Italy men's national ice hockey team
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| Nickname(s) | Gli Azzurri (The Blues) |
|---|---|
| Association | Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio |
| Head coach | Jukka Jalonen |
| Assistants | Fabio Armani Parry Pearn |
| Captain | Thomas Larkin |
| Most games | Lucio Topatigh (353) |
| Top scorer | Alberto Da Rin (123) |
| Most points | Bruno Zarrillo (187) |
| Team colors | |
| IIHF code | ITA |
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| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | 20  2 (27 May 2024)[1] |
| Highest IIHF | 13 (2007) |
| Lowest IIHF | 20 (2024) |
| First international | |
Italy  1–7  Sweden(Milan, Italy; 14 March 1924) | |
| Biggest win | |
Italy  28–0  Belgium(Düsseldorf, Germany; 1 March 1955) | |
| Biggest defeat | |
United States  31–1 Italy(St. Moritz, Switzerland; 1 February 1948) | |
| Olympics | |
| Appearances | 9 (first in 1936) |
| IIHF World Championships | |
| Appearances | 66 (first in 1930) |
| Best result | 4th (1953) |
| IIHF European Championships | |
| Appearances | 3 (first in 1924) |
| Best result | 4th (1929) |
| International record (W–L–T) | |
| 412–517–85 | |
The Italian men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Italy, and is controlled by the Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio (FISG), a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
Tournament record
[edit]Olympic Games
[edit]| Games | Head coach | Finish |
|---|---|---|
 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
Giampiero Medri |
9th place |
 1948 St. Moritz |
Othmar Delnon |
8th place |
| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo |
Bibi Torriani |
7th place |
 1964 Innsbruck |
 Slavomír Bartoň |
15th place |
 1984 Sarajevo |
 Ron Ivany |
9th place |
 1992 Albertville |
Gene Ubriaco |
12th place |
 1994 Lillehammer |
Bryan Lefley |
9th place |
 1998 Nagano |
Adolf Insam |
12th place |
| 2006 Turin |
Michel Goulet |
11th place |
| 2026 Milan and Cortina |
 (Jukka Jalonen) |
TBC |
World Championship
[edit]| Championship | Finish | Rank |
|---|---|---|
// 1930 Chamonix/Vienna/Berlin
|
First round | 10th |
| 1933 Prague
|
Consolation round | 11th |
| 1934 Milan
|
Consolation round | 9th |
| 1935 Davos
|
Consolation round | 7th |
| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
|
First round | 9th |
| 1939 Zürich/Basel
|
Consolation round | 9th |
| 1948 St. Moritz
|
Final Tournament | 8th |
| 1951 Paris
|
1st in the Pool B | 8th |
| 1952 Liege
|
3rd in the Pool B | 12th |
| 1953 Zürich/Basel
|
1st in the Pool B | 4th |
| 1955 Krefeld/Dortmund/Cologne
|
1st in the Pool B | 10th |
| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
|
Consolation round | 7th |
| 1959 Prague/Bratislava/Brno/Ostrava
|
Consolation round | 8th |
| 1961 Geneva/Lausanne
|
4th in the Pool B | 12th |
| 1964 Innsbruck
|
7th in the Pool B | 15th |
 1965
|
Qualifying round Group B | — |
| 1966 Jesenice
|
1st in the Pool C | 17th |
| 1967 Vienna
|
5th in the Pool B | 13th |
| 1969 Ljubljana
|
8th in the Pool B | 14th |
 1970 Galaţi
|
2nd in the Pool C | 16th |
| 1971 Bern/Geneva
|
8th in the Pool B | 14th |
| 1972 Miercurea-Ciuc
|
2nd in the Pool C | 15th |
| 1973 Graz
|
8th in the Pool B | 14th |
| 1974 Grenoble/Gap/Lyon
|
2nd in the Pool C | 16th |
 1975 Sapporo
|
7th in the Pool B | 13th |
| 1976 Aarau/Bienne
|
7th in the Pool B | 15th |
 1977 Copenhagen/Hørsholm
|
1st in the Pool C | 18th |
| 1978 Belgrade
|
7th in the Pool B | 15th |
 1979 Barcelona
|
2nd in the Pool C | 20th |
| 1981 Urtijëi
|
1st in the Pool B | 9th |
| 1982 Helsinki/Tampere
|
First round | 7th |
| 1983 Düsseldorf/Dortmund/Munich
|
Consolation round | 8th |
| 1985 Fribourg
|
3rd in the Pool B | 11th |
 1986 Eindhoven
|
2nd in the Pool B | 9th |
| 1987 Canazei
|
6th in the Pool B | 14th |
| 1989 Oslo/Lillehammer
|
2nd in the Pool B | 10th |
| 1990 Lyon/Megève
|
2nd in the Pool B | 10th |
| 1991 Ljubljana/Bled/Jesenice
|
1st in the Pool B | 9th |
| 1992 Prague/Bratislava
|
First round | 9th |
| 1993 Munich/Dortmund
|
Quarter-finals | 8th |
| 1994 Bolzano/Canazei/Milan
|
Quarter-finals | 6th |
| 1995 Stockholm
|
Quarter-finals | 7th |
| 1996 Vienna
|
Quarter-finals | 7th |
| 1997 Helsinki/Tampere/Turku
|
Consolation round | 8th |
| 1998 Zürich/Basel
|
Consolation round | 10th |
| 1999 Oslo/Hamar/Lillehammer
|
First round | 13th |
 2000 Saint Petersburg
|
Second round | 12th |
| 2001 Nuremberg/Cologne/Hanover
|
Second round | 12th |
| 2002 Gothenburg/Karlstad/Jönköping
|
Consolation round | 15th |
 2003 Zagreb
|
4th in Division I, Group B | 23rd |
 2004 Gdańsk
|
2nd in Division I, Group B | 19th |
| 2005 Eindhoven
|
1st in Division I, Group B | 18th |
 2006 Riga
|
Relegation round | 14th |
| 2007 Moscow
|
Qualifying round | 12th |
| 2008 Halifax/Quebec
|
Relegation round | 16th |
| 2009 Toruń
|
1st in Division I, Group B | 18th |
| 2010 Cologne/Mannheim/Gelsenkirchen
|
Relegation round | 15th |
| 2011 Budapest
|
1st in Division I, Group A | 18th |
| / 2012 Helsinki/Stockholm
|
Preliminary round | 15th |
| 2013 Budapest
|
2nd in Division I, Group A | 18th |
