This is a list of men's national ice hockey teams in the world. There are fewer than 100 national

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teams in total, with teams representing UN member states, as well as several dependent territories, sub-national entities and states who are not members of the United Nations.

Current national ice hockey teams

This section lists the current: * 82 men's national ice hockey teams who are members of the

International Ice Hockey Federation 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 ...

(IIHF), including 60 full members, 21 associate members and one affiliate member. * 5 men's national ice hockey teams who are not members of the IIHF.

IIHF Full Members

IIHF Full Members are nations that regularly participate in the IIHF-sanctioned

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. Teams are ranked in the

IIHF World Ranking The IIHF World Ranking is a ranking of the performance of the national ice hockey teams of member countries of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It is based on a formula giving points for each team's placings at IIHF-sanctioned tour ...

based on their performance over the past four years. * *⮝ * Azerbaijan* *¹ * * * *⮝🏆 * * * *⮝ *⮝ * *⮝🥇 *⮝ * *⮝ * * *⮝ * *² * *³ * * * *⮝ * * *⮝ * * * * * * * * *⮝ * * * *🥈¹ * * *⮝🥉 *⮝ * * * *⮝ *⮝ * * * * * *⮝ The current participants in the

2023 IIHF World Championship The 2023 IIHF World Championship will be co-hosted by Tampere, Finland and Riga, Latvia. The tournament is scheduled to be held from 12 to 28 May 2023, and will be organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Host nation bid The ...

Top Division are marked by ⮝.
The current holder of the

is marked by 🏆.
The current medalists of the 2022 Winter Olympics are marked by 🥇🥈🥉.
1. Russia and Belarus were suspended by the IIHF on 28 February 2022 due to their invasion of Ukraine.
2. India has only participated in the

IIHF Asia and Oceania Championship The IIHF Asia and Oceania Championship (formally the IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia) are a series of international ice hockey tournaments in the continent of Asia. The purpose of the tournament is to provide competitive opportunities for Asian and Oc ...

, but has not yet entered the World Championships.
3. Ireland has participated in the World Championships in the past, but currently not doing so.
* Nation is still a member of the IIHF, but does not have a national team.

IIHF Associate and Affiliate Members

IIHF Associate Members either do not have their own independent ice hockey association or have one, but do not meet the minimum participation standards for the IIHF World Championships. Teams in this category generally compete in events outside the IIHF World Championship structure; such as the Development Cup, the Asia and Oceania Championship (formerly the Challenge Cup of Asia), the

Asian Winter Games The Asian Winter Games (AWG) is an international multi-sport event held every four years for members of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) which features winter events. The Japanese Olympic Committee first suggested the idea of holding a winter ...

, or the Amerigol LATAM Cup.

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

is an IIHF Affiliate Member, a unique category for nations that only participated in the now-defunct IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...

and

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

used to be members of the IIHF, but left the organization without ever having formed a national ice hockey team. * * * *² * * (affiliate member) * *² *¹ * * * * * * Nepal* * * * * * * * 1. Indonesia made its World Championships debut in 2023.
2. Armenia and Greece have participated in the World Championships in the past, but currently not doing so.
* Nation is still a member of the IIHF, but does not have a national team.

Non-IIHF Members

The following countries are not members of the IIHF, but do have national ice hockey teams that have played at least one official international game. * * * * *

Former national ice hockey teams

The following national ice hockey teams have ceased to exist. * * Bohemia * * ( Unified Team) * *

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

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Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; cs, Protektorát Čechy a Morava; its territory was called by the Nazis ("the rest of Czechia"). was a partially annexed territory of Nazi Germany established on 16 March 1939 following the German oc ...

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West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

Multinational teams

Exhibition teams representing multiple countries in Europe and North America have participated in the

2016 World Cup of Hockey The 2016 World Cup of Hockey (abbreviated WCH2016) was an international ice hockey tournament. It was the third installment of the National Hockey League (NHL)-sanctioned competition, 12 years after the second World Cup of Hockey in 2004. It was ...

. *

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

* North America

References

External links

International Ice Hockey Federation
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