New tournament for Asia, Iranian national team goes to Poland and the success of Turkish youth: the main news of the week

22.09.2023

We present a digest of the most important news for the past week. We tell you about all the hockey news in Islamic countries

The first vice-president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Uzbekistan Bahodir Gafurov in a recent interview admitted the possibility of creating an Asian Hockey League. Clubs from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Korea, and China can take part in it. He also mentioned that the idea has been under consideration for the last year and a half, and negotiations are extremely productive

Iran national team will take part in the IIHF Development Cup of the 2023/2024 season. The first stage will take place this year. The women’s national teams of Argentina, Colombia and Ireland will take part in it. The tournament will be held from November 6 to 12 in the city of Krynica-Zdroj in Poland

Turkey national team went to Bulgaria for the IIHF international tournament for boys under 16. They performed really effectively: confident major victories over Bosnia (9:1) and Bulgaria (8:5), an enchanting defeat in the another match with the hosts of the tournament (20:0) and defeat by Romania in an equal game (1:6). Thus, the Turkish youths gained silver medals of the international tournament in Bulgaria