2022 IIHF World Championship Division II

2022 IIHF World Championship
Division II

Tournament details
Host countries	Croatia  Iceland
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	25–30 April 18–23 April
Teams	10
← 2021 (cancelled) 2023 →

The 2022 IIHF World Championship Division II was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The Group A tournament was held in Zagreb, Croatia from 25 to 30 April and the Group B tournament in Reykjavík, Iceland from 18 to 23 April 2022.^[1][2]

After the tournament was cancelled the two previous years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all teams stayed put in their respective groups.^[3]

China won Group A and got promoted to Division IB, while Iceland won Group B and got promoted to Group A.^[4][5]

In order to fill each group of the World Championships back to their normal amount of teams, the IIHF made the decision following the tournament not to relegate Israel or Mexico, who finished last in Groups A and B respectively, but instead to promote the Netherlands and Georgia, the runners-up of each group.^[6]

Group A tournament

2022 IIHF World Championship Division II A

Tournament details
Host country	Croatia
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	25–30 April
Teams	5
Tournament statistics
Games played	10
Goals scored	70 (7 per game)
Attendance	134 (13 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Fu Shuai Nick Verschuren (10 points)
Website	Website

Participants

Team	Qualification
Netherlands	Placed 6th in Division I B last edition and was relegated.
Croatia	Host, placed 2nd in Division II A last edition.
Australia	Placed 3rd in Division II A last edition.
Spain	Placed 4th in Division II A last edition.
China	Placed 5th in Division II A last edition.
Israel	Placed 1st in Division II B last edition and was promoted.

Match officials

Three referees and five linesmen are selected for the tournament.^[7]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	China (P)	4	4	0	0	0	28	4	+24	12	Promoted to the 2023 Division I B
2	Netherlands (P)	4	3	0	0	1	19	10	+9	9
3	Croatia (H)	4	1	1	0	2	9	12	−3	5
4	Spain	4	1	0	1	2	10	12	−2	4
5	Israel	4	0	0	0	4	4	32	−28	0
6	Australia[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrawn

Results

All times are local (UTC+2)

25 April 2022 16:00

Netherlands

5–3 (2–0, 2–1, 1–2)

Spain

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 10

Game reference
	Martijn Oosterwijk	Goalies	Raul Barbo Ignacio García	Referee: Bartosz Kaczmarek Linesmen: Barnabás Fényi Tomislav Grozaj
	Van der Schuit (Stempher, Verschuren) – 03:16 1–0 Van der Schuit (Stempher, Verschuren) (PP) – 10:38 2–0 Vogelaar (Verschuren, Van der Schuit) (PP) – 20:34 3–0 Verschuren (Van der Schuit) – 22:22 4–0 4–1 28:03 – Lasuen (Encinar) 4–2 49:43 – Capillas (Baldris) 4–3 50:33 – González (Fernández) (PP) Collard (Heutmekers, Van Gorp) – 54:52 5–3
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	23	Shots	24

25 April 2022 19:45

Israel

1–5 (0–1, 0–2, 1–2)

Croatia

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 13

Game reference
	Nir Tichon	Goalies	Vilim Rosandić	Referee: Martin Christensen Linesmen: Marko Šaković Ľudovít Šoltés
	0–1 05:33 – Bebek (Kramarić, Marinković) 0–2 20:47 – Dobrić (Tadić, Rosandić) 0–3 33:50 – Puzić (Šakić, Smolec) (PP) 0–4 45:12 – Puzić (Fičur, Šakić) Sherbatov (Ben Tov) – 51:46 1–4 1–5 59:40 – Šakić (Fičur, Smolec) (EN)
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	22	Shots	84

26 April 2022 17:00

China

14–1 (4–0, 5–0, 5–1)

Israel

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 15

Game reference
	Yongli Ouban	Goalies	Yehonatan Reisinger	Referee: Vitalijus Sevruk Linesmen: Anže Bergant Barnabás Fényi
	Fu S. (Fu J., Luo) – 02:56 1–0 Fu S. (Jieke) – 03:49 2–0 Ruian (Ye, Fu J.) (PP) – 09:07 3–0 Fu J. (Fu S., Luo) – 15:30 4–0 Fu S. (Fu J., Jieke) – 25:01 5–0 Yan J. (Chen) – 28:55 6–0 Yan J. (Guo, Liu) – 29:44 7–0 Jieke (Wang) – 32:09 8–0 Jian (Zhang, Yuan) – 32:28 9–0 Luo (Fu S., Zheng) – 45:15 10–0 Shen (Wang, Ye) – 52:17 11–0 11–1 53:20 – Spektor Yan J. (Guo) – 55:06 12–1 Luo (Fu J., Fu S.) – 58:29 13–1 Yan J. (Yuan) – 59:07 14–1
	6 min	Penalties	4 min
	56	Shots	18

