Luxemburg is ready to hold the matches of the 2022 World Cup in the third division of group “A”. All tournament’s game will be held from 3 to 8 April at the ice arena in the city of Kokelshöhe.
The matches will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel of the Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation.
Turkmen hockey players will play their first matches at the World Championship on April 3 against the UAE team. With Luxemburg team they will play on April 5, with rivals from Taiwan – on April 7 and will end the tournament with the game against Turkey on April 8. A ticket to the 2023 World Cup of the second division of group “B” will receive only the winner of the tournament in Luxemburg.
The entrance to almost all matches with the participation of the Turkmenistan national team will be free. The Turkmenistan-Luxemburg match’s ticket will cost 10 euros.
The Ice Hockey World Championship is held in several divisions depending on the ranking of the teams.
The upcoming world championship in Luxembourg will be the second in the history of Turkmen hockey. Our compatriots, making their debut at the World Championships in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2019, took third place in the third division among 6 teams, that represented Europe, Asia and Africa. The team was led to this achievement by the head coach Bayram Allayarov, under whose leadership our hockey players won small gold medals in the second division tournament in the program of the VIII Asian Winter Games in Sapporo (Japan) in 2017, and won in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 2018 Qualifying tournament for the World Cup with the participation of four teams.
