Danish national U20 ice hockey team
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| Association | Danmarks Ishockey Union |
| Trainer | Olaf Eller |
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Björn Östergaard Dan Jensen |
| Most games | Ronny Larsen u. a. (21 each) |
| Most of the points | Frans Nielsen (39) |
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First international match Denmark 3-0 Italy Caen , France ; March 5th 1979 |
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Biggest win Denmark 19-0 Spain Belluno , Italy ; March 21, 1988 |
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Biggest defeat Slovakia 22: 0 Denmark Esbjerg , Denmark ; January 1, 1994 |
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| Participation | since 1979 |
| best result | 5. ( 2017 ) |
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The Danish U20 national ice hockey team represents the Ice Hockey Federation of Denmark in ice hockey at the U20 junior level in international competitions. Their best placement was eighth in the 2015 World Cup , when the Danes were able to stay in the top division for the first time.
history
The Danish U20 national ice hockey team was founded in 1979 . Up to and including 1998, the U20 national team covered the entire junior area at the World Championships, while the U19 national team took part in the Junior European Championships. Since the introduction of the U18 World Championships in 1999 , Denmark's U20 national team has only represented the U20 junior level at world championships.
When they first took part in 1979, the Danes took part in the first-ever B-World Championship, where they finished fourth out of eight teams. The Northern Europeans were able to hold onto the second performance level until 1984, but then had to accept the decline. After a year of non-participation, the Danish team played from 1986 to 1988 in the C-World Championship before being promoted again. The team then swung between second and third division for almost 20 years before they were promoted to the top division for the first time at the home tournament in Odense in 2007 . But neither in 2008 nor in 2012 after the renewed promotion did the Scandinavians achieve more than just one last place in the top division. It was not until the 2015 World Cup that the Danes managed to stay in the top division for the first time with eighth place at the tournament in Canada. They were able to repeat this success in the following year, when they lost in the quarter-finals only in extra time against the offspring of the ice hockey superpower Russia . There was also a quarter-final defeat against the Russians at the 2017 World Cup , but this time - due to the better preliminary round results compared to the previous year - the fifth place and thus the best placement in the history of the Danish U20s was associated.
World Cup placements
- 1979 - B-WM; 4th Place
- 1980 - B-WM; 5th place
- 1981 - B-WM; 5th place
- 1982 - B-WM; 4th Place
- 1983 - B-WM; 7th place
- 1984 - B-WM; 8th place (relegation)
- 1985 - no participation
- 1986 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1987 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1988 - C-WM; 1st place (ascent)
- 1989 - B-WM; 7th place
- 1990 - B-WM; 4th Place
- 1991 - B-WM; 8th place (relegation)
- 1992 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1993 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1994 - C-WM; 3rd place
- 1995 - C1-WM; 3rd place
- 1996 - C-WM; 3rd place
- 1997 - C-WM; 3rd place
- 1998 - C-WM; 1st place
- 1999 - B-WM; 3rd place
- 2000 - B-WM; 8th place
- 2001 - Division II; 4th Place
- 2002 - Division II; 2nd place
- 2003 - Division I; 5th place
- 2004 - Division I; 2nd place
- 2005 - Division I; 3rd place
- 2006 - Division I; 2nd place
- 2007 - Division I; 1st place
- 2008 - 10th place
- 2009 - Division I; 2nd place
- 2010 - Division I; 2nd place
- 2011 - Division I; 1st place
- 2012 - 10th place
- 2013 - Division IA; 3rd place
- 2014 - Division IA; 1st place
- 2015 - 8th place
- 2016 - 8th place
- 2017 - 5th place
- 2018 - 9th place
- 2019 - 10th place
- 2020 - Division IA; 5th place
Web links
- International match overview of the U20 national team Denmark (PDF file; 1.34 MB) on nationalteamsoficehockey.com