Austria men's national ice hockey team explained

Austria
Badge:	Austria Bundesadler 2.svg
Badge Size:	180px
Nickname:	Die Adler
Association:	Österreichischer Eishockeyverband
Coach:	Roger Bader
Asst Coach:	Christoph Brandner Arno del Curto Markus Peintner
Captain:	Thomas Raffl
Most Games:	Gerhard Unterluggauer (244)
Most Points:	Rudolf König (183)
Iihf Code:	AUT
Iihf Max:	11
Iihf Max Date:	2004
Iihf Min:	18
Iihf Min Date:	2021
First Game:	5–0 Austria-Hungary (Prague, Austria-Hungary; 4 February 1912)
Largest Win:	30–0 (Stockholm, Sweden; 12 March 1963)
Largest Loss:	23–0 (Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; 27 January 1956)
World Champ Apps:	66
World Champ First:	1930
World Champ Best:	(1931, 1947)
Regional Name:	European Championships
Regional Cup Apps:	7
Regional Cup First:	1912
Regional Cup Best:	(1927)
Olympic Apps:	13
Olympic First:	1928
Record:	436–587–83

The Austrian men's national hockey team is the national ice hockey team for Austria. The team is controlled by Österreichischer Eishockeyverband. As of 2022 the Austrian team is ranked 18th in the IIHF World Rankings. Austria has not won a medal in a major tournament since 1947, and has not broken 10th place since 1994. Austria currently has 8,799 registered players (0.1% of the total population).

Tournament record

Olympic Games

Games	Finish
	tied in 7th place
	6th place
	10th place
	13th place
	13th place
	8th place
	10th place
	9th place
	12th place
	14th place
	12th place
	10th place

World Championship

1930 – Finished in 4th place
1931 – Won bronze medal
1933 – Finished in 4th place
1934 – Finished in 7th place
1935 – Finished in 6th place
1938 – Finished tied in 10th place
1947 – Won bronze medal
1949 – Finished in 6th place
1951 – Finished in 11th place (4th in Pool B)
1952 – Finished in 11th place (2nd in Pool B)
1953 – Finished in 6th place (3rd in Pool B)
1955 – Finished in 11th place (2nd in Pool B)
1957 – Finished in 7th place
1959 – Finished in 15th place (3rd in Pool B)
1961 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B)
1962 – Finished in 10th place (2nd in Pool B)
1963 – Finished in 16th place (won Pool C)
1965 – Finished in 13th place (5th in Pool B)
1966 – Finished in 13th place (5th in Pool B)
1967 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B)
1969 – Finished in 13th place (7th in Pool B)
1970 – Finished in 15th place (won Pool C)
1971 – Finished in 13th place (7th in Pool B)
1972 – Finished in 14th place (won Pool C)
1973 – Finished in 12th place (6th in Pool B)
1974 – Finished in 14th place (8th in Pool B)
1975 – Finished in 17th place (3rd in Pool C)
1976 – Finished in 17th place (won Pool C)
1977 – Finished in 17th place (9th in Pool B)
1978 – Finished in 18th place (2nd in Pool C)
1979 – Finished in 15th place (7th in Pool B)
1981 – Finished in 17th place (won Pool C)
1982 – Finished in 10th place (2nd in Pool B)
1983 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B)
1985 – Finished in 12th place (4th in Pool B)
1986 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B)
1987 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B)
1989 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B)
1990 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B)
1991 – Finished in 13th place (5th in Pool B)
1992 – Finished in 13th place (won Pool B)
1993 – Finished in 11th place
1994 – Finished in 8th place
1995 – Finished in 11th place
1996 – Finished in 12th place
1997 – Finished in 16th place (4th in Pool B)