27 April 2022 16:00

China

5–1 (2–0, 1–1, 2–0)

Netherlands

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 10

Game reference
	Yongli Ouban	Goalies	Ruud Leeuwesteijn	Referee: Martin Christensen Linesmen: Marko Šaković Ľudovít Šoltés
	Jian (Fu S., Jieke) – 17:43 1–0 Shen (Ruian, Wang) – 19:50 2–0 Ye (Wang, Jieke) – 25:02 3–0 3–1 36:17 – Verschuren (Muller, Van der Schuit) (PP) Wang (Ruian) – 46:36 4–1 Fu S. (Fu J.) – 57:04 5–1
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	52	Shots	17

27 April 2022 19:45

Croatia

1–0 GWS (0–0, 0–0, 0–0) (OT: 0–0) (SO: 1–0)

Spain

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 14

Game reference
	Vilim Rosandić	Goalies	Ignacio García	Referee: Vitalijus Sevruk Linesmen: Anže Bergant Tomislav Grozaj
	Kanaet Dobrić Smolec Fičur Jarčov Puzić Šakić	Shootout	Granell Capillas Cerdà Mendizábal Carbonell Granell Mendizábal
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	35	Shots	31

28 April 2022 19:45

Israel

0–7 (0–1, 0–3, 0–3)

Netherlands

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 6

Game reference
	Nir Tichon	Goalies	Martijn Oosterwijk	Referee: Bartosz Kaczmarek Linesmen: Tomislav Grozaj Marko Šaković
	0–1 16:38 – Verkiel (Van der Schuit, Stempher) 0–2 20:06 – Stempher (Van der Schuit, Verschuren) 0–3 24:01 – Hofland 0–4 37:16 – Verschuren (Vogelaar, Stempher) (PP) 0–5 47:04 – Heutmekers (Doop, Collard) 0–6 49:37 – Heutmekers (Collard) 0–7 56:50 – Vogelaar (Stempher, Muller)
	10 min	Penalties	14 min
	18	Shots	68

29 April 2022 16:00

Spain

6–2 (1–0, 4–0, 1–2)

Israel

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 9

Game reference
	Ignacio García	Goalies	Yehonatan Reisinger	Referee: Martin Christensen Linesmen: Tomislav Grozaj Ľudovít Šoltés
	Fernández (Torralba, Rubio) – 19:25 1–0 Granell (Baldris, Fuentes) (PP) – 21:42 2–0 Lasuen (Rubio, Torralba) – 26:05 3–0 Carbonell (Cerdà, Baldris) – 28:37 4–0 Carbonell (Cerdà, Baldris) – 30:14 5–0 5–1 40:28 – Milner (Sherbatov, Kozhevnikov) (SH) Mendizábal (González) – 41:33 6–1 6–2 51:17 – Spektor Sherbatov, Milner)
	4 min	Penalties	12 min
	77	Shots	9

29 April 2022 19:45

Croatia

1–5 (0–0, 0–4, 1–1)

China

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 22

Game reference
	Vito Nikolić	Goalies	Yongli Ouban	Referee: Bartosz Kaczmarek Linesmen: Anže Bergant Barnabás Fényi
	0–1 25:09 – Shen (Wang, Ye) 0–2 29:27 – Jian (Zhang, Yuan) 0–3 31:04 – Fu J. (Jieke) (PP) 0–4 36:34 – Fu J. (Zhou, Ruian) 0–5 44:25 – Jieke (Jian, Zhou) Fičur (Šakić, Tadić) – 52:36 1–5
	6 min	Penalties	4 min
	23	Shots	40

30 April 2022 16:00

Spain

1–4 (1–0, 0–1, 0–3)

China

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 12

Game reference
	Raul Barbo	Goalies	Yongli Ouban	Referee: Martin Christensen Linesmen: Barnabás Fényi Marko Šaković
	Capillas (Granell, Meyerson) – 07:23 1–0 1–1 38:25 – Ye (Zhou) 1–2 44:17 – Luo (Jieke, Fu S.) 1–3 44:57 – Ye (Fu J., Ruian) (PP) 1–4 58:59 – Luo (Fu J., Fu S.) (EN)
	2 min	Penalties	33 min
	33	Shots	34

30 April 2022 19:45

Netherlands

6–2 (2–0, 2–2, 2–0)

