2018 IIHF World Championship Division I

The 2018 IIHF World Championship Division I was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The Group A tournament was held in Budapest, Hungary and the Group B tournament was held in Kaunas, Lithuania from 22 to 28 April 2018. Warsaw, Poland planned on bidding for the tournament, but as Poland had hosted both the 2015 and 2016 tournaments, decided to apply for a later year.

Great Britain and Italy were promoted to the Top Division, while Poland was relegated to Division I B. The Group B tournament was won by Lithuania, who moved up to Group A and Croatia was relegated to Division II.

Match officials
7 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.


 * Referees
 * Alex Dipietro
 * 🇫🇮 Lasse Heikkinen
 * 🇨🇿 Oldřich Hejduk
 * 🇨🇦 Jeff Ingram
 * 🇩🇪 Marc Iwert
 * Trpimir Piragić
 * 🇦🇹 Ladislav Smetana


 * Linesmen
 * 🇫🇷 Thomas Caillot
 * 🇨🇦 Michael Harrington
 * 🇸🇪 Ludvig Lundgren
 * 🇭🇺 Márton Németh
 * Marc-Henri Progin
 * 🇭🇺 Daniel Soós
 * 🇨🇿 Josef Špůr

Results
All times are local (UTC+2).

Awards
Source: IIHF.com
 * Best players selected by the directorate:
 * Best Goaltender: 🇭🇺 Ádám Vay
 * Best Defenseman: 🇬🇧 Ben O'Connor
 * Best Forward: 🇸🇮 Jan Urbas

Source: IIHF.com
 * Media All-Stars:
 * MVP: 🇬🇧 Brett Perlini
 * Goaltender: 🇭🇺 Ádám Vay
 * Defenceman: 🇬🇧 Ben O'Connor / 🇸🇮 Sabahudin Kovačević
 * Forwards: 🇬🇧 Brett Perlini / 🇰🇿 Roman Starchenko / 🇭🇺 Balázs Sebők

Scoring leaders
List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF.com

Leading goaltenders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF.com

Match officials
4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.


 * Referees
 * 🇫🇷 Damien Bliek
 * 🇸🇮 Miha Bulovec
 * 🇳🇴 Stian Halm
 * 🇬🇧 Liam Sewell


 * Linesmen
 * 🇱🇹 Karolis Janušauskas
 * Andreas Kroyer
 * 🇷🇸 Ivan Nedeljković
 * 🇫🇮 Tommi Niittylä
 * 🇦🇹 Elias Seewald
 * 🇱🇹 Laurynas Stepankevičius
 * 🇸🇰 Roman Výleta

Results
All times are local (UTC+3).

Awards
Source: IIHF.com
 * Best players selected by the directorate:
 * Best Goaltender: 🇪🇪 Villem-Henrik Koitmaa
 * Best Defenseman: 🇯🇵 Ryo Hashimoto
 * Best Forward: 🇱🇹 Arnoldas Bosas

Scoring leaders
List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF.com

Leading goaltenders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF.com