document_title: History of Las Vegas

question_text: when did humans begin to live in las vegas

text: History of Las Vegas

text: Prehistory[edit]

text: The prehistoric landscape of the Las Vegas Valley and most of Southern Nevada was once a marsh with water and vegetation. The rivers that created the marsh eventually went underground, and the marsh receded. The valley then evolved into a parched, arid landscape that only supported the hardiest animals and plants.

text: At some point in the valley's early geologic history, the water resurfaced and flowed into what is now the Colorado River. This created a luxurious plant life, forming a wetland oasis in the Mojave Desert landscape.

text: Evidence of prehistoric life in Las Vegas Valley was found in 1993, when a group of construction workers discovered the remains of a Columbian mammoth. Palaeontologists estimate that the mammoth roamed the area some 8,000 to 15,000 years ago.

text: Native Americans lived in the Las Vegas Valley, beginning over 10,000 years ago. Archaeologists have discovered baskets, petroglyphs, pictographs and other evidence in diverse locations, including Gypsum Cave and Tule Springs. Paiutes moved into the area as early as AD 700, migrating between nearby mountains in the summer and spending winter in the valley, near Big Springs.[1]

text: 1829–1905: origins[edit]

text: A trade caravan of 60 men led by the Mexican merchant Antonio Armijo was charged with establishing a trade route to Los Angeles.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party.[8] By following the Pike and Smith routes through a tributary of Colorado River they came upon the Las Vegas Valley, described by Smith as the best point to re-supply before going onto California. The travelers named the area "Las Vegas" which is Spanish for "The Meadows".[9]

text: John C. Frémont traveled into the Las Vegas Valley on May 3, 1844, while it was still part of Mexico. He was appointed by President John Tyler to lead a group of scientists, scouts, and spies for the United States Army Corps of Engineers who were preparing for a possible war with Mexico. Upon arriving in the valley they made camp at the Las Vegas Springs, establishing a clandestine fort there. A war with Mexico did occur, resulting in the region becoming United States territory. The fort was used in later years by travellers, mountain men, hunters, and traders seeking shelter, but was never permanently inhabited.

text: In 1855, William Bringhurst led a group of 29 Mormon missionaries from Utah to the Las Vegas Valley. The missionaries built a 150-square-foot (14 m2) adobe fort near a creek and used flood irrigation to water their crops, a process still used at the park. However, because of tensions rising between leaders of the small Mormon community, the summer heat and difficulty growing crops, the missionaries returned to Utah in 1857, abandoning the fort.

text: For the next few years the area remained unoccupied by Americans except for travelers and traders. Then the U.S. Army, in an attempt to deceive Confederate spies active in southern California in 1864, falsely publicized that it reclaimed the fort and had renamed it Fort Baker, briefly recalling the area to national attention. After the end of the war in 1865, Octavius Gass, with a commission from the federal government, re-occupied the fort. The Paiute nation had declined in numbers and negotiated a new treaty with the United States, ceding the area around the fort to the United States in return for relocation and supplies of food and farming equipment. Consequently, Gass started irrigating the old fields and renamed the area 'Las Vegas Rancho.' Gass made wine at his ranch and Las Vegas became known as the best stop on the Old Spanish Trail. In 1881, because of mismanagement and intrigue with a Mormon syndicate, Gass lost his ranch to Archibald Stewart to pay off a lien Stewart had on the property.[citation needed] In 1884, Archibald's wife, Helen J. Stewart became the Las Vegas Postmaster.

text: The property (increased to 1,800 acres (730 ha)), stayed with the family (despite Archibald Stewart's murder in July 1884) until it was purchased in 1902 by the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad, then being built across southern Nevada. The railroad was a project of Montana Senator William Andrews Clark. Clark enlisted Utah's U.S. Senator and mining magnate Thomas Kearns to ensure the line's completion through Utah to Las Vegas. The State Land Act of 1885 offered land at $1.25 per acre ($3.09/hectare). Clark and Kearns promoted the area to American farmers who quickly expanded the farming plots of the areas. Not until 1895 did the first large-scale migration of Mormons begin in the area, at long last fulfilling Brigham Young's early dream. Through wells and arid irrigation, agriculture became the primary industry for the next 20 years and in return for his development, the farmers named the area Clark County in honor of the railroad tycoon and Senator.

