🇧🇪 BELGIUM (BEL) Men’s National Ice Hockey Team (1905-)
4 wins, 2 reigns, 4 games with IHLC – ranked 14th
IHLC last held 06 March 1909
Belgium made history in Brussels on 4 March 1905 when club squad FBP Brussels defeated CP Paris, representing France, to win the first ever international ice hockey game, becoming the first ever International Hockey Lineal Champions in the process. Belgium was active in competing for the IHLC regularly throughout the first quarter century, and hosted the first ever Olympic hockey tournament at the 1920 Games in Antwerp, but following the outbreak of World War II, largely dropped from international competition, only recently moving its way up to Division II of the World Championship.
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