The Turkmenistan national hockey team will participate in the Winter Asian Games. The competitions will start in the Chinese city of Harbin in February 2025.
The Turkmen team has been placed in Group “C”. Their first opponent will be the Indian national team. The match will take place on February 4th. The Chairman of the Turkmenistan Hockey Federation, Jora Khudaiberdyev, reported that the hockey players will also have intra-group matches with representatives of Macau and Hong Kong, which will be held on February 5th and 9th, respectively. If the national team performs successfully, they will have the opportunity to compete in playoff matches with teams from other divisions.
To prepare the team for such a major competition, Turkmenistan plans to attract experienced foreign specialists. In particular, negotiations are currently underway to invite one of the coaches from the Russian club “Ak Bars”. In 2017, at the Winter Asian Games in Sapporo, Japan, the Turkmen hockey team won gold, defeating opponents from Malaysia, Macau, Indonesia, and Kyrgyzstan.
