The Ukrainian national ice hockey team () is the national men's ice hockey team of Ukraine, and is controlled by the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine, and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Ukraine is currently ranked 27th in the world by the IIHF as of the 2020 IIHF World Ranking, while their highest IIHF ranking is 11th. As part of the Soviet Union, Ukraine played internationally from 1954 to 1991, and made their international debut as an independent country in 1992.

Ukraine has played at the Winter Olympics once, in 2002. The team's top finish was at the 2002 World Championships when they finished in ninth place. Following the 2007 World Championship, Ukraine was relegated to Division I.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

{| class="wikitable"style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;"

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! Games

! GP

! W

!OW

! T

!OL

! L

! GF

! GA

! Coach

! Captain

! Finish

! Rank

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| 1928 St. Moritz|| colspan=12; rowspan=14 align=center|As part of the Soviet Union

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| 1932 Lake Placid

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| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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| 1948 St. Moritz

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| 1952 Oslo

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| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo

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| 1960 Squaw Valley

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| 1964 Innsbruck

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| 1968 Grenoble

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| 1972 Sapporo

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| 1976 Innsbruck

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| 1980 Lake Placid

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| 1984 Sarajevo

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| 1988 Calgary

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| 1992 Albertville|| colspan=12 align=center|As part of the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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| 1994 Lillehammer || colspan=12; rowspan=2 align=center|Did not qualify

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| 1998 Nagano

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| 2002 Salt Lake City

| 3

| 2

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 1

| 9

| 5

| Anatoliy Bohdanov

| Oleksandr Savytskyi

| 9th-place game

| 10th

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| 2006 Turin|| colspan=12; rowspan=6 align=center|Did not qualify

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| 2010 Vancouver

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| 2014 Sochi

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| 2018 Pyeongchang

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| 2022 Beijing

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| 2026 Milan–Cortina

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| 2030 French Alps || colspan=12 align=center | To be determined

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|}

World Championship

thumb|[[2017 IIHF World Championship Division I South Korea against Ukraine]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;"

|-

! Championship

! Finish

! Rank

|-

|1954 – 1991 || colspan=11|As part of / Ukrainian SSR

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 1993 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| 2nd in Pool C

| 18th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 1994 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| 3rd in Pool C1

| 23rd

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 1995 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| 3rd in Pool C1

| 23rd

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 1996 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| 2nd in Pool C

| 22nd

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 1997 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| 1st in Pool C, promoted to Pool B

| 21st

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| 1998 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| 1st in Pool B, promoted to Pool A

| 17th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 1999 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| First round

| 14th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2000 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| Preliminary round

| 14th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2001 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

| Second round

| 10th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2002 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

| Second round

| 9th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2003 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

| Second round

| 12th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| Preliminary round

| 14th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| Qualifying round

| 11th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| Qualifying round

| 12th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2007 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

| Preliminary round (relegated to Division I)

| 16th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 2008 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 2nd in Division I Group B

| 19th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 2009 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 2nd in Division I Group B

| 20th

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| 2010 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 2nd in Division I Group A

| 19th

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|style="border: 3px solid red"| 2011 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 2nd in Division I Group A

| 19th

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| 2012 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 6th in Division I Group A, relegated to Division I Group B

| 22th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

|style="border: 3px solid red"| 2013 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 1st in Division I Group B, promoted to Division I Group A

| 23th

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| 2014 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 4th in Division I Group A

| 20th

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| 2015 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 6th in Division I Group A, relegated to Division I Group B

| 22th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 2016 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 1st in Division I Group B, promoted to Division I Group A

| 23th

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|style="border: 3px solid red"| 2017 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 6th in Division I Group A, relegated to Division I Group B

| 22th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 2018 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 4th in Division I Group B

| 26th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 2019 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 5th in Division I Group B

| 27th

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|<s> 2020 IIHF World Championship Division I</s>

| colspan=2 align=center|Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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|<s> 2021 IIHF World Championship Division I</s>

| colspan=2 align=center|Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 2022 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 3rd in Division I Group B

| 24th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 2023 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 2nd in Division I Group B

| 24th

|- bgcolor=lightgrey

| 2024 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 1st in Division I Group B, promoted to Division I Group A

| 23rd

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| 2025 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 3rd in Division I Group A

| 19th

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| 2026 IIHF World Championship Division I

