2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

The 2016 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the ninth Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).



Top Division
The Top Division tournament was played during 8 to 15 January 2016 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Match officials
Six referees and nine linesmen were selected for the tournament. Christer Englund of Sweden was the tournament chairperson.


 * Referees
 * 🇨🇦 Brandy Dewar
 * 🇨🇦 Lisa Grison
 * 🇫🇮 Kaisa Ketonen
 * 🇩🇪 Michaela Kiefer
 * 🇫🇷 Marie Picavet
 * 🇺🇸 Melissa Szkola


 * Linesmen
 * 🇦🇹 Bettina Angerer
 * 🇩🇪 Daniela Kiefer
 * 🇺🇸 Jessica Leclerc
 * 🇩🇪 Lisa Linnek
 * 🇨🇦 Danielle McGurry
 * 🇸🇪 Stina Nilsson
 * 🇳🇴 Anna Nygard
 * 🇨🇦 Justine Todd
 * 🇫🇷 Sueva Torribio Rousselin

Relegation round
The third and fourth placed team from Group B played a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.

Best players selected by the directorate
Source: IIHF

Media All Stars
Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Division I
The Division I tournament was played in Miskolc, Hungary during 10 to 16 January 2016.

Division I Qualification
The Division I Qualification tournament was played in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria during 7 to 11 January 2016. The teams were divided into two groups of four where the winners played off against each other for promotion to the 2017 Division I Group A tournament. The teams ranking second through sixth remained in the newly titled Division I Group B and were joined by the relegated team from the 2016 Division I tournament. As the lowest ranking teams, Romania and Australia were relegated to the new Division I Group B Qualification tournament.

Austria won the tournament and gained promotion to the 2017 Division I Group A tournament.


 * Group A


 * Group B