Spanish women's national ice hockey team

Spain
Association	Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo
IIHF member	since 1923
World ranking	26th place
Trainer	Christian Yngve
Assistant coach	Koldo Saenz
Most games	Vanesa Abrisqueta (51)
Most of the points	Ainhoa ​​Merino (50)
Homepage	fedhielo.com
statistics
First international match Spain 1: 3 Belgium Cergy , France ; May 22, 2009
Biggest win Spain 14-0 Ireland Sofia , Bulgaria ; March 19, 2011
Biggest defeat Spain 1: 7 Hungary Barcelona , Spain ; October 14, 2012
World Championship
Participation	8 (first 2011 )
best result	28th place ( 2018 )
(As of March 24, 2018)

The Spanish women's national ice hockey team is Spain's national ice hockey selection . It is subject to the Spanish ice sports association Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo . She played her first game against another team from the IIHF on May 22, 2009. The first World Cup participation took place in 2011 .

history

The Spanish women's national ice hockey team made its debut at an international tournament in Cergy , France , when the team lost the opening game against a selection from Bavaria 1:10 on May 21, 2009 . The team celebrated their first victory on the same day with a 4-0 win against Lady Panthers Grefrath . The first international match took place in the course of the tournament on May 22nd against Belgium and ended with a 1: 3 defeat. The Spaniards celebrated their debut at the World Championships in 2011 , where they finished second behind Poland in Division V in Sofia . Due to the cancellation of several teams, they played in the higher Division II B the following year , but were able to establish themselves quickly. After an opening defeat against the later promoted Poland, the Iberians won the encounters against South Africa , Belgium, Iceland and hosts South Korea to ultimately take second place in the group.

Placements

Total placement in brackets

year	venue	division	placement	comment
2011	Sofia	Division V	2. (33.)
2012	Seoul	Division II B	2. (28.)
2013	Puigcerdà	Division II B	2. (28.)
2014	Reykjavík	Division II B	3. (29.)
2015	Jaca	Division II B	3. (29.)
2016	Jaca	Division II B	2. (28.)
2017	Akureyri	Division II B	2. (28.)
2018	Valdemoro	Division II B	1. (28.)	Promotion to Division II A.
2019	Dumfries	Division II A	3. (25.)

Web links

• Official website of the Spanish Ice Sports Federation (Spanish and English)
• Spain on the side of the IIHF (English)
• All games on nationalteamsoficehockey.com (English; PDF; 282 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 16eme tournoi international de hockey sur glace féminin Edition 2009 from May 21 to May 24, 2009. Archived from the original on May 20, 2013 ; Retrieved September 26, 2010 (French). 
2. ↑ Buenas vibraciones con the debut del hielo femenino en Cergy. In: fedhielo.com . August 24, 2009, archived from the original on February 18, 2012 ; Retrieved September 26, 2010 (Spanish).