2022 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II

2022 IIHF U18 World Championship Division II B
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Tournament details
Host country	File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	21–24 March
Teams	4
Tournament statistics
Games played	6
Goals scored	40 (6.67 per game)
Attendance	3,610 (602 per game)
Scoring leader	Croatia Karlo Marinković (10 points)

2022 IIHF U18 World Championship Division II A
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Tournament details
Host country	File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	3–9 April
Teams	6
Tournament statistics
Games played	15
Goals scored	106 (7.07 per game)
Scoring leader	South Korea Kim Si-hwan (12 points)

2022 IIHF U18 World Championship Division II
Tournament details
Host countries	File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia; File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria
Dates	3–9 April (Group A); 21–27 March (Group B)
Teams	10
	← 2021 (cancelled); ← 2019 2023 →

The 2022 IIHF U18 World Championship Division II were two international under-18 ice hockey tournaments organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division II A and Division II B tournaments represent the fourth and the fifth tier of the IIHF World U18 Championship.

Division II A

The Division II A tournament was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 3 to 9 April 2022.^[1]^[2]

Participants

Team	Qualification
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain	placed 6th in 2019 Division I B and were relegated
File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania	placed 2nd in 2019 Division II A
File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia	hosts, placed 3rd in 2019 Division II A
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania	placed 4th in 2019 Division II A
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea	placed 5th in 2019 Division II A
File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia	placed 1st in 2019 Division II B and were promoted

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea	5	4	0	0	1	33	9	+24	12^[a]	Promoted to the 2023 Division I B
2	File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia (H)	5	4	0	0	1	24	7	+17	12^[a]	Promoted to the 2023 Division I B
3	File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain	5	3	1	0	1	20	9	+11	11
4	File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania	5	2	0	0	3	16	21	−5	6
5	File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania	5	1	0	1	3	6	21	−15	4
6	File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia	5	0	0	0	5	7	39	−32	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host
Notes:

^ ^a ^b South Korea 2–1 Estonia

Results

All times are local (UTC+3).

3 April 2022
12:30

Serbia File:Flag of Serbia.svg

2–3
(0–3, 1–0, 1–0)

File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

Game reference

Željko Bodiš

Goalies

Alex Olaru

Referee:
Belgium Niki de Herdt
Linesmen:
Italy Matthias Cristelli
Lithuania Aleksej Sascenkov

	0–1	02:47 – Lőrincz (Molnár)
	0–2	02:59 – Iuga (Ördög)
	0–3	14:59 – Nyisztor (Both) (SH)
Simić (Dinić) – 34:56	1–3
Dinić (PP, EA) – 59:09	2–3

8 min

Penalties

12 min

19

Shots

40

3 April 2022
16:00

Estonia File:Flag of Estonia.svg

3–2
(1–0, 0–1, 2–1)

File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 876

Game reference

Georg Vladimirov

Goalies

Benjamin Norton

Referee:
Hungary Dániel Soós
Linesmen:
Kazakhstan Vladislav Mashenkin
Latvia Agris Ozoliņš

Nevolainen (Proskurin, Novitskiy) (PP) – 16:02	1–0
	1–1	32:22 – Hazeldine (Hopkins) (PP)
Kontseus (E. Potšinok) – 43:53	2–1
	2–2	53:43 – Hopkins (Cooper, Hazeldine)
E. Potšinok – 56:50	3–2

6 min

Penalties

16 min

39

Shots

18

3 April 2022
19:30

Lithuania File:Flag of Lithuania.svg

3–5
(1–1, 1–3, 1–1)

File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 155

Game reference

Daniil Cepov

Goalies

Seo Kyung-min

Referee:
United Kingdom Pavel Halas Jr
Linesmen:
Norway Christopher Dehn
Hungary Dávid Váczi

Dumčius (PS) – 14:09	1–0
	1–1	18:14 – Lim (Kim Sa.) (PP)
Čižas (Andrejauskas, Grybauskas) (PP) – 23:50	2–1
	2–2	24:20 – Kim Si.
	2–3	29:05 – Lee D. (Jang, Lee Jae-s.)
	2–4	32:01 – Huh (Kim Sa., Lim) (PP)
	2–5	42:46 – Huh (Kim Si.) (PP)
Grybauskas (Ignatavičius, Andrejauskas) (PP) – 55:27	3–5

