The Ukrainian national ice hockey team (Ukrainian: Збірна України з хокею з шайбою) 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,[2] 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.
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| Nickname | Yellow and Blue (Жовто-сині / Zhovto-syni) |
|---|---|
| Association | Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine |
| General manager | Olexander Butkevych |
| Head coach | Dmitri Khristich |
| Assistants |
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| Captain | Igor Merezhko |
| Most games | Vasily Bobrovnikov (182) |
| Top scorer | Vadym Shakhraychuk (42) |
| Most points | Andriy Mikhnov Vadym Shakhraychuk (73) |
| Team colors | |
| IIHF code | UKR |
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| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | 19 ( 3) (3 June 2026)[1] |
| Highest IIHF | 11 (2003, 2005) |
| Lowest IIHF | 28 (2022) |
| First international | |
Kazakhstan  5–1  Ukraine(Saint Petersburg, Russia; 14 April 1992) | |
| Biggest win | |
Ukraine 37–2  Belgium(Bled, Slovenia; 13 March 1993) | |
| Biggest defeat | |
Finland  9–0 Ukraine(Helsinki, Finland; 3 May 2003) | |
| Olympics | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2002) |
| IIHF World Championships | |
| Appearances | 32 (first in 1993) |
| Best result | 9th (2002) |
| International record (W–L–T) | |
| 183–187–27 | |
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.
In 2027, Ukraine returned to the top division for the first time in 20 years.[3]
Tournament record
editOlympic Games
edit| Games | GP | W | OW | T | OL | L | GF | GA | Coach | Captain | Finish | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1928 St. Moritz | As part of the Soviet Union | |||||||||||
 1932 Lake Placid | ||||||||||||
 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | ||||||||||||
| 1948 St. Moritz | ||||||||||||
 1952 Oslo | ||||||||||||
 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | ||||||||||||
| 1960 Squaw Valley | ||||||||||||
 1964 Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
 1968 Grenoble | ||||||||||||
 1972 Sapporo | ||||||||||||
| 1976 Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| 1980 Lake Placid | ||||||||||||
 1984 Sarajevo | ||||||||||||
 1988 Calgary | ||||||||||||
| 1992 Albertville | As part of the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics | |||||||||||
| 1994 Lillehammer | Did not qualify | |||||||||||
| 1998 Nagano | ||||||||||||
| 2002 Salt Lake City |
3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | Anatoliy Bohdanov |
Oleksandr Savytskyi | 9th-place game | 10th |
| 2006 Turin | Did not qualify | |||||||||||
| 2010 Vancouver | ||||||||||||
 2014 Sochi | ||||||||||||
 2018 Pyeongchang | ||||||||||||
 2022 Beijing | ||||||||||||
| 2026 Milan–Cortina | ||||||||||||
| 2030 French Alps | To be determined | |||||||||||
World Championship
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Coaches
edit- 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
editOvertime and game winning shot victories and losses are counted towards wins and losses. Teams in italics are no longer actively competing.
- As of 7 November 2025.
Source:[6]
| Opponent | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 20 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 52 | 67 | –15 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 2 | +35 |
 Belarus | 25 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 47 | 88 | –41 |
 Bulgaria | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 0 | +48 |
| Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 |
| China | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 8 | +28 |
 Croatia | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 56 | 7 | +49 |
 Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 |
 Denmark | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 29 | +1 |
 Estonia | 18 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 93 | 27 | +66 |
| Finland | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 36 | −32 |
| France | 17 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 49 | 48 | +1 |
 Germany | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 18 | –3 |
 Great Britain | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 15 | +20 |
 Hungary | 29 | 17 | 0 | 12 | 95 | 65 | +30 |
 Israel | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | +29 |
| Italy | 12 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 24 | 34 | –10 |
| Japan | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 45 | 44 | +1 |
 Kazakhstan | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 50 | 75 | –25 |
 Latvia | 19 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 34 | 65 | –31 |
 Lithuania | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 62 | 25 | +37 |
 Netherlands | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 17 | +64 |
| Norway | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 26 | +1 |
 North Korea | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 |
 Poland | 47 | 25 | 2 | 20 | 140 | 123 | +17 |
 Romania | 23 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 125 | 25 | +100 |
| Russia | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 41 | −29 |
 Serbia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2 | +27 |
 Serbia and Montenegro[a] | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 4 | +43 |
 Slovakia | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 49 | –31 |
 Slovenia | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 43 | 48 | –5 |
| South Korea | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 14 | +24 |
 Spain | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 |
 Sweden | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 26 | –20 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | –3 |
| United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 14 | –9 |
| Total | 398 | 183 | 27 | 187 | 1 449 | 1 620 | +387 |
- ↑ Consists of matches under the name of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Gallery
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Mykola Ladygin
Oleksandr Pobyedonostsev
Dmytro Tsyrul
Dmytro Tolkunov
Andriy Mikhnov and Vadym Shakhraychuk
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References
edit- ↑ "IIHF Men's World Ranking". IIHF. 3 June 2026. Retrieved 3 June 2026.
- ↑ "IIHF- World Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ↑ "IIHF World Championship Germany 2027 announces Preliminary Round Groups". International Ice Hockey Federation. 8 June 2026. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
- ↑ Steiss, Adam. "2020 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship cancelled". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ↑ "IIHF – IIHF Council announces more cancellations". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ↑ "Ukraine". National Teams of Ice Hockey. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
External links
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- Official website
(in Ukrainian) - IIHF profile
- National Teams of Ice Hockey