2018 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division III

Tournament details
Host countries	Bulgaria   South Africa
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	22–28 January 2018 5–7 February 2018
Teams	8
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The 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was played with one group of six teams, as well as a two-team qualification tournament for the 2019 tournament. Israel won all their games and were promoted to Division II B. The team which placed first in the qualification tournament was expected to be promoted to Division III, swapping places with the sixth place team in Division III, but the 2019 organizers chose to make Division III a single tournament making these placings irrelevant.

The tournament was a round-robin tournament format, with two points allotted for a win, one additional point for a regulation win, and one point for an overtime or game winning shots loss.

To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player could not be born earlier than 1998.

The main tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, while the qualification was played in Cape Town, South Africa. The qualification was supposed to have the debut of the Turkmenistan national junior team, though they dropped out prior to it starting.

Division III main tournament

The Division III main tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 22 to 28 January 2018. ^{[1] [2]}

2018 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division III

Tournament details
Host country	Bulgaria
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	22–28 January 2018
Teams	6
Tournament statistics
Games played	15
Goals scored	126 (8.4 per game)
Attendance	4,090 (273 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Mark Revniaga (15 points)
Website	www.iihf.com

Participating teams

Team	Qualification
Australia	placed 6th in Division II B last year and were relegated
China	placed 2nd in Division III last year
Iceland	placed 3rd in Division III last year
New Zealand	placed 4th in Division III last year
Israel	placed 5th in Division III last year
Bulgaria	hosts; placed 6th in Division III last year

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Israel	5	5	0	0	0	25	11	+14	15	Promoted to the 2019 Division II B
2	China	5	3	0	0	2	30	12	+18	9
3	Bulgaria (H)	5	3	0	0	2	22	24	−2	9
4	Iceland	5	2	0	1	2	20	15	+5	7
5	Australia	5	1	1	0	3	18	24	−6	5
6	New Zealand	5	0	0	0	5	11	40	−29	0

Match results

All times are local ( UTC+2).

22 January 2018 13:00

Iceland

1–2 OT (0–0, 0–0, 1–1) ( OT: 0–1)

Australia

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 300

Game reference
	Maksymillian Mojzyszek	Goalies	Alex Tetreault	Referee: Petr Amosov Linesmen: Luchezar Stoyanov Toivo Tilku
	0–1 55:17 – Kubara ( Sillato) (PP2) Orongan (PS) – 59:10 1–1 1–2 60:37 – Sillato
	28 min	Penalties	16 min
	20	Shots	28

22 January 2018 16:30

China

2–3 (1–1, 1–0, 0–2)

Israel

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 280

Game reference
	Ren Mingwei	Goalies	Raz Werner	Referee: Marcus Wannerstedt Linesmen: Joona Elonen Deividas Kuneikis
	0–1 04:45 – Revniaga (PP) Zhang P. ( Ying) (PP) – 16:37 1–1 Ying ( Guo) (PP) – 26:18 2–1 2–2 45:45 – Revniaga ( Avraham) 2–3 52:07 – Aharonovich ( Valeev, Revniaga) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	22 min
	36	Shots	12

22 January 2018 20:00

Bulgaria

5–3 (2–1, 1–1, 2–1)

New Zealand

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 550

Game reference
	Ivan Stoynov	Goalies	Tayor Goodall	Referee: Michael Tscherrig Linesmen: Liu Tiange Tobias Schwenk
	0–1 13:44 – Aguirre-Landshoeft V. Dikov ( Vasilev) (PP) – 18:50 1–1 Gatsev ( Abdi) – 19:05 2–1 Dilkov – 23:45 3–1 3–2 28:48 – Hill ( Taylor, Hopkins) Vasilev (Gatsev) – 46:55 4–2 4–3 53:34 – Hill (SH) Vasilev (ENG) – 59:07 5–3
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	29	Shots	20

23 January 2018 13:00

China

1–2 (1–0, 0–1, 0–1)

Iceland

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 83

Game reference
	Ren Mingwei	Goalies	Maksymillian Mojzyszek	Referee: Marcus Wannerstedt Linesmen: Deividas Kuneikis Rafal Noworyta
	Zhu ( Hou, Ying) – 09:18 1–0 1–1 36:17 – Thorsteinsson ( Induss) (PP) 1–2 53:19 – Orongan ( Atlason)
	6 min	Penalties	10 min
	30	Shots	25

23 January 2018 16:30

Australia

6–3 (2–1, 1–1, 3–1)

