Romania men's national ice hockey team

Romania started Olympic hockey in 1964 in the B division. In the tournament, the team finished 12th out of 16 teams and managed 3 wins against Austria, Italy, and Hungary also with a tie against Yugoslavia.

In 1968, Romania lost its qualification match against West Germany 7–0 and was forced to compete in the B division again. In the first two games, Romania beat Austria 3–2 and the Host, France 7–3. They lost their next three games and finished 12th out of 14 in the standings.

After skipping the 1972 competition, Romania returned for the 1976 tournament. This time Romania played Poland in the Qualification round and lost 7–4, keeping them in the B division once again. However, Romania battled back and won 4 of 5 games with only one loss against Yugoslavia, still winning the division. The team finished 7th out of 12.

In 1980, Romania was able to play with the top teams and was put into the Blue Division group, along with tough opponents such as Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and USA. In the first game Romania was down 4–2 to West Germany, but managed to score 4 goals to beat the former bronze medallists 6–4. In their next game Romania got shut out by Sweden 8–0. The Swedes scored 3 goals in the first period which left Romania out of it. After a lopsided loss to Czechoslovakia (7–2) the team then took on USA. The US jumped out to a 2–0 lead in the first period and added two more to it to lead 4–1 after two periods. Unlike other teams that the US had faced, the Romanians fought strong in the third period, despite being outshot 15–3, and scored a goal. The final score was 7–2. Romania played Norway for their final game, who had lost all four of their past games and had no chance to advance to the Medal Round. Romania fell behind less than a minute into the game, but stormed back to take the lead 3–1 in the third period. The Norwegian team battled back though, and scored once with a minute and a half left to play, and scored once more to tie it with only 29 seconds left. This tie still gave Romania one point but they had been hoping for a win. They finished the tournament with a 1–3–1 record, and were ranked 8th out of 12, just beating the Netherlands, West Germany, Norway, and Japan. This was the last time that the Romanians competed in the Olympic tournaments.

Updated as of 5 May 2023.[4] Teams in italics are defunct.

Opponent	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Australia	3	3	0	0	15	5	+10
Austria	29	14	2	13	104	130	–26
Belarus	1	0	0	1	3	5	–2
Belgium	15	15	0	0	133	24	+109
Bulgaria	40	34	2	4	249	91	+158
Canada	4	0	0	4	3	29	–26
China	23	18	2	3	131	68	+63
Croatia	13	7	1	5	52	41	+11
Czechoslovakia	8	0	0	8	6	78	–72
Denmark	20	10	1	9	80	75	+5
East Germany	43	4	2	37	91	264	–173
Estonia	12	5	0	7	50	43	+7
Finland	4	1	1	2	16	27	–11
France	28	12	4	12	139	114	+25
Germany	21	4	0	17	57	100	–43
Great Britain	25	4	1	20	59	131	–72
Hungary	68	39	5	24	290	239	+51
Iceland	5	4	0	1	25	10	+15
Ireland	2	2	0	0	43	1	+42
Israel	4	4	0	0	55	2	+53
Italy	27	11	3	13	91	114	–23
Japan	30	11	2	17	109	138	–29
Kazakhstan	6	2	0	4	11	30	–19
Kyrgyzstan	1	1	0	0	18	2	+16
Latvia	8	2	0	6	7	49	–42
Lithuania	16	8	1	7	56	59	–3
Mexico	1	1	0	0	19	0	+19
Netherlands	29	13	2	14	113	93	+20
North Korea	6	6	0	0	51	14	+37
Norway	31	13	3	15	112	134	–22
New Zealand	2	2	0	0	66	2	+64
Poland	62	7	5	50	106	390	–284
Serbia	4	4	0	0	24	6	+18
Serbia and Montenegro	6	6	0	0	47	11	+36
Slovakia	7	1	1	5	7	53	–46
Slovenia	8	0	0	8	6	48	–42
South Africa	2	2	0	0	33	3	+30
South Korea	11	5	0	6	53	39	+14
Soviet Union	1	0	0	1	1	18	–17
Spain	10	10	0	0	86	12	+74
Sweden	5	0	1	4	4	35	–31
Switzerland	38	13	3	22	121	187	–66
Ukraine	20	3	0	17	20	116	–96
United States	11	1	0	10	21	85	–64
Yugoslavia	58	30	15	13	254	208	+46
Total	768	332	57	379	3 037	3 323	–286

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