Turkmenistan became the third former Soviet Republic from Central Asia to join the IIHF after Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
[2] The Turkmenistan Ice Hockey Championship consisting of 8 teams is held annually.
The teams that took from the first to the fourth places in the championship will compete for the Turkmenistan Ice Hockey Cup.
In 2011, a second ice facility, the Winter Sports Complex Ashgabat, was opened in Turkmenistan at a cost of 134.4 million euros.
Note: The Turkmenistan under-20 national team was supposed to make its debut at the 2018 IIHF World U20 Championship Division III Qualification tournament, but withdrew prior to the tournament starting.