| 2nd in Division I, Group A, promoted to Top Division

| 18th

|- bgcolor=lightgreen

| 2027 IIHF World Championship

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|

|}

Coaches

  • Oleksandr Fadeiev (1993–1994)
  • Anatoliy Bohdanov (1994–2003)
  • Oleksandr Seukand (2004–2007)
  • Vladimir Golubovych (2007–2008)
  • Oleksandr Seukand (2009)
  • Mikhail Zakharov (2009–2010)
  • Dave Lewis (2010–2011)
  • Anatoliy Khomenko (2011–2012)
  • Oleksandr Kulikov (2012–2013)
  • Andrei Nazarov (2013–2014)
  • / Oleksandr Hodyniuk (2014–15)
  • Oleksandr Savytskyi (2015–2018)
  • Andriy Sryubko (2018–2019)
  • / Sergei Viter (2019–2020)
  • Vadym Shakhraychuk (2021–2023)
  • Dmitri Khristich (2023–present)

All-time record

Overtime and game winning shot victories and losses are counted towards wins and losses. Teams in italics are no longer actively competing.

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<small>Source:</small>

{| class="sortable wikitable"

|-

! Opponent

! Played

! Won

! Drawn

! Lost

! GF

! GA

! GD

|- bgcolor="#d0ffd0" align="center"

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 20 || 6 || 1 || 13 || 52 || 67 || –15

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 37 || 2 || +35

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 25 || 5 || 5 || 15 || 47 || 88 || –41

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 48 || 0 || +48

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2 || −1

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 5 || 4 || 0 || 1 || 36 || 8 || +28

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 9 || 8 || 0 || 1 || 56 || 7 || +49

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 5 || −3

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 11 || 5 || 3 || 3 || 30 || 29 || +1

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 18 || 16 || 0 || 2 || 93 || 27 || +66

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 7 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 4 || 36 || −32

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 17 || 6 || 0 || 11 || 49 || 48 || +1

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 7 || 2 || 2 || 3 || 15 || 18 || –3

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 8 || 5 || 1 || 2 || 35 || 15 || +20

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 29 || 17 || 0 || 12 || 95 || 65 || +30

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 29 || 0 || +29

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 12 || 4 || 0 || 8 || 24 || 34 || –10

|- bgcolor=#FFFFCC

| || 18 || 8 || 2 || 8 || 45 || 44 || +1

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 22 || 6 || 3 || 13 || 50 || 75 || –25

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 19 || 3 || 2 || 14 || 34 || 65 || –31

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 13 || 10 || 0 || 3 || 62 || 25 || +37

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 13 || 13 || 0 || 0 || 81 || 17 || +64

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 9 || 5 || 1 || 3 || 27 || 26 || +1

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 15 || 2 || +13

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 47 || 25 || 2 || 20 || 140 || 123 || +17

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 23 || 19 || 0 || 4 || 125 || 25 || +100

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 8 || 0 || 1 || 7 || 12 || 41 || −29

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 3 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 29 || 2 || +27

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

|'|| 3 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 47 || 4 || +43

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 10 || 0 || 1 || 9 || 18 || 49 || –31

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 15 || 5 || 2 || 8 || 43 || 48 || –5

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 7 || 5 || 0 || 2 || 38 || 14 || +24

|- bgcolor=#CCFFCC

| || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 13 || 1 || +12

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 5 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 6 || 26 || –20

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 4 || 1 || 0 || 3 || 7 || 10 || –3

|- bgcolor=#FFCCCC

| || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 5 || 14 || –9

|-

!Total !! 398 || 183 || 27 || 187 || 1 449 || 1 620 || +387

|}

<gallery class="center">

File:Kostyantyn_Symchuk.jpg|Kostiantyn Simchuk

File:Andriy_Mikhnov.jpg|Andriy Mikhnov

File:Mykola Ladygin.jpg|Mykola Ladygin

File:Oleksandr Pobyedonostsev.jpg|Oleksandr Pobyedonostsev

File:Dmytro Tsyrul.jpg|Dmytro Tsyrul

File:Dmytro Tolkunov.jpg|Dmytro Tolkunov

File:Vitaliy Lytvynenko.jpg|Vitaliy Lytvynenko

File:Andriy Mikhnov and Vadym Shakhraychuk.jpg|Andriy Mikhnov and Vadym Shakhraychuk

File:20231109 UKR SLO-123.jpg|Igor Merezhko

File:Ukraine vs. Hungary at 2017 IIHF World Championship Division I 13 (Bokhdan Dyachenko).jpg|Bogdan Dyachenko

</gallery>

References

  • (in Ukrainian)
  • IIHF profile
  • National Teams of Ice Hockey