IIHF World U20 Championship Division I
Current season, competition or edition: 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division I | |
| Formerly | B-series (1979–2000) |
|---|---|
| Sport | Ice hockey |
| Founded | 1979 (B-series) 2001 (Division I) |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Austria |
| Most titles |  Germany (6 titles) |
| Promotion to | IIHF World U20 Championship |
| Relegation to | Division II |
| Official website | IIHF.com |
The IIHF World U20 Championship Division I is played every year among the ice hockey teams under the age of 20 who were placed in Division I in the previous year.[1][2]
Until 2001 the series was known as the B-series.
Results
| Year | Promoted | Relegated | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To IIHF U20 Top division | To Division I A | To Division I B | To IIHF U20 Division II | |
| 2001 |  France
|
– | – |  Latvia
|
| 2002 | Germany
|
– | – | No Relegated |
| 2003 |  Ukraine, Austria
|
– | – |  Croatia,  Poland
|
| 2004 | Germany,  Belarus
|
– | – |  Hungary,  Japan
|
| 2005 |  Norway, Latvia
|
– | – |  Great Britain,  Estonia
|
| 2006 | Germany, Belarus
|
– | – | Japan, Hungary
|
| 2007 |  Denmark,  Kazakhstan
|
– | – | Estonia,  Italy
|
| 2008 | Germany, Latvia
|
– | – |  Lithuania, Great Britain
|
| 2009 |  Switzerland, Austria
|
– | – | Estonia, Hungary
|
| 2010 | Germany, Norway
|
– | – | France, Poland
|
| 2011 | Latvia, Denmark
|
– | – | Ukraine, Lithuania
|
| 2012 | Germany
|
France
|
Great Britain
|
Japan
|
| 2013 | Norway
|
Poland
|
France
|
Croatia
|
| 2014 | Denmark
|
Italy
|
Poland
|
Japan
|
| 2015 | Belarus
|
Kazakhstan
|
 Slovenia
|
Hungary
|
| 2016 | Latvia
|
France
|
Italy
|
Japan
|
| 2017 | Belarus
|
Hungary
|
Norway
|
Great Britain
|
| 2018 | Kazakhstan
|
Norway
|
Hungary
|
Lithuania
|
| 2019 | Germany
|
Slovenia
|
France
|
Japan
|
| 2020 | Austria
|
Hungary
|
Slovenia
|
Italy
|