 2014 Minsk
|
Preliminary round | 15th |
| 2015 Kraków
|
5th in Division I, Group A | 21st |
| 2016 Katowice
|
2nd in Division I, Group A | 18th |
| / 2017 Cologne/Paris
|
Preliminary round | 16th |
| 2018 Budapest
|
2nd in Division I, Group A | 18th |
 2019 Bratislava/Košice
|
Preliminary round | 14th |
| 2020 Zürich/Lausanne
|
Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic[2] | – |
| 2021 Riga
|
Preliminary round | 16th |
| 2022 Helsinki/Tampere
|
Relegated | 15th |
 2023 Nottingham
|
3rd in Division I, Group A | 19th |
| 2024 Bolzano
|
3rd in Division I, Group A | 19th |
| 2025 Sfântu Gheorghe
|
Division I, Group A |
Thayer Tutt Trophy
[edit]European Championship
[edit]| Games | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Finish | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910–1923 | did not participate. | |||||||
| 1924 Milan
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | Group stage | 6th |
| 1925 Štrbské Pleso, Starý Smokvovec
|
did not participate | |||||||
| 1926 Davos
|
4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 26 | Consolation round | 8th |
| 1927 Wien
|
did not participate | |||||||
| 1929 Budapest
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | Third place match | 4th |
| 1932 Berlin
|
did not participate | |||||||
Uniform evolution
[edit]- National team jerseys
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1992 Olympic jersey -
1994 Olympic jersey -
1998-2002 IIHF jerseys -
2015–2019 IIHF jerseys -
2019– IIHF jerseys
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All-time record
[edit]- As of 12 December 2024.
| Opponent | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Australia |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 4 | +21 |
| Austria |
97 | 39 | 12 | 46 | 277 | 298 | -21 |
| Belarus |
6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 22 | -12 |
| Belgium |
8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 74 | 15 | +59 |
 Bulgaria |
10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 55 | 22 | +33 |
| Canada |
37 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 62 | 217 | -155 |
 China |
13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 73 | 26 | +47 |
| Croatia |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | +23 |
| Czech Republic |
9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 64 | -53 |
| Czechoslovakia |
6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 52 | -47 |
| Denmark |
30 | 13 | 3 | 14 | 118 | 96 | +22 |
 East Germany |
22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 75 | 121 | -46 |
 Estonia |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | −6 |
| Finland |
25 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 51 | 116 | −65 |
| France |
92 | 50 | 6 | 36 | 313 | 257 | +56 |
| Germany |
59 | 17 | 9 | 33 | 157 | 230 | -73 |
| Great Britain |
19 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 93 | 61 | +32 |
| Hungary |
49 | 24 | 6 | 19 | 165 | 143 | +22 |
| Japan |
35 | 23 | 2 | 10 | 132 | 92 | +40 |
 Kazakhstan |
25 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 47 | 71 | -24 |
| Latvia |
19 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 30 | 71 | -41 |
 Lithuania |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | +10 |
| Netherlands |
32 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 155 | 68 | +87 |
 North Korea |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 |
| Norway |
46 | 17 | 3 | 26 | 132 | 167 | -35 |
| Poland |
58 | 22 | 4 | 32 | 145 | 190 | -41 |
 Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | −5 |
| Romania |
27 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 114 | 90 | +24 |
| Russia |
15 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 17 | 84 | −67 |
 Serbia |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | +8 |
 Serbia and Montenegro |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | +13 |
| Slovakia |
18 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 42 | 77 | -35 |
 Slovenia |
59 | 24 | 6 | 29 | 126 | 148 | -22 |
 South Africa |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 2 | +33 |
 South Korea |
13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 19 | +53 |
 Soviet Union |
5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 63 | -55 |
 Spain |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 2 | +24 |
| Sweden |
24 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 31 | 166 | −135 |
| Switzerland |
67 | 16 | 5 | 46 | 168 | 306 | -138 |
 Ukraine |
12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 34 | 24 | +10 |
 United States |
20 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 38 | 130 | −92 |
| Yugoslavia |
34 | 19 | 3 | 12 | 149 | 135 | +14 |
| Total | 1 012 | 412 | 85 | 517 | 3 146 | 3 666 | -520 |
References
[edit]- ^ "IIHF Men's World Ranking". IIHF. 27 May 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ^ Steiss, Adam. "2020 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship cancelled". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
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