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. 	 	6:1	9:2 	4:2 	15:3 	4
2. 	1:6	 	5:2 	 	6:8 	2
3. 	2:9	2:5	 	2:11 	4:14 	0
NR B	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.Bulgaria withdraws
;Group 2
Team	TCH	SWE	FRG	SUI	GF/GA	Points
1. 	 	4:3	5:3	8:1	17:7 	6
2. 	3:4	 	7:2	8:1	18:7 	4
3. 	3:5	2:7	 	7:5	12:17	2
4. 	1:8	1:8	5:7	 	7:23 	0
=== Final round === 
;Championship round
Team	URS 	SWE 	FIN 	TCH 	GF/GA	Points
1. 	 	2:2 	(6:1)	7:4 	15:7 	5
2. 	2:2 	 	5:1 	(3:4)	10:7 	3
3. 	(1:6)	1:5 	 	6:3 	8:14 	2
4. 	4:7 	(4:3)	3:6 	 	11:16	2
;Placing round
Team	FRG 	POL 	SUI 	TCH'B'	GF/GA	Points
1. 	 	11:5 	(7:5)	1:10 	18:10	4
2. 	5:11 	 	8:4 	(11:2)	13:15	2
3. 	(5:7)	4:8 	 	2:16 	9:15 	0
NR B	10:1 	(11:2)	16:2 	 	37:5 	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. 	 	6:4 	3:2	7:3	12:2	28:11	8
2. 	4:6 	 	6:1	6:1	15:2	31:10	6
3. 	2:3 	1:6 	 	6:4	6:1 	15:14	4
4. 	3:7 	1:6 	4:6	 	7:3 	15:22	2
5. 	2:12	2:15	1:6	3:7	 	8:40 	0
;Group 2
Team	YUG 	AUT	DEN	HUN 	GF/GA	Points
1. 	 	4:0	9:0	12:0	25:0 	6
2. 	0:4 	 	4:0	6:2 	10:6 	4
3. 	0:9 	0:4	 	8:5 	8:18 	2
4. 	0:12	2:6	5:8	 	7:26 	0
=== Placing round ===
7th place		7:5(0:1, 4:2, 3:2) 		
5th place		7:6 o.t.(4:1, 0:1, 2:4, 1:0)		
3rd place		3:2(1:0, 0:2, 2:0) 		
Final 		6:2(1:0, 2:0, 3:2) 		
*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
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Category:1976 in hockey
Category:European Junior Championships