2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

The 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 13 to 19 January 2020. Eight teams participated in the competition; they were drawn into two preliminary round groups of four: the top two teams from each group played in the semifinals in a four-team bracket for a chance to play for promotion to Division II B, while the bottom two teams in each group played in placement rounds for 5th to 8th place. Iceland won the tournament.

To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player couldn't be born earlier than 2000.

Match officials
Six referees and 10 linesmen were selected for the tournament.


 * Referees
 * 🇷🇺 Anton Gofman
 * 🇦🇹 Patrick Gruber
 * 🇨🇳 Liu Jiaqi
 * 🇷🇴 Levente Szilárd Sikó
 * 🇫🇮 Sakari Suominen
 * 🇦🇺 Kent Unwin


 * Linesmen
 * 🇦🇹 Christoph Barnthaler
 * 🇷🇴 Imre Fehér
 * 🇨🇳 Gao Yinfeng
 * 🇭🇺 Barna Kis-Király
 * 🇧🇾 Artsiom Labzov
 * 🇮🇸 Sæmundur Leifsson
 * Stef Oosterling
 * 🇧🇬 Kiril Peychinov
 * 🇬🇧 Graham Rodger
 * 🇧🇬 Vasiliy Vasilev

Preliminary round
All times are local (Eastern European Time – UTC+2).

Bracket
 

Bracket
 

Final standings


Top 10 scorers
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes Source: IIHF

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

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

Best Players Selected by the Directorate
Source: IIHF

Best Players of Each Team Selected by Coaches
Source: IIHF