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Turkmenistan
Association	Turkmenistan Ice Hockey Federation
Head coach	Bayram Allayarov
Assistants	Ilyas Veliyev
Captain	Ahmet Gurbanov
Most games	four players (28)
Top scorer	Pavel Barkovsky (16)
Most points	Alexander Vahovsky (35)
Home stadium	Winter Sports Complex Ashgabat
Team colors
IIHF code	TKM
Ranking
Current IIHF	46 1 (27 May 2024)
Highest IIHF	44 (2021)
Lowest IIHF	49 (2018)
First international
	Turkmenistan 9–2 Malaysia; (Sapporo, Japan; 18 February 2017)
Biggest win
	Turkmenistan 24–2 Kuwait; (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 26 February 2018)
Biggest defeat
	Thailand 13–3 Turkmenistan; (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; 14 March 2024)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	5 (first in 2018)
Best result	39th (2022)
Asian Winter Games
Appearances	1 (first in 2017)
Best result	11th (2017)
International record (W–L–T)
	17–10–0

The Turkmenistan national ice hockey team (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň milli buz hokkeý ýygyndysy) is the national men's ice hockey team of Turkmenistan. The team is controlled by the Turkmenistan Ice Hockey Federation (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň şaýbaly hokkeý federasiýasy; TŞHF) and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Turkmenistan is currently ranked 49th in the IIHF World Ranking and made its debut in the 2018 World Championship Division III Qualification tournament.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

History

The first national team formed in 2011 of four teams from Ashgabat: Oguzkhan, Alp Arslan, Shir and Burgut.

In 2013, Turkmenistan held its first (unofficial) match against Minsk City, which was won by a score of 7–2.^[6]^[7]

Turkmenistan participated at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. They won their first match in an official tournament by defeating Malaysia 9–2 and later went on to win their division by defeating Kyrgyzstan 7–3 in the gold medal game.^[8]

Turkmenistan made its World Championship debut in 2018, where it played in Division III Qualificaiton tournament in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[9] They won all three games and earned promotion to Division III for 2019.

In April 2019, Turkmenistan making their debut in the 2019 IIHF World Championship Division III in Sofia (Bulgaria) and took third place among six teams in group, achieving a historic result.^[10]

During visit to Ashgabat Russian retired ice hockey player Sergei Nemchinov from 30 August to 7 September 2019 conducted intensive training with the Turkmenistan men's national ice hockey team. Then he entered the coaching staff of the national team of Turkmenistan and has already drawn up a plan for preparing Turkmen hockey players for the 2020 IIHF World Championship Division III Group A.

Tournament record

World Championships

Year	Host	Result	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L
1954 through 1991		As part of the Soviet Union
1992 through 2017		Did not enter
2018	Sarajevo	47th place (1st in Division IIIQ)	3	3	0	0	0
2019	Sofia	43rd place (3rd in Division III)	5	2	0	1	2
2020	Kockelscheuer	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[11]
2021	Kockelscheuer	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[12]
2022	Kockelscheuer	39th place (3rd in Division III A)	4	1	0	1	2
2023	Cape Town	42nd place (2nd in Division III A)	4	2	0	0	2
2024	Bishkek	44th place (4th in Division III A)	5	2	0	0	3
Total		5/5	21	10	0	2	9

Asian Winter Games

Year	Host	Result	Pld	W	OW	OL	L
2017	Sapporo	11th place (1st in Division II)	4	4	0	0	0
2025	Harbin
Total		1/1	4	4	0	0	0

List of head coaches

Rustam Kerimov 2013–2016
Bayram Allayarov 2016–

All-time record

Last match update: 16 March 2024^[13]

Key
	Positive balance (more Wins)
	Neutral balance (Wins = Losses)
	Negative balance (more Losses)

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	1	0	13	3
Bulgaria	1	0	1	2	6
Chinese Taipei	3	1	2	9	10
Indonesia	1	1	0	12	2
Iran	1	1	0	12	2
Kuwait	1	1	0	24	2
Kyrgyzstan	3	2	1	17	14
Luxembourg	4	2	2	15	13
Macau	1	1	0	16	0
Malaysia	1	1	0	9	2
Mexico	1	1	0	8	4
South Africa	3	2	1	17	14
Thailand	2	1	1	9	16
Turkey	2	0	2	9	11
United Arab Emirates	2	1	1	8	10
Total	27	17	10	180	109