The Turkmenistan national ice hockey team ( tk, Türkmenistanyň milli buz hokkeý ýygyndysy) is the national men's

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team of

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

. The team is controlled by the

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( tk, Türkmenistanyň şaýbaly hokkeý federasiýasy; TŞHF) and a member of the

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(IIHF). Turkmenistan is currently ranked 49th in the

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and made its debut in the 2018 World Championship Division III Qualification tournament.

History

The first national team formed in 2011 of four teams from

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: Oguzkhan, Alp Arslan, Shir and Burgut. In 2013, Turkmenistan held its first (unofficial) match against

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City, which was won by a score of 7–2. Turkmenistan participated at the

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. They won their first match in an official tournament by defeating

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9–2 and later went on to win their division by defeating

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7–3 in the gold medal game. Turkmenistan made its

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debut in 2018, where it played in Division III Qualificaiton tournament in

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. They won all three games and earned promotion to Division III for

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. In April 2019, Turkmenistan making their debut in the 2019 IIHF World Championship Division III in Sofia (Bulgaria) and took third place among six teams in group, achieving a historic result. During visit to

Russian retired ice hockey player

Sergei Nemchinov Sergei Lvovich Nemchinov (russian: link=no, Серге́й Львович Немчинов; born 14 January 1964) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Van ...

from 30 August to 7 September 2019 conducted intensive training with the Turkmenistan men's national ice hockey team. Then he entered the coaching staff of the national team of Turkmenistan and has already drawn up a plan for preparing Turkmen hockey players for the 2020 IIHF World Championship Division III Group A.

Tournament record

World Championships

Asian Winter Games

List of head coaches

* Rustam Kerimov 2013–2016 * Bayram Allayarov 2016–

All-time record

''Last match update: 23 April 2023''

References

External links

IIHF profileNational Teams of Ice Hockey profile
{{Men's national ice hockey teams National ice hockey teams in Asia