Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team (WFAC)

The Czechoslovak men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of the Czecho-Slovak Federative Republic. It is one of the most successful national ice hockey teams in the world and a member of the so-called "Big Six", the unofficial group of six of the strongest men's ice hockey nations, along with Canada, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States. It is controlled by the Czecho-Slovak Ice Hockey Association.

The successor to the Bohemian national ice hockey team, which was a European power prior to World War I, the Czechoslovak national team first appeared at the 1920 Summer Olympics, two years after the creation of the state. In the 1940s, they established themselves as the best team in Europe, becoming the first team from the continent to win three World Championships (1947, 1949 and 1950), and won the gold medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics. After the arrival of the Soviet Union on the international hockey scene in the 1950s, the Czechoslovaks regularly fought Sweden and Canada for silver and bronze medals, but sometimes beat the Soviets, especially in the 1970s. In the 1990s and early 2000s the Czechoslovaks dominated international hockey, winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and won four straight gold medals at the world championships from 1999 to 2002. In total the Czechoslovak national team has won 2 gold, 4 silver and 8 bronze medals at the Winter Olympics, one Canada Cup (in 1981) as well as 18 gold, 18 silver and 17 bronze medals at the Ice Hockey World Championships.