Turkmenistan men's national ice hockey team
The emblem of Turkmenistan with Akhal-Teke horse is the badge used on the players jerseys.
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| Association | National Center of Turkmenistan for Winter Sports |
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| Head coach | Bayram Allayarov |
| Assistants | Vladimir Bunyatov |
| Captain | Ahmet Gurbanov |
| Home stadium | Winter Sports Complex Ashgabat |
| Team colors | |
| IIHF code | TKM |
| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | not ranked |
| First international | |
 Turkmenistan 9–2 Malaysia  (Sapporo, Japan; 18 February 2017) |
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| Biggest win | |
Turkmenistan 16–0 Macau  (Sapporo, Japan; 21 February 2017) |
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| IIHF World Championships | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2018) |
| Best result | TBD |
| Asian Winter Games | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2017) |
| Best result | 11th (2017) |
| International record (W–L–T) | |
| 4–0–0 | |
The Turkmenistan national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey team of Turkmenistan. The team is controlled by the National Center of Turkmenistan for Winter Sports, an associate member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). They are scheduled to make their World Championship debut at the 2018 World Championship Division III Qualification tournament.
The first national team formed in 2011 of four teams from Ashgabat - Oguzkhan, Alp Arslan, Shir and Burgut.
In 2013, Turkmenistan held its first international match against Minsk City, which was won by 7:2.
Turkmenistan participated at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. They won their first match in an official tournament by beating Malaysia 9:2, and later went on to win their division by defeating Kyrgyzstan 7:3 in the gold medal game.
Ice hockey never gained popularity in independent post-Soviet Turkmenistan, until the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov ordered the construction of an ice palace in the desert foothills of the Kopet Dag. In 2006, the company Bouygues completed construction of the first ice palace. In 2011, the country had opened the second ice palace worth €134.4 million. The total area of the new sports palace is 107,000 square meters, and in its center is the ice arena measuring 60 by 30 meters. It is one of the biggest ice hockey arenas in the CIS.
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