Macau national ice hockey team
|
|
|
|---|---|
|
|
| Association | Associação Geral de Desportos sobre o Gelo de Macau |
| IIHF member | since 2005 |
| World ranking | Space - |
| Homepage | http://www.moisf.org/index.html |
| statistics | |
|
First international game Hong Kong 30: 1 Macau January 6, 2003 in Hong Kong |
|
|
Biggest win Macau 9-1 India February 24, 2014 in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan |
|
|
Biggest defeat Republic of China 30-0 Macau March 15, 2015 in Taipei , Taiwan |
|
| Olympic games | |
| Participation | no |
| World Championship | |
| Participation | no |
| (Status: 2017) | |
The Macau men's national ice hockey team is part of the Associação Geral de Desportos sobre o Gelo de Macau , the Macau ice sports association. The current coach is Chen Zhipeng .
history
The Macau national ice hockey team first participated in an official tournament in 2007 when they took part in the Winter Asian Games in Changchun , China , where they finished eleventh and last. The following year Macau was again last with a sixth place in the newly founded IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia , in which they also participated in 2009. After the national selection in their preliminary group with three defeats and 1:24 goals were last behind the teams from the United Arab Emirates , Hong Kong and Singapore , they had to enter the placement round for places five to eight. There they lost 4-1 to Mongolia , before Macau achieved their first ever official international win with a clear 8-0 win over newcomer India . The team suffered their biggest defeat to date at the Challenge Cup of Asia in 2015 , when they suffered a 30-minute loss against hosts and tournament winners Taiwan in the top division in which Macau competed for the first time .
Placements
Winter Asian Games
IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia
- 2008 - 6th place
- 2009 - 7th place
- 2010 - 8th place
- 2011 - 5th place
- 2012 - 7th place
- 2013 - 8th place
- 2014 - 7th place (1st place Division I)
- 2015 - 5th place
- 2016 - 8th place (3rd place Division I)
- 2017 - 9th place (4th place Division I)
- 2018 - 7th place (2nd place Division I)
- 2019 - 6th place