Polish national ice hockey team
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| Association | Polski Związek Hokeja na Lodzie |
| IIHF member | since 22 |
| Most games | Henryk Gruth (292) |
| Most of the points | Leszek Laszkiewicz (150) |
| Homepage | pzhl.org.pl |
| Olympic games | |
| Participation | 13, since 1928 |
| Best result: | 4th place (1932) |
| World Championship | |
| Participation | 62, since 1930 |
| best result | 4th place (1931) |
| (As of April 26, 2015) | |
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The Polish men's national ice hockey team is ranked 20th in the IIHF world rankings after the 2017 World Cup . The current trainer is Ted Nolan .
At the men's ice hockey world championship in 2007 , the team in Group A of Division I, which was held in Qiqihar (China), finished second behind France and narrowly missed promotion to the A world championship. In the following years, too, the Polish team did not make it to the A-World Cup, in which they last played in 2002.
The best placement of a Polish team at world championships was fourth place at the ice hockey world championship in 1931 . In the 1970s, the team repeatedly belonged to the then only six or eight teams in the A-World Cup. In preparation for the annual world championships, the national team regularly takes part in tournaments of the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge .
Placements
Olympic games
- 1920/24: did not take part
- 1928 : 9th place
- 1932 : 6th place
- 1936 : 9th place
- 1948 : 6th place
- 1952 : 6th place
- 1956 : 5th place
- 1960: did not take part
- 1964 : 9th place
- 1968: waived
- 1972 : 6th place
- 1976 : 6th place
- 1980 : 7th place
- 1984 : 8th place
- 1988 : 11th place
- 1992 : 11th place
- 1994–2018: not qualified
- Qualifying tournaments
- 1994 : Qualification 3rd, overall ranking 14th
- 1998 : pre-qualification, 2nd group B
- 2002 : First qualifying round, 2nd Group 3, overall ranking 19th
- 2006 : Second qualifying round, 4th Group B, overall ranking 20th
- 2010 : First qualifying round, 2nd Group D, overall ranking 24th
- 2014 : First qualifying round, 2nd Group H, overall ranking 23rd
- 2018 : Second qualifying round, 4th Group D, overall ranking 20th
World championships
- 1928 : 9th place
- 1930 : 5th place
- 1931 : 4th place
- 1932 : 6th place
- 1933 : 7th place
- 1934: did not take part
- 1935 : 10th place
- 1936 : 6th place
- 1937 : 8th place
- 1938 : 9th place
- 1939 : 6th place
- 1947 : 6th place
- 1948 : 7th place
- 1949–51: did not take part
- 1952 : 6th place
- 1953/54: did not take part
- 1955 : 7th place
- 1956 : 6th place
- 1957 : 6th place
- 1958 : 8th place
- 1959 : 9th place
- 1960: did not take part
- 1961 : 5th B-WM (13th place)
- 1962: did not take part
- 1963 : 4th B-WM (12th place)
- 1964 : 9th place
- 1965 : 1st B-WM (9th place)
- 1966 : 8th place
- 1967 : 1st B-WM (9th place)
- 1968: did not take part
- 1969 : 2nd B-WM (8th place)
- 1970 : 6th place
- 1971 : 2nd B-WM (8th place)
- 1972 : 1st B-WM (7th place)
- 1973 : 5th place
- 1974 : 5th place
- 1975 : 5th place
- 1976 : 7th place
- 1977 : 2nd B-WM (10th place)
- 1978 : 1st B-WM (9th place)
- 1979 : 8th place
- 1981 : 2nd B-WM (10th place)
- 1982 : 3rd B-WM (11th place)
- 1983 : 2nd B-WM (10th place)
- 1985 : 1st B-WM (9th place)
- 1986 : 8th place
- 1987 : 1st B-WM (9th place)
- 1989 : 8th place
- 1990 : 6th B-WM (14th place)
- 1991 : 4th B-WM (12th place)
- 1992 : 12th place
- 1993 : 2nd B-WM (14th place)
- 1994 : 3rd B-WM (15th place)
- 1995 : 3rd B-WM (15th place)
- 1996 : 5th B-WM (17th place)
- 1997 : 5th B-WM (17th place)
- 1998 : 7th B-WM (23rd place)
- 1999 : 7th B-WM (23rd place)
- 2000 : 4th B-WM (20th place)
- 2001 : 1st place Div. I, Gr.A (18th place)
- 2002 : 14th place
- 2003 : 2nd place Div. I, Gr.A (19th place)
- 2004 : 3rd place Div. I, Gr.B (21st place)
- 2005 : 2nd place Div. I, Gr.A (19th place)
- 2006 : 3rd place Div. I, Gr.B (21st place)
- 2007 : 2nd place Div. I, Gr.A (20th place)
- 2008 : 3rd place Div. I, Gr.A (22nd place)
- 2009 : 4th place Div. I, Gr.B (23rd place)
- 2010 : 3rd place Div. I, Gr.B (22nd place)
- 2011 : 4th place Div. I, Gr.B (23rd place)
- 2012 : 2nd place Division IB (24th place)
- 2013 : 2nd place Division IB (24th place)
- 2014 : 1st place Division IB (23rd place)
- 2015 : 3rd place Division IA (19th place)
- 2016 : 3rd place Division IA (19th place)
- 2017 : 4th Division IA (20th place)
- 2018 : 6th place Division IA (22nd place)
- 2019 : 2nd place Division IB (24th place)
