2015 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 17th IIHF World U18 Championship, and was hosted by Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland. The tournament began on 16 April 2015, with the gold medal game played on 26 April 2015.

Officials
The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship.

They were the following:

Referees
 * 🇫🇷 Jimmy Bergamelli
 * 🇸🇪 Andreas Harnebring
 * 🇨🇦 Brett Iverson
 * Andreas Koch
 * 🇫🇮 Petri Lindqvist
 * 🇸🇰 Robert Mullner
 * 🇷🇺 Yuri Oskirko
 * 🇨🇿 Vladimír Pešina
 * 🇺🇸 Christopher Pitoscia
 * 🇩🇪 Marian Rohatsch
 * 🇦🇹 Ladislav Smetana
 * 🇳🇴 Per Gustav Solem

Linesmen
 * 🇩🇪 Markku Buese
 * Franco Espinoza
 * 🇨🇿 Jiří Gebauer
 * 🇸🇰 Martin Korba
 * 🇸🇪 Ludvig Lundgren
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Oliver
 * 🇷🇺 Alexander Otmakhov
 * 🇨🇦 Nicolas Piche
 * 🇫🇮 Hannu Sormunen
 * Michael Tscherrig

Group A

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''All times are local. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+02:00)''

Group B

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''All times are local. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+02:00)''

Relegation round
The last-placed teams played a best-of-three series.


 * Germany is relegated to next year's Division I A; the third game was not played because the result of the relegation series had been decided.

Scoring leaders
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source: IIHF.com

Leading goaltenders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Source: IIHF.com Goalkeepers statistics

Tournament awards
Most Valuable Player
 * Forward: 🇺🇸 Auston Matthews

All-star team
 * Goaltender: 🇫🇮 Veini Vehviläinen
 * Defencemen: 🇫🇮 Vili Saarijärvi, Jonas Siegenthaler
 * Forwards: 🇫🇮 Patrik Laine, Denis Malgin, 🇺🇸 Auston Matthews

IIHF best player awards References: ,
 * Goaltender: 🇷🇺 Ilya Samsonov
 * Defenceman: 🇫🇮 Vili Saarijärvi
 * Forward: 🇺🇸 Auston Matthews

Division I A
The Division I A tournament was played in Debrecen, Hungary, from 12 to 18 April 2015.


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Division I B
The Division I B tournament was played in Maribor, Slovenia, from 12 to 18 April 2015.


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Division II A
The Division II A tournament was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 22 to 28 March 2015.


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Division II B
The Division II B tournament was played in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 16 to 22 March 2015.


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Division III A
The Division III A tournament was played in Taipei City, Taiwan, from 22 to 28 March 2015.


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Division III B
The Division III B tournament was played in Auckland, New Zealand, from 17 to 19 March 2015.


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