1955 Roller Hockey World Cup

1955 Roller Hockey World Cup

Roller Hockey Men's World Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Italy
Dates	14 May 1955 (1955-05-14)– 21 May 1955 (1955-05-21)
Teams	14 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (3rd title)
Runners-up	Italy
Third place	Portugal
Fourth place	Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	328 (5.38 per match)
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The 1955 Roller Hockey World Cup was the eleventh roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Patinage a Roulettes (now under the name of Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports). It was contested by 14 national teams (13 from Europe and 1 from South America) and it is also considered the 1955 European Roller Hockey Championship (despite the presence of Chile). Each group was played in a different Italian city, with the final-eight played in the city of Milan, in Italy (officially the host city).

Group stage[]

Group A[]

• All the games played in Modena, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ESP	CHI	FRA
Spain	3	3	0	0	19	3	+16	6	Advancing to final-eight			2–1	7–1	10–1
Chile	3	1	1	1	15	4	+11	3
France	3	1	1	1	13	9	+4	3				2–2
	3	0	0	3	1	32	−31	0				0–12	0–10

Group B[]

• All the games played in Trieste, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR		NED
Portugal	2	1	1	0	10	2	+8	3	Advancing to final-eight			2–2	8–0
	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2	3					3–1
Netherlands	2	0	0	2	1	11	−10	0

Group C[]

• All the games played in Novara, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ITA	SWI
Italy	2	2	0	0	13	1	+12	4	Advancing to final-eight			5–1	8–0
Switzerland	2	1	0	1	11	6	+5	2					10–1
	2	0	0	2	1	18	−17	0

Group D[]

• All the games played in Monza, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification			ENG
	3	3	0	0	22	4	+18	6	Advancing to final-eight			4–2	8–1	10–1
England	3	2	0	1	16	7	+9	4					7–1	7–2
	3	0	1	2	4	17	−13	1						2–2
	3	0	1	2	5	19	−14	1

Final phase[]

9th to 14th play-off[]

• All the games played in Pistoia, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	5	4	1	0	29	9	+20	9
France	5	3	1	1	13	5	+8	7
	5	3	0	2	8	6	+2	6
	5	2	1	2	13	7	+6	5
	5	1	1	3	7	11	−4	3
	5	0	0	5	1	33	−32	0

Final-eight[]

• All the games played in Milan, Italy

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain (C)	7	6	1	0	23	7	+16	13
Italy	7	6	0	1	17	5	+12	12
Portugal	7	5	1	1	25	14	+11	11
Switzerland	7	4	0	3	17	14	+3	8
Chile	7	2	0	5	9	17	−8	4
	7	1	1	5	5	17	−12	3
	7	1	1	5	11	25	−14	3
England	7	0	2	5	14	22	−8	2

Standings[]

	Team
	Spain
	Italy
	Portugal
4th	Switzerland
5th	Chile
6th
7th
8th	England
9th	Netherlands
10th	France
11th
12th
13th
14th

See also[]

• FIRS Roller Hockey World Cup
• CERH European Roller Hockey Championship

External links[]

• 1955 World Cup in rink-hockey.net historical database