Italian national U20 ice hockey team
Association | Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio |
Trainer | Erwin Kostner |
Assistant coach | Thomas Kostner |
Most games | Christian Timpone (27) |
Most of the points | Markus Brunner (30) |
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First international match Denmark 3-0 Italy Caen , France ; March 5th 1979 |
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Biggest win Italy 21: 1 Greece Belgrade , Yugoslavia ; December 30, 1990 |
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Biggest defeat Germany 15: 0 Italy Varese , Italy ; December 20, 1982 |
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World Championship | |
Participation | Since 1993 |
best result | 3rd B-WM ( 1993 ) |
(As of December 19, 2017) |
The Italian U20 national ice hockey team represents the Italian ice hockey federation in the U20 junior level in international competitions. Her best placement was a third place in the 1993 B World Championship .
history
The U20 national team of Italy was founded for the B-World Cup in 1979 , where they finished seventh and penultimate place. It was only possible to win 17: 2 against bottom Belgium . For more than a decade, this success was also the highest win for an Italian U20 team. 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 U20 national team of Italy has only represented the U20 junior level at world championships.
Since its inception, the Italian juniors have been mostly at home in the second performance level of their age group. At first it was the B World Championship. In 1983 the Italians had to relegate to the third-class C group for the first time, but were able to achieve immediate promotion in the following year at the home tournament in Varese despite a point loss against Spain . In addition to competition, a B selection of the Azzurri also took part in this tournament to complete the field of participants. But this team lost all of their games. In 1987 the Italians descended again into the C group. This time it was not until the World Cup in 1992 when the return to the B group was again successful at a home tournament. In 1998 and 1999 the team also had to compete in the third-class C group. After the changeover to the current division system in 2001, the southern Europeans played predominantly in the second-class division I. Only in 2008 they had to compete in the third-class division II, but were able to rise again immediately.
World Cup placements
- 1974–1978 - did not take part
- 1979 - B-WM; 7th place
- 1980 - B-WM; 6th place
- 1981 - B-WM; 7th place
- 1982 - B-WM; 6th place
- 1983 - B-WM; 8th place
- 1984 - C-WM; 1st place
- 1985 - B-WM; 6th place
- 1986 - B-WM; 7th place
- 1987 - B-WM; 8th place
- 1988 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1989 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1990 - C-WM; 3rd place
- 1991 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1992 - C-WM; 1st place
- 1993 - B-WM; 3rd place
- 1994 - B-WM; 5th place
- 1995 - B-WM; 8th place
- 1996 - B-WM; 6th place
- 1997 - B-WM; 8th place
- 1998 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1999 - C-WM; 1st place
- 2000 - B-WM; 6th place
- 2001 - Division I; 7th place
- 2002 - Division I; 8th place
- 2003 - Division I; 5th place
- 2004 - Division I; 4th Place
- 2005 - Division I; 5th place
- 2006 - Division I; 3rd place
- 2007 - Division I; 6th place
- 2008 - Division II; 1st place
- 2009 - Division I; 4th Place
- 2010 - Division I; 3rd place
- 2011 - Division I; 4th Place
- 2012 - Division IB; 3rd place
- 2013 - Division IB; 3rd place
- 2014 - Division IB; 1st place
- 2015 - Division IA; 4th Place
- 2016 - Division IA; 6th place
- 2017 - Division IB; 4th Place
- 2018 - Division IB; 5th place
- 2019 - Division IB; 4th Place
- 2020 - Division IB; 6th place
Web links
- Overview of international matches for the Italian U20 national team on nationalteamsoficehockey.com