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1955 Roller Hockey World Cup
Roller Hockey Men's World Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Italy
Dates	14 May 1955–; 21 May 1955
Teams	14 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (3rd title)
Runners-up	Italy
Third place	Portugal
Fourth place	Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	328 (5.38 per match)
	← 1954 1956 →

The 1955 Roller Hockey World Cup was the eleventh roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Patinage a Roulettes (now under the name of Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports). It was contested by 14 national teams (13 from Europe and 1 from South America) and it is also considered the 1955 European Roller Hockey Championship (despite the presence of Chile). Each group was played in a different Italian city, with the final-eight played in the city of Milan, in Italy (officially the host city).

Group stage

Group A

All the games played in Modena, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	CHI	FRA	DEN
Spain	3	3	0	0	19	3	+16	6	Advancing to final-eight	2–1	7–1	10–1
Chile	3	1	1	1	15	4	+11	3	Advancing to final-eight
France	3	1	1	1	13	9	+4	3		2–2
Denmark	3	0	0	3	1	32	−31	0		0–12	0–10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

All the games played in Trieste, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	FRG	NED
Portugal	2	1	1	0	10	2	+8	3	Advancing to final-eight	2–2	8–0
West Germany	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2	3	Advancing to final-eight		3–1
Netherlands	2	0	0	2	1	11	−10	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C

All the games played in Novara, Italy

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	SWI	IRE
Italy	2	2	0	13	1	+12	4	Advancing to final-eight	5–1	8–0
Switzerland	2	1	1	11	6	+5	2	Advancing to final-eight		10–1
Ireland	2	0	2	1	18	−17	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D

All the games played in Monza, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	ENG	NOR	YUG
Belgium	3	3	0	0	22	4	+18	6	Advancing to final-eight	4–2	8–1	10–1
England	3	2	0	1	16	7	+9	4	Advancing to final-eight		7–1	7–2
Norway	3	0	1	2	4	17	−13	1				2–2
Yugoslavia	3	0	1	2	5	19	−14	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Final phase

9th to 14th play-off

Team	YUG	NOR	NED	IRE	DEN
Yugoslavia
Norway	0–1
Netherlands	3–2	8–2
Ireland	3–0	1–1	1–4
Denmark	0–4	0–4	1–11	0–7
France	0–1	1–0	3–3	2–1	7–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

All the games played in Pistoia, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	5	4	1	0	29	9	+20	9
France	5	3	1	1	13	5	+8	7
Yugoslavia	5	3	0	2	8	6	+2	6
Ireland	5	2	1	2	13	7	+6	5
Norway	5	1	1	3	7	11	−4	3
Denmark	5	0	0	5	1	33	−32	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Final-eight

Team	BEL	FRG	CHI	ENG	ESP	ITA	SWI
Belgium
West Germany	1–2
Chile	2–0	1–2
England	1–1	3–3	1–2
Spain	3–0	5–0	3–1	3–1
Italy	2–0	5–0	3–0	3–2	1–2
Switzerland	5–1	4–3	4–2	2–0	1–4	1–2
Portugal	3–1	5–2	4–1	8–6	3–3	0–1	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

All the games played in Milan, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain (C)	7	6	1	0	23	7	+16	13
Italy	7	6	0	1	17	5	+12	12
Portugal	7	5	1	1	25	14	+11	11
Switzerland	7	4	0	3	17	14	+3	8
Chile	7	2	0	5	9	17	−8	4
Belgium	7	1	1	5	5	17	−12	3
West Germany	7	1	1	5	11	25	−14	3
England	7	0	2	5	14	22	−8	2