Austria men's national ice hockey team

The Austrian men's national hockey team represents Austria in ice hockey competitions around the world. It is managed by the Österreichischer Eishockeyverband, the country's ice hockey governing body. As of 2022, the team was ranked 18th in the IIHF World Rankings, showing its strong presence in international hockey.

Although Austria has not won a medal in a major tournament since 1947, the team continues to compete with enthusiasm. The country has many players involved in the sport, with about 8,799 registered ice hockey players, which is a small but dedicated group compared to the total population. Ice hockey in Austria is an exciting part of the sports culture, bringing fans together to cheer for their national team in each game.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

Members of the Austrian national team at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Austria finished 12th in the tournament.

World Championship

Austrian national team during 1933 World Championships

The Austrian team has played in many World Championship games. In 1931 and 1947, they won bronze medals. Over the years, they have finished in many different places, sometimes as high as fourth and sometimes lower, like 17th or even 18th.

Austria at 2017 IIHF World Championship Division I

European Championship

In 1912, Austria wanted to compete in the European Championship, but it was later canceled because Austria was not a member of the IIHF at that time.

Games	Finish
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	tied in 7th place
1948 St. Moritz	6th place
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	10th place
1964 Innsbruck	13th place
1968 Grenoble	13th place
1976 Innsbruck	8th place
1984 Sarajevo	10th place
1988 Calgary	9th place
1994 Lillehammer	12th place
1998 Nagano	14th place
2002 Salt Lake City	12th place
2014 Sochi	10th place

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 Tallinn	–	–	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
Division I	2021 Ljubljana	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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	–	–	Playoff round	8th
Top Division	2026 Zurich/Fribourg	–	–

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

Team

Current roster

Here is the list of players for the 2026 IIHF World Championship. The team's head coach is Roger Bader from Switzerland.

Notable players

Some famous players from the Austrian team include Reinhard Divis, Michael Grabner, Derek Holmes, Andreas Nödl, Thomas Pöck, Michael Raffl, and Thomas Vanek.

No.	Pos.	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Team
3	F	Peter Schneider – C	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	(1991-04-04) 4 April 1991	Red Bull Salzburg
4	D	Ramon Schnetzer	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	(1996-08-12) 12 August 1996	Pioneers Vorarlberg
5	D	Dominic Hackl	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	(1996-11-08) 8 November 1996	Vienna Capitals
8	F	Maximilian Rebernig	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	103 kg (227 lb)	(2000-09-03) 3 September 2000	EC VSV
9	F	Leon Wallner	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	(2002-07-01) 1 July 2002	Vienna Capitals
12	D	David Maier	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	(2000-01-12) 12 January 2000	EC KAC
14	F	Henrik Neubauer	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	(1997-04-15) 15 April 1997	Steinbach Black Wings Linz
16	F	Dominic Zwerger	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	(1996-07-16) 16 July 1996	HC Ambrì-Piotta
17	F	Ian Scherzer	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	(2005-07-03) 3 July 2005	RPI Engineers
18	D	Paul Stapelfeldt	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	(1998-09-20) 20 September 1998	Graz 99ers
19	F	Vinzenz Rohrer	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	(2004-09-09) 9 September 2004	Laval Rocket
30	G	David Kickert	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	(1994-03-16) 16 March 1994	Red Bull Salzburg
32	D	Bernd Wolf – A	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	(1997-02-23) 23 February 1997	EHC Kloten
33	G	Florian Vorauer	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	81 kg (179 lb)	(1999-12-09) 9 December 1999	EC KAC
35	G	Atte Tolvanen	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	(1994-11-23) 23 November 1994	Red Bull Salzburg
40	F	Tim Harnisch	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)	81 kg (179 lb)	(2001-04-18) 18 April 2001	Graz 99ers
45	D	Gregor Biber	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	(2006-08-09) 9 August 2006	Rögle BK
48	F	Lucas Thaler	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(2002-01-21) 21 January 2002	Red Bull Salzburg
52	F	Paul Huber	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	101 kg (223 lb)	(2000-06-10) 10 June 2000	Graz 99ers
61	F	Simeon Schiwnger	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	(1997-10-07) 7 October 1997	EC KAC
70	F	Benjamin Nissner	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(1997-11-30) 30 November 1997	Red Bull Salzburg
78	D	Thimo Nickl	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	(2001-12-04) 4 December 2001	EC KAC
81	F	Leon Kolarik	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(2007-09-23) 23 September 2007	Peterborough Petes
92	D	Clemens Unterweger – A	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	(1992-04-01) 1 April 1992	EC KAC
96	F	Mario Huber	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	(1996-08-08) 8 August 1996	Red Bull Salzburg

All-time record

The information here was last updated after a match on November 6, 2025. Some teams listed may no longer be active.

Opponent	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Australia	1	1	0	0	17	0	+17
Belarus	22	5	1	16	50	83	-33
Belgium	13	12	0	1	106	36	+70
Bohemia	2	0	0	2	0	12	-12
Bulgaria	10	8	1	1	58	18	+40
Canada	40	1	3	36	46	235	-189
China	8	7	1	0	66	20	+46
Croatia	2	2	0	0	11	2	+9
Czech Republic	27	2	0	25	35	130	−95
Czechoslovakia	28	4	0	24	37	168	−131
Denmark	44	30	1	13	175	95	+80
East Germany	28	6	0	22	71	182	-111
Estonia	2	2	0	0	9	3	+6
Finland	16	1	1	14	28	80	−52
France	69	36	10	23	264	190	+74
Germany	57	15	4	38	91	187	-96
Great Britain	21	13	2	6	103	61	+42
Hungary	57	40	2	15	215	141	+74
Italy	97	46	12	39	298	277	+21
Japan	45	26	5	14	176	130	+46
Kazakhstan	13	4	1	8	35	41	-6
Latvia	28	5	0	23	65	106	-41
Lithuania	2	2	0	0	11	5	+6
Netherlands	37	26	4	7	198	89	+109
North Korea	1	1	0	0	10	0	+10
Norway	55	19	5	31	143	198	-55
Poland	60	31	3	26	181	183	-2
Romania	29	13	2	14	130	104	+26
Russia	17	1	0	16	29	95	−66
Serbia	1	1	0	0	13	0	+24
Slovakia	46	9	2	35	82	178	-96
Slovenia	40	16	4	20	87	110	-23
South Korea	7	6	0	1	37	16	+21
Soviet Union	4	0	0	4	5	54	-49
Spain	1	1	0	0	14	4	+10
Sweden	26	1	2	23	24	127	−103
Switzerland	78	12	14	52	192	346	-154
Ukraine	20	13	1	6	67	52	+15
United States	33	2	2	29	58	172	−114
Yugoslavia	39	22	0	17	154	134	+20
Total	1 126	442	83	601	3 391	4 062	-672

Uniform evolution

The Austrian men's national ice hockey team has worn different jerseys over the years. Here are some examples from past Olympic Games and IIHF events: