The Ice Hockey Federation of Yugoslavia (

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: ''Savez hokeja na ledu Jugoslavije'', Slovene: ''Hokejska Zveza Jugoslavije'') was the governing body of

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

History

In 1911, the

Kingdom of Serbia The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Princi ...

joined the

IIHF The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; french: Fédération internationale de hockey sur glace; german: Internationale Eishockey-Föderation) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 83 m ...

at the fourth LIHG Congress in Berlin. After

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and the formation of

Winter Sports Federation of Yugoslavia was formed in

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with its ice hockey department. Yugoslav Skating Federation (''Jugoslavenski klizački savez'') was then formed in

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in 1935 and joined the LIHG in 1939. After

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, the Skating and Ice Hockey Federation of Yugoslavia was formed in 1949. It was transformed to Ice and Roller Skating Federation in 1956 and finally split to Skating Federation and Ice Hockey Federation in 1974. It was dissolved with the

breakup of Yugoslavia The breakup of Yugoslavia occurred as a result of a series of political upheavals and conflicts during the early 1990s. After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

. Since 1939 and until 1991, it organized the

Yugoslav Ice Hockey League The Yugoslav Ice Hockey League was the top ice hockey league in the old Yugoslavia. In 1939, Yugoslavia became a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. That year also, the country held its first national championship, with Ilirija e ...

Successor federations

Ice Hockey Federation of Slovenia The Ice Hockey Federation of Slovenia ( sl, Hokejska zveza Slovenije, HZS) is the governing body of ice hockey in Slovenia. Slovenia was one of ten nations to join the International Ice Hockey Federation on May 6, 1992, the largest number of nati ...

Croatian Ice Hockey Federation The Croatian Ice Hockey Federation ( hr, Hrvatski savez hokeja na ledu, HSHL) is the governing body of ice hockey in Croatia. The Croatian Ice Hockey Federation was established on November 9, 1935 in Zagreb. It has been a member of IIHF since May ...

Serbian Ice Hockey Association The Serbian Ice Hockey Association ( Serbian ''Savez hokeja na ledu Srbije'', ''Савез хокеја на леду Србије'') is the governing body and member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) that oversees ice hockey in Ser ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Ice Hockey Federation The Ice Hockey Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HSBiH) ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Hokejaški savez Bosne i Hercegovine; Хокејашки савез Босне и Херцеговине) is the governing body of ice hockey in Bosnia ...

Macedonian Ice Hockey Federation The Macedonian Ice Hockey Federation ( mk, Хокеј Федерација на Македонија; ''Hokej Federacija na Makedonija'') is the governing body of ice hockey in North Macedonia. References External links Official website {{IIHF ...

References

Ice Hockey at Proleksis {{Sports governing bodies in Yugoslavia Ice hockey in Yugoslavia YUG National members of the International Ice Hockey Federation Sports governing bodies in Yugoslavia