Greece national ice hockey team

History [edit]

2013 World Championship Division III [edit]

World Championship record [edit]

All-time Record against other nations [edit]

2010 World Championship [edit]

Greece
Association	Hellenic Ice Sports Federation
Head coach	Igor Apostolidis
Assistants	Panagiotis Efkarpidis
Captain	Dimitrios Kalyvas
Most games	Orestis Tilios (30)
Top scorer	Dimitrios Kalyvas (26)
Most points	Dimitrios Kalyvas (49)
IIHF code	GRE
IIHF ranking	44
Highest IIHF ranking	44 (first in 2011)
Lowest IIHF ranking	46 (first in 2008)
Team colours
First international
	Greece 15–3 Turkey ; (Johannesburg, South Africa; March 21, 1992)
Biggest win
	Greece 13–0 Georgia ; (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; October 15, 2012)
Biggest defeat
	Israel 26–2 Greece ; (Cape Town, South Africa; April 15, 2011)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	7 (first in 1992)
Best result	29th (1992)
International record (W–L–T)
	16–30–1

The Greek National Ice Hockey Team (Greek: Εθνική Ελλάδος Χόκεϊ επί πάγου) is the national ice hockey team of Greece, and as a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation completes in the third division of the Ice Hockey World Championships. There are 10 teams (7 men's and 3 women's) with 200 registered players.

Ice Hockey started in Greece in 1984 by players that returned to Greece from abroad. The first official Greek Championship was held in 1989 in the Peace and Friendship Stadium with five teams taking place. It was the first time hockey games were held in a normal size rink. In 1990 the first Junior National Team was formed and took part in the World Junior Championship Pool C, held in Yugoslavia. In 1991 the Junior National Team took part in the World Junior Championship, held in Italy. In 1992 the first ever Men's Greek National Team was formed and took place in the World Championships Pool C held in South Africa. With only two weeks of serious training abroad and the support of the Greeks of South Africa, the National Team won the Bronze medal, placing them 21st overall. It was extraordinary for a team to win a medal in their first appearance at the World Championships.

Despite the great achievement, the start of the decline of the sport came in 1993. Economic help was discontinued by the Greek Undersecretary of State for Sports and all expenses to keep ice hockey alive were passed over to the players. Practices stopped and many players quit.

Since May 2003 the last ice rink in Greece closed and the national team was left without an ice rink. In the next 4 years, players of the national team traveled at their own expense in the Czech Republic in order to train themselves.

Ice hockey was slowly dying until Dimitris Kalyvas (currently the captain of Team Greece) tried to convince the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) that the National Team is still active and that development of the sport is continuing in Greece despite not having a rink. He later got the support of the Hellenic Ice Sports Federation. After many emails, the IIHF decided to send 2 delegates to Athens to investigate. After a review done by the IIHF in 2008, Greece retained its status within the IIHF, and took part in a qualification tournament against Armenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo prior to the 2008 Division III championship in Luxembourg. They defeated both teams, beating Armenia 8 – 5 (although Armenia was forced to Forfeit each game 5 – 0), and Bosnia-Herzegovina 10 – 1. They took part in the 2008, 2009 and 2010 World Championship Div.III. In 2010 they won the Silver medal (the best result in the history of the sport) at the 2010 World Championship Div.III

Forwards
#	Player	Position	Shoots	Date of birth	Club
2	Pavlos Kasampoulis	F	L	Jul. 21, 1988	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
3	Polykarpos Amanatidis	F	L	Aug. 23, 1979	Aris Thessaloniki
6	Georgios Kouleles	F	R	Oct. 2, 1983	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
7	Eleftherios Fournogerakis	F	R	Oct. 19, 1979	Mad Cows Athens
8	Iason Pachos	F	R	Aug. 3, 1985	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
10	Alexandros Valsamas-Rallis	F	R	Oct. 1, 1984	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
12	Dimitrios Malamas	F	R	May 12, 1973	Aris Thessaloniki
13	Ioannis Koufis	F	R	Jun. 28, 1965	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
17	Panagiotis Koulouris	LW	L	Sep. 2, 1983	Aris Thessaloniki
19	Georgios Kalyvas	F	L	Dec. 6, 1978	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
21	Dimitrios Kalyvas	F	L	Dec. 11, 1973	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
22	Kyriakos Adamidis	F	L	Dec. 03, 1990	PAOK Thessaloníki HC

Defencemen
#	Player	Position	Shoots	Date of birth	Club
5	Nikolaos Chatzigiannis	D	L	Jan. 30, 1978	Aris Thessaloniki
9	Ioannis Ziakas	D	L	Jul. 31, 1972	PAOK Thessaloníki HC
11	Orestis Tilios	D	L	Nov. 7, 1974	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
14	Diogenis Souras	D	R	Sep. 8, 1986	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai
15	Antonis Kanellis	D	L	May 29, 1991	Warriors Athens
24	Nikolaos Papadopoulos	D	R	Dec. 22, 1987	PAOK Thessaloníki HC
16	Marios Libertos	D	R	Jun. 14, 1970	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai

