U20 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 2021

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The 45th Ice Hockey World Championships of the U20 Juniors of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF are the ice hockey world championships of the year 2021 in the age group of the under-20s (U20).

The top division of the World Cup will be played in Canada from December 26, 2020 to January 5, 2021 . The venues are Edmonton and Red Deer in the province of Alberta . As part of a long-term agreement between IIHF and the Canadian Federation, the Junior World Championships are held in Canada every two to three years.

Participants, venues and periods

• Top Division: December 26, 2020 to January 5, 2021 in Edmonton and Red Deer , Alberta , Canada

  Participants: Germany , Finland , Canada (hosts; defending champions) , Austria (promoted) , Russia , Sweden , Switzerland , Slovakia , the Czech Republic , USA            

• Division I.
  • Group A: February 8-14 , 2021 in Horsholm , Denmark

    Participants: Denmark , Kazakhstan (relegated) , Latvia , Norway , Belarus , Hungary (promoted)       

  • Group B: February 10-17, 2021 in Tallinn , Estonia

    Participants: Estonia , France , Japan (promoted) , Poland , Slovenia (relegated) , Ukraine        

• Division II
  • Group A: February 8-14, 2021 in Brașov , Romania

    Participants: Great Britain , Italy (relegated) , Lithuania , Romania , Spain , South Korea (promoted)       

  • Group B: February 8-14, 2021 in Belgrade , Serbia

    Participants: Belgium , People's Republic of China , Iceland (promoted) , Croatia , Netherlands , Serbia (relegated)       

• Division III: February 8-14, 2021 in Mexico City , Mexico
  • Group A:

    Participants: Israel (relegated) , Mexico , Turkey    

  • Group B

    Participants: Bulgaria , Republic of China (Taiwan) , South Africa   

 New Zealand and Australia withdrew their registration for Division III in July and August 2020, respectively.  

Top division

The top division of the U20 World Cup took place in Canada from December 26, 2020 to January 5, 2021 . Ten national teams take part in the tournament, playing in two groups of five teams each. The two groups were composed according to the positions of the teams at the 2020 World Cup according to the following key:

Group A	Group B
Canada (1)	Russia (2)
Finland (4)	Sweden (3)
Switzerland (5)	USA (6)
Slovakia (8)	Czech Republic (7)
Germany (9)	Austria (10)

mode

After the group matches in the preliminary round, the top four in each group qualified for the quarter-finals, which, like the other rounds, are then played in the knockout system. The fifth of the group games deny a relegation according to the " best-of-three " mode and determine who was relegated to Group A of Division I.

See also

• Men's Ice Hockey World Championship 2021
• Ice Hockey World Cup 2021 for the U18 juniors
• Women's Ice Hockey World Cup 2021
• U18 women's ice hockey world championship 2021

Web links

• Overview of all U20 World Cup tournaments in 2021

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/wm20/news/8130/2021-world-juniors-in-alberta
2. ↑ IIHF - New Zealand withdraws teams. Retrieved July 13, 2020 . 
3. ^ IIHF - Australia withdraws two teams. Accessed August 30, 2020 (English). 
4. ↑ https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2021/wm20/news/17373/groups-for-world-juniors-known