Bulgaria men's national ice hockey team

Bulgaria

Association	Bulgaria Ice Hockey Federation
Head coach	Georgi Milanov
Assistants	Atanas Dimitrov
Captain	Georgi Mladenov
Most games	Malin Atanasov (143)
Most points	Stoyan Batchvarov (103)
IIHF code	BUL
IIHF ranking	32
Highest IIHF ranking	30 (first in 2003)
Lowest IIHF ranking	35 (2009)
Team colours
First international
Bulgaria 4 - 2 Yugoslavia (Bucharest, Romania; January 17, 1942)
Biggest win
Bulgaria 20 - 0 Turkey (Pretoria, South Africa; March 28, 1998)
Biggest defeat
Kazakhstan 31 - 0 Bulgaria (Poprad or Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia; March 25, 1994) Ukraine 31 - 0 Bulgaria (Poprad or Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia; March 26, 1994)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	41 (first in 1963)
Best result	14th (1970)
Olympics
Appearances	1 (first in 1976)
International record (W–L–T)
115-226-21

The Bulgarian men's national ice hockey team is ranked 35th in the 2009 IIHF World Ranking and competes in Division II 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.

World Championship Div II roster

• Head coach: Georgi Milanov

Pos.	No.	Player	Team
GK	1	Konstantin Mihaylov	Slavia Sofia
GK	20	Teodor Asenov	CSKA Sofia
D	3	Vasiliy Vasilev	Dynamo Sofia
D	4	Tsvetan Tsvetanov	Slavia Sofia
D	5	Bogdan Stefanov	Slavia Sofia
D	7	Martin Giurov	Slavia Sofia
D	8	Stanislav Kanchev	Slavia Sofia
D	11	Alexei Yotov	Vityaz Chekhov
D	14	Stephan Georgiev	Slavia Sofia
D	22	Roman Morgunov	Slavia Sofia
F	6	Yavor Slavchev	Slavia Sofia
F	9	Stanislav Muhachov (A)	Slavia Sofia
F	10	Martin Milanov (A)	Dynamo Sofia
F	12	Krasimir Chapkanov	Slavia Sofia
F	13	Aleksandar Todorov	Slavia Sofia
F	16	Rosen Asenov	Slavia Sofia
F	18	Lachezar Giumov	Slavia Sofia
F	19	Konstantin Alexandrov (C)	Slavia Sofia
F	21	Dimitar Miloshev	Slavia Sofia
F	24	Martin Boydajiev	Slavia Sofia

External links

• Bulgaria at the IIHF
• Bulgaria at National Teams of Ice Hockey