The Mongolian national bandy team is controlled by the Bandy Federation of Mongolia. The team took part in its first

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in 2006. They won the 1st match against

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, but lost all subsequent games including the match for the 4th place in Group B against the

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. Mongolia thus was classified fifth in the B Group championship, ahead of only Estonia. In 2011, when bandy for men was on the programme at the

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, they chose only that tournament, where they finished 2nd, because of financial difficulties to participate in both. After that the team was not financed and didn't play for a few years, although it was chosen as the best Mongolian sport team of 2011. During the season of 2013-14 the team gathered again for the World Championship 2014, where they finished sixth (out of nine) in Division B. In the World Championship 2016 the team finished fourth out of ten in Division B after narrowly losing both the semi-final and third place match. In the World Championship 2017 the team again narrowly lost the semi-final. However, the third place match resulted in a victory after extra-time,The whole bronze game on YouTube
/ref> thus securing a Division B medal for the first time.

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FIB Country Profile

National bandy teams Bandy Bandy in Mongolia {{bandy-team-stub