Portuguese national ice hockey team
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| Association | Federação Portuguesa de Desportos no Gelo |
| Olympic games | |
| Participation | no |
| World Championship | |
| Participation | no |
| (As of January 29, 2011) | |
The Portuguese national ice hockey team represents the Federação Portuguesa de Desportos no Gelo , the ice sports association of Portugal , in ice hockey on an international level.
history
After Portugal joined the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1999 , efforts were made to found a national ice hockey team as well as a national inline hockey team . For this reason, the Federação Portuguesa de Desportos no Gelo organized a tournament in June 2000 in cooperation with the Canadian Embassy in Portugal, during which the Portuguese national team - mainly consisting of inline hockey players and Portuguese emigrated to Canada - their first three test matches against one Selection of Canada, which was composed of members of the First Portuguese Canadian Cultural Center from Toronto - contested.
Subsequently, the national team played only a few more games, although there are always efforts to reactivate the national team more strongly, as there is a very large Portuguese community in the USA, but especially in Canada, the motherland of ice hockey . The rare games include the two friendlies in Elvas , southern Portugal , in which the Portuguese defeated a reserve team from the Czech national ice hockey team 6: 4 and 6: 2 in January 2015 .
In 2017 Portugal competed in the newly founded Development Cup and finished third out of four teams. In the second edition of the tournament, Portugal lost to Macedonia in the final .
IIHF Development Cup
Web links
- Entry of the Portuguese national ice hockey team on www.nationalteamsoficehockey.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ fp-dg.com, Torneio Portugal-Canada de Hóquei no Gelo - Taça Viseu 2000 ( Memento from April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hóquei no gelo: Portugal venceu República Checa em Elvas - "Ice hockey: Portugal defeated the Czech Republic in Elvas" , article from January 12, 2015 in the news portal ElvasNews , accessed on August 12, 2017
- ↑ http://nationalteamsoficehockey.com/andorra-national-team-will-debut-at-the-1st-edition-of-2017-development-cup/