French U20 national ice hockey team
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| Association | French Federation of Hockey on Ice |
| Trainer | Dany Gélinas |
| Assistant coach | Alexis billiards |
| Most games | Gregory Dubois (21) |
| Most of the points | Stephane Da Costa (23) |
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First international match France 3: 1 Austria Caen , France ; March 5th 1979 |
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Biggest win France 19: 0 Estonia Esbjerg , Denmark ; December 20, 2008 |
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Biggest defeat Canada 15-0 France Ottawa , Canada ; December 25, 2001 |
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| Participation | since 1979 |
| best result | 10th place ( 2002 ) |
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The French U20 national ice hockey team represents the French ice hockey federation in ice hockey at the U20 junior level in international competitions. At world championships she mainly plays in the second highest performance level (formerly B-World Championship, since 2001 Division I). The French only played in the top division at the 2002 World Cup .
history
The French U20 national ice hockey team started playing for the 1979 World Cup when they hosted the B World Cup tournament in Caen and only missed promotion to the A group due to a 4-5 defeat after penalty shoot-out in the final against Switzerland . Up to and including 1998, the U20 national team covered the entire junior area at the World Championships, while the U19 national team took part in the Junior European Championships. Since the introduction of the U18 World Championships in 1999 , the French U20 national team has only represented the U20 junior level at world championships.
Until the relegation to the C group in 1985, the team played consistently in the B group of the World Championships. In the following year, a 4: 3 win in the decisive game against Denmark won the home tournament in Gap and thus returned to the second division. The French played there until 2001, when they were tied for the first time through a 2-1 win in a direct comparison against the host German selection , where the team won the top division after a 0-1 tie breaker Belarus could not hold and therefore had to compete in the second-class Division I again from 2003. After only the last place in Division I was reached in 2010, for the first time in two and a half decades back into the third division. But the immediate return to the ancestral Division I succeeded again, in which the French have been on the ice again since 2012 and commute between the A and B groups.
World Cup placements
- 1979 : 2nd place, B-WM
- 1980 : 7th place, B-WM
- 1981 : 8th place, B-WM
- 1982 : 5th place, B-WM
- 1983 : 5th place, B-WM
- 1984 : 6th place, B-WM
- 1985 : 8th place, B-WM
- 1986 : 1st place, C-WM
- 1987 : 5th place, B-WM
- 1988 : 5th place, B-WM
- 1989 : 6th place, B-WM
- 1990 : 5th place, B-WM
- 1991 : 2nd place, B-WM
- 1992 : 4th place, B-WM
- 1993 : 5th place, B-WM
- 1994 : 3rd place, B-WM
- 1995 : 5th place, B-WM
- 1996 : 7th place, B-WM
- 1997 : 3rd place, B-WM
- 1998 : 6th place, B-WM
- 1999 : 7th place, B-WM
- 2000 : 3rd place, B-WM
- 2001 : 1st place, Div. I.
- 2002 : 10th place
- 2003 : 4th place, Div. I.
- 2004 : 3rd place, Div. I.
- 2005 : 4th place, Div. I.
- 2006 : 4th place, Div. I.
- 2007 : 4th place, Div. I.
- 2008 : 5th place, Div. I.
- 2009 : 3rd place, Div. I.
- 2010 : 6th place, Div. I.
- 2011 : 1st place, Div. II
- 2012 : 1st place, Div. IB
- 2013 : 6th place, Div. IA
- 2014 : 3rd place, Div. IB
- 2015 : 4th place, Div. IB
- 2016 : 1st place, Div. IB
- 2017 : 3rd place, Div. IA
- 2018 : 4th place, Div. IA
- 2019 : 6th place, Div. IA
- 2020 : 2nd place, Div. IB