2019 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2019 Men's World U18 Ice Hockey Championships is the 21rd such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams will participate at several levels of competition. The competition will also serve as qualifications for the 2020 competition. One national team, Luxembourg, will play in the World Championships for the first time in 2019.

Match officials
12 referees and 10 linesmen were selected for the tournament.


 * Referees
 * 🇫🇮 Aaro Brännare
 * 🇨🇦 Michael Campbell
 * 🇨🇿 Oldřich Hejduk
 * 🇫🇮 Joonas Kova
 * 🇨🇦 Guillaume Labonté
 * 🇸🇪 Marcus Linde
 * 🇺🇸 Sean MacFarlane
 * 🇷🇺 Sergey Morozov
 * 🇩🇪 Andre Schrader
 * 🇧🇾 Andrei Shrubok
 * 🇸🇰 Miroslav Štefík
 * Michael Tscherrig


 * Linesmen
 * 🇧🇾 Pavel Badyl
 * 🇺🇸 Riley Bowles
 * Henrik Haurum
 * 🇳🇴 Jon Kilian
 * 🇸🇪 Ludvig Lundgren
 * David Obwegeser
 * 🇫🇮 Jani Pesonen
 * 🇷🇺 Nikita Shalagin
 * 🇨🇿 Josef Špůr
 * 🇨🇦 Tarrington Wyonzek

Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+2).

Group A
The Group A tournament was held in Grenoble, France from 14 to 20 April 2019.


 * – Host – Relegated from Top Division
 * – Promoted from Division I B
 * – Promoted from Division I B
 * – Promoted from Division I B
 * – Promoted from Division I B
 * – Promoted from Division I B

Results
All times are local (UTC+2).

Group B
The Group B tournament was held in Szekesfehervar, Hungary from 14 to 20 April 2019.


 * – Relegated from Division I A
 * – Host
 * – Promoted from Division II A
 * – Host
 * – Promoted from Division II A
 * – Promoted from Division II A

Results
All times are local (UTC+2).

Group A
The Group A tournament was held in Elektrėnai, Lithuania from 7 to 13 April 2019. The top team advances to Division I B for 2020. The bottom team is relegated to Division II B for 2020.

Group B
The Group B tournament was held in Belgrade, Serbia from 25 to 31 March 2019. The top team is promoted to Division IIA for 2020 and the bottom team is relegated to Division IIIA for 2020.

Group A
The Group A tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 25 to 31 March 2019. At the time of the tournament Iceland was awarded second place, this was corrected on April 3.

Group B
The Group B tournament was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 9 to 12 April 2019.