Turkey women's national ice hockey team

The Turkish women's national ice hockey team represents Turkey at the International Ice Hockey Federation's World Women's Ice Hockey Championship Division IV. The women's national team, established in late 2006, is controlled by Turkish Ice Hockey Federation (Turkish: Türkiye Buz Hokeyi Federasyonu, TBHF). As of 2011, Turkey has 160 female players.[2] The Turkish women's national team is ranked 33rd in the world.

Turkey

The crescent moon and a star as seen on the Turkish flag is the badge used on the players jerseys.
Association	Turkish Ice Hockey Federation
General Manager	Gizem Adıgüzel
Head coach	Yücel Çıtak
Assistants	Alper Solak Merve Tunalı
Captain	Zeynep Pervan
Most games	Refika Yılmaz (27)
Most points	Çağla Baktıroğlu (37)
IIHF code	TUR
Ranking
Current IIHF	27 (24 April 2020)[1]
Highest IIHF	27 (2018)
Lowest IIHF	35 (2012)
First international
Romania  27–0  Turkey (Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania; 27 March 2007)
Biggest win
Turkey  11–3  Bulgaria (Hong Kong, China; 18 February 2015)
Biggest defeat
Finland  32–0  Turkey (Erzurum, Turkey; 31 January 2011)
World Championships
Appearances	11 (first in 2007)
Best result	32nd (2017, 2019)
International record (W–L–T)
8–25–1

History

The Turkish women team made its first appearance at the 2007 Women's World Championships Division IV tournament held between 26 March through 1 April in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.

Women's ice hockey sport in Turkey began in 2005 with the forming of women's clubs in Ankara. The first official competitions were a cup and a tournament held in 2006.[3] The first women's ice hockey league started on 17 February 2007 with the participation of 6 teams from Ankara and one team from Kocaeli.[4]

The national team was selected following national team camps. The first team coach was Canadian Clive R. Tolley from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, who has assumed the head coach duties for the Turkish senior men's, juniors' (under 20) and espoir (under 18) teams for 4 years term with a trial period of January–June 2007.[5]

Olympics

The Turkey women's hockey team has never qualified for an Olympic tournament.

World Championship

The Turkish squad made its international debut at the World Championship held in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania between 26 March through 1 April, playing in the Division IV, which got together from the teams of Romania, Estonia, New Zealand, Iceland and Croatia besides of Turkey.

The women's team played its first match against the host team Romania and was defeated by 27–0 (7–0, 11–0, 9–0).[6] Turkish women lost their second match to Estonia with 1–14 (0–6, 0–5, 1–3),[7] while Elif Ulaş scored the national team's first ever goal in the history.[8] The third match was lost to New Zealand with 19–0 (9–0, 6–0, 4–0).[9] Turkey was defeated in its 4th match by Iceland with 1–12 (0–3, 0–3, 1–6). The only Turkish goal was scored by İrem Ayan. The women's squad lost against Croatia with 1–19. The team ranked last (6th).

• 2007 – 33rd place (6th in Division IV)
• 2008 – 33rd place (6th in Division IV)
• 2009 – The Division III, Division IV and Division V were not played, as the respective tournaments were cancelled.[10]
• 2011 – 34th place (5th in Division V)
• 2013 – 33rd place (1st in Division IIB qualification, promoted to Division IIB)
• 2014 – 33rd place (6th in Division IIB, relegated to Division IIB qualification)
• 2015 – 33rd place (1st in Division IIB qualification, promoted to Division IIB)
• 2016 – 32nd place (6th in Division IIB)
• 2017 – 31st place (5th in Division IIB)
• 2018 – 31st place (5th in Division IIB)
• 2019 – 32nd place (4th in Division IIB)
• 2020 – 32nd place (4th in Division IIB)

European Championships

The Turkish women's hockey team never participated in the IIHF European Women Championships.

All-time Record against other nations

As of 6 March 2015

Team	WR	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	WLDiff	GF	GA	GDiff
Bulgaria	34	5	4	0	0	1	+3	24	10	+14
Ireland	37	2	2	0	0	0	+2	10	1	+9
Hong Kong	36	1	1	0	0	0	+1	4	1	+3
South Africa	32	2	1	0	0	1	0	9	12	−3
Belgium	31	1	0	0	1	0	−1	1	2	−1
Mexico	35	1	0	0	0	1	−1	1	6	−5
Australia	29	1	0	0	0	1	−1	0	12	−12
Poland	22	1	0	0	0	1	−1	0	14	−14
Estonia	39	2	0	0	0	2	−2	2	22	−20
Croatia	25	2	0	0	0	2	−2	2	24	−22
Romania	38	2	0	0	0	2	−2	1	36	−35
Spain	26	3	0	0	0	3	−3	4	21	−17
New Zealand	28	3	0	0	0	3	−3	4	42	−38
Iceland	30	4	0	0	0	4	−4	5	31	−26
Slovenia	24	4	0	0	0	4	−4	3	31	−28
Total	33	34	8	0	1	25	-18	70	265	-195

