Romania | |
Badge: | Coat of arms of Romania.svg |
Badge Size: | 115px |
Nickname: | Tricolori (Three Colors) |
Association: | Romanian Ice Hockey Federation |
General Manager: | Attila Nagy |
Coach: | Dave MacQueen |
Asst Coach: | Attila Góga Krisztián Tódor |
Captain: | Roberto Gliga |
Most Games: | Doru Tureanu (113) |
Top Scorer: | Doru Tureanu (74) |
Most Points: | Doru Tureanu (112) |
Iihf Code: | ROU |
Iihf Max: | 23 |
Iihf Max Date: | 2022, 2023–24 |
Iihf Min: | 29 |
Iihf Min Date: | 2016–18 |
First Game: | 15–0 (Krynica, Poland; 2 February 1931) |
Largest Win: | 52–1 (Geel or Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium; 19 March 1989) |
Largest Loss: | 23–1 (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 17 February 1947) |
World Champ Apps: | 55 |
World Champ First: | 1931 |
World Champ Best: | 7th (1947) |
Olympic Apps: | 4 |
Olympic First: | 1964 |
Record: | 332–379–57 |
The Romanian men's national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey of Romania, and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. They are currently ranked 27th in the 2019 IIHF World Rankings and currently compete in Division IA. They have competed in four Olympic ice hockey competitions, the most recent being in 1980.
Romania started Olympic hockey in 1964 in the B division. In the tournament, the team finished 12th out of 16 teams and managed 3 wins against Austria, Italy, and Hungary also with a tie against Yugoslavia.
In 1968, Romania lost its qualification match against West Germany 7–0 and was forced to compete in the B division again. In the first two games, Romania beat Austria 3–2 and the Host, France 7–3. They lost their next three games and finished 12th out of 14 in the standings.
After skipping the 1972 competition, Romania returned for the 1976 tournament. This time Romania played Poland in the Qualification round and lost 7–4, keeping them in the B division once again. However, Romania battled back and won 4 of 5 games with only one loss against Yugoslavia, still winning the division. The team finished 7th out of 12.
In 1980, Romania was able to play with the top teams and was put into the Blue Division group, along with tough opponents such as Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and USA. In the first game Romania was down 4–2 to West Germany, but managed to score 4 goals to beat the former bronze medallists 6–4. In their next game Romania got shut out by Sweden 8–0. The Swedes scored 3 goals in the first period which left Romania out of it. After a lopsided loss to Czechoslovakia (7–2) the team then took on USA. The US jumped out to a 2–0 lead in the first period and added two more to it to lead 4–1 after two periods. Unlike other teams that the US had faced, the Romanians fought strong in the third period, despite being outshot 15–3, and scored a goal. The final score was 7–2. Romania played Norway for their final game, who had lost all four of their past games and had no chance to advance to the Medal Round. Romania fell behind less than a minute into the game, but stormed back to take the lead 3–1 in the third period. The Norwegian team battled back though, and scored once with a minute and a half left to play, and scored once more to tie it with only 29 seconds left. This tie still gave Romania one point but they had been hoping for a win. They finished the tournament with a 1–3–1 record, and were ranked 8th out of 12, just beating the Netherlands, West Germany, Norway, and Japan. This was the last time that the Romanians competed in the Olympic tournaments.
Games | GP | W | OW | T | OL | L | GF | GA | Coach | Captain | Finish | Rank | |
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![]() | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 28 | - | - | Consolation round (Group B) | 12th | |
![]() | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 23 | - | - | Consolation round (Group B) | 12th | |
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![]() | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 15 | - | - | Consolation round | 7th | |
![]() | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 29 | - | - | First round | 8th | |
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Division | Championship | Coach | Captain | Finish | Rank | |
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C | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 4th in Group C | |
C | ![]() | – | – | Promoted | 3rd in Group C | |
B | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 6th in Group B | |
B | 1993 Eindhoven | – | – | Group stage | 6th in Group B | |
B | 1994 Copenhagen | – | – | Group stage | 7th in Group B | |
B | ![]() | – | – | relegated | 8th in Group B | |
C | 1996 Jesenice | – | – | Group stage | 6th in Group C | |
C | ![]() | – | – | Consolation | 25th | |
C | ![]() | – | – | Final Round | 26th | |
C | 1999 Eindhoven | – | – | Final Round | 26th | |
C | ![]() | – | – | Consolation | 30th | |
Division II | 2001 Bucharest | – | – | Promoted | 1st in Group B | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 5th in Group B | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 5th in Group A | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 5th in Group B | |
Division I | 2005 Eindhoven | – | – | relegated | 6th in Group B | |
Division II | 2006 Sofia | – | – | Promoted | 1st in Group A | |
Division I | 2007 Ljubljana | – | – | relegated | 6th in Group A | |
Division II | 2008 Miercurea Ciuc | – | – | Promoted | 1st in Group A | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 6th in Group B | |
Division II | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 2nd in Group B | |
Division II | 2011 Zagreb | – | – | Promoted | 1st in Group B | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 4th in Group B | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 4th in Group B | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | relegated | 6th in Group B | |
Division II | ![]() | – | – | Promoted | 1st in Group A | |
Division I | 2016 Zagreb | – | – | relegated | 6th in Group B | |
Division II | ![]() | – | – | Promoted | 1st in Group A | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 5th in Group B | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Promoted | 1st in Group B | |
Division I | 2020 Ljubljana | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[1] | ||||
Division I | 2021 Ljubljana | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[2] | ||||
Division I | 2022 Ljubljana | – | – | Group stage | 6th in Group A | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 5th in Group A | |
Division I | ![]() | – | – | Group stage | 4th in Group A | |
Division I | 2025 Sfântu Gheorghe | – | – | in Group A |
Updated as of 5 May 2023.[3] Teams in italics are defunct.
Opponent | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | GF | GA | GD | |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | +10 | ||
29 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 104 | 130 | –26 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | –2 | ||
15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 133 | 24 | +109 | ||
40 | 34 | 2 | 4 | 249 | 91 | +158 | ||
4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 29 | –26 | ||
23 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 131 | 68 | +63 | ||
13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 52 | 41 | +11 | ||
8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 78 | –72 | ||
20 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 80 | 75 | +5 | ||
43 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 91 | 264 | –173 | ||
12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 50 | 43 | +7 | ||
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 27 | –11 | ||
28 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 139 | 114 | +25 | ||
21 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 57 | 100 | –43 | ||
25 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 59 | 131 | –72 | ||
68 | 39 | 5 | 24 | 290 | 239 | +51 | ||
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 10 | +15 | ||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 1 | +42 | ||
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 2 | +53 | ||
27 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 91 | 114 | –23 | ||
30 | 11 | 2 | 17 | 109 | 138 | –29 | ||
6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 30 | –19 | ||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 2 | +16 | ||
8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 49 | –42 | ||
16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 56 | 59 | –3 | ||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | +19 | ||
29 | 13 | 2 | 14 | 113 | 93 | +20 | ||
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 14 | +37 | ||
31 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 112 | 134 | –22 | ||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 2 | +64 | ||
62 | 7 | 5 | 50 | 106 | 390 | –284 | ||
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 6 | +18 | ||
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 11 | +36 | ||
7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 53 | –46 | ||
8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 48 | –42 | ||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 3 | +30 | ||
11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 53 | 39 | +14 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18 | –17 | ||
10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 12 | +74 | ||
5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 35 | –31 | ||
38 | 13 | 3 | 22 | 121 | 187 | –66 | ||
20 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 20 | 116 | –96 | ||
11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 21 | 85 | –64 | ||
58 | 30 | 15 | 13 | 254 | 208 | +46 | ||
Total | 768 | 332 | 57 | 379 | 3 037 | 3 323 | –286 |