# 2012 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship Division I

The 2012 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship Division I tournament was the fourth Division I tournament of the U18 Women's World Championship in ice hockey to be organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). For 2012, Division I comprised two events – a qualification tournament for Division I and the Division I tournament. The qualification tournament represented the lowest competition tier of the 2012 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship and the Division I tournament represented the second tier.
The qualification tournament was played in Asiago, Italy, from 29 November to 4 December 2011. The Division I tournament was played in Tromsø, Norway from 29 December 2011 to 4 January 2012.
Hungary won both the Division I qualification tournament and the Division I tournament itself in what was described as the "biggest success in Hungarian women's hockey." After winning all ten of their games across the qualification and Division I tournament combined, the Hungarians earned the opportunity to compete against the elite hockey nations in the 2013 Top Division tournament, for which more than fifteen of the twenty players from the 2012 roster remained eligible.

## Qualification tournament
### Final standings

| Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Hungary | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 4 | +33 | 15 | Qualified |
| Great Britain | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 16 | +3 | 9 | Qualified |
| China | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 19 | −4 | 8 | |
| Italy | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 14 | +7 | 7 | |
| France | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 6 | |
| Kazakhstan | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 44 | −40 | 0 | |

## Final tournament
### Final standings

| Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| Hungary | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 10 | +14 | 14 | Promoted to the 2013 Top Division |
| Austria | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 9 | +7 | 11 | |
| Japan | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 11 | |
| Norway | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 6 | |
| Great Britain | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 14 | −4 | 3 | Relegated to the 2013 Division I Qualification |
| Slovakia | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 29 | −24 | 0 | Relegated to the 2013 Division I Qualification |

### Results

All times are local (CET – UTC+01).

## Awards and statistics
### Awards

| Position | Player |
| Goaltender | Shizuka Takahashi |
| Defender | Victoria Løvdal |
| Forward | Alexandra Huszák |
* Player
* Martina Kneß
* Louise Adams
* Fanni Gasparics
* Yui Sawade
* Mathea Fischer
* Nikola Kaliská

### Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. All players are listed in the event of a tie in points.
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes; +/− = Plus/minus; POS = Position
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/− | PIM | POS |
| Alexandra Huszák | 5 | 7 | 3 | 10 | +6 | 10 | F |
| Fanni Gasparics | 5 | 2 | 8 | 10 | +6 | 0 | F |
| Mathea Fischer | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +4 | 2 | F |
| Jeanett Hjelm | 5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +5 | 8 | F |
| Julia Willenshofer | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | +4 | 8 | F |
| Andrea Kiss | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | +7 | 0 | F |
| Paige Henry | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | –1 | 0 | F |
| Jekatyerina Maszlova | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | +5 | 2 | F |
| Rui Ukita | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | +2 | 0 | D |
| Katherine Gale | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | +1 | 4 | F |
| Ramona Wais | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | +6 | 0 | F |

### Leading goaltenders

Only the goaltenders who played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list, sorted by save percentage.
TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SOG = Shots on goal; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
| Player | TOI | SOG | GA | GAA | Sv% | SO |
| Paula Marchhart | 244:44 | 129 | 8 | 1.96 | 93.80 | 0 |
| Toini Veronica Nilsen | 179:02 | 102 | 7 | 2.35 | 93.14 | 0 |
| Shizuka Takahashi | 270:00 | 99 | 7 | 1.56 | 92.93 | 0 |
| Anikó Németh | 305:00 | 115 | 10 | 1.97 | 91.30 | 1 |
| Ingrid Sandven | 119:32 | 50 | 5 | 2.51 | 90.00 | 0 |
| Beatrice Fletcher | 233:49 | 119 | 12 | 3.08 | 89.92 | 0 |
| Zuzana Štefaniaková | 196:40 | 89 | 15 | 4.58 | 83.15 | 0 |