The 2025 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division I consisted of two international under-20 ice hockey tournaments organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Division I A represents the second tier and Division I B the third tier of the IIHF World Junior Championship. For each tier's tournament, the first-placed team was promoted to the next higher division, while the bottom-placed team was relegated to a lower division.

To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player couldn't be born earlier than 2005.

Division I A

The Division I A tournament was played in Bled, Slovenia, from 9 to 15 December 2024.Division I A official website, www.iihf.comDivision I A statistics, stats.iihf.com

Participating teams TeamQualification placed 10th in Top Division last year and were relegatedplaced 2nd in Division I A last yearplaced 3rd in Division I A last yearplaced 4th in Division I A last yearplaced 5th in Division I A last year (hosts)placed 1st in Division I B last year and were promoted

Standings

Results All times are local (Central European Time – UTC+01:00).

Statistics Top 10 scorers PosPlayerCountryGPGAPts+/–PIM 1 Filip Sitar 5 2 7 9 +3 4 2 Mark Sever 5 4 4 8 +3 4 3 Hjalte Thomsen 5 2 6 8 –1 2 4 Niklas Aaram-Olsen 5 3 3 6 +3 4 5 Teo Besnier 5 2 4 6 +2 4 6 Jan Goličič 5 1 5 6 +2 2 7 Maj Crnkič 5 3 2 5 +4 0 7 Arthur Delvaille 5 3 2 5 –4 0 7 Noa Nsonga-Kitala 5 3 2 5 –3 6 10 Elias Vatne 5 2 3 5 +4 0 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)

PosPlayerCountryTOIGASv%GAASO 1 Benedikt Oschgan 298:43 10 92.86 2.01 1 2 Kristers Steinbergs 180:00 6 92.86 2.00 1 3 Martin Lundberg 300:00 8 91.75 1.60 1 4 Martin Neckar 269:11 17 90.81 3.79 0 5 Dániel Kiss 209:18 13 87.13 3.73 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF

Best Players Selected by the Directorate Goaltender: Benedikt Oschgan Defenceman: Teo Besnier Forward: Hjalte Thomsen

Source: IIHF

Division I B

The Division I B tournament was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 11 to 17 January 2025.Division I B official website, www.iihf.comDivision I B statistics, stats.iihf.com

Participating teams TeamQualification placed 6th in Division I A last year and were relegatedplaced 2nd in Division I B last yearplaced 3rd in Division I B last year (hosts)placed 4th in Division I B last yearplaced 5th in Division I B last yearplaced 1st in Division II A last year and were promoted

Standings

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

Statistics Top 10 scorers PosPlayerCountryGPGAPts+/–PIM 1 Taisetsu Ushio 5 7 4 11 0 2 2 Fallou Mbow 5 5 5 10 +2 0 3 Fuji Suzuki 5 5 5 10 +1 31 4 Kazumo Sasaki 5 4 5 9 −2 4 5 Thomas Pisetta 5 3 6 9 +3 10 6 Nathan Garau 5 4 4 8 +2 0 7 Mykola Kosarev 5 3 5 8 +4 4 7 Olexi Yevtiekhov 5 3 5 8 +3 2 9 Ilarion Kuprianov 5 4 3 7 +6 0 10 Jakub Hofman 5 3 4 7 0 4 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)

PosPlayerCountryTOIGASv%GAASO 1 Alexander Levshin 300:00 10 90.91 2.00 1 2 Carlo Giordani 238:18 16 90.86 4.03 0 3 Oh Eun-yul 176:23 11 88.89 3.74 0 4 Georg Vladimirov 223:06 13 88.29 3.50 0 5 Igor Tyczyński 200:28 14 85.42 4.19 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF

Best Players Selected by the Directorate Goaltender: Alexander Levshin Defenceman: Mykola Kosarev Forward: Taisetsu Ushio

Source: [IIHF]

References

External links Official website of IIHF