Bulgaria men's national ice hockey team

Bulgaria

Association	Bulgaria Ice Hockey Federation
General Manager	Tsvetan Mihaylov
Head coach	Daniel Cuomo
Assistants	Stanislav Kanchev
Captain	Martin Boyadjiev
Most games	Malin Atanasov (143)
Most points	Stoyan Batchvarov (103)
IIHF code	BUL
IIHF ranking	39
Highest IIHF ranking	30 (first in 2003)
Lowest IIHF ranking	39 (first in 2014)
Team colors
First international
Bulgaria 4–2 Yugoslavia  (Bucharest, Romania; 17 January 1942)
Biggest win
Bulgaria 20–0 Turkey  (Pretoria, South Africa; 28 March 1998)
Biggest defeat
Kazakhstan 31–0 Bulgaria  (Poprad or Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia; 25 March 1994)  Ukraine 31–0 Bulgaria  (Poprad or Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia; 26 March 1994)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	41 (first in 1963)
Best result	14th (1970)
Olympics
Appearances	1 (first in 1976)
International record (W–L–T)
135–252–23

The Bulgarian men's national ice hockey team is ranked 39th as of the 2015 IIHF World Ranking and competes in Division IIB at the Ice Hockey World Championships.

The team has participated once at the Olympic Games. This happened in Innsbruck in 1976, when Bulgaria lost to the Czechoslovak team 1-14 in the first round. After a few more losses the team finished last in the tournament.

Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, hosted the games of Division II, Group B of the 2009 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. Bulgaria's opponents at the tournament were Belgium, Mexico, Spain, South Africa and South Korea. In 2011 Bulgaria was also in Division II, with Croatia, Romania, China, Ireland and Iceland.

Historically, the team has played in the second highest level four times, with their highest placement being 14th in 1970. However the only year that they ever earned promotion (by placing 1st or 2nd in Pool C) was in 1975, which also qualified them for the 1976 Olympics. The only year that they won any games in Pool B was 1992 (at that time it was contested between nations ranked 13th to 20th), defeating Japan, China, and Yugoslavia.

World Championship record

• 1963 – Finished in 19th place (4th in "Pool C")
• 1967 – Finished in 19th place (3rd in "Pool C")
• 1969 – Finished in 19th place (5th in "Pool C")
• 1970 – Finished in 14th place (8th in "Pool B")
• 1971 – Finished in 19th place (5th in "Pool C")
• 1972 – Finished in 17th place (4th in "Pool C")
• 1973 – Finished in 18th place (4th in "Pool C")
• 1974 – Finished in 17th place (3rd in "Pool C")
• 1975 – Finished in 16th place (2nd in "Pool C")
• 1976 – Finished in 16th place (8th in "Pool B")
• 1977 – Finished in 20th place (3rd in "Pool C")
• 1978 – Finished in 21st place (5th in "Pool C")
• 1979 – Finished in 22nd place (4th in "Pool C")
• 1981 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in "Pool C")
• 1982 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in "Pool C")
• 1983 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in "Pool C")
• 1985 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in "Pool C")
• 1986 – Finished in 19th place (3rd in "Pool C")
• 1987 – Finished in 23rd place (7th in "Pool C")
• 1989 – Finished in 21st place (5th in "Pool C")
• 1990 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in "Pool C")
• 1991 – Finished in 20th place (4th in "Pool C")
• 1992 – Finished in 17th place (5th in "Pool B")
• 1993 – Finished in 20th place (8th in "Pool B")
• 1994 – Finished in 27th place (7th in "Pool C1")
• 1995 – Finished in 29th place (9th in "Pool C1")
• 1996 – Finished in 34th place (6th in "Pool D")
• 1997 – Finished in 35th place (7th in "Pool D")
• 1998 – Finished in 33rd place (Won "Pool D")
• 1999 – Finished in 32nd place (8th in "Pool C")
• 2000 – Finished in 33rd place (9th in "Pool C")
• 2001 – Finished in 35th place (4th in "Division II, Group B")
• 2002 – Finished in 35th place (4th in "Division II, Group B")
• 2003 – Finished in 34th place (3rd in "Division II, Group B")
• 2004 – Finished in 36th place (4th in "Division II, Group B")
• 2005 – Finished in 35th place (4th in "Division II, Group A")
• 2006 – Finished in 32nd place (2nd in "Division II, Group A")
• 2007 – Finished in 38th place (5th in "Division II, Group A")
• 2008 – Finished in 38th place (5th in "Division II, Group A")
• 2009 – Finished in 36th place (4th in "Division II, Group B")
• 2010 – Finished in 35th place (4th in "Division II, Group A")
• 2011 – Finished in 38th place (5th in "Division II, Group B")
• 2012 – Finished in 37th place (3rd in "Division II, Group B")
• 2013 – Finished in 40th place (6th in "Division II, Group B")
• 2014 – Finished in 41st place (1st in "Division III")
• 2015 – Finished in 38th place (4th in "Division II, Group B")
• 2016 – Finished in 40th place (6th in "Division II, Group B")

Roster

From the 2015 IIHF World Championship Division IIB

#	Name	Pos	Date of Birth	Club
22	Blagoev, GeorgiGeorgi Blagoev	F	5 September 1997	MšHK Prievidza
4	Bozhanov, NikolayNikolay Bozhanov	D	6 December 1994	CSKA Sofia
24	Boyadjiev, MartinMartin Boyadjiev	F	11 May 1987	CSKA Sofia
19	Chompolov, AtanasAtanas Chompolov	F	21 July 1998	CSKA Sofia
17	Dikov, VeselinVeselin Dikov	F	21 February 1998	Ontario Hockey Academy
8	Dilkov, DanielDaniel Dilkov	F	25 May 1998	HC Topolcany
1	Dimitrov, DimitarDimitar Dimitrov	G	12 October 1997	CSKA Sofia
14	Gatchev, YanakiYanaki Gatchev	F	27 August 1997	CSKA Sofia
2	Genkov, AtanasAtanas Genkov	F	22 May 1998	HC Slavia Sofia
12	Georgiev, TomislavTomislav Georgiev	F	8 June 1997	Ontario Hockey Academy
10	Hodulov, IvanIvan Hodulov	F	4 September 1994	HC Zalgiris Vilnius
7	Mihov, PetarPetar Mihov	D	25 January 1992	CSKA Sofia
16	Nikolov, MartinMartin Nikolov	F	12 February 1994	Steel City Warriors
20	Nikolov, NikolaNikola Nikolov	G	27 May 1993	CSKA Sofia
9	Panev, AleksandarAleksandar Panev	F	14 May 1996	CSKA Sofia
21	Semkov, KristianKristian Semkov	D	25 April 1997	CSKA Sofia
5	Stefanov, BogdanBogdan Stefanov	D	14 December 1990	CSKA Sofia
23	Tchaliov, PetarPetar Tchaliov	F	3 May 1997	CSKA Sofia
13	Tsitselkov, GeorgiGeorgi Tsitselkov	D	3 August 1998	CSKA Sofia

References

External links

• Official website
• IIHF profile