12 min

Penalties

6 min

15

Shots

36

5 April 2022
12:30

Great Britain File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

3–2 OT
(0–2, 2–0, 0–0)
OT: (1–0)

File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 137

Game reference

Benjamin Norton

Goalies

Alex Olaru

Referee:
Estonia Artjom Jeremejev
Linesmen:
Norway Christopher Dehn
Latvia Agris Ozoliņš

	0–1	01:32 – Nyisztor
	0–2	08:50 – Molnár (PP)
Beatie (Hazeldine, Hopkins) (PP) – 21:11	1–2
Osborn (Lyne) – 24:06	2–2
Stewart – 60:37	3–2

12 min

Penalties

14 min

35

Shots

14

5 April 2022
16:00

South Korea File:Flag of South Korea.svg

15–2
(6–0, 7–1, 2–1)

File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 177

Game reference

Seo Kyung-min
Oh Eun-yul

Goalies

Željko Bodiš
Lazar Ilić

Referee:
United Kingdom Pavel Halas Jr
Linesmen:
Lithuania Aleksej Sascenkov
Estonia Toivu Tilku

Huh – 02:35	1–0
Hong (Kong, Kim Si.) – 03:22	2–0
Kim Sa. (Lim, Lee M.) – 11:04	3–0
Kim Si. (Huh, Jung S.) – 12:32	4–0
Kim G. (Jung J. (Jang) – 16:39	5–0
Kim D. (Huh, Kim Si.) – 18:06	6–0
Lee M. (SH) – 23:04	7–0
Lee Jae-h. (Kwon) – 24:07	8–0
Chae (Jang, Kim D.) (PP) – 29:08	9–0
Kim Si. (Lee Jae-h., Yang) – 29:38	10–0
Kwon (Lim, Kong) – 30:15	11–0
Kim Sa. (PS) – 32:46	12–0
	12–1	33:53 – Simić
Lee Jae-s. (Kim Sa.) – 36:34	13–1
	13–2	44:41 – Vidović (SH)
Kwon (Jang, Kim D.) (PP) – 45:57	14–2
Kim Sa. (Kim Si., Kim D.) – 59:58	15–2

14 min

Penalties

12 min

72

Shots

8

5 April 2022
19:30

Lithuania File:Flag of Lithuania.svg

3–8
(1–2, 1–4, 1–2)

File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 928

Game reference

Domas Makarevičius
Daniil Cepov

Goalies

Georg Vladimirov

Referee:
Hungary Dániel Soós
Linesmen:
Kazakhstan Vladislav Mashenkin
Hungary Dávid Váczi

	0–1	07:39 – Nevolainen (Välja)
	0–2	13:46 – E. Potšinok (Stepanov)
Ignatavičius (Dumčius) – 19:41	1–2
	1–3	24:13 – M. Potšinok (Kontseus, E. Potšinok)
	1–4	36:17 – Stepanov (Nevolainen, Timofejev)
	1–5	37:53 – M. Potšinok (Proskurin, Timofejev) (PP)
Levčenko (Michalevič) – 39:01	2–5
	2–6	39:40 – Stepanov (Timofejev, Nevolainen)
Grybauskas (Ignatavičius) – 43:07	3–6
	3–7	44:12 – E. Potšinok (Kontseus, M. Potšinok)
	3–8	57:23 – Neltsas (Burkov, Välja)

6 min

Penalties

8 min

31

Shots

38

6 April 2022
12:30

Great Britain File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

3–2
(1–2, 2–0, 0–0)

File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 125

Game reference

Benjamin Norton

Goalies

Oh Eun-yol

Referee:
Hungary Dániel Soós
Linesmen:
Kazakhstan Vladislav Mashenkin
Hungary Dávid Váczi

Steele (Endicott, Russell) – 01:13	1–0
	1–1	05:55 – Chae (Kwon, Jang) (PP)
	1–2	17:32 – Lee Jae-s. (Chae)
Hopkins (PP) – 26:51	2–2
Stewart (Corkum) – 35:59	3–2

