From time to time, TheIHLC.com will feature detailed recaps and boxscores of some of the most legendary games in international hockey history, considered to be “IHLC Classics.” Today, in honour of the International Ice Hockey Federation’s 108th birthday, we feature the first ever international game of hockey, played all the way back in 1905.
๐ง๐ช Belgium 3-0 France ๐ซ๐ท
Exhibitionย Game
Le Pรดle Nord, Brussels ๐ง๐ช
Saturday, 04 March 1905
In what is recognized as the first ever international hockey game in history by the International Ice Hockey Federation, Belgium faced off against France at the Pรดle Nord rink in central Brussels on 4 March 1905, to capture the first ever unofficial International Hockey Lineal Championship in a 3-0 victory.
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