1976 IIHF European U19 Championship

The 1976 IIHF European U19 Championship was the ninth playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.

Group A

Played in Koprivnice and Opava Czechoslovakia from March 21-29 1976.

First round

Group 1

Team	URS	FIN	POL	TCH'B'	GF/GA	Points
1. Soviet Union		6:1	9:2	4:2	15:03	4
2. Finland	1:6		5:2		06:08	2
3. Poland	2:9	2:5		2:11	04:14	0
NR  CzechoslovakiaB	2:4		11:2		13:6	2

• NOTE Bulgaria was supposed to participate in this group, but could not because of an epidemic of the Grippe. An under 18 Czech team filled in, but arrived to late to play their game against Finland. None of their games counted in the standings, so their totals are only shown for interest.

Group 2

Team	TCH	SWE	FRG	SUI	GF/GA	Points
1. Czechoslovakia		4:3	5:3	8:1	17:07	6
2. Sweden	3:4		7:2	8:1	18:07	4
3. Federal Republic of Germany	3:5	2:7		7:5	12:17	2
4. Switzerland	1:8	1:8	5:7		07:23	0

Final round

Championship round

Team	URS	SWE	FIN	TCH	GF/GA	Points
1. Soviet Union		2:2	(6:1)	7:4	15:07	5
2. Sweden	2:2		5:1	(3:4)	10:07	3
3. Finland	(1:6)	1:5		6:3	08:14	2
4. Czechoslovakia	4:7	(4:3)	3:6		11:16	2

Placing round

Team	FRG	POL	SUI	TCH'B'	GF/GA	Points
1. Federal Republic of Germany		11:5	(7:5)	1:10	18:10	4
2. Poland	5:11		8:4	(11:2)	13:15	2
3. Switzerland	(5:7)	4:8		2:16	09:15	0
NR CzechoslovakiaB	10:1	(11:2)	16:2		37:05	6

• The Czechoslovakia B games do not count in the standings. Bulgaria was relegated to Group B for 1977.

Tournament Awards

• Top Scorer: Ernst Hofner (12 Points)
• Top Goalie: Pelle Lindbergh
• Top Defenceman:Vyacheslav Fetisov
• Top Forward: Valeri Yevstifeiev

Group B

Played in Bucharest and Ploesti Romania from March 13-21, 1976

First round

Group 1

Team	ROM	NOR	FRA	ITA	ESP	GF/GA	Points
1. Romania		6:4	3:2	7:3	12:2	28:11	8
2. Norway	4:6		6:1	6:1	15:2	31:10	6
3. France	2:3	1:6		6:4	6:1	15:14	4
4. Italy	3:7	1:6	4:6		7:3	15:22	2
5. Spain	2:12	2:15	1:6	3:7		08:40	0

Group 2

Team	YUG	AUT	DEN	HUN	GF/GA	Points
1. Yugoslavia		4:0	9:0	12:0	25:00	6
2. Austria	0:4		4:0	6:2	10:06	4
3. Denmark	0:9	0:4		8:5	08:18	2
4. Hungary	0:12	2:6	5:8		07:26	0

Placing round

7th place	Italy	7:5 (0:1, 4:2, 3:2)	Hungary
5th place	Denmark	7:6 o.t. (4:1, 0:1, 2:4, 1:0)	France
3rd place	Austria	3:2 (1:0, 0:2, 2:0)	Norway
Final	Romania	6:2 (1:0, 2:0, 3:2)	Yugoslavia

• Results for the fifth and the seventh place games are taken from the International Ice Hockey Encyclopedia and disagree with the scores posted on passionhockey.com's archive page.

Romania was promoted to Group A for 1977.

References

• German Wikipedia
• Complete results
• Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports, 530–2. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9. 
• Müller, Stephan (2005). International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia 1904–2005. Germany: Books on Demand, 240–395. ISBN 3-8334-4189-5.