35 min

Penalties

10 min

14

Shots

33

6 April 2022
16:00

Lithuania File:Flag of Lithuania.svg

6–3
(3–0, 0–2, 3–1)

File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 115

Game reference

Daniil Cepov

Goalies

Lazar Ilić

Referee:
Estonia Artjom Jeremejev
Linesmen:
Italy Matthias Cristeli
Estonia Toivo Tilku

Jukna (Čyvas, Fediukin) – 13:51	1–0
Seniut (Dumčius, Levčenko) (PP) – 14:50	2–0
Cecekovas (Valčiukas, Valivonis) – 19:59	3–0
	3–1	26:00 – Ivanović (Vidović, Dinić)
	3–2	31:07 – Ivanovic (Dinić) (PP)
Michalevič (Levčenko, Seniut) (PP) – 41:02	4–2
	4–3	49:38 – Vidović (Dinić) (PP)
Levčenko (Čižas, Čyvas) – 52:02	5–3
Zeynalov – 53:24	6–3

14 min

Penalties

14 min

50

Shots

15

6 April 2022
19:30

Estonia File:Flag of Estonia.svg

5–0
(3–0, 2–0, 0–0)

File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 734

Game reference

Georg Vladimirov

Goalies

Alex Olaru
Nándor Bíró

Referee:
Belgium Niki de Herdt
Linesmen:
Norway Christopher Dehn
Latvia Agris Ozoliņš

Välja (Neltsas, Velja) – 10:01	1–0
Kontseus (Tammeorg) – 11:11	2–0
M. Potšinok (Kontseus, E. Potšinok) (PP) – 15:25	3–0
Sildre (Kontseus, M.Potšinok) (PP) – 23:08	4–0
M. Potšinok (Kontseus, E. Potšinok) – 27:48	5–0

10 min

Penalties

10 min

39

Shots

16

8 April 2022
12:30

Romania File:Flag of Romania.svg

1–2
(0–2, 1–0, 0–0)

File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 233

Game reference

Alex Olaru

Goalies

Daniil Cepov

Referee:
United Kingdom Pavel Halas Jr
Linesmen:
Norway Christopher Dehn
Estonia Toivo Tilku

	0–1	01:44 – Levčenko (Čižas)
	0–2	19:26 – Ignatavičius (Valčiukas, Seniut)
Sârbu (Kovács, Nyika) (PP) – 23:58	1–2

58 min

Penalties

14 min

24

Shots

35

8 April 2022
16:00

Serbia File:Flag of Serbia.svg

0–8
(0–2, 0–5, 0–1)

File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 146

Game reference

Željko Bodiš
Lazar Ilić

Goalies

Benjamin Norton
Luca Tessadri

Referee:
Belgium Niki de Herdt
Linesmen:
Italy Matthias Cristeli
Lithuania Aleksej Sascenkov

	0–1	00:53 – Stewart (Hopkins)
	0–2	05:20 – Steele
	0–3	20:45 – Hopkins (Stewart)
	0–4	25:31 – Chung (Hamill)
	0–5	29:40 – Brown (Beatie)
	0–6	37:38 – Osborn (Hamill)
	0–7	39:03 – Hamill (Stewart, Beatie) (PP)
	0–8	51:17 – Hamill

12 min

Penalties

14 min

14

Shots

47

8 April 2022
19:30

South Korea File:Flag of South Korea.svg

2–1
(0–0, 0–1, 2–0)

File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 1,857

Game reference

Seo Kyung-min

Goalies

Georg Vladimirov

Referee:
Hungary Dániel Soós
Linesmen:
Kazakhstan Vladislav Mashenkin
Hungary Dávid Váczi

	0–1	31:18 – E. Potšinok (M. Potšinok, Kontseus) (PP)
Kim Si. (Kim D.) – 57:45	1–1
Lim (PP, EA) – 59:42	2–1

16 min

Penalties

14 min

34

Shots

25

9 April 2022
12:30

Great Britain File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

4–2
(2–1, 0–1, 2–0)

File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 212


			Referee: Belgium Niki de Herdt Linesmen: Kazakhstan Vladislav Mashenkin Latvia Agris Ozoliņš