Division	Championship	Coach	Captain	Finish	Rank
Top Division	1998 Zürich/Basel	–	–	First round	15th
Top Division	1999 Oslo/Hamar/Lillehammer	–	–	Consolation round	10th
Top Division	2000 Saint Petersburg	–	–	Relegation round	13th
Top Division	2001 Nuremberg/Cologne/Hanover	–	–	Second round	11th
Top Division	2002 Gothenburg/Karlstad/Jönköping	–	–	Second round	12th
Top Division	2003 Helsinki/Tampere/Turku	–	–	Second round	10th
Top Division	2004 Prague/Ostrava	–	–	Qualifying round	11th
Top Division	2005 Vienna/Innsbruck	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2006 Tallin	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group B
Top Division	2007 Moscow	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2008 Innsbruck	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Top Division	2009 Bern/Kloten	–	–	relegated	14th
Division I	2010 Tilburg	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Top Division	2011 Bratislava/Košice	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2012 Ljubljana	–	–	Promoted	2nd in Group A
Top Division	2013 Stockholm/Helsinki	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2014 Goyang	–	–	Promoted	2nd in Group A
Top Division	2015 Prague/Ostrava	–	–	relegated	15th
Division I	2016 Katowice	–	–	Group stage	4th in Group A
Division I	2017 Kyiv	–	–	Promoted	1st in Group A
Top Division	2018 Copenhagen/Herning	–	–	Group stage	14th
Top Division	2019 Bratislava/Košice	–	–	relegated	16th
Division I	2020 Ljubljana	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[1]
Division I	2021 Ljubljana	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[2]
Top Division	2022 Tampere/Helsinki	–	–	Group stage	11th
Top Division	2023 Tampere/Riga	–	–	Group stage	14th
Top Division	2024 Prague/Ostrava	–	–	Group stage	10th
Top Division	2025 Stockholm/Herning	–	–

European Championship

Games	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Coach	Captain	Finish	Rank
1910 Les Avants	did not participate.
1911 Berlin	did not participate.
1912 Prague*	2	0	0	2	1	9	?	?	Round-robin
1913 Munich	3	0	0	3	5	34	?	?	Round-robin	4th
1914 Berlin	did not participate.
1915–1920	No Championships (World War I).
1921 Stockholm	did not participate.
1922 St. Moritz	did not participate.
1923 Antwerp	did not participate.
1924 Milan	did not participate.
1925 Štrbské Pleso, Starý Smokovec	3	1	1	1	4	5	?	?	Round-robin
1926 Davos	7	4	1	2	15	13	?	?	Final round
1927 Vienna	5	5	0	0	13	2	?	?	Round-robin
1929 Budapest	6	4	0	2	13	9	?	?	3rd Place Game
1932 Berlin	4	1	3	0	6	3	?	?	Final round

1912 Championship was later annulled because Austria was not a member of the IIHF at the time of the competition.

Team

Current roster

Roster for the 2024 IIHF World Championship.^[3] ^[4]

Head coach: Roger Bader

No.	Pos.	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Team
3	F		1.83m (06feet)	91abbr=onNaNabbr=on	4 April 1991	Red Bull Salzburg
5	F	Thomas Raffl – C	1.94m (06.36feet)	104abbr=onNaNabbr=on	19 June 1986	Red Bull Salzburg
9	F		1.84m (06.04feet)	83abbr=onNaNabbr=on	9 May 1996	Red Bull Salzburg
12	D		1.87m (06.14feet)	85abbr=onNaNabbr=on	12 January 2000	EC KAC
14	D		1.8m (05.9feet)	79abbr=onNaNabbr=on	17 January 2001	HC Ambrì-Piotta
16	F		1.83m (06feet)	93abbr=onNaNabbr=on	16 July 1996	HC Ambrì-Piotta
17	F	Manuel Ganahl – A	1.82m (05.97feet)	81abbr=onNaNabbr=on	12 July 1990	EC KAC
18	D		1.97m (06.46feet)	100abbr=onNaNabbr=on	20 September 1998	Red Bull Salzburg
19	F		1.8m (05.9feet)	76abbr=onNaNabbr=on	9 September 2004	ZSC Lions
20	D		1.81m (05.94feet)	78abbr=onNaNabbr=on	17 September 1992	Vienna Capitals
21	F		1.83m (06feet)	84abbr=onNaNabbr=on	21 May 1997	EC KAC
23	F		1.76m (05.77feet)	83abbr=onNaNabbr=on	23 September 2001	Minnesota Wild
24	D		1.83m (06feet)	87abbr=onNaNabbr=on	16 February 1993	EC KAC
29	G		1.88m (06.17feet)	92abbr=onNaNabbr=on	10 October 1989	Steinbach Black Wings Linz
30	G		1.88m (06.17feet)	84abbr=onNaNabbr=on	16 March 1994	Red Bull Salzburg
31	G		1.87m (06.14feet)	88abbr=onNaNabbr=on	31 March 1992	Pioneers Vorarlberg
32	D		1.78m (05.84feet)	84abbr=onNaNabbr=on	23 February 1997	HC Lugano
48	F		1.8m (05.9feet)	76abbr=onNaNabbr=on	21 January 2002	Red Bull Salzburg
52	F		1.93m (06.33feet)	101abbr=onNaNabbr=on	10 June 2000	Red Bull Salzburg
70	F		1.81m (05.94feet)	80abbr=onNaNabbr=on	30 November 1997	Red Bull Salzburg
78	D		1.88m (06.17feet)	80abbr=onNaNabbr=on	4 December 2001	Wheeling Nailers
91	D	Dominique Heinrich – A	1.75m (05.74feet)	76abbr=onNaNabbr=on	31 July 1990	Vienna Capitals
92	D		1.83m (06feet)	85abbr=onNaNabbr=on	1 April 1992	EC KAC
96	F		1.88m (06.17feet)	85abbr=onNaNabbr=on	8 August 1996	Red Bull Salzburg
98	F		1.78m (05.84feet)	78abbr=onNaNabbr=on	22 April 2000	SC Bern