New Zealand

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 150

Game reference
	Alex Tetreault	Goalies	Taylor Goodall	Referee: Konstantin Chubenko Linesmen: Joona Elonen Liu Tiange
	0–1 07:04 – Brown ( Aguirre-Landshoeft) Rye ( Sillato) – 13:09 1–1 Wood ( Steven, Kubara) (PP) – 16:42 2–1 Ruck (Wood, Haley) – 34:37 3–1 3–2 38:02 – Hill ( Martinoli) Sillato (Rye, Kubara) – 50:52 4–2 4–3 51:59 – Martinoli Flanagan (Steven, Sillato) – 52:14 5–3 Wood (Kubara, Tripp) – 57:57 6–3
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	35	Shots	15

23 January 2018 20:00

Israel

4–3 (1–1, 2–1, 1–1)

Bulgaria

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 580

Game reference
	Yehonatan Reisinger	Goalies	Ivan Stoynov	Referee: Petr Amosov Linesmen: Tobias Schwenk Toivo Tilku
	Kozev – 17:32 1–0 1–1 18:09 – Abdi ( Perchemliev) 1–2 22:40 – Vasilev ( Dilkov) Mostovoy ( Revniaga – 24:28 2–2 Ignatovich ( Valeev, Mostovoy) (PP) – 26:49 3–2 3–3 45:17 – Dilkov (Vasilev, V. Dikov) (PP) Ignatovich – 52:46 4–3
	38 min	Penalties	10 min
	26	Shots	27

25 January 2018 13:00

Australia

4–7 (1–1, 1–4, 2–2)

Israel

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 80

Game reference
	Alex Tetreault Sebastian Woodlands	Goalies	Raz Werner	Referee: Michael Tscherrig Linesmen: Deividas Kuneikis Rafal Noworyta
	0–1 08:07 – Revniaga ( Avraham) Steven ( Sillato, Flanagan) (PP) – 18:37 1–1 Wood (Sillato, Steven) (PP) – 21:26 2–1 2–2 23:02 – Revniaga (Avraham, Aharonovich) (PP) 2–3 30:53 – Avraham (Revniaga, Aharonovich) (PP) 2–4 32:51 – Valeev ( Mostovoy, Lonkry) 2–5 37:54 – Halpert ( Hoffman) (PP) 2–6 41:45 – Revniaga (Aharonovich, Mostovoy) Ruck (Steven) – 49:40 3–6 3–7 50:28 – Revniaga (Avraham, Mostovoy) (PP) Wood (Ruck, Steven) – 51:02 4–7
	18 min	Penalties	18 min
	29	Shots	29

25 January 2018 16:30

Iceland

13–3 (3–0, 6–2, 4–1)

New Zealand

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 90

Game reference
	Amar Hjaltested	Goalies	Taylor Goodall Finley Forbes	Referee: Petr Amosov Linesmen: Tobias Schwenk Luchezar Stoyanov
	Atlason ( G. Arason, Orongan) (PP) – 01:53 1–0 K. Arnason ( Stefansson) (SH) – 04:40 2–0 J. Árnason ( Induss, Kristveigarson) – 14:30 3–0 Kristinsson (Induss) – 24:27 4–0 Orongan – 25:01 5–0 Atlason (Orongan) – 28:12 6–0 6–1 28:35 – Graham ( Vince, Morley-Hall) Induss (J. Árnason) – 29:33 7–1 7–2 32:28 – Martinoli Atlason (Orongan) – 32:53 8–2 Induss ( V. Arason, Kristinsson) (PP) – 35:14 9–2 Induss (Orongan) (PP) – 47:56 10–2 10–3 51:42 – Rawiri (Martinoli, Hill) (PP) Kristveigarson ( Grant) – 54:47 11–3 Atlason (Orongan) (PP) – 55:34 12–3 Maack (Kristinsson) – 56:45 13–3
	32 min	Penalties	16 min
	32	Shots	20

25 January 2018 20:00

China

10–4 (3–1, 5–2, 2–1)

Bulgaria

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 620

Game reference
	Ren Mingwei Zhang Yuhang	Goalies	Ivan Stoynov Yavor Yordanov	Referee: Konstantin Chubenko Linesmen: Joona Elonen Toivo Tilku
	0–1 02:14 – Dilkov ( Vasilev) (PP) Wang J. ( Guo, Huang) – 03:23 1–1 Xie ( Zuo) – 11:48 2–1 Huang (Wang J., Zhang D.) (PP) – 19:45 3–1 3–2 23:29 – Dilkov (PP) Hou ( Zhang P.) – 26:25 4–2 Hou (Zhang P., Ying) (PP) – 28:08 5–2 Ying – 29:50 6–2 6–3 34:52 – Vasilev (Dilkov) Guo (Ying, Wang J.) – 37:22 7–3 Wang J. (Huang) (SH) – 39:09 8–3 Ying – 51:49 9–3 Huang (Ying) – 54:20 10–3 10–4 59:31 – V. Dikov ( K. Dikov, Dilkov)
	20 min	Penalties	24 min
	39	Shots	14

