The Ukrainian national ice hockey team () is the national men's

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team of

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, and is controlled by the

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, and a member of the

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(IIHF). Ukraine is currently ranked 27th in the world by the IIHF as of the 2020

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, while their highest IIHF ranking is 11th. As part of the

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, Ukraine played internationally from 1954 to 1991, and made their international debut as an independent country in 1992. Ukraine has played at the

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once, in

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. The team's top finish was at the 2002 World Championships when they finished in ninth place. Following the 2007 World Championship, Ukraine was relegated to Division I.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

– Finished in 10th place

World Championship

* 1954–1991 – ''Participated as part of the

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'' *

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

– Finished in 18th place (2nd in Pool C) *

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

– Finished in 23rd place (3rd in Pool C1) *

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

– Finished in 23rd place (3rd in Pool C1) *

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

– Finished in 22nd place (2nd in Pool C) *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

– Finished in 21st place (1st in Pool C, promoted to Pool B) *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

– Finished in 17th place (1st in Pool B, promoted to Pool A) *

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

– Finished in 14th place *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

– Finished in 14th place *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

– Finished in 10th place *

– Finished in 9th place *

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

– Finished in 12th place *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

– Finished in 14th place *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

– Finished in 11th place *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

– Finished in 12th place *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

– Finished in 16th place (relegated to Division I) *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

– Finished in 19th place (2nd in Division I Group B) *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

– Finished in 20th place (2nd in Division I Group B) *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

– Finished in 19th place (2nd in Division I Group A) *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

– Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I Group B) *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

– Finished in 22nd place (6th in Division I Group A, relegated to Division I Group B) *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

– Finished in 23rd place (1st in Division I Group B, promoted to Division I Group A) *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

– Finished in 20th place (4th in Division I Group A) *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

– Finished in 22nd place (6th in Division I Group A, relegated to Division I Group B) *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

– Finished in 23rd place (1st in Division I Group B, promoted to Division I Group A) *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

– Finished in 22nd place (6th in Division I Group A, relegated to Division I Group B) *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

– Finished in 26th place (4th in Division I Group B) *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

– Finished in 27th place (5th in Division I Group B) *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

– Cancelled due to the

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– Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic *

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

– Finished in 24th place (3rd in Division I Group B) *

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

– Finished in 24th place (2nd in Division I Group B) *

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

– Finished in 23rd place (1st in Division I Group B, promoted to Division I Group A) *

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

– Finished in 19th place (3rd in Division I Group A) *

2026 Predicted and scheduled events * January 1 – Bulgaria is expected to adopt the euro and become the 21st member state of the eurozone. * January 6 – The 2025 Jubilee will end on this day. * February 5 – The New START Treat ...

– (Division I Group A)

Coaches

* Oleksandr Fadeiev (1993–1994) * Anatoliy Bohdanov (1994–2003) * Oleksandr Seukand (2004–2007) * Vladimir Golubovych (2007–2008) * Oleksandr Seukand (2009) *

Mikhail Zakharov Mikhail Nikolayevich Zakharov () (5 November 1912 – 19 February 1978) was an officer of the Soviet Navy. He saw action in the Second World War and rose to the rank of admiral. Born in Saint Petersburg, in the Russian Empire in 1912, Zakha ...

(2009–2010) * Dave Lewis (2010–2011) * Anatoliy Khomenko (2011–2012) * Oleksandr Kulikov (2012–2013) *

Andrei Nazarov Andrei Viktorovich Nazarov (; born May 22, 1974) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player and head coach of HC Sochi of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has formerly managed the Kazakh team Barys Astana (of the Kontinental Hoc ...

(2013–2014) * / Oleksandr Hodyniuk (2014–15) * Oleksandr Savytskyi (2015–2018) * Andriy Sryubko (2018–2019) * / Sergei Viter (2019–2020) * Vadym Shakhraychuk (2021–2023) * Dmitri Khristich (2023–present)

All-time record

Overtime and game winning shot victories and losses are counted towards wins and losses. Teams in ''italics'' are no longer actively competing. . Source:

Gallery

File:Kostyantyn_Symchuk.jpg, Kostiantyn Simchuk File:Andriy_Mikhnov.jpg, Andriy Mikhnov File:Mykola Ladygin.jpg, Mykola Ladygin File:Oleksandr Pobyedonostsev.jpg, Oleksandr Pobyedonostsev File:Dmytro Tsyrul.jpg, Dmytro Tsyrul File:Dmytro Tolkunov.jpg, Dmytro Tolkunov File:Vitaliy Lytvynenko.jpg, Vitaliy Lytvynenko File:Andriy Mikhnov and Vadym Shakhraychuk.jpg, Andriy Mikhnov and Vadym Shakhraychuk File:20231109 UKR SLO-123.jpg, Igor Merezhko File:Ukraine vs. Hungary at 2017 IIHF World Championship Division I 13 (Bokhdan Dyachenko).jpg, Bogdan Dyachenko

References

External links

* (in Ukrainian)
IIHF profile

National Teams of Ice Hockey
{{National sports teams of Ukraine * National ice hockey teams in Europe Men's national ice hockey teams