Notable players

width=40	Pos.	width=150	Player	width=170	Team
G	Reinhard Divis	EC Red Bull Salzburg
D	Thomas Pöck	EC KAC
F	Michael Grabner	Arizona Coyotes
F	Andreas Nödl	Vienna Capitals
F	Thomas Vanek	Detroit Red Wings
F	Michael Raffl	Philadelphia Flyers

All-time record

Updated as of match played on 10 November 2024.^[5] Teams listed in italics are defunct.

Opponent	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
	1	1	0	0	17	0	+17
	22	5	1	16	50	83	-33
	13	12	0	1	106	36	+70
	2	0	0	2	0	12	-12
	10	8	1	1	58	18	+40
	38	1	3	34	44	225	-181
	8	7	1	0	66	20	+46
	2	2	0	0	11	2	+9
	25	1	0	24	31	123	−92
	28	4	0	24	37	168	−131
	43	30	1	12	174	89	+85
	28	6	0	22	71	182	-111
	2	2	0	0	9	3	+6
	15	1	1	13	27	78	−51
	67	35	10	22	257	183	+74
	54	14	4	36	84	177	-93
	21	13	2	6	103	61	+42
	55	40	2	13	212	132	+80
	97	46	12	39	298	277	+21
	45	26	5	14	176	130	+46
	13	4	1	8	35	41	-6
	25	4	0	21	56	98	-42
	2	2	0	0	11	5	+6
	37	26	4	7	198	89	+109
	1	1	0	0	10	0	+10
	55	19	5	31	143	198	-55
	60	31	3	26	181	183	-2
	29	13	2	14	130	104	+26
	17	1	0	16	29	95	−66
	1	1	0	0	13	0	+24
	35	8	2	34	77	169	-92
	39	15	4	20	84	108	-24
	7	6	0	1	37	16	+21
	4	0	0	4	5	54	-49
	1	1	0	0	14	4	+10
	25	1	2	22	22	123	−101
	78	12	14	52	192	346	-154
	20	13	1	6	67	52	+15
	33	2	2	29	58	172	−114
	39	22	0	17	154	134	+20
Total	1 106	436	83	587	3 347	3 990	-643

External links

Notes and References

Web site: IIHF cancels Division I tournaments. 17 March 2019. iihf.com.
Web site: IIHF – IIHF Council announces more cancellations. 18 November 2020. International Ice Hockey Federation.
Web site: Letzten Entscheidungen gefällt: WM-Kader steht fest. eishockey.at. 6 May 2024. de.
Web site: Team roster: Austria. iihf.com. 10 May 2024.
Web site: Ice Hockey in Austria . 2023-04-30 . National Teams of Ice Hockey . en-US.