text: 1905–1929: birth, growth and crisis[edit]

text: By the early 20th century, wells piped water into the town, providing both a reliable source of fresh water and the means for additional growth. The increased availability of water in the area allowed Las Vegas to become a water stop, first for wagon trains and later railroads, on the trail between Los Angeles, California, and points east such as Albuquerque, New Mexico.

text: The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad was completed in 1905, linking Salt Lake City to southern California. U.S. Senator William Andrews Clark was the majority owner of the railroad, which was a corporation based in Utah. Among its original incorporators were Utah's U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns and his business partner David Keith. Kearns, one of the richest and most powerful men in Utah, and Keith were the owners of Utah's Silver King Coalition Mine, several mines in Nevada and The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper. Kearns and Keith helped Clark ensure the success of the new railroad across Utah and into Nevada to California. Curiously, for a time there were two towns named Las Vegas. The east-side of Las Vegas (which encompassed the modern Main Street and Las Vegas Boulevard) was owned by Clark, and the west-side Las Vegas (which encompassed the area north of modern-day Bonanza Road) was owned by J.T. McWilliams, who was hired by the Stewart family during the sale of the Las Vegas Rancho and bought available land west of the ranch. It was from their property that Las Vegas took form.

text: Clark subsequently built another railroad branching off from Las Vegas to the boomtown of Bullfrog called the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad.  With the revenue coming down both railways that intersected there, the area of Las Vegas was quickly growing. On May 15, 1905, Las Vegas officially was founded as a city, when 110 acres (45 ha), in what would later become downtown, were auctioned to ready buyers. Las Vegas was the driving force in the creation of Clark County, Nevada in 1909 and the city was incorporated in 1911 as a part of the county.  The first mayor of Las Vegas was Peter Buol who served from 1911-1913.

text: Shortly after the city's incorporation, the State of Nevada reluctantly became the last western state to outlaw gaming.  This occurred at midnight, October 1, 1910, when a strict anti-gambling law became effective in Nevada. It even forbade the western custom of flipping a coin for the price of a drink. Nonetheless, Las Vegas had a diversified economy and a stable and prosperous business community, and therefore continued to grow until 1917.  In that year, a combination of economic influences and the redirection of resources by the federal government in support of the war effort forced the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad to declare bankruptcy.  Although William Clark sold the remains of the company to the Union Pacific Railroad, a nationwide strike in 1922 left Las Vegas in a desperate state.

text: 1930–1941: Hoover Dam and the first casinos[edit]

text: On July 3, 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the appropriation bill for the Boulder Dam. The dam was later renamed the Hoover Dam during the Truman administration. Work started on the dam in 1931 and Las Vegas' population swelled from around 5,000 citizens to 25,000, with most of the newcomers looking for a job building the dam. However, the demographic of the work force consisting of males from across the country with no attachment to the area created a market for large scale entertainment.  A combination of local Las Vegas business owners, and Mafia crime lords helped develop the casinos and showgirl theaters to entertain the largely male dam construction workers.[11]

text: Despite the influx of known crime figures, the local business community tried to cast Las Vegas in a respectable light when the Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur visited in 1929 to inspect the dam site. However a subordinate was found with alcohol on his breath (this was during the time of Prohibition) after a visit to Block 16 in Las Vegas. The government ultimately decided that a federal-controlled town, Boulder City, would be erected for the dam workers.

text:
Realizing that gambling would be profitable for local business, the Nevada state legislature legalized gambling at the local level in 1931.  Las Vegas, with a small but already well-established illegal gambling industry, was poised to begin its rise as the gaming capital of the world.
The county issued the first gambling license in 1931 to the Northern Club, and soon other casinos were licensed on Fremont Street like the Las Vegas Club and the Apache Hotel. Fremont Street became the first paved street in Las Vegas[12] and received the city's first traffic light in 1931.