Goaltenders
#	Player	Position	Catches	Date of birth	Club
1	Georgios Fiotakis	G	L	Jan. 25, 1971	Albatros Athens
25	Dalibor Ploutsis	G	L	Nov. 15, 1976	Iptamenoi Pagodromoi Athinai

Year	Location	Result
1992	Johannesburg, South Africa	Bronze in Pool C2 (29th)
1993	Ankara, Turkey	2nd in Pool C qualifying Group 4 (NR)
1995	Johannesburg, South Africa	9th place in Pool C2 (38th)
1996	Metulla, Israel	3rd in Pool D qualifying Group 2 (NR)
1998	Krugersdorp / Pretoria, South Africa	8th place in Pool D (40th)
1999	Krugersdorp, South Africa	8th place in Pool D (39th)
2008	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	5th place in Div III (45th)
2009	Dunedin, New Zealand	4th place in Div III (44th)
2010	Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg	Silver in Group B of Division III (43rd)
2011	Cape Town, South Africa	5th place in Division III (45th)
2012	Erzurum, Turkey	5th place in Division III (45th)
2013	Cape Town, South Africa	5th place in Division III (45th)

As of May 25, 2009

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
Turkey	6	3	0	3	35	28
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	1	0	0	10	1
Mongolia	1	1	0	0	10	4
Ireland	2	1	0	1	8	6
Iceland	1	1	0	0	8	6
Luxembourg	4	2	0	2	15	16
Israel	3	1	0	2	11	28
New Zealand	4	1	0	3	16	22
Belgium	2	0	1	1	7	19
North Korea	1	0	0	1	3	7
Australia	1	0	0	1	2	10
Lithuania	1	0	0	1	1	20
South Africa	2	0	0	2	6	20
Spain	4	0	0	4	3	42
United Arab Emirates	1	1	0	0	7	1

Staff Member

Head Coach

Igor Apostolidis

Assistant Coach

Panagiotis Efkarpidis

Team Leader

Nikos Bliagos

Georgia Proimou

The Greece national ice hockey team competed in the 2010 IIHF World Championship Division III which was held in Luxembourg, from April 14- April 17. The Team was successful in winning the Silver Medal, Gold went to Ireland and the host country Luxembourg won Bronze

April 14
16:30

Greece

7–1
(2–1, 1–0, 4–0)

United Arab Emirates

Patinoire de Kockelscheuer
Attendance: 131


Ntalimpor Ploutsis	Goalies	Khaled Al Suwaidi Ahmed Al Dhaheri	Referee: Benny Haxelmans
2:30 – Koufis (Papadopoulous) 14:23 – G. Kalyvas (D. Kalyvas, Papadopoulous) 25:55 – Koufis (D. Kalyvas, Lempesis) 41:37 – G. Kalyvas (D. Kalyvas, Pachos) (PP) 49:13 – Pachos (G. Kalyvas) (PP) 53:09 – Koufis (Papadopoulous) (PP) 55:15 – G. Kalyvas (D. Kalyvas)(PP)	1 – 0 1 – 1 2 – 1 3 – 1 4 – 1 5 – 1 6 – 1 7 – 1	13:45 – Al. Dhaheri (Al Zaabi, Al Darmaki)
20 min	Penalties	20 min
32	Shots	35

April 15
16:30

Greece

1–3
(1–0, 0–3, 0–0)

Ireland

Patinoire de Kockelscheuer
Attendance: 102


Ntalimpor Ploutsis	Goalies	Kevin Kelly	Referee: Wilhelm Schimm
3:53 – D. Kalyvas (Papadopoulous, Tilios) (PP2)	1 – 0 1 – 1 1 – 2 1 – 3	25:00 – Hamill (M. Morrison, O'Driscoll) (PP) 32:35 – M. Morrison (Ewen, Martin) 36:26 – M. Morrison (Hamill) (SH)
37 min	Penalties	30 min
15	Shots	38

April 17
20:00

Luxembourg

1–2
(0–0, 0–1, 1–1)

Greece

Patinoire de Kockelscheuer
Attendance: 1150


Philippe Lepage	Goalies	Ntalimpor Ploutsis	Referee: Wilhelm Schimm
56:27 – Dessouroux (Welter) (PP2)	0 – 1 0 – 2 1 – 2	29:31 – G. Kalyvas (D. Kalyvas) (PP2) 52:23 – Lambridis (Efkarpidis)
60 min	Penalties	18 min
27	Shots	21