The

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men's national ice hockey team was the national

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team of

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, and competed from 1920 until 1992. The successor to the Bohemia national ice hockey team, which was a European power prior to

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, the Czechoslovak national team first appeared at the 1920 Summer Olympics, two years after the creation of the state. In the 1940s, they established themselves as the best team in Europe, becoming the first team from the continent to win two World Championships (1947 and 1949). After the arrival of the

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on the international hockey scene in the 1950s, the Czechoslovaks regularly fought Sweden and

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for silver and bronze medals, and sometimes beat the Soviets. In total, they won the gold medal six times. Due to the split of the country

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into the

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and

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, the team was replaced in 1993 with the

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and the Slovak national teams. The

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(IIHF) recognized the Czech national team as a successor of Czechoslovakia national team and kept it in the top group, while the Slovak national team was entered into the lowest level, Pool C, winning promotion in successive years to join the elite division in 1996.

Notable events

*First game: 24 April 1920, Antwerp: 15–0 *Last game: 19 December 1992,

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: 7–2 *Largest victory: **3 February 1939,

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: 24–0 **21 February 1947,

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: 24–0 **25 April 1951, East Berlin: 27–3 **4 March 1957,

: 25–1 *Largest defeat: 28 January 1924,

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: 30–0 *Plane crash on 8 November 1948. Six players on the way to an exhibition tour in the UK were killed in the crash of a charter flight from Paris to London.

Notable players

* Mike Buckna * Ladislav Troják * Ján Starší *

Jaroslav Drobný Jaroslav Drobný (; 12 October 1921 – 13 September 2001) was a World No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, w ...

* Vladimír Dzurilla *

Jozef Golonka Jozef Golonka (born 6 January 1938) is a Czechoslovak former ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga and was a member of the Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team. He won a bronze medal in the 1964 Winter Olympic ...

Dominik Hašek Dominik Hašek (, ; born January 29, 1965) is a Czech former ice hockey goaltender who mostly played for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Widely regarded as one of the best goaltenders of all time, Hašek also played for ...

Ivan Hlinka Ivan Hlinka (January 26, 1950 – August 16, 2004) was a Czech professional ice hockey player and coach. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in Czech ice hockey history. A big centre, his playing style was comparable to Phil ...

Jiří Holeček Jiří Holeček (born March 18, 1944) is a Czech professional ice hockey coach and former player. Holeček played in the Czechoslovak Elite League from 1964 to 1979, and on the Czechoslovak national team for many years. After joining the milit ...

* Jan Hrdina * František Kaberle Sr. *

Karel Koželuh Karel Koželuh (; hu, Kozeluh Károly ; 7 March 1895 – 27 April 1950) was a Czech tennis, association football, and ice hockey player of the 1920s and 1930s. Koželuh became a European ice hockey champion in 1925 and was one of the top-ranked ...

Igor Liba Igor Liba (born November 4, 1960, in Prešov, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey player, who played on the 1992 Bronze Medal-winning Olympic Hockey team for Czechoslovakia, and lives in Košice, Slovakia. Igor Liba was ...

Vincent Lukáč Vincent Lukáč (born 14 February 1954 in Košice) is a former professional Slovak ice hockey player, coach and politician. He was a player of HC Košice (''the most successful player in history of the team'' - 14 seasons, 518 games, 393 goa ...

Josef Maleček Josef "Pepa, Pepi, Joe" Maleček (18 June 1903 – 26 September 1982) was a very successful Czechoslovak ice hockey player during the period between World Wars. He was born in Prague and died in Bayport, New York, United States. In 1924 he part ...

Vladimír Martinec Vladimír Martinec (born December 22, 1949) is a Czech retired ice hockey right wing who played both nationally and internationally in the 1970s and early 1980s. He won the Golden Hockey Stick award as top player in Czechoslovakia four times, i ...

Václav Nedomanský Václav Nedomanský (born 14 March 1944) is a Czech former ice hockey forward. Nedomanský is best known as the first Czech hockey player to defect to North America to play. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019. He is also a me ...

* Milan Nový * Dušan Pašek *Jan Peka *

František Pospíšil František Pospíšil (born April 2, 1944) is a Czech former ice hockey defenceman and coach. He played in the Czechoslovak Elite League for Poldi Kladno from 1961 to 1978, then in Germany for EV Landshut in 1978–79. He won the Golden Hoc ...

* Jaroslav Pouzar *

Dárius Rusnák Dárius Rusnák (born December 2, 1959) is a retired Slovak professional ice hockey forward who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga for HC Slovan Bratislava. He was a member of the Czechoslovak 1981 Canada Cup team and was a silver medalist at ...

Vladimír Růžička Vladimír Růžička (; born 6 June 1963) is a Czech ice hockey coach and former professional player. Růžička was twice named the top player in the Czechoslovak Elite League, and was on the gold medal team in the Ice Hockey World Championship ...

* Marián Šťastný * Peter Šťastný *

Jan Suchý Jan Suchý (10 October 1944 – 24 August 2021) was a Czech ice hockey player. He played for the Czechoslovakia men's national team at the Ice Hockey World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame ...

* František Tikal

Former National jerseys

Czechoslovakia national hockey team jerseys (with COA)

Czechoslovakia national hockey team jerseys (1988)

Olympic record

Canada Cup record

European Championship record

World Championship record

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Czechoslovakia National Ice Hockey Team Former national ice hockey teams in Europe Men's sport in Czechoslovakia

Notable events

Notable players

Former National jerseys

Olympic record

Canada Cup record

European Championship record

World Championship record

See also

References