text: In reply, the federal government restricted movement of the dam workers to Las Vegas. Smuggling and circuitous routes then were developed.  In 1934, to curtail these activities and the resulting growth of criminal figures in the gambling industry, the city's leading figures purged gambling dens and started an effort to stem the flow of workers from the dam. This only emboldened some dam workers who still contrived to visit Las Vegas.  A celebration of this era has become known as Helldorado Days.[13]

text: Although the suppression efforts resulted in declines at gambling venues and resulted in a business downturn, the city was recharged—both literally and figuratively—when the dam was completed in 1935. In 1937, Southern Nevada Power became the first utility to supply power from the dam, and Las Vegas was its first customer. Electricity flowed into Las Vegas and Fremont Street became known as Glitter Gulch due to the many bright lights powered by electricity from Hoover Dam.  Meanwhile, although the dam worker population disappeared, Hoover Dam and its reservoir, Lake Mead, turned into tourist attractions on their own and the need for additional higher class hotels became clear.

text: In 1940, U.S. Route 95 was finally extended south into Las Vegas, giving the city two major access roads. Also in 1940 Las Vegas's first permanent radio station, KENO, began broadcasting replacing the niche occupied earlier by transient broadcasters.

text: 1941–1945 war years[edit]

text: On January 25, 1941 the U.S. Army established a flexible gunnery school for the United States Army Air Corps in Las Vegas. Mayor John L. Russell signed over land to the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps for this development. The gunnery school later would become Nellis Air Force Base. The U.S. Army was not pleased with the legal prostitution in Las Vegas and in 1942 forced Las Vegas to outlaw the practice, putting Block 16, the local red light district permanently out of business.

text: On April 3, 1941, hotel owner Thomas Hull opened the El Rancho Vegas. It was the first resort on what would become the Las Vegas Strip. The hotel gained much of its fame from the gourmet buffet that it offered. On October 30, 1942, Texas cinema magnate R. E. Griffith rebuilt on the site of a nightclub called Pair-O-Dice,[14] that first opened in 1930, and renamed it Hotel Last Frontier. A few more resorts were built on and around Fremont Street, but it was the next hotel on the Strip that publicly demonstrated the influence of organized crime on Las Vegas.

text: Although ethnic organized crime figures had been involved in some of the operations at the hotels, the Mafia bosses never owned or controlled the hotels and clubs which remained monopolized by hard-bitten local Las Vegas families who were unwilling to cede ground to the crime bosses and proved strong enough to push back.  This changed in post-war Las Vegas when Jewish gangster Bugsy Siegel, with help from friend and fellow mob boss Meyer Lansky, poured money through Mormon-owned banks for cover of legitimacy and built The Flamingo in 1946. Siegel modeled his enterprises on the long-running gambling empire in Galveston, Texas, which had pioneered the high-class casino concepts that became mainstays on the Strip.[15]

text: 1946–1955: postwar boom[edit]

text: The Flamingo initially lost money and Siegel died in a hail of gunfire in Beverly Hills, California in the summer of 1947. Additionally, local police and Clark County Sheriff deputies were notorious for their heavy-handed tactics toward mobsters who "grew too big for their pants." However, many mobsters saw the potential that gambling offered in Las Vegas. From 1952 to 1957, through money and institutional lending provided by the Teamsters Union and some Mormon bankers they built the Sahara, the Sands, the New Frontier, the Royal Nevada, the Showboat, The Riviera, The Fremont, Binion's Horseshoe (which was the Apache Hotel), and finally The Tropicana.[16]

text: Owned and operated by a joint combination of Mormon elders who provided political and business legitimacy and people involved with organized crime who provided unreported income and street muscle, such as Meyer Lansky, these crime hotels became regarded as the epitome of gambling entertainment.[citation needed] Even with the general knowledge that some of the owners of these casino resorts had dubious backgrounds, by 1954, over 8 million people were visiting Las Vegas yearly pumping $200 million into casinos. Gambling was no longer the only attraction; the biggest stars of films and music like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Liberace, Bing Crosby, Carol Channing, and others performed in intimate settings. After coming to see these stars, the tourists would resume gambling, and then eat at the gourmet buffets that have become a staple of the casino industry.