Current roster

As of 28 February 2016[11]

No.	Player	Catches	Height	Weight	Birth date and age	Club
Goaltenders
20	Sera Doğramacı	L	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)	60 kg (130 lb)	(1983-06-04) 4 June 1983	Sydney Sirens
25	Kübra Dadaşoğlu	L	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)	51 kg (112 lb)	(1986-12-25) 25 December 1986	Narmanspor
Defensemen
3	Nil Eryılmaz	R	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)	65 kg (143 lb)	(1995-04-17) 17 April 1995	Narmanspor
4	Sema Güven	L	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)	52 kg (115 lb)	(1998-05-07) 7 May 1998	Narmanspor
7	Tuğçe Melis Demir	L	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	62 kg (137 lb)	(1994-02-11) 11 February 1994	ODTÜ SK
12	İlknur Yerlikaya	R	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	57 kg (126 lb)	(1996-06-25) 25 June 1996	Narmanspor
16	Refika Yılmaz (C)	R	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)	57 kg (126 lb)	(1990-06-19) 19 June 1990	ODTÜ SK
18	Alara Lokbaş	R	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	59 kg (130 lb)	(1998-01-13) 13 January 1998	Genç Ankara
19	İlkim Uygun	R	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)	57 kg (126 lb)	(1995-01-04) 4 January 1995	ODTÜ SK
21	Müge Eryılmaz	R	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	(1990-09-19) 19 September 1990	Genç Ankara
24	Makbule Atalı	R	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	(1978-09-18) 18 September 1978	Ankara Ubiversity SK
Forwards
5	Selin Yılmaz	L	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)	50 kg (110 lb)	(1993-11-20) 20 November 1993	ODTÜ SK
6	Çağla Baktıroğlu	R	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	(1988-09-01) 1 September 1988	Narmanspor
8	Fulya Yurt	R	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)	54 kg (119 lb)	(1994-10-17) 17 October 1994	Narmanspor
9	Diiara Lokbaş	R	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	60 kg (130 lb)	(1999-09-09) 9 September 1999	Genç Ankara
10	Gizem Öztaşdelen (A)	R	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)	55 kg (121 lb)	(1992-03-23) 23 March 1992	ODTÜ SK
11	Gizem Tüzgen	L	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	68 kg (150 lb)	(1991-10-03) 3 October 1991	Genç Ankara
13	Başak Demirkol	R	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)	59 kg (130 lb)	(1994-11-04) 4 November 1994	ODTÜ SK
14	Seda Demir (A)	L	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)	54 kg (119 lb)	(1994-06-21) 21 June 1994	Buz Korsanları
15	Pınar Eser	L	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	65 kg (143 lb)	(1999-08-21) 21 August 1999	Narmanspor
17	Betül Kahraman	R	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)	58 kg (128 lb)	(1995-01-07) 7 January 1995	Ankara University SK
22	Betül Taygar	R	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)	54 kg (119 lb)	(1997-08-24) 24 August 1997	Narmanspor

Legend

• A: Assistant captain
• C: Captain

Notable former players

• Mine Güngör
• Ceren Alkan
• Sinem Doğu
• Merve Arıncı
• Simge Ozer-Sevilmiş
• Huriye Yeliz Yüksel
• Maria Jasmina Decu
• Selin Erenoğlu
• İrem Ayan
• Teksin Öztekin
• Tanay Günay
• Çisel Ann Otts
• Tuba Dokur
• Burcu Turanal

References

1. "IIHF Women's World Ranking". IIHF. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
2. IIHF, http://www.iihf.com/iihf-home/countries/turkey.html
3. Newspaper Hürriyet December 6, 2006 (in Turkish)
4. Newspaper Hürriyet February 18, 2007 Archived 20 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
5. AjansSpor (in Turkish)
6. News March 27, 2007 (in Turkish)
7. AjansSpor March 27, 2007 (in Turkish)
8. "Ice Hockey Federation 2007 Championship".
9. AjansSpor March 29, 2007 (in Turkish)
10. 2009 Women's Division III, IV and V all Cancelled, http://forums.internationalhockey.net/showthread.php?t=7423
11. "Team Roster Turkey" (PDF). IIHF. Retrieved 29 February 2016.

External links

• Official website
• IIHF profile