IIHF World U20 Championship Division II
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Current season, competition or edition: 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division II | |
| Formerly | C-series (1979–2000) |
|---|---|
| Sport | Ice hockey |
| Founded | 1979 (C-series) 2001 (Division II) |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Japan |
| Most titles |  Hungary and Japan (5 titles) |
| Promotion to | Division I |
| Relegation to | Division III |
| Official website | IIHF.com |
The IIHF World U20 Championship Division II is played every year among the ice hockey teams under the age of 20 who were placed in Division II in the previous year. Until 2001 the series was known as the C-series.
Results
| Year | Promoted | Relegated | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To IIHF U20 Division I | To Division II A | To Division II B | To IIHF U20 Division III | |
| 2001 |  Slovenia
|
– | – |  Estonia
|
| 2002 | Japan,  Denmark,  Latvia,  Croatia
|
– | – | No relegated teams |
| 2003 | Estonia, Hungary
|
– | – |  Bulgaria,  Mexico
|
| 2004 |  Poland,  Great Britain
|
– | – |  Iceland,  South Africa
|
| 2005 | Japan, Hungary
|
– | – |  Lithuania,  Belgium
|
| 2006 | Great Britain, Estonia
|
– | – |  New Zealand,  China
|
| 2007 | Hungary, Lithuania
|
– | – |  Australia,  Serbia
|
| 2008 |  Italy, Estonia
|
– | – | Iceland, China
|
| 2009 | Japan, Croatia
|
– | – | New Zealand,
|
| 2010 | Great Britain, Lithuania
|
– | – | Mexico, Serbia
|
| 2011 |  France, Poland
|
– | – | Iceland, China
|
| 2012 |  Ukraine
|
 Romania
|
 South Korea
|
Mexico
|
| 2013 | Japan
|
Estonia
|
 Spain
|
Belgium
|
| 2014 | Hungary
|
South Korea
|
Croatia
|
China
|
| 2015 | Great Britain
|
Croatia
|
Romania
|
Iceland
|
| 2016 | Hungary
|
Romania
|
South Korea
|
China
|
| 2017 | Lithuania
|
South Korea
|
Croatia
|
Australia
|
| 2018 | Japan
|
Spain
|
 Netherlands
|
 Turkey
|
| 2019 | ||||