text: However, the confluence of various marginal and/or suspected groups such as Jews, Sicilians, and Mormons into the gambling enterprises in Las Vegas and the subsequent cornering of the gambling market in the city by these groups sparked a two-year investigation by Senator Estes Kefauver and his Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce in 1950–51.[citation needed] The hearing concluded that organized crime money was incontrovertibly tied to the Las Vegas casinos and was becoming the controlling interest in the city thereby earning for the groups vast amounts of income which was strengthening their influence in the country. This led to a proposal by the Senate to institute federal gambling control. Only through the power and influence of Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran did the proposal die in committee.

text: Along with their connections in Hollywood and New York City, these interests in Las Vegas were able to use publicity provided by these media capitals to steer the rapid growth of tourism into Las Vegas thereby dooming Galveston, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and other illegal gaming centers around the nation.[17] Nevada's legal gaming as well as the paradoxical increased scrutiny by local and federal law enforcement in these other locales during the 1950s made their demise inevitable.

text: Atomic testing[edit]

text: While the Strip was booming, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on January 27, 1951 detonated the first of over a hundred atmospheric explosions at the Nevada Test Site. These atmospheric tests would continue until enactment of the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 when the tests moved underground. The last test explosion was in 1992. Despite the dangers and risks, greatly underestimated at the time, of radiation exposure from the fallout, Las Vegas advertised the explosions as another tourist attraction and offered Atomic Cocktails in Sky Rooms that offered a great view of the mushroom clouds.

text: The influx of government employees for the Atomic Energy Commission and from the Mormon-controlled Bank of Las Vegas spearheaded by E. Parry Thomas during those years funded the growing boom in casinos. But Las Vegas was doing more than growing casinos. In 1948, McCarran Field was established for commercial air traffic. In 1957 the University of Nevada, Las Vegas was first established, initially as a branch of the University of Nevada, Reno and becoming independent in 1969. In 1959 the Clark County Commission built the Las Vegas Convention Center, which would become a vital part of the area's economy. A new utility company, Southwest Gas expanded into Las Vegas in 1954.

text: 1956–1969: the beginning of modern Las Vegas[edit]

text: Howard Hughes[edit]

text: In 1966, Howard Hughes, the eccentric hero of the American aviation industry, and noted American entrepreneurial financier with vast connections to long established networks in the country, moved to Las Vegas. Initially staying in the Desert Inn, he refused to vacate his room and instead decided to purchase the entire hotel. Hughes extended his financial empire to include Las Vegas real estate, hotels and media outlets, spending an estimated $300 million and using his considerable powers to take over many of the well known hotels, especially the organized crime connected venues and he quickly became one of the most powerful men in Las Vegas. He was instrumental in changing the image of Las Vegas from its Wild West roots into a more refined cosmopolitan city.

text: Hank Greenspun[edit]

text: The local newspaper Las Vegas Sun and its editor Hank Greenspun led a crusade in those days to expose all the criminal ties, activities, and government corruption in Las Vegas. His investigative reporting and editorials led to the exposure of Clark County Sheriff Glen Jones' ownership of a brothel and the resignation of Lieutenant Governor Clifford A. Jones as the state's national committeeman for the Democratic Party. Before his death in 1989, Hank Greenspun founded The Greenspun Corporation to manage his family's assets, and it remains a major influence in Las Vegas, with media holdings in print, television and the Internet; substantial real estate holdings; and ownership stakes in a number of casinos.

