Iranian women’s ice hockey: the journey continues

19.09.2023

The Iranian national team will participate in IIHF Women’s Development Cup 2023/2024. The first stage will be held this year and the national ice hockey teams of Argentina, Colombia and Ireland will also take part in it. The event will be hosted in the city of Krynica-Zdroj in Poland, in November 6-12

In 2023, the Iranian women’s national team develops really quickly. The first tournament in the history of the Iranian women’s national team was the Kazan Cup 2023, which was held in January 2023 in Tatarstan. A little later, in May 2023, the national team competed at the IIHF Asian and Oceania Championship, where they gained silver medals of the tournament.

Recently, the women’s national team, consisting mainly of girls under the age of 18, became the silver medalist of a new competition – Union Women’s Ice hockey Cup 2023 in the UAE. Due to the performance at the tournament, the leader of the national team Asal Heydari was signed by the Swedish team Hammarby

All these are just the first steps of the Iranian women’s national team in their big ice hockey journey