The Kyrgyzstan national ice hockey team (Kyrgyz:
Кыргызстандын улуттук
шайбалуу хоккей курамасы;
Russian: Сборная Киргизии по
хоккею с шайбой) is the national
ice hockey team of Kyrgyzstan.
They are controlled by the Ice Hockey Federation
of the Kyrgyz Republic and has been an associate
member of the International Ice Hockey Federation
(IIHF).
Kyrgyzstan is currently not ranked in the
IIHF World Ranking and have not entered in
any World Championship tournaments or at any
Olympic Games, but have played in the Challenge
Cup of Asia, a regional tournament for lower-tier
hockey nations in Asia.
The IIHF announced that Kyrgyzstan will make
its World Championship debut in 2019.
== History ==
Kyrgyzstan played its first game in 1962 during
the Winter Spartakiad which was held in Sverdlovsk,
USSR, in which they represented the Kirghiz
Soviet Socialist Republic.
Kyrgyzstan played seven games, winning both
games against the Armenian SSR and losing
five to the Ukrainian SSR, the Estonian SSR,
the Latvian SSR, the Georgian SSR and the
Lithuanian SSR respectively.
Kyrgyzstan returned to international play
in 2011 where they competed in the Premier
Division of the 2011 Asian Winter Games.
In the first game of the tournament, Kyrgyzstan
recorded their first ever win, defeating Thailand
15–4.
Kyrgyzstan went on to win the Premier Division
after winning all six of their games and finishing
on top of the table.
== Tournament record ==
=== Asian Winter Games ===
=== Challenge Cup of Asia ===
== Roster ==
Roster for the 2016 IIHF Challenge Cup of
Asia – Division I.
== All-time record against other nations ==
Last match update: 26 February 2017
