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Nickname(s) | Bisons (Зубры /Zubry) |
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Association | Belarusian Ice Hockey Association |
Head coach | Craig Woodcroft |
Assistants | Dmitri Karpikov Mikhail Kravets Vladimir Vorobiev |
Captain | Yegor Sharangovich |
Most games | Oleg Romanov (193) |
Top scorer | Oleg Antonenko (52) |
Most points | Alexei Kalyuzhny (125) |
Team colors | |
IIHF code | BLR |
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Ranking | |
Current IIHF | NR (26 May 2025)[1] |
Highest IIHF | 8 (2009) |
Lowest IIHF | 16 (2024–2025) |
First international | |
Ukraine ![]() ![]() (Minsk,Belarus; 7 November 1992) | |
Biggest win | |
Belarus ![]() ![]() (Riga,Latvia; 30 August 1996) | |
Biggest defeat | |
Finland ![]() ![]() (Mikkeli,Finland; 7 April 1997) Canada ![]() ![]() (Lloydminster,Canada; 19 March 1998) Canada ![]() ![]() (Prague,Czech Republic; 14 May 2015) | |
Olympics | |
Appearances | 3 (first in1998) |
IIHF World Championships | |
Appearances | 27 (first in1994) |
Best result | 6th (2006) |
International record (W–L–T) | |
253–238–25 |
TheBelarusian men's national ice hockey team (Belarusian:Зборная Беларусі па хакеі з шайбай;Russian:Сборная Беларуси по хоккею с шайбой) is the nationalice hockey team that representsBelarus. The team is controlled by theBelarusian Ice Hockey Association. Belarus was ranked 14th in the world by theIIHF as of the 2021World Ranking.
The team achieved their best result at theWinter Olympics in the quarter-finals of the2002 Winter Olympics where they beatSweden and ultimately finished fourth. At the2005 and2006 World Championships their coach wasGlen Hanlon, who brought their best-ever result in the IIHF World Championship – 6th place in 2006. He was succeeded byCurt Fraser, who led the team in2007 and2008. Hanlon returned to coach the team for the2009 World Championships in Switzerland.
Due to theRussian invasion of Ukraine, theInternational Ice Hockey Federation banned all Belarusian national and club teams from its events indefinitely, andHockey Canada banned Belarus's "participation in events held in Canada that do not fall under the IIHF’s jurisdiction."[2][3][4] In April 2022, the Federation banned Belarus from participating in the2023 IIHF World Championship.[5] Despite the ban, the team participated in the 2023Channel One Cup, alongsideRussia andKazakhstan.[6]
Games | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | Place |
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1920–1988 | Part of the![]() | |||||||
1992 | Part of the![]() | |||||||
1994 | Did not enter | |||||||
![]() | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 7th |
![]() | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 39 | 4th |
2006 | Did not qualify | |||||||
![]() | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 9th |
2014–2022 | Did not qualify | |||||||
2026 | Banned |
Roster for the2021 IIHF World Championship.[12]
Head coach:Mikhail Zakharov[13]
No. | Pos. | Name | Height | Weight | Birthdate | Team |
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2 | D | Ilya Solovyov | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | 90 kg (200 lb) | (2000-07-20)20 July 2000 (age 25) | ![]() |
7 | D | Stepan Falkovsky | 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) | 112 kg (247 lb) | (1996-12-18)18 December 1996 (age 28) | ![]() |
8 | D | Ilya Shinkevich | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | 85 kg (187 lb) | (1989-09-01)1 September 1989 (age 35) | ![]() |
9 | F | Stanislav Lopachuk | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | 78 kg (172 lb) | (1992-02-16)16 February 1992 (age 33) | ![]() |
10 | D | Nick Bailen | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | 81 kg (179 lb) | (1989-12-12)12 December 1989 (age 35) | ![]() |
12 | F | Aliaksei Protas | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | 97 kg (214 lb) | (2001-01-06)6 January 2001 (age 24) | ![]() |
13 | F | Mikhail Stefanovich | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | 95 kg (209 lb) | (1989-11-27)27 November 1989 (age 35) | ![]() |
14 | D | Yevgeni Lisovets | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | 86 kg (190 lb) | (1994-11-12)12 November 1994 (age 30) | ![]() |
15 | F | Artem Demkov | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | 80 kg (180 lb) | (1989-09-26)26 September 1989 (age 35) | ![]() |
16 | F | Geoff Platt –A | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | 80 kg (180 lb) | (1985-07-10)10 July 1985 (age 40) | ![]() |
17 | F | Yegor Sharangovich –C | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | 92 kg (203 lb) | (1998-06-06)6 June 1998 (age 27) | ![]() |
18 | D | Kristian Khenkel –A | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | 88 kg (194 lb) | (1995-11-07)7 November 1995 (age 29) | ![]() |
19 | F | Nikita Komarov | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | 92 kg (203 lb) | (1988-06-28)28 June 1988 (age 37) | ![]() |
21 | F | Vladislav Kodola | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | 80 kg (180 lb) | (1996-10-30)30 October 1996 (age 28) | ![]() |
22 | F | Francis Paré | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | 86 kg (190 lb) | (1987-06-30)30 June 1987 (age 38) | ![]() |
30 | G | Konstantin Shostak | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | 81 kg (179 lb) | (2000-03-28)28 March 2000 (age 25) | ![]() |
31 | G | Danny Taylor | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | 85 kg (187 lb) | (1986-04-28)28 April 1986 (age 39) | ![]() |
40 | G | Alexei Kolosov | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | 85 kg (187 lb) | (2002-01-04)4 January 2002 (age 23) | ![]() |
73 | D | Dmitri Znakharenko | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | 91 kg (201 lb) | (1993-08-04)4 August 1993 (age 31) | ![]() |
74 | F | Sergei Kostitsyn | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 88 kg (194 lb) | (1987-03-20)20 March 1987 (age 38) | ![]() |
81 | F | Sergei Drozd | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | 79 kg (174 lb) | (1990-04-14)14 April 1990 (age 35) | ![]() |
85 | D | Andrei Antonov | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | 85 kg (187 lb) | (1985-04-27)27 April 1985 (age 40) | ![]() |
88 | F | German Nesterov | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | 95 kg (209 lb) | (1991-08-31)31 August 1991 (age 33) | ![]() |
89 | D | Dmitry Korobov | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | 108 kg (238 lb) | (1989-03-12)12 March 1989 (age 36) | ![]() |
90 | F | Danila Klimovich | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | 85 kg (187 lb) | (2003-01-09)9 January 2003 (age 22) | ![]() |
92 | F | Shane Prince | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | 85 kg (187 lb) | (1992-11-16)16 November 1992 (age 32) | ![]() |
93 | F | Andrei Belevich | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | 95 kg (209 lb) | (1997-08-27)27 August 1997 (age 27) | ![]() |
94 | D | Vladislav Yeryomenko | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | 90 kg (200 lb) | (1999-04-23)23 April 1999 (age 26) | ![]() |
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 | −24 |
Total | 516 | 253 | 25 | 238 | 1 543 | 1 434 | +109 |