Norway national bandy team

Norway

Association	Norway's Bandy Association
Head coach	Christer Lystad
Team colors
First international
Norway 1 – 3 Sweden Oslo, 6 February 1927
Biggest win
Norway 32 – 0 Belarus Haparanda, 29 March 2001
Biggest defeat
Russia 22 – 0 Norway Kazan, 1 February 2005
Bandy World Championship
Appearances	34 (first in 1957)
Best result	2nd (1965)

Norway national bandy team represents Norway in the sport of bandy.

Norway, Finland and Sweden played bandy at the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952. After having seen them there, the Soviet Union invited these three countries to a four nation bandy tournament in 1954. This was the first time a Soviet national bandy team met other national bandy teams. The four countries used somewhat different rules prior to this tournament, but the rules were adjusted to be the same for the future.^[1]

Norway has been competing in the Bandy World Championship since the second tournament in 1961. Norway finished in second place in 1965 and in third place 1993.

Norway's best result in the Russian Government Cup is a second place in 1994.

World Championship record

Tournament	Final standing
Finland 1957	Didn't participate
Norway 1961	4th place
Sweden 1963	4th place
Soviet Union 1965	Silver
Finland 1967	4th place
Sweden 1969	Didn't participate
Sweden 1971	4th place
Soviet Union 1973	4th place
Finland 1975	4th place
Norway 1977	4th place
Sweden 1979	4th place
Soviet Union 1981	4th place
Finland 1983	4th place
Norway 1985	4th place
Sweden 1987	4th place
Soviet Union 1989	4th place
Finland 1991	4th place
Norway 1993	Bronze
USA 1995	5th place
Sweden 1997	5th place
Russia 1999	4th place
Finland and Sweden 2001	5th place
Russia 2003	5th place, won qualification to Group A in 2004
Sweden 2004	5th place
Russia 2005	5th place
Sweden 2006	5th place
Russia 2007	5th place
Russia 2008	5th place
Sweden 2009	5th place
Russia 2010	5th place
Russia 2011	5th place
Kazakhstan 2012	5th place
Sweden and Norway 2013	5th place
Russia 2014	5th place
Russia 2015	5th place
Russia 2016	5th place

Current squad

Norwegian squad at the 2014 World Championship in Irkutsk, Russia, January 26 – February 2, 2014.^[2]

Pos.	Age	Name	Club
GK	29	Christopher Smerkerud	Ullevål IL
GK	21	Kenneth Larsen	Sarpsborg BK
DF	23	Anders Greger Svenn	Ullevål IL
DF	20	Sigurd Strømnes	Sarpsborg BK
DF	27	Anders Christensen	Stabæk IF
DF	20	Fredrik Randsborg	Stabæk IF
MF	28	Christian Randsborg	Stabæk IF
MF	23	Nikolai Rustad Jensen	Stabæk IF
MF	27	Magnus Høgevold	Stabæk IF
MF	24	Petter Yngve Løyning	Stabæk IF
MF	27	Jan Olav Løyning	Stabæk IF
MF	24	Robin Nicolay Cras	Mjøndalen IF
MF	32	Christian Lauenborg Waaler	IF Ready
FW	20	Andreas Haugo Killingstad	Stabæk IF
FW	32	Petter Renstrøm Moen	Solberg SK
FW	29	Marius Austad	Solberg SK

References

1. Claes-G Bengtsson (23 November 2007). "Sargens entré förändrade bandyn" (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
2. "A-landslagstroppen til VM Irkutsk" (in Norwegian). Norges Bandyförbund. January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.