The Croatian women's national ice hockey team represents Croatia at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships. The women's national team is controlled by Croatian Ice Hockey Federation. As of 2011, Croatia has 39 female players. Croatia is ranked 33rd in the IIHF World Ranking.
History Seeing that in Croatia (by status since January 2008) there is only one women's ice hockey club Grič its players are also the only members of the national team. From season 2006/2007 Grič players have been participating in the Slovenian league, along with one Slovenian and one Austrian club.
For several years they have also been participating in an Elite Women's Hockey League with clubs established in the hockey-playing countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Austria and Slovenia).
Tournament record Olympic Games
The women's team of Croatia has never qualified for an Olympic tournament. In 2008 the team participated in the qualifying tournament for the Winter Olympic Games 2010 in Vancouver. They lost to Slovakia, Latvia and Italy and beat Bulgaria. They won 4th place. At the 2014 qualifying tournament they lost to Spain, Hungary and Denmark and failed to qualify for the next round.
World Championships In 2007 the Croatian team was the first time involved in the World Championship competition. In the Division IV the team achieved a big surprise by winning the first place in Division IV and was promoted in the Division III.
+ Records Year World Championship 2007 Finished 28th (1st in Division IV and promoted to Division III) 2008 Finished 24th (3rd in Division III) 2009 Division III Cancelled2009 Women's Division III, IV and V all Cancelled, http://forums.internationalhockey.net/showthread.php?t=7423 2011 Finished 24th (5th in Division III) 2012 Finished 26th (6th in Division IIA and relegated to Division IIB) 2013 Finished 29th (3rd in Division IIB) 2014 Finished 27th (1st in Division IIB and promoted to Division IIA) 2015 Finished 25th (5th in Division IIA) 2016 Finished 26th (6th in Division IIA and relegated to Division IIB) 2017 Did not participate 2018 Finished 34th (1st in Division IIBQ and promoted to Division IIB) 2019 Finished 33rd (5th in Division IIB) 2020 Finished 33rd (5th in Division IIB) 2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2022 Finished 31st (5th in Division IIB) 2023 Finished 32nd (5th in Division IIB and relegated to Division IIIA) 2024 Finished 39th (5th in Division IIIA) 2025 Finished 37th (5th in Division IIIA) 2026 Finished 38th (4th in Division IIIA)
All-time Record against other nations As of 14 September 2011
Team GP W T L GF GA 2 2 0 0 5 1 4 2 0 2 10 20 1 1 0 0 30 1 1 1 0 0 19 1 1 1 0 0 12 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 4 8 1 0 0 1 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 8 1 0 0 1 0 9 1 0 0 1 0 9 1 0 0 1 0 18 3 0 0 3 6 18
References
External links
IIHF profile National Teams of Ice Hockey