2019 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

The 2019 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the 12th Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey. It was played at the Obihiro Arena in Obihiro, Japan from 6 to 13 January.
==Top Division==
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1 	 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	8 	4 	4 	9 	Semifinals
2 	 	3 	2	0 	0 	1	9 	5 	4 	6 	Semifinals
3 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	8 	11	−3	3 	Quarterfinals
4 	 	3 	0	0 	0 	3	4 	9 	−5	0 	Quarterfinals
====Group B====
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1 	 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	8 	4 	4 	9 	Quarterfinals
2 	 	3 	2	0 	0 	1	5 	5 	0 	6 	Quarterfinals
3 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	5 	5 	0 	3 	Relegation round
4 	(H) 	3 	0	0 	0 	3	4 	8 	−4	0 	Relegation round
===Relegation round===
The third and fourth placed team from Group B will play a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.
===Final round===
====Bracket====
====Quarterfinals====
====Semifinals====
====Fifth place game====
====Bronze medal game====
====Gold medal game====
==Division I==
===Group A===
The Group A tournament was held in Radenthein, Austria from 7 to 13 January 2019.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1 	 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	14	9 	5 	12 	Promotion to Top Division
2 	 	5 	3	1 	0 	1	21	8 	13	11 	
3 	 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	13	9 	4 	10 	
4 	 	5 	1	1 	1 	2	9 	16	−7	6 	
5 	 	5 	1	0 	1 	3	9 	15	−6	4 	
6 	(H) 	5 	0	1 	0 	4	3 	12	−9	2 	Relegation to Division I B
* - 4:1 (1:1, 1:0, 2:0)
* - 1:5 (0:4, 1:1, 0:0)
* - 0:0 (0:1, 0:0, 0:0)
* - 3:2 OT (1:0, 1:2, 0:0, 1:0)
* - 3:2 (0:1, 0:1, 3:0)
* - 5:0 (0:0, 2:0, 3:0)
* - 3:2 OT (0:0, 1:1, 1:1, 1:0)
* - 2:5 (0:1, 0:1, 2:3)
* - 4:1 (2:0, 1:1, 1:0)
* - 3:1 (1:0, 1:1, 1:0)
* - 0:7 (0:2, 0:3, 0:2)
* - 1:2 (1:1, 0:1, 0:0)
* - 1:5 (1:2, 0:0, 0:3)
* - 3:1 (1:0, 2:1, 0:0)
* - 0:1 OT (0:0, 0:0, 0:0, 0:1)
===Group B===
The Group B tournament was held in Dumfries, Great Britain from 6 to 12 January 2019.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1 	 	5 	4	0 	1 	0	18	2 	16 	13 	Promotion to Division I A
2 	 	5 	3	1 	1 	0	14	4 	10 	12 	
3 	(H) 	5 	2	1 	1 	1	7 	7 	0 	9 	
4 	 	5 	2	1 	0 	2	12	14	−2 	8 	
5 	 	5 	1	0 	0 	4	6 	16	−10	3 	
6 	 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	5 	19	−14	0 	Relegation to Division II A
* - 0:7 (0:5, 0:1, 0:1)
* - 0:4 (0:1, 0:2, 0:1)
* - 1:2 OT (0:0, 1:1, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 3:0 (1:0, 2:0, 0:0)
* - 4:2 (0:1, 1:0, 3:1)
* - 3:0 (2:0, 1:0, 0:0)
* - 4:0 (1:0, 2:0, 1:0)
* - 1:4 (0:1, 0:2, 1:1)
* - 0:1 SO (0:0, 0:0, 0:0, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 2:5 (0:2, 2:1, 0:2)
* - 3:0 (0:0, 1:0, 2:0)
* - 0:1 (0:0, 0:1, 0:0)
* - 2:1 SO (0:1, 0:0, 1:0, 0:0, 1:0)
* - 4:2 (2:2, 0:0, 2:0)
* - 4:2 (0:0, 1:0, 3:2) 
===Group B qualification===
The Group B Qualification tournament is being held in Jaca, Spain from 12 to 18 January 2019. For 2020 it was decided to create a Division II and split the teams into two groups. The teams that did not make the semifinals were essentially relegated to Division IIB.
;Group A
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Qualification
1 	 	2 	2	0 	0 	0	20	1 	19 	6 	Semifinals
2 	 	2 	1	0 	0 	1	7 	5 	2 	3 	Semifinals
3 	 	2 	0	0 	0 	2	0 	21	−21	0 	
* - 15:0 (8:0, 2:0, 5:0)
* - 0:6 (0:2, 0:1, 0:3)
* - 1:5 (1:1, 0:2, 0:2)
;Group B
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Qualification
1 	 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	12	2 	10 	9 	Semifinals
2 	 	3 	1	1 	0 	1	10	11	−1 	5 	Semifinals
3 	(H) 	3 	1	0 	1 	1	6 	5 	1 	4 	
4 	 	3 	0	0 	0 	3	2 	12	−10	0 	
* - 2:4 (0:1, 1:3, 1:0)
* - 0:1 (0:1, 0:0, 0:0)
* - 5:0 (3:0, 1:0, 1:0)
* - 3:4 OT (1:2, 2:0, 0:1, 0:1)
* - 2:6 (0:2, 1:3, 1:1)
* - 0:3 (0:2, 0:1, 0:0)
;Classifier
* - 1:0 (0:0, 1:0, 0:0)
;Semifinals
* - 5:2 (2:0, 2:1, 1:1)
* - 3:1 (1:0, 0:0, 2:1)
;5th place
* - 0:7 (0:2, 0:2, 0:3)
;3rd place
* - 6:2 (4:0, 0:2, 2:0)
;Final
* - 3:4 SO (1:1, 0:0, 2:2, 0:0, 0:1)
==References==
Category:2019 in ice hockey
Category:IIHF World Women's U18 Championships