Portugal men's national ice hockey team
Portugal men's national ice hockey team
The team, known in Portuguese as Seleção Portuguesa de Hóquei no Gelo, is Portugal’s national men’s ice hockey team. Since 2017 the team has been governed by the Federação de Desportos de Inverno de Portugal (FDIP), and it remains not ranked by the IIHF and does not compete in World Championship events.
Key people and stats
- General manager: Cristina Lopes
- Head coach: Jim Aldred
- Captain: Higínio Ferreira
- Top scorer: Philip Sardinha (13 goals)
- Most points: Philip Sardinha (16)
- IIHF code: POR
- Current IIHF ranking: NR (not ranked as of May 26, 2025)
- First international game: Portugal 3–2 Andorra (Canillo, 29 September 2017)
- Biggest win: Portugal 15–3 Andorra (April 23, 2025)
- Biggest defeat: Liechtenstein 21–0 Portugal (3 May 2023)
- International record: 12–17–0
A brief history
- Ice hockey in Portugal has a long, varied history, with early activity in Viseu (1996–2006) and ongoing practices in Elvas since 2010.
- The national team’s first international games were in 2000, against the First Portuguese Canadian Cultural Center (FPCCC) from Toronto; Portugal’s first goal was scored by Pedro Regado.
- After a period without organized matches, Portugal returned to international play in 2015 with exhibitions in Elvas against Čeští lvi, followed by several events in Prague and Granada.
- In 2017, under Canadian coach Jim Aldred, Portugal competed in the IIHF Development Cup in Andorra, winning bronze in a 3–2 shootout win over Andorra and finishing with other results that year.
- The team continued competing in the Development Cup and related events, earning a silver medal in 2018 and a runner-up finish in 2024 after a string of appearances.
- In July 2023, Jim Aldred founded Ice Hockey Club Porto, the first Portuguese club to join Spain’s LNHH. Aldred cites the lack of a standard-size rink as the main obstacle to growth and hopes for new rinks in Lisbon and in Porto (an Olympic-sized rink planned for Trofa in 2025). As of April 2025, development work and rink proposals were ongoing.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 07:48 (CET).