The Belarus men's national ice hockey team (; ) is the national ice hockey team that represents Belarus. The team is controlled by the Belarusian Ice Hockey Association. Belarus was ranked 14th in the world by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) as of the 2021 world ranking.

The team achieved their best result at the Winter Olympics in the quarterfinals of the 2002 Winter Olympics where they defeated Sweden and finished fourth. At the 2005 and 2006 World Championships their coach was Glen Hanlon, who led them to sixth place at the 2006 IIHF World Championship. He was succeeded by Curt Fraser, who led the team in 2007 and 2008. Hanlon returned to coach at the 2009 World Championships in Switzerland.

Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Ice Hockey Federation banned all Belarus national and club teams from its events indefinitely, and Hockey Canada banned Belarus from "participation in events held in Canada that do not fall under the IIHF's jurisdiction". Despite the ban, Belarus participated in the 2023 Channel One Cup, alongside Russia and Kazakhstan.

Tournament record

Olympic Games Games GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Place 1920–1988 Part of the 1992 Part of the 1994 Did not enter Nagano 1998 4 0 0 0 4 5 19 7th Salt Lake City 2002 6 1 0 0 5 13 39 4th 2006 Did not qualify Vancouver 2010 4 1 0 1 2 10 15 9th 2014–2022 Did not qualify 2026 Banned

World Championship Year Location Result1954 – 1991 As part of 1993 Minsk, Qualifying round for the Group C (3rd in Group 2) 1994 Poprad / Spišská Nová Ves, 22nd place (2nd in Group C1) 1995 Sofia, 21st place (1st in Group C1, promoted) 1996 Eindhoven, 15th place (3rd in Group B) 1997 Katowice / Sosnowiec, 13th place (1st in Group B, promoted) 1998 Zürich / Basel, 8th place 1999 Oslo / Lillehammer / Hamar, 9th place 2000 Saint Petersburg, 9th place 2001 Cologne / Hanover / Nuremberg, 14th place (relegated) 2002 Eindhoven, 17th place (1st in D1A, promoted) 2003 Helsinki / Tampere / Turku, 14th place (relegated) 2004 Oslo, 18th place (1st in D1A, promoted) 2005 Innsbruck / Vienna, 10th place 2006 Riga, 6th place 2007 Moscow / Mytishchi, 11th place 2008 Quebec City / Halifax, 9th place 2009 Bern / Kloten, 8th place 2010 Cologne / Mannheim / Gelsenkirchen, 10th place 2011 Bratislava / Košice, 14th place 2012 Helsinki / Stockholm, / 14th place 2013 Stockholm / Helsinki, / 14th place 2014 Minsk, 7th place 2015 Prague / Ostrava, 7th place 2016 Moscow / Saint Petersburg, 12th place 2017 Cologne / Paris, / 13th place 2018 Copenhagen / Herning, 15th place (relegated) 2019 Nur-Sultan, 18th place (2nd in Division IA, promoted) 2020 Zürich / Lausanne, Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic 2021 Riga, 15th place Expelled from IIHF World Championships since 2022 due to supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Team Current roster Roster for the 2021 IIHF World Championship.

Head coach: Mikhail Zakharov

No.Pos.NameHeightWeightBirthdateTeam 2 D Ilya Solovyov Dinamo Minsk 7 D Stepan Falkovsky Dinamo Minsk 8 D Ilya Shinkevich Dinamo Minsk 9 F Stanislav Lopachuk Yunost Minsk 10 D Nick Bailen Traktor Chelyabinsk 12 F Aliaksei Protas Hershey Bears 13 F Mikhail Stefanovich Donbass Donetsk 14 D Yevgeni Lisovets Salavat Yulaev Ufa 15 F Artem Demkov Dinamo Minsk 16 F Geoff Platt – A Salavat Yulaev Ufa 17 F Yegor Sharangovich – C Calgary Flames 18 D Kristian Khenkel – A Ak Bars Kazan 19 F Nikita Komarov Avangard Omsk 21 F Vladislav Kodola Severstal Cherepovets 22 F Francis Paré Dinamo Minsk 30 G Konstantin Shostak Severstal Cherepovets 31 G Danny Taylor Dinamo Minsk 40 G Aleksei Kolosov Dinamo Minsk 73 D Dmitri Znakharenko Dinamo Minsk 74 F Sergei Kostitsyn Bratislava Capitals 81 F Sergei Drozd Yunost Minsk 85 D Andrei Antonov Yunost Minsk 88 F German Nesterov HK Gomel 89 D Dmitry Korobov Salavat Yulaev Ufa 90 F Danila Klimovich Minskie Zubry 92 F Shane Prince Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 93 F Andrei Belevich Dinamo Minsk 94 D Vladislav Yeryomenko Dinamo Minsk

Retired numbers 24 – Ruslan Salei

All-time record . Opponent Played Won Drawn Lost GF GA GD 22 16 1 5 83 49 +34 1 1 0 0 10 0 +10 1 1 0 0 13 1 +12 19 1 1 17 27 111 -84 3 3 0 0 20 3 +17 17 1 0 16 21 72 −51 29 14 2 13 90 72 +18 3 3 0 0 31 4 +27 18 2 0 16 25 71 −46 32 22 1 9 101 59 +42 29 16 2 11 80 73 +7 6 4 0 2 32 17 +15 15 13 1 1 75 27 +48 6 5 0 1 22 10 +12 7 5 1 1 27 14 +13 24 19 1 4 88 48 +40 40 18 3 19 99 106 -7 4 4 0 0 35 7 +28 4 4 0 0 35 10 +25 39 23 4 12 114 91 +23 17 13 0 4 77 38 +39 1 1 0 0 5 3 +2 24 3 1 20 45 95 −50 37 12 1 24 72 107 -35 24 17 0 7 83 60 +23 3 2 0 1 19 10 +9 17 2 0 15 28 63 −35 40 13 1 26 77 119 -42 25 14 5 6 90 49 +41 9 1 0 8 18 42 −24Total 516 253 25 238 1 543 1 434 +109

Uniform evolution

References

External links

IIHF profile