Croatia

Dvorana Velesajam, Zagreb Attendance: 23

Game reference
	Ruud Leeuwesteijn	Goalies	Vilim Rosandić	Referee: Vitalijus Sevruk Linesmen: Anže Bergant Ľudovít Šoltés
	Van der Schuit (Van Gorp) – 03:14 1–0 Stempher (Verschuren, Van der Schuit) (PP) – 11:09 2–0 2–1 30:54 – Marinković (Dobrić, Brenčun) (PP) Stempher (Verschuren) – 31:26 3–1 Verschuren (Muller, Verkiel) – 33:15 4–1 4–2 37:41 – Idzan Verkiel (Sikma) (SH) – 49:53 5–2 Collard (Heutmekers, Verkiel) – 55:36 6–2
	10 min	Penalties	8 min
	38	Shots	30

Statistics

Scoring leaders

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

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Fu Shuai	4	4	6	10	+10	2	F
Nick Verschuren	4	4	6	10	+6	2	F
Fu Jiang	4	3	7	10	+11	0	F
Raymond van der Schuit	4	3	6	9	+6	4	F
Danny Stempher	4	3	6	8	+6	0	F
Jieke Kailiaosi	4	2	6	8	+11	2	D
Luo Jia	4	4	2	6	+9	0	F
Ye Jinguang	4	3	3	6	+5	0	F
Wang Taile	4	1	5	6	+6	0	F
Ruian Sipulaoer	4	1	4	5	+8	0	D

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− =

Goaltending leaders

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.

Player	TOI	GA	GAA	SA	Sv%	SO
Yongli Ouban	240:00	4	1.00	91	95.60	0
Ignacio García	161:18	3	1.12	56	94.64	1
Martijn Oosterwijk	120:00	3	1.50	42	92.86	1
Nir Tichon	117:59	11	5.59	151	92.72	0
Vilim Rosandić	185:00	7	2.27	91	92.31	1

TOI = time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = shots against; GA = goals against; GAA = goals against average; Sv% = save percentage; SO = shutouts
Source: IIHF.com

Awards

Position	Player[9]
Goaltender	Vilim Rosandić
Defenceman	Jordy Verkiel
Forward	Fu Jiang

Group B tournament

2022 IIHF World Championship Division II B

Tournament details
Host country	Iceland
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	18–23 April
Teams	5
Tournament statistics
Games played	10
Goals scored	83 (8.3 per game)
Attendance	2,942 (294 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Nikita Bukiya (11 points)
Website	Website

Participants

Team	Qualification
Belgium	Placed 6th in Division II A last edition and was relegated.
Iceland	Host, placed 2nd in Division II B last edition.
New Zealand	Placed 3rd in Division II B last edition.
Georgia	Placed 4th in Division II B last edition.
Mexico	Placed 5th in Division II B last edition.
Bulgaria	Placed 1st in Division III last edition and was promoted.

Match officials

Three referees and five linesmen were selected for the tournament.^[10]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Iceland (H, P)	4	4	0	0	0	25	7	+18	12	Promoted to the 2023 Division II A
2	Georgia (P)	4	3	0	0	1	21	11	+10	9
3	Belgium	4	2	0	0	2	22	8	+14	6
4	Bulgaria	4	1	0	0	3	11	33	−22	3
5	Mexico	4	0	0	0	4	4	24	−20	0
6	New Zealand[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrawn

Results

All times are local (UTC±0)

18 April 2022 16:30

Bulgaria

2–10 (1–2, 0–4, 1–4)

Iceland

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 500

Game reference
	Dimitar Dimitrov Andrea Karabadjakov	Goalies	Jakob Jóhannesson	Referee: Andrew Dalton Linesmen: Wayne Gerth Herman Johansen
	0–1 04:00 – Atlason (Arnarsson, Kristveigarson) 0–2 13:58 – Arason (Leifsson) (PP) Georgiev (Vasilev) – 16:43 1–2 1–3 25:50 – Sigurðsson (Sigurðarson) 1–4 27:01 – Mikaelsson (Leifsson, Sigrúnarson) (PP) 1–5 32:13 – Skúlason 1–6 37:04 – Orongan (Sigurðsson, Sigurðarson) Dikov (Georgiev) – 49:58 2–6 2–7 55:46 – Sigurðarson (Orongan, Arnarsson) (PP) 2–8 56:58 – Leifsson (Sigrúnarson, Mikaelsson) 2–9 58:34 – Jóhannsson (Rúnarsson, Eggertsson) (PP) 2–10 59:46 – Sigurðsson (Skúlason, Sigurðarson) (PP)
	37 min	Penalties	12 min
	18	Shots	56