26 January 2018 13:00

Israel

6–2 (3–0, 0–0, 3–2)

Iceland

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 71

Game reference
	Yehonatan Reisinger	Goalies	Maksymillian Mojzyszek Arnar Hjaltested	Referee: Konstantin Chubenko Linesmen: Liu Tiange Tobias Schwenk
	Revniaga ( Aharonovich) – 08:07 1–0 Ignatovich – 11:03 2–0 Marziko ( Shahar) – 19:26 3–0 3–1 41:02 – Orongan ( Kristveigarson, G. Arason) Mostovoy (Aharonovich, Kapulkin) – 43:22 4–1 Revniaga (Aharonovich) (PP) – 48:44 5–1 5–2 51:35 – Kristveigarson ( Atlason, Orongan) Revniaga (Aharonovich, Ignatovich) (PP) – 57:08 6–2
	24 min	Penalties	14 min
	26	Shots	25

26 January 2018 16:30

New Zealand

2–11 (0–3, 0–6, 2–2)

China

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 50

Game reference
	Taylor Goodall Finley Forbes	Goalies	Zhang Yuhang	Referee: Michael Tscherrig Linesmen: Rafal Noworyta Luchezar Stoyanov
	0–1 01:23 – Zhu ( Yuyang) 0–2 04:31 – Ying ( Zhang D., Wang J.) (PP) 0–3 11:33 – Feng 0–4 20:46 – Guo ( Yan, Huang) 0–5 26:13 – Hou (Ying, Zhu) 0–6 26:57 – Li ( Xie) 0–7 07:41 – Huang (Wang J.) 0–8 30:04 – Huang (Wang J.) 0–9 31:46 – Ying ( Zhang P., Zhang D.) (PP) 0–10 41:29 – Ying Egan ( Hill) (PP) – 51:17 1–10 Egan ( Martinoli) (PP) – 56:40 2–10 2–11 59:20 – Yu (Guo)
	12 min	Penalties	26 min
	9	Shots	44

26 January 2018 20:00

Bulgaria

7–5 (1–0, 2–3, 4–2)

Australia

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 410

Game reference
	Ivan Stoynov	Goalies	Sebastian Woodlands	Referee: Marcus Wannerstedt Linesmen: Joona Elonen Deividas Kuneikis
	Dilkov (SH) – 06:53 1–0 1–1 22:18 – Kubara ( Brunt, Sillato) (PP) 1–2 26:25 – Steven ( Flanagan) 1–3 29:27 – Kubara (Sillato) Dilkov ( Vasilev, V. Dikov) – 36:58 2–3 Petkov – 38:11 3–3 Ivanov ( K. Dikov) – 45:30 4–3 4–4 49:39 – Ruck 4–5 50:47 – Steven ( Wardlaw) V. Dikov (Petkov, Georgiev) – 51:06 5–5 K. Dikov (Vasilev) (PP) – 55:58 6–5 Vasilev (Dilkov, V. Dikov) (ENG) – 59:47 7–5
	10 min	Penalties	14 min
	37	Shots	26

28 January 2018 13:00

New Zealand

0–5 (0–1, 0–3, 0–1)

Israel

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 51

Game reference
	Taylor Goodall	Goalies	Raz Werner	Referee: Marcus Wannerstedt Linesmen: Luchezar Stoyanov Toivo Tilku
	0–1 19:28 – Avraham ( Hoffman, Tamir) (PP) 0–2 29:51 – Aharonovich ( Mostovoy, Revniaga) (PP) 0–3 31:04 – Revniaga ( Lavon, Hoffman) 0–4 34:19 – Lavon (Hoffman) (PP) 0–5 52:36 – Revniaga ( Kozev, Merkulov)
	35 min	Penalties	10 min
	26	Shots	35

28 January 2018 16:30

Iceland

2–3 (1–0, 0–1, 1–2)

Bulgaria

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 670

Game reference
	Arnar Hjaltested	Goalies	Ivan Stoynov	Referee: Konstantin Chubenko Linesmen: Liu Tiange Rafal Noworyta
	Induss ( Sverrisson, Kristinsson) – 02:52 1–0 1–1 33:08 – Dilkov ( Vasilev) Orongan (PP) – 41:32 2–1 2–2 48:04 – Dilkov (Vasilev, Mladenov) 2–3 59:46 – V. Dikov (Dilkov, Mladenov)
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	28	Shots	29