14 min	Penalties	8 min
23	Shots	27

9 April 2022
16:00

Estonia File:Flag of Estonia.svg

7–0
(1–0, 4–0, 2–0)

File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 956


			Referee: United Kingdom Pavel Halas Jr Linesmen: Italy Matthias Cristeli Norway Christopher Dehn

10 min	Penalties	6 min
49	Shots	17

9 April 2022
19:30

Romania File:Flag of Romania.svg

0–9
(0–1, 0–2, 0–6)

File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn
Attendance: 568


			Referee: Estonia Artjom Jeremejev Linesmen: Lithuania Aleksej Sascenkov Estonia Toivo Tilku

18 min	Penalties	16 min
12	Shots	58

Division II B

The Division II B tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 21 to 24 March 2022.^[3]^[4]

Participants

Team	Qualification
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain	placed 6th in 2019 Division II A and were relegated
~~File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China~~	placed 2nd in 2019 Division II B
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	placed 3rd in 2019 Division II B
File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia	placed 4th in 2019 Division II B
~~File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia~~	placed 5th in 2019 Division II B
File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria	hosts, placed 1st in 2019 Division III A and were promoted

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia	3	3	0	18	2	+16	9	Promoted to the 2023 Division II A
2	File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain	3	2	1	9	7	+2	6	Promoted to the 2023 Division II A
3	File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	3	1	2	10	12	−2	3
4	File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria (H)	3	0	3	3	19	−16	0
–	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China^[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrawn
–	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia^[b]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrawn

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host
Notes:

^ China withdrew their team because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5]
^ Australia withdrew their team on 22 January 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[6]

Results

All times are local (UTC+2).

21 March 2022
15:30

Spain File:Flag of Spain.svg

0–5
(0–1, 0–2, 0–2)

File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 150




10 min	Penalties	6 min
31	Shots	41

21 March 2022
19:00

Netherlands File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg

8–1
(3–1, 3–0, 2–0)

File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 1,250




14 min	Penalties	10 min
52	Shots	21

22 March 2022
15:30

Netherlands File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg

1–8
(0–1, 1–2, 0–5)

File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 80




16 min	Penalties	2 min
18	Shots	48

22 March 2022
19:00

Bulgaria File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg

1–6
(0–2, 0–2, 1–2)

File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 850




14 min	Penalties	10 min
18	Shots	52

24 March 2022
15:30

Spain File:Flag of Spain.svg

3–1
(0–0, 2–1, 1–0)

File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 180




8 min	Penalties	12 min
30	Shots	19

24 March 2022
19:00

Croatia File:Flag of Croatia.svg

5–1
(1–1, 3–0, 1–0)

File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 1,100




10 min	Penalties	12 min
41	Shots	23

References

^ Division II A official website
^ Division II A statistics
^ Division II B official website
^ Division II B statistics
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[table_note_AUS0.46081044220403-9] Australia withdrew their team on 22 January 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[6]

[1] Division II A official website

[2] Division II A statistics

[4] Division II B official website

[5] Division II B statistics

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Current champions (2025): File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
2025 Championship teams	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechia File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland Error creating thumbnail: United States
Championships	Germany 1999 Switzerland 2000 Finland 2001 Slovakia 2002 Russia 2003 Belarus 2004 Czech Republic 2005 Sweden 2006 Finland 2007 Russia 2008 United States 2009 Belarus 2010 Germany 2011 Czech Republic 2012 Russia 2013 Finland 2014 Switzerland 2015 United States 2016 Slovakia 2017 Russia 2018 Sweden 2019 ~~United States 2020~~ United States 2021 Germany 2022 Switzerland 2023 Finland 2024 United States 2025 Slovakia 2026
Division I	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ ~~2021~~ 2022 2023 2024 2025
Division II	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ ~~2021~~ 2022 2023 2024 2025
Division III	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ ~~2021~~ 2022 2023 2024 2025
Predecessor: IIHF European Junior Championships (1967–1998)

2022 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II

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Division II A

Participants

Standings

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Results

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Host countries	File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria
Dates	3–9 April (Group A) 21–27 March (Group B)
Teams	10
← 2021 (cancelled) ← 2019 2023 →

2022 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II

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