2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

The 2016 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the ninth Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey. The tournament was played in St. Catharines, Canada.



Relegation series
The third and fourth placed team from Group B will play a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.

Tournament awards

 * Best players selected by the directorate

Source: IIHF.com


 * Media All Stars

Goaltending leaders
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Division I "A"
Was played in Miskolc, Hungary 10–16 January 2016.


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Division I Qualification
Was played in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria, January 7 to 11, 2016. The teams were divided into two groups of four where the winners played off against each other for promotion to the 2017 Division I tournament. The top six teams remain in the newly titled Division 1 B, Romania and Australia were relegated to the new Division I B Qualification tournament.


 * Group A


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 * Group B


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