Turkish national ice hockey team
Association | Turkish Ice Hockey Federation |
World ranking | 33rd place |
Trainer | Çağrı Karabulut |
Assistant coach | Olcay Lökbaş, Sevilay Kesteloğlu |
Most games |
Elif Ulaş (14) Nilay Gunay (14) |
Most of the points | Seda Demir (8) |
statistics | |
First international match Romania 27: 0 Turkey Miercurea-Ciuc , Romania ; March 26, 2007 |
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Biggest win Turkey 11: 3 Bulgaria Hong Kong ; February 18, 2015 |
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Biggest defeat Romania 27-0 Turkey Miercurea-Ciuc , Romania ; March 26, 2007 |
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World Championship | |
Participation | since 2007 |
best result | 6th place Division IV ( 2007 , 2008 ) |
(As of November 26, 2015) |
The Turkish national ice hockey team for women is the national team of Turkey in women's ice hockey . In April 2015, the team was 33rd and fourth from bottom of the IIHF world rankings .
history
At the 2007 World Cup , the team made its debut in Division IV, the fifth World Cup level, and finished sixth and last. In the following year , the Turkish women again took sixth place in Division IV. Since only the first three divisions were played at the 2009 World Cup and there was no ice hockey world championship in the 2010 Olympic year, Turkey played again at the 2011 World Cup for the first time in three years World Cup game. Since they had finished the previous two World Championships in last place in Division IV, the national team entered the newly formed Division V. In this, the Turkish women won only one of their four games and finished fourth and penultimate place.
Placements at world championships
- 2007 - 6th place Division IV
- 2008 - 6th place Division IV
- 2011 - 4th place Division V.
- 2012 - no participation
- 2013 - 1st place qualification for Division IIB
- 2014 - 6th place Division IIB
- 2015 - 1st place qualification for Division IIB
- 2016 - 6th place Division IIB
- 2017 - 5th place Division IIB
- 2018 - 5th place Division IIB
- 2019 - 4th Division IIB
- 2020 - 4th place Division IIB
Web links
- Official website of the Turkish Ice Hockey Federation
- Overview of international matches for Turkey (PDF; 82 kB) on nationalteamsoficehockey.com