text: Local government[edit]

text: One problem for the City of Las Vegas was that the Strip did not reside in Las Vegas . Because of this, the city lost tax revenue. There was a push to annex the Strip by the City of Las Vegas, but The Syndicate used the Clark County Commissioners to pull a legal maneuver by organizing the Las Vegas Strip properties into an unincorporated township called Paradise. Under Nevada Law, an incorporated town, Las Vegas, cannot annex an unincorporated township. To this day, virtually all of the Strip remains outside the City of Las Vegas.

text: Desegregation[edit]

text: Much like in other American settled counties and towns throughout the United States, entertainment venues were segregated between black- and white-owned businesses. With almost all of the businesses owned and operated by whites, Black Americans were barred from entering the venues which remained focused, regardless of their legitimacy or criminality, on entertaining a white-only clientele.  As a result of property deeds, businesses owned by or mainly serving non-whites were confined to clubs on the "west side" of the tracks. This also was enforced in many of the work positions.  Thus, African Americans (except those who provided the labor for low-paying menial positions or entertainment) and Hispanics were limited in employment occupations at the white-owned clubs. However, because of employment deals with black worker groups, many clubs favored black workers, and the Hispanic population actually decreased ninety percent from 2,275 to just 236 by the mid-1950s.

text: Organized crime-owned businesses saw an opportunity in not dividing their clientele by race and, despite property deeds and city and county codes barring such activities, made several attempts at desegregating their businesses in the hopes of putting out of operation the non-white owned clubs and expanding their own market share.  An attempt was made at forming an all-integrated night-club modeled on the Harlem Clubs of New York City during the 1920s and 1930s, like those owned by German-Jewish gangster Dutch Schultz.  On May 24, 1955, Jewish crime boss Will Max Schwartz, along with other investors, opened the Moulin Rouge. It was a very upscale and racially integrated casino that actually competed against the resorts on the Strip, especially the non-white owned strips on the west side.  By the end of the year, the casino closed as Schwartz and his partners had a falling out, but the seeds for racial integration were sown.

text: Many sources have credited Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack as a significant driving force behind desegregation in the casinos.[18] One famous story tells of Sinatra's refusal to perform at the Sands Hotel unless the hotel provided Sammy Davis Jr. with a room.[19] The famed performing group made similar demands at other venues, forcing owners to amend their policies over time.[20]

text: However, it took political action for racial desegregation to occur. In 1960, the NAACP threatened a protest of the city's casinos for their policies. A meeting between the NAACP, the mayor and local businessmen resulted in citywide casino desegregation, starting with the employees. Many whites were attritioned from positions and their jobs given to the black unions. Along with the rest of the country, Las Vegas experienced the struggle for civil rights. Activists like James B. McMillan, Grant Sawyer, Bob Bailey, and Charles Keller dragged Las Vegas to racial integration.

text: Aside from seeing no business advantage to excluding non-white customers from casinos and clubs, the organized crime groups themselves were composed of people of ethnicities (Jewish and Italian) that faced discrimination from WASP America and thus could understand the plight of blacks. This was also a driving force behind the integration advocated by ethnic performers such as Sinatra and Martin.

text: Another big force for equality was Mayor Oran Gragson. Spurred into local politics by a vigilante ring of cops who repeatedly broke into his appliance store, he implemented infrastructure improvements for the minority neighborhoods in Las Vegas, backed the NAACP in its actions, and promoted black workers for jobs. He also championed the cause of the Paiute tribe that owned a small portion of Las Vegas. Gragson stopped the U.S. government from evicting the tribe and actually made infrastructure improvements for them. His work helped reverse the decrease of minority populations in Las Vegas.

text: Local legislation kept up with the national legislation and integration was finally established. The only real violence came as a result of school integration, with violent riots and fights occurring in Clark High School when black gangs and youths began attacking the whites. Integration sparked white flight from the school district from 1965 to 1971. That school was then later destroyed.

text: 1970–1988: Explosive growth[edit]

text: On a percentage basis, Las Vegas and Clark County experienced incredibly high growth rates starting in the 1930s