28 January 2018 20:00

Australia

1–6 (0–2, 1–2, 0–2)

China

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia Attendance: 105

Game reference
	Alex Tetreault Sebastian Woodlands	Goalies	Zhang Yuhang	Referee: Michael Tscherrig Linesmen: Joona Elonen Tobias Schwenk
	0–1 00:16 – Guo ( Huang, Wang J.) 0–2 05:28 – Ying ( Zhang D., Wang J.) (PP) 0–3 25:26 – Ying 0–4 29:09 – Zhu (Ying, Hou) (EA) Wood ( Sillato) – 38:28 1–4 1–5 47:16 – Wang J. (Hou, Zhang D.) (PP2) 1–6 53:42 – Huang (Wang J., Guo)
	30 min	Penalties	18 min
	21	Shots	41

Statistics

Top 10 scorers

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
1	Mark Revniaga	Israel	5	11	4	15	+7	6
2	Rudi Ying	China	5	8	6	14	+10	4
3	Daniel Dilkov	Bulgaria	5	8	5	13	+4	6
4	Miroslav Vasilev	Bulgaria	5	5	7	12	+2	16
5	Huang Qianyi	China	5	5	6	11	+14	4
5	Axel Orongan	Iceland	5	5	6	11	−1	12
7	Wang Jing	China	5	3	8	11	+9	22
8	Tomer Aharonovich	Israel	5	3	7	10	+3	18
9	Aiden Sillato	Australia	5	2	8	10	+1	6
10	Thomas Steven	Australia	5	3	5	8	+1	2

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos	Player	Country	MINS	GA	Sv%	GAA	SO
1	Raz Werner	Israel	180:00	6	93.41	2.00	1
2	Maksymillian Mojzyszek	Iceland	165:51	7	91.14	2.53	0
3	Yehonatan Reisinger	Israel	120:00	5	90.38	2.50	0
4	Zhang Yuhang	China	153:57	5	87.80	1.95	0
5	Arnar Hjaltested	Iceland	134:32	8	85.19	3.57	0

TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF

Awards

Best Players Selected by the Directorate

• Goaltender: Maksymillian Mojzyszek
• Defenceman: Konstantin Dikov
• Forward: Mark Revniaga

Division III Qualification

The Division III Qualification tournament was played in Cape Town, South Africa, from 5 to 7 February 2018. ^[3]

Participating teams

Team	Qualification
Chinese Taipei	placed 7th in Division III last year and were relegated
South Africa	hosts; placed 8th in Division III last year and were relegated

The tournament originally included Turkmenistan, but they withdrew before the event began.

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	South Africa (H)	2	2	0	0	0	6	4	+2	6	Promoted to the 2019 Division III
2	Chinese Taipei	2	0	0	0	2	4	6	−2	0

Match results

All times are local ( UTC+2).

5 February 2018 20:00

Chinese Taipei

0–1 (0–0, 0–1, 0–0)

South Africa

The Ice Station, Cape Town Attendance: 150

Game reference
	Huang Sheng-chun	Goalies	Ryan Boyd	Referees: Pierre Dehaen Vladimir Snášel Linesmen: Botond Pálkövi Gil Haim Tichon
	0–1 28:47 – Johnson ( R. Venter, Phakathi) (PP)
	12 min	Penalties	29 min
	22	Shots	29

6 February 2018 20:00

South Africa

5–4 (2–3, 2–0, 1–1)

Chinese Taipei

The Ice Station, Cape Town Attendance: 125

Game reference
	Ryan Boyd	Goalies	Huang Sheng-chun	Referees: Pierre Dehaen Vladimir Snášel Linesmen: Botond Pálkövi Gil Haim Tichon
	Taljaard ( Kruger, Alford) – 01:50 1–0 1–1 08:12 – Lin C. ( Kuo, Chen K.) (PP) R. Venter ( Johnson, J. Venter) – 13:07 2–1 2–2 14:19 – Lin K. (Chen K.) (PP) 2–3 17:34 – Chiang (Lin C.) (PP) Johnson ( Cerff) (PP) – 23:31 3–3 Schuurman ( Beukes) (PP) – 26:50 4–3 4–4 40:53 – Chiang ( Lee) (PP2) Bremner (J. Venter, Schuurman) – 53:05 5–4
	34 min	Penalties	32 min
	37	Shots	33

7 February 2018 20:00

Chinese Taipei

6–4 (exhibition only)

South Africa

The Ice Station, Cape Town

References

External links

• Official website of IIHF