Estonian national bandy team competed for the first time during the first period of

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n independence, in the

interwar years In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days), the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War. The interwar period was relativel ...

1918–1940. Estonia played six international friendlies against

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

between 1923 and 1934, losing them all. Estonia got occupied by the Soviet Union in 1944 and regained its independence in 1991. The modern

Estonian Bandy Association Estonian Bandy Association (Estonian: ''Eesti Jääpalliliit'' and find info web: "estbandy") is the governing body for the sport of bandy in Estonia. It has its office in Kurtna, Harju County and became a member of the Federation of Internati ...

was founded in 2001 and joined the

Federation of International Bandy The Federation of International Bandy (FIB; french: Fédération internationale de bandy, russian: Международная федерация хоккея с мячом, sv, Internationella Bandyförbundet) is the international governing bo ...

in 2002. The re-established national bandy team participated in the annual

Bandy World Championship The Bandy World Championship is a competition between bandy-playing nations' men's teams. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup, a club competition, and from the Wome ...

for the first time in 2003. Estonia won the

Davos Cup The Davos Cup was a bandy tournament held in 2016 for national teams from continental Europe. History In January 2016 the Federation of International Bandy together with the Federation of Swiss Bandy arranged a tournament in Davos. Due to recent ...

in 2016 but was disqualified from the

2016 Bandy World Championship Bandy World Championship 2016, the XXXVI Bandy World Championship, was held with Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, as host region. Most of the games was played at the Volga-Sport-Arena in Ulyanovsk. Because of its higher spectator capacity, the group sta ...

World Championship record

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National bandy teams

Bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

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