2022 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

The 2022 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the 14th Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey.
On December 24, 2021, the tournament was cancelled for the second year in a row by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, on March 21, 2022, the IIHF announced it had reconsidered and rescheduled the Top Division tournament for June 6–13, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
The venues which hosted the event in Dane County, Wisconsin were LaBahn Arena, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Bob Suter's Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton, home of the USHL's Madison Capitols. 
==Top Division==
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1 	(H) 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	18	1 	17	9 	Semifinals
2 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	5 	9 	−4	3 	Semifinals
3 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	3 	10	−7	3 	Quarterfinals
4 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	6 	12	−6	3 	Quarterfinals
− 	 	0 	0	0 	0 	0	0 	0 	0 	0 	Expelled
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====Group B====
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1 	 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	12	2 	10	9 	Quarterfinals
2 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	7 	9 	−2	3 	Quarterfinals
3 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	3 	4 	−1	3 	Relegation round
4 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	5 	12	−7	3 	Relegation round
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===Relegation round===
The third and fourth placed team from Group B played a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.
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===Final round===
Teams were reseeded for the semifinals in accordance with the following ranking:
#tier of the group;
#position in the group.
Rank	Team	Group	
1 	 	A 	1
2 	 	A 	2
3 	 	A 	3
4 	 	A 	4
5 	 	B 	1
6 	 	B 	2
====Quarterfinals====
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====Semifinals====
====Fifth place game====
====Bronze medal game====
====Gold medal game====
==Division I==
===Group A===
The tournament would have been held in Győr, Hungary from 9 to 15 January 2022. It was rescheduled and played from 3 to 8 April 2022.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1 	 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	26	0 	26 	12 	Promoted to the 2023 Top Division
2 	 	4 	2	1 	0 	1	9 	9 	0 	8 	
3 	 	4 	0	2 	1 	1	7 	9 	−2 	5 	
4 	(H) 	4 	1	0 	1 	2	10	13	−3 	4 	
5 	 	4 	0	0 	1 	3	5 	26	−21	1 	
* - 3:0 (2:0, 1:0, 0:0)
* - 1:7 (0:3, 0:2, 1:2)
* - 3:2 SO (2:0, 0:1, 0:1, 0:0, 1:0)
* - 0:3 (0:0, 0:1, 0:2)
* - 2:3 (0:1, 0:2, 2:0)
* - 0:13 (0:3, 0:7, 0:3)
* - 3:2 (3:1, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 1:2 SO (0:0, 0:1, 1:0, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 3:2 OT (0:0, 1:2, 1:0, 1:0)
* - 7:0 (4:0, 2:0, 1:0)
===Group B===
The tournament would have been held in Radenthein, Austria from 10 to 16 January 2022. It was rescheduled to 6–11 September.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1 	(H) 	4 	3	0 	1 	0	18	5 	13	10 	Promoted to the 2023 Division I A
2 	 	4 	2	0 	1 	1	5 	8 	−3	7 	
3 	 	4 	1	1 	0 	2	7 	16	−9	5 	
4 	 	4 	1	1 	0 	2	8 	9 	−1	5 	
5 	 	4 	1	0 	0 	3	7 	7 	0 	3 	
6 	 	0 	0	0 	0 	0	0 	0 	0 	0 	Withdrew
* - 4:0 (0:0, 0:0, 4:0)
* - 2:3 OT (1:1, 0:0, 1:1, 0:1)
* - 4:1 (1:1, 2:0, 1:0)
* - 0:4 (0:2, 0:0, 0:2)
* - 2:1 (0:0, 2:1, 0:0)
* - 3:1 (1:0, 2:0, 0:1)
* - 10:1 (3:1, 1:0, 6:1)
* - 2:1 OT (1:0, 0:1, 0:0, 1:0)
* - 1:2 (0:1, 0:1, 1:0)
* - 1:2 (0:0, 1:1, 0:1)
==Division II==
The tournament would have been held in Istanbul, Turkey from 21 to 27 January 2022. It was rescheduled and played from 27 June to 5 July.
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Promoted to the 2023 Division I B	Relegated to the 2023 Division II B
==References==
==External links==
*Official website of IIHF
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