18 April 2022 20:00

Belgium

3–4 (2–3, 1–0, 0–1)

Georgia

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 70

Game reference
	Kevin Van Looveren	Goalies	Mikhail Fofanov	Referee: Jos Korte Linesmen: Óli Gunnarsson Sindri Gunnarsson
	0–1 03:00 – Bukiya (Romanov, Kurbatov) (PP) Blockx (James) (PP) – 08:06 1–1 Henry (De Smet, Verelst) (PP) – 09:12 2–1 2–2 12:11 – Kireev (Belomoin, Potazhevich) (PP) 2–3 19:22 – Karelin (Kurbatov) (PP2) De Smet (Verelst, Goris) – 34:43 3–3 3–4 51:03 – Romanov (Karelin, Kurbatov) (PP)
	16 min	Penalties	6 min
	36	Shots	29

19 April 2022 18:00

Mexico

2–6 (2–2, 0–4, 0–0)

Bulgaria

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 100

Game reference
	Marcello de Antuñano Richard Albrecht	Goalies	Dimitar Dimitrov	Referee: Julien Peyre Linesmen: Andrew Cook Herman Johansen
	Majul (Samperio) – 06:40 1–0 1–1 07:09 – Vasilev (Dikov, Georgiev) (PP) Chávez (Pérez, Ugarte) (PP) – 13:13 2–1 2–2 14:51 – Dikov (Vasilev) 2–3 26:36 – M. Nikolov (Atanasov) (PP) 2–4 30:48 – M. Nikolov (Atanasov) 2–5 33:13 – Nakov (Atanasov, M. Nikolov) 2–6 37:39 – Georgiev (Dikov)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	34	Shots	29

20 April 2022 16:30

Iceland

5–2 (1–0, 3–1, 1–1)

Georgia

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 357

Game reference
	Jóhann Ragnarsson	Goalies	Mikhail Fofanov Andrey Ilyenko	Referee: Julien Peyre Linesmen: Andrew Cook Sindri Gunnarsson
	Arnarsson (Skúlason) – 05:52 1–0 Arason (Leifsson, Mikaelsson) (PP) – 20:29 2–0 2–1 24:54 – Kireev (Bukiya, Potazhevich) (PP) Sigurðarson (Sigurðsson) (PP2) – 27:04 3–1 Mikaelsson (Rúnarsson, Arason) (PP) – 28:04 4–1 4–2 46:24 – Karelin (Kozyulin, Potazhevich) (PP) Sigurðarson (Orongan) (PP) – 51:48 5–2
	21 min	Penalties	49 min
	48	Shots	32

20 April 2022 20:00

Mexico

1–6 (0–1, 0–4, 1–1)

Belgium

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík

Game reference
	Richard Albrecht Marcello de Antuñano	Goalies	Arne Waumans	Referee: Andrew Dalton Linesmen: Wayne Gerth Óli Gunnarsson
	0–1 08:49 – Coolen (De Ceuster) 0–2 21:13 – De Ceuster (Darques) 0–3 24:20 – Van Den Bosch (Paulus, Neven) 0–4 30:39 – James (Versin) 0–5 32:10 – Van Den Bosch (Kolodziejczyk, Goris) Díaz (Zuverza, Ortiz) – 47:12 1–5 1–6 51:09 – Versin (Blockx, Neven)
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	17	Shots	54

21 April 2022 18:00

Bulgaria

0–11 (0–3, 0–3, 0–5)

Belgium

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 37

Game reference
	Dimitar Dimitrov Andrea Karabadjakov	Goalies	Arne Waumans	Referee: Andrew Dalton Linesmen: Wayne Gerth Óli Gunnarsson
	0–1 06:11 – James (Versin) 0–2 12:38 – Neven (Coolen, Blockx) (PP) 0–3 19:55 – Henry (Bogaerts, Verelst) 0–4 26:39 – De Smet (Verelst) 0–5 31:52 – De Smet (Goris, Henry) (PP) 0–6 38:04 – Cuylaerts (De Ceuster, Coolen) 0–7 44:32 – De Ceuster (Goris, Coolen) 0–8 52:36 – Coolen (James, Neven) (PP) 0–9 56:42 – James (Neven, Coolen) (PP2) 0–10 59:20 – Coolen (Boni, Van Den Bosch) (PP) 0–11 59:52 – Kolodziejczyk
	16 min	Penalties	4 min
	12	Shots	59

22 April 2022 16:30

Georgia

10–3 (2–1, 1–2, 7–0)

Bulgaria

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 37

Game reference
	Mikhail Fofanov Andrey Ilyenko	Goalies	Dimitar Dimitrov Andrea Karabadjakov	Referee: Andrew Dalton Linesmen: Andrew Cook Wayne Gerth
	Bukiya (Kochkin, Kireev) – 05:16 1–0 1–1 06:13 – Vasilev (Dikov) Karelin (Romanov) – 19:14 2–1 2–2 20:38 – Georgiev (Atanasov) Kharizov (Shvetsov) – 21:54 3–2 3–3 35:27 – Vasilev (Dikov, Georgiev) (PP) Karelin (Bukiya) – 49:30 4–3 Karelin – 50:56 5–3 Bukiya (Karelin) – 51:12 6–3 Bukiya (Romanov, Tsomaia) – 51:32 7–3 Vasilchenko (Kochkin, Kharizov) – 52:08 8–3 Karelin (Bukiya) – 52:25 9–3 Bukiya (Karelin) – 58:55 10–3
	33 min	Penalties	53 min
	71	Shots	32

22 April 2022 20:00

Iceland

7–1 (2–0, 2–1, 3–0)

Mexico

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 678

Game reference
	Jakob Jóhannesson	Goalies	Richard Albrecht	Referee: Jos Korte Linesmen: Óli Gunnarsson Herman Johansen
	Orongan (Sigurðarson) – 03:46 1–0 Atlason (Sigurðarson, Arnarsson) (PP) – 19:56 2–0 Sigrúnarson (Pálsson, Leifsson) – 23:28 3–0 Leifsson (Arason, Mikaelsson) (PP) – 29:32 4–0 4–1 39:40 – Majul (Pérez, Ortiz) (PP) Kristveigarson (Pálsson, Arnarsson) – 45:27 5–1 Rúnarsson (Leifsson, Mikaelsson) (PP) – 46:20 6–1 Mikaelsson (Sigrúnarson, Leifsson) – 56:59 7–1
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	52	Shots	29

23 April 2022 16:30

Georgia

5–0 (3–0, 2–0, 0–0)

Mexico

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 43

Game reference
	Mikhail Fofanov	Goalies	Marcello de Antuñano	Referee: Julien Peyre Linesmen: Óli Gunnarsson Sindri Gunnarsson
	Bukiya (Karelin) – 00:52 1–0 Belomoin (Karelin, Bukiya) – 13:38 2–0 Bukiya (Karelin, Belomoin) – 19:59 3–0 Kurbatov (Shvetsov) – 33:35 4–0 Potazhevich (Shvetsov, Kharizov) – 39:04 5–0
	8 min	Penalties	14 min
	59	Shots	25

23 April 2022 20:00

Belgium

2–3 (0–0, 1–2, 1–1)

Iceland

Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Attendance: 1,120

Game reference
	Arne Waumans	Goalies	Jóhann Ragnarsson	Referee: Andrew Dalton Linesmen: Andrew Cook Herman Johansen
	De Ceuster (Coolen) – 27:55 1–0 1–1 30:51 – Orongan (Arason, Ragnarsson) 1–2 37:03 – Skúlason (Arason) 1–3 54:03 – Orongan (Sigurðarson, Arnarsson) (PP) Neven (Verelst, James) (PP, EA) – 57:26 2–3
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	46	Shots	26

Statistics

Scoring leaders

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

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Nikita Bukiya	4	7	4	11	+9	4	F
Ivan Karelin	4	5	6	11	+6	0	F
Björn Sigurðarson	4	3	6	9	+4	2	F
Ben Coolen	4	3	5	8	+4	0	F
Johann Leifsson	4	2	6	8	+4	6	F
Andri Mikaelsson	4	3	4	7	+4	0	F
Axel Orongan	4	4	2	6	+4	6	F
Alec James	4	3	3	6	+3	4	F
Gunnar Arason	4	2	4	6	+3	0	D
Frank Neven	4	2	4	6	+3	4	D

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− =

Goaltending leaders

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.

Player	TOI	GA	GAA	SA	Sv%	SO
Jóhann Ragnarsson	120:00	4	2.00	78	94.87	0
Jakob Jóhannesson	120:00	3	1.50	47	93.62	0
Arne Waumans	176:32	4	1.36	55	92.73	1
Mikhail Fofanov	187:26	8	2.56	105	92.38	1
Marcello de Antuñano	113:13	11	5.83	89	87.64	0

TOI = time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = shots against; GA = goals against; GAA = goals against average; Sv% = save percentage; SO = shutouts
Source: IIHF.com

Awards

Position	Player[12]
Goaltender	Jóhann Ragnarsson
Defenceman	Frank Neven
Forward	Johann Leifsson

References