied 40th place in the IIHF world rankings after the 2017 World Cup and entered Division III in 2018 .

history

Bulgarian national ice hockey team during the 2004 Olympic qualification in France

The greatest success of the national team was participation in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . After a 1:14 in the first round against Czechoslovakia and five more defeats in the placement round, the tournament ended in twelfth place and thus last.

Most recently, Bulgaria, which has been participating in IIHF World Championships since 1963, played at the 2016 Men's Ice Hockey World Championship in Group B of Division II, which was held in Mexico City . After defeats against North Korea (3: 9), Australia (0:14), Mexico (1:10), New Zealand (1:14) and Israel (3: 5), the Bulgarian national team finished the World Cup without points in last place. Thus, the team rose from promotion two years earlier back to Division III.

Only in four world championships (1970, 1976, 1992 and 1993) did the Bulgarian team take part in the then second-class B group. At all other world championships she played in lower levels of the respective class or division system.

Placements at world championships

season	competition	venue	placement	particularities
1962/63	WM	Stockholm , Sweden	19th place (4th C-WM)
1966/67	WM	Vienna , Austria	19th place (3rd C-WM)
1968/69	WM	Skopje , Yugoslavia	19th place (5th C-WM)	Promotion to B-WM
1969/70	WM	Bucharest , Romania	14th place (8th B-WM)	Relegation to C-WM
1970/71	WM	The Hague , Netherlands	19th place (5th C-WM)
1971/72	WM	Miercurea Ciuc , Romania	18th place (4th C-WM)
1972/73	WM	The Hague , Netherlands	18th place (4th C-WM)
1973/74	WM	Grenoble , France	17th place (3rd C-WM)
1974/75	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	16th place (2nd C-WM)	Promotion to B-WM
1975/76	WM	Aarau / Biel , Switzerland	16th place (8th B-WM)	Relegation to C-WM
1976/77	WM	Copenhagen , Denmark	20th place (3rd C-WM)
1977/78	WM	Las Palmas , Spain	21st place (5th C-WM)
1978/79	WM	Barcelona , Spain	22nd place (4th C-WM)
1980/81	WM	Beijing , People's Republic of China	22nd place (6th C-WM)
1981/82	WM	Jaca , Spain	22nd place (6th C-WM)
1982/83	WM	Budapest , Hungary	22nd place (6th C-WM)
1984/85	WM	Megève / Chamonix / St. Gervais , France	22nd place (6th C-WM)
1985/86	WM	Puigcerdà , Spain	19th place (3rd C-WM)
1986/87	WM	Copenhagen , Denmark	23rd place (7th C-WM)
1988/89	WM	Sydney , Australia	21st place (5th C-WM)
1989/90	WM	Budapest , Hungary	22nd place (6th C-WM)
1990/91	WM	Copenhagen , Denmark	20th place (4th C-WM)	Promotion to B-WM
1991/92	WM	Klagenfurt / Villach , Austria	17th place (5th B-WM)
1992/93	WM	Eindhoven , Netherlands	20th place (8th B-WM)	Relegation in C1-WM
1993/94	WM	Poprad / Spišská Nová Ves	27th place (7th C1-WM)
1994/95	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	29th place (9th C1-WM)	Relegation in D-WM
1995/96	WM	Kaunas / Elektrėnai , Lithuania	34th place (6th D-WM)
1996/97	WM	Canillo , Andorra	35th place (7th D-WM)
1997/98	WM	Krugersdorp / Pretoria , South Africa	33rd place (1st D-WM)	Promotion to C-WM
1998/99	WM	Eindhoven / Tilburg , Netherlands	31st place (7th C-WM)
1999/00	WM	Beijing , People's Republic of China	33rd place (9th C-WM)
2000/01	WM	Bucharest , Romania	35th place (4th Division II)
2001/02	WM	Novi Sad , Yugoslavia	35th place (4th Division II)
2002/03	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	34th place (3rd Division II)
2003/04	WM	Elektrėnai , Lithuania	36th place (4th Division II)
2004/05	WM	Zagreb , Croatia	35th place (4th Division II)
2005/06	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	32nd place (2nd Division II)
2006/07	WM	Zagreb , Croatia	37th place (5th Division II)
2007/08	WM	Miercurea Ciuc , Romania	38th place (5th Division II)
2008/09	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	36th place (4th Division II)
2009/10	WM	Mexico City , Mexico	35th place (4th Division II)
2010/11	WM	Zagreb , Croatia	38th place (5th Division II)
2011/12	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	37th place (3rd Division II, Group B)
2012/13	WM	İzmit , Turkey	40th place (6th Division II, Group B)	Relegation to Division III
2013/14	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	41st place (1st Division III)	Promotion to Division II
2014/15	WM	Cape Town , South Africa	38th place (4th Division II, Group B)
2015/16	WM	Mexico City , Mexico	40th place (6th Division II, Group B)	Relegation to Division III
2016/17	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	42nd place (2nd Division III)
2017/18	WM	Cape Town , South Africa	42nd place (2nd Division III)
2018/19	WM	Sofia , Bulgaria	41st place (1st Division III)	Promotion to Division IIB

Known players

• Konstantin Michailow , participant in 23 World Cup tournaments from 1989 to 2014
• Roman Morgunov
• Kiril Vasharov

Web links

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