2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

The 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was played with one group of six teams, as well as a three team qualification tournament for the 2019 tournament. Israel won all their games and were promoted to Division IIB. The team which placed first in the qualification tournament was expected to be promoted to Division III, swapping places with the sixth place team in Division III, but the 2019 organizers chose to make Division III a single tournament making these placings irrelevant.
The tournament was a round-robin tournament format, with two points allotted for a win, one additional point for a regulation win, and one point for an overtime or game winning shots loss.
To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player could not be born earlier than 1998.
The main Division III tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, while the qualification was hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. The qualification was supposed to have the debut of the Turkmenistan national junior team, though they dropped out prior to it starting.
==Division III==
The Division III tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 22 to 28 January 2018.
===Participants===
Team	Qualification
 	placed 6th in Division II B last year and were relegated
 	placed 2nd in Division III last year
 	placed 3rd in Division III last year
 	placed 4th in Division III last year
 	placed 5th in Division III last year
 	placed 6th in Division III last year
===Final Standings===
===Results===
All times are local (UTC+2).
===Statistics===
====Top 10 scorers====
Pos	Player 	Country	GP	G 	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
1 	Mark Revniaga 	 	5 	11	4	15 	+7 	6
2 	Rudi Ying 	 	5 	8 	6	14 	+10	4
3 	Daniel Dilkov 	 	5 	8 	5	13 	+4 	6
4 	Miroslav Vasilev 	 	5 	5 	7	12 	+2 	16
5 	Huang Qianyi 	 	5 	5 	6	11 	+14	4
5 	Axel Orongan 	 	5 	5 	6	11 	−1 	12
7 	Wang Jing 	 	5 	3 	8	11 	+9 	22
8 	Tomer Aharonovich	 	5 	3 	7	10 	+3 	18
9 	Aiden Sillato 	 	5 	2 	8	10 	+1 	6
10 	Thomas Steven 	 	5 	3 	5	8 	+1 	2
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF
====Goaltending leaders====
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
Pos	Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
1 	Raz Werner 	 	180:00	6 	93.41	2.00	1
2 	Maksymillian Mojzyszek	 	165:51	7 	91.14	2.53	0
3 	Yehonatan Reisinger 	 	120:00	5 	90.38	2.50	0
4 	Zhang Yuhang 	 	153:57	5 	87.80	1.95	0
5 	Arnar Hjaltested 	 	134:32	8 	85.19	3.57	0
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF 
===Awards===
;Best Players Selected by the Directorate
* Goaltender: Maksymillian Mojzyszek
* Defenceman: Konstantin Dikov
* Forward: Mark Revniaga
==Division III Qualification==
The Division III Qualification tournament was played in Cape Town, South Africa, from 5 to 7 February 2018.
===Participants===
Team	Qualification
 	placed 7th in Division III last year and were relegated
 	placed 8th in Division III last year and were relegated
The tournament originally included Turkmenistan, but they withdrew before the event began.
===Standings===
===Results===
All times are local (UTC+2).
==External links==
*IIHF.com
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