European U19 Ice Hockey Championship 1976

	Junior European Championship
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	Winner: Soviet Union

The 9th European Ice Hockey Championship for U19 juniors took place from March 21 to 28, 1976 in Kopřivnice and Opava in Czechoslovakia . The games of the B group were played from March 6 to 14, 1976 in Bucharest and Ploiesti in Romania .

A group

The A group of the European Championship was enlarged to eight teams. The representation of Bulgaria decided not to participate because of a flu epidemic and was thus determined to be relegated. Instead of the Bulgarians, the U18 selection of the host country took part, but played their games out of competition.

Preliminary round

Group 1

Games	URS	FIN	POLE	Gates	Pt.
1. USSR		6: 1	9: 2	15: 03	4-0
2. Finland	1: 6		5: 2	06: 08	2: 2
3. Poland	2: 9	2: 5		04:14	0: 4

Group 2

Games	TCH	SWE	FRG	SUI	Gates	Pt.
1. Czechoslovakia		4: 3	5: 3	8: 1	17: 07	6-0
2. Sweden	3: 4		7: 2	8: 1	18: 07	4: 2
3rd Federal Republic of Germany	3: 5	2: 7		7: 5	12:17	2: 4
4. Switzerland	1: 8	1: 8	5: 7		07:23	0: 6

Finals

For the two groups in the final round, the results obtained from each other were taken from the preliminary round. These results are shown here in brackets.

Championship round

Games	URS	SWE	FIN	TCH	Gates	Pt.
1. USSR		2: 2	(6: 1)	7: 4	15: 07	5: 1
2. Sweden	2: 2		5: 1	(3: 4)	10: 07	3: 3
3. Finland	(1: 6)	1: 5		6: 3	08:14	2: 4
4. Czechoslovakia	4: 7	(4: 3)	3: 6		11:16	2: 4

Placement round

Games	FRG	POLE	SUI	Gates	Pt.
1st Federal Republic of Germany		11: 5	(7: 5)	18:10	4-0
2. Poland	5:11		8: 4	13:15	2: 2
3. Switzerland	(5: 7)	4: 8		09:15	0: 4

European championship team: USSR

U19 European Champion USSR

Alexander Loginov , Alexander Tyschnych - Vyacheslav Fetisov , Vasily Paiussow , Mikhail Sliptschenko , Sergei Starikov , Vladimir Zubkov , German Kulew , Irek Gimajew - Ivan Avdeyev , Alexander Kabanov , Vladimir Gordeev , Sergei Tukmatschew , Viktor Tjumenew , Mikhail Schostak , Aleksejs Froļikovs , Igor Roma Schin , Valery Evstifejew , Igor Kapustin , Michail Tolotschko

Awards

Award	player	team
Top scorer	Ernst Höfner	BR Germany
Best goalkeeper	Pelle Lindbergh	Sweden
Best defender	Vyacheslav Fetisov	USSR
Best striker	Valery Evstifeyev	USSR

B group

Preliminary round

Group 1

Games	ROME	NOR	FRA	ITA	ESP	Gates	Pt.
1. Romania		6: 4	3: 2	7: 3	12: 2	28:11	8-0
2. Norway	4: 6		6: 1	6: 1	15: 2	31:10	6: 2
3. France	2: 3	1: 6		6: 4	6: 1	15:14	4: 4
4. Italy	3: 7	1: 6	4: 6		7: 3	15:22	2: 6
5. Spain	2:12	2:15	1: 6	3: 7		08:40	0: 8

Group 2

Games	YUG	AUT	THE	HUN	Gates	Pt.
1. Yugoslavia		4-0	9-0	12: 0	25: 00	6-0
2. Austria	0: 4		4-0	6: 2	10: 06	4: 2
3. Denmark	0: 9	0: 4		8: 5	08:18	2: 4
4. Hungary	0:12	2: 6	5: 8		07:26	0: 6

Placement games

Game for 7th place	Italy	7: 5 (0: 1, 4: 2, 3: 2)	Hungary
Play for 5th place	Denmark	7: 6 n.P. (4: 1, 0: 1, 2: 4, 1: 0)	France
3rd place match	Austria	3: 2 (1: 0, 0: 2, 2: 0)	Norway
final	Romania	6: 2 (1: 0, 2: 0, 3: 2)	Yugoslavia

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} For the games for 5th and 7th place in group B, hockeyarchives.info gives different results. The results mentioned here are taken from the source mentioned under literature , whereby, in contrast to the internet source mentioned above, third results are also mentioned.

literature

• Stephan Müller: International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia: 1904 - 2005 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt, Germany 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-4189-9 .

Web links

• Junior European Championship at hockeyarchives.info (French)