2023 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

The 2023 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the 15th Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey which took place in Östersund, Sweden, January 8–15, 2023.
==Top Division==
The Top Division tournament is played in Östersund, Sweden from 8 to 15 January 2023.
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Qualification
1 	 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	15	3 	12 	9 	Semifinals
2 	 	3 	2	0 	0 	1	15	7 	8 	6 	Semifinals
3 	(H) 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	11	11	0 	3 	Quarterfinals
4 	 	3 	0	0 	0 	3	2 	22	−20	0 	Quarterfinals
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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	6 	6 	9 	Quarterfinals
2 	 	3 	2	0 	0 	1	13	8 	5 	6 	Quarterfinals
3 	 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	5 	8 	−3	3 	Relegation round
4 	 	3 	0	0 	0 	3	5 	13	−8	0 	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 will be 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====
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====Fifth place game====
====Bronze medal game====
====Gold medal game====
==Division I==
===Group A===
The tournament was held in Ritten, Italy from 9 to 15 January 2023.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1 	 	5 	3	1 	1 	0	10	4 	6 	12 	Promoted to the 2024 Top Division
2 	(H) 	5 	2	1 	1 	1	8 	5 	3 	9 	
3 	 	5 	2	1 	1 	1	11	8 	3 	9 	
4 	 	5 	2	1 	0 	2	11	10	1 	8 	
5 	 	5 	0	1 	2 	2	6 	11	−5	4 	
6 	 	5 	1	0 	0 	4	8 	16	−8	3 	Relegated to the 2024 Division I B
* - 1:3 (0:1, 1:2, 0:0)
* - 1:2 (0:0, 1:0, 0:2)
* - 0:1 OT (0:0, 0:0, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 3:1 (1:1, 2:0, 0:0)
* - 2:3 SO (1:1, 1:0, 0:1, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 4:1 (2:0, 1:0, 1:1)
* - 2:0 (0:0, 1:0, 1:0)
* - 0:2 (0:1, 0:1, 0:0)
* - 2:3 (1:1, 0:0, 1:2)
* - 0:1 SO (0:0, 0:0, 0:0, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 5:1 (2:0, 3:0, 0:1)
* - 3:2 OT (1:0, 1:2, 0:0, 1:0)
* - 1:3 (0:1, 0:2, 1:0)
* - 1:3 (1:1, 0:2, 0:0)
* - 1:2 SO (0:0, 0:0, 1:1, 0:0, 0:1)
===Group B===
The tournament was held in Katowice, Poland from 10 to 15 January 2023.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1 	 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	19	3 	16 	12 	Promoted to the 2024 Division I A
2 	(H) 	4 	3	0 	0 	1	15	3 	12 	9 	
3 	 	4 	1	1 	0 	2	6 	9 	−3 	5 	
4 	 	4 	1	0 	1 	2	5 	12	−7 	4 	
5 	 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	2 	20	−18	0 	
6 	 	0 	0	0 	0 	0	0 	0 	0 	0 	Withdrawn; relegated to the 2024 Division II A
* - 6:0 (1:0, 2:0, 3:0)
* - 4:1 (1:1, 2:0, 1:0)
* - 3:0 (2:0, 0:0, 1:0)
* - 3:1 (1:0, 2:0, 0:1)
* - 0:3 (0:1, 0:1, 0:1)
* - 0:4 (0:2, 0:0, 0:2)
* - 1:9 (0:3, 1:1, 0:5)
* - 1:2 OT (0:0, 0:0, 1:1, 0:1)
* - 4:0 (0:0, 2:0, 2:0)
* - 1:4 (0:2, 0:1, 1:1)
==Division II==
===Group A===
The tournament was held in Dumfries, Great Britain from 21 to 27 January 2023.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1 	 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	16	7 	9 	12 	Promoted to the 2024 Division I B
2 	 	5 	2	2 	0 	1	14	7 	7 	10 	
3 	 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	9 	9 	0 	10 	
4 	(H) 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	11	8 	3 	10 	
5 	 	5 	0	1 	0 	4	6 	11	−5 	2 	
6 	 	5 	0	0 	1 	4	6 	20	−14	1 	Relegated to the 2024 Division II B
* - 3:1 (0:1, 1:0, 2:0)
* - 1:6 (1:2, 0:2, 0:2)
* - 3:1 (0:1, 0:0, 3:0)
* - 3:2 SO (0:0, 1:0, 1:2, 0:0, 1:0)
* - 4:0 (3:0, 1:0, 0:0)
* - 2:3 SO (0:0, 0:0, 2:2, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 1:2 OT (0:0, 0:0, 1:1, 0:1)
* - 5:2 (2:1, 1:1, 2:0)
* - 3:1 (0:1, 3:0, 0:0)
* - 1:2 (0:0, 1:2, 0:0)
* - 2:3 (0:1, 2:2, 0:0)
* - 0:3 (0:0, 0:1, 0:2)
* - 1:0 (1:0, 0:0, 0:0)
* - 3:1 (1:0, 1:1, 1:0)
* - 2:1 (0:1, 2:0, 0:0)
===Group B===
The tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 26 January to 1 February 2023.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Promotion
1 	 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	35	5 	30 	15 	Promoted to the 2024 Division II A
2 	 	5 	3	1 	0 	1	22	13	9 	11 	
3 	 	5 	2	1 	1 	1	15	14	1 	9 	
4 	 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	19	14	5 	6 	
5 	(H) 	5 	1	0 	1 	3	15	21	−6 	4 	
6 	 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	1 	40	−39	0 	
* - 2:3 OT (0:1, 2:1, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 0:6 (0:4, 0:2, 0:0)
* - 2:1 (1:0, 1:0, 0:1)
* - 7:0 (0:0, 6:0, 1:0)
* - 8:1 (5:0, 2:1, 1:0)
* - 1:7 (0:2, 0:2, 1:3)
* - 8:1 (1:0, 3:0, 4;1)
* - 5:3 (2:1, 0:2, 3:0)
* - 4:2 (2:1, 0:1, 2:0)
* - 0:8 (0:3, 0:4, 0:1)
* - 3:2 (1:1, 2:1, 0:0)
* - 2:3 SO (0:1, 1:1, 1:0, 0:0, 0:1)
* - 11:0 (3:0, 1:0, 7:0)
* - 4:6 (1:1, 2:4, 1:1)
* - 7:0 (2:0, 4:0, 1:0)
==References==
==External links==
*Official website of IIHF
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