| Turkmenistan | |
| Badge: | Emblem of Turkmenistan.svg |
| Badge Size: | 180px |
| Association: | Turkmenistan Ice Hockey Federation |
| Coach: | Bayram Allayarov |
| Asst Coach: | Ilyas Veliyev |
| Captain: | Ahmet Gurbanov |
| Most Games: | four players (28) |
| Top Scorer: | Pavel Barkovsky (16) |
| Most Points: | Alexander Vahovsky (35) |
| Home Stadium: | Winter Sports Complex Ashgabat |
| Iihf Code: | TKM |
| Iihf Max: | 44 |
| Iihf Max Date: | 2021 |
| Iihf Min: | 49 |
| Iihf Min Date: | 2018 |
| First Game: | 9–2 (Sapporo, Japan; 18 February 2017) |
| Largest Win: | 24–2 (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 26 February 2018) |
| Largest Loss: | 13–3 (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; 14 March 2024) |
| World Champ Apps: | 5 |
| World Champ First: | 2018 |
| World Champ Best: | 39th (2022) |
| World Champ2 Name: | Asian Winter Games |
| World Champ2 Apps: | 1 |
| World Champ2 First: | 2017 |
| World Champ2 Best: | 11th (2017) |
| Record: | 17–10–0 |
The Turkmenistan national ice hockey team (tk|Türkmenistanyň milli buz hokkeý ýygyndysy) is the national men's ice hockey team of Turkmenistan. The team is controlled by the Turkmenistan Ice Hockey Federation (tk|Türkmenistanyň şaýbaly hokkeý federasiýasy; TŞHF) and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Turkmenistan is currently ranked 49th in the IIHF World Ranking and made its debut in the 2018 World Championship Division III Qualification tournament.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The first national team formed in 2011 of four teams from Ashgabat: Oguzkhan, Alp Arslan, Shir and Burgut.
In 2013, Turkmenistan held its first (unofficial) match against Minsk City, which was won by a score of 7–2.[5] [6]
Turkmenistan participated at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. They won their first match in an official tournament by defeating Malaysia 9–2 and later went on to win their division by defeating Kyrgyzstan 7–3 in the gold medal game.[7]
Turkmenistan made its World Championship debut in 2018, where it played in Division III Qualificaiton tournament in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[8] They won all three games and earned promotion to Division III for 2019.
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.[9]
During visit to Ashgabat Russian retired ice hockey player Sergei Nemchinov 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.
| width=30 | Year | width=150 | Host | width=120 | Result | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| As part of the | |||||||||||||||
| Did not enter | |||||||||||||||
| 47th place | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 43rd place | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[10] | |||||||||||||||
| Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[11] | |||||||||||||||
| 39th place | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 42nd place | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 44th place | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Total | 5/5 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |||||||||
| width=30 | Year | width=150 | Host | width=120 | Result | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11th place | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Total | 1/1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
Last match update: 16 March 2024[12]
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| width=192 | Team | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | ||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 2 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 14 | ||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 13 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 14 | ||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 16 | ||||||||
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 11 | ||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 10 | ||||||||
| Total | 27 | 17 | 0 | 10 | 180 | 109 |