Irish men's national hockey team

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The Irish national hockey team is the team that represents Ireland (the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland ) in international tournaments. It belongs to the Irish Hockey Association .

National team flag

Ireland was able to qualify twice for the World Hockey Championship . In 1978 and 1990 the tournament ended in 12th place.

The Olympic Games 1908 in London ended for the Irish team to the silver medal. Since Ireland was not yet independent, the silver medal was assigned to Great Britain . Great Britain reached places 1–4 in this way (place 1: England , places 3/4: Wales and Scotland ); Only the German and French teams had started.

The Irish national team has not been able to qualify for the Olympic tournament since independence. At the qualifying tournament in New Zealand in 2008, the team was able to complete the group stage level on points with Argentina and New Zealand, but lost the playoff game for third place against France.

In addition, the Irish were able to book a first place in the qualifying tournament for the European men's field hockey championship in 2003 in Dublin . They finished the EM in 9th place. Ireland is the current record winner of the Celtic Cup with five titles .

Ireland currently ranks 12th in the world - and 6th in the European ranking.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/hockey/7236311.stm "BBC Sport report on failure to qualify for the Final" (February 27, 2008), BBC report on qualifying tournament
  2. ↑ EHF archive  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 41 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eurohockey.org  
  3. ↑ www.eurohockey.org ( Memento of March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ FIH Men's and Women's Hero World Ranking. FIH , accessed July 26, 2016 .

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