The 1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were held in Leningrad, Soviet Union between December 27, 1973 and January 6, 1974. The host Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 5–0 record.
This was the first edition of the IIHF World U20 Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records.
Canada was represented by a club team, the Peterborough Petes, while the other five nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players.
Tournament results[]
The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other five teams once each.
| Rank | Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | 
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 Soviet Union |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 12 | 10 | — | 6–2 | 9–0 | 5–4 | 9–1 | 7–5 | |
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 Finland |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 23 | 6 | 2–6 | — | 4–3 | 4–9 | 5–1 | 6–4 | |
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Canada |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 23 | 6 | 0–9 | 3–4 | — | 5–4 | 5–4 | 4–2 | |
| 4 |  Sweden |
5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 21 | 4 | 4–5 | 9–4 | 4–5 | — | 11–1 | 4–6 | |
| 5 |  United States of America |
5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 32 | 2 | 1–9 | 1–5 | 4–5 | 1–11 | — | 3–2 | |
| 6 |  Czechoslovakia |
5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 24 | 2 | 5–7 | 4–6 | 2–4 | 6–4 | 2–3 | — |
| Preceded by — |
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships See also: 1974 World Championships |
Succeeded by 1975 World Juniors |
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