North Macedonia men's national ice hockey team explained

North Macedonia
Badge:	Macedonia Ice Hockey Team Logo.png
Badge Size:	133px
Association:	Macedonian Ice Hockey Federation
General Manager:	Nikola Tasev
Coach:	Gjorgi Grchev
Home Stadium:	Boris Trajkovski Hockey Arena
Iihf Code:	MKD
Largest Win:	9–3
Regional Name:	Development Cup
Regional Cup Apps:	1
Regional Cup First:	2018
Regional Cup Best:	1st (2018)
Record:	6–1–0
Jerseys:

North Macedonia's ice hockey team (Macedonian: Хокејарска репрезентација на Македонија; Hokejarska reprezentacija na Makedonija) is the national men's ice hockey team of North Macedonia. They are controlled by the Macedonian Ice Hockey Federation and has been an associate member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) since 4 October 2001.

History

Macedonia played its first unofficial game on 27 March 2011 against Red Star Sofia of Bulgaria in Skopje. They went on to lose the game 4–1.^[1] On 20 December 2014, Macedonia played two exhibition games against the Bulgarian U20 national team in Skopje. They lost the first game 6–5 in overtime and won the second game 4–3 following a shootout, recording the team's first ever win.^[2] Macedonia have still never entered in any IIHF World Championship tournaments. On 20 January 2018, Macedonia made its international debut and played two exhibition games against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo over the weekend. They won the first game 8–7 and lost the second game 7–6 in overtime a day later.^[3]

Tournament record

European Championship

Within, federal team 1939-(11),1964-(11),1968-(7)

• after 1991 Didn't Held

Olympic Games

Within, federal team1964-(14),1968-(9),1972-(11),1976-(10),1980-p,o(3rd),1984-(11),1988-p,o(5th)

• 1996-2022 Didn't Enter

World Championships

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1930 through 1992 Pool C and B		Within federal team
		Did not enter
Total		0/0	–	–	–	–	–

Development Cup

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2017		Did not participate
2018		1st place	5	5	0	0	0
Total		1/2	5	5	0	0	0

All-time record against other nations

Last match update: 21 November 2018^[4]

Key

	Positive balance (more Wins)
	Neutral balance (Wins = Losses)
	Negative balance (more Losses)

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	2	2	0	0	15	7
	2	1	0	1	14	14
	1	1	0	0	9	6
	2	2	0	0	14	7
Total	7	6	0	1	52	34

All-time record against other clubs

Last match update: 21 December 2014

Key

	Positive balance (more Wins)
	Neutral balance (Wins = Losses)
	Negative balance (more Losses)

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	2	1	0	1	9	9
	1	0	0	1	1	4
Total	3	1	0	2	10	13

External links

• IIHF profile
• National Teams of Ice Hockey profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: Macedonian Hockey team opened a new page in the history . National Teams of Ice Hockey . 29 March 2011 . 4 April 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110312051224/http://www.nationalteamsoficehockey.com/news.html . 12 March 2011 . dead .
2. Web site: Exhibition Games . National Teams of Ice Hockey . 24 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141226134222/http://www.nationalteamsoficehockey.com/Exhibition_Games.html . 26 December 2014 . dead .
3. Web site: Macedonia wins and loses in OT in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Eurohockey.com. 22 January 2018. 21 January 2018.
4. Web site: Macedonia All Time Results . National Teams of Ice Hockey . 2018-01-21 .