Association | Canada Bandy |
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Head coach | Göran Svensson |
Team colors | |
First international | |
United States 10 – 0 Canada Porvoo, 17 March 1991 |
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Biggest win | |
Canada 18 – 0 Estonia Kazan, 1 February 2005 |
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Biggest defeat | |
Russia 22 – 1 Canada Irkutsk, 30 January 2014 |
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Bandy World Championship | |
Appearances | 14 (first in 1991) |
Best result | 6th (1991, 1993) |
The Canadian national bandy team is the bandy team representing Canada. The team is overseen by the Manitoba and Canadian Bandy Federations, members of the Federation of International Bandy. The team has competed in the annual Bandy World Championship several times starting in 1991.
In 2005, the team participated in the championship in Kazan, Russia, where they lost to the Belarus national bandy team for the "B" title.
At the 2010 Bandy World Championship Canada won Group B for the first time. Canada, however, lost the Group A qualification match against the United States by a score of 6–9, and thus would again play in Group B at the 2011 Bandy World Championship in Kazan, Russia. For this Championship Canada's team included 4 players playing professionally in club teams in Sweden. Canada did not participate in the 2015 Bandy World Championship. There were reports about them returning to the 2016 WCS, which they in the end did not. However, the team participated in the 2017 World Championship, where they won the Gold Medal of the Division B tournament, qualifying for Division A in 2018. They have continued to play the annual Can-Am Bandy Cup.
Canadian squad at the 2014 World Championship in Irkutsk, Russia, 26 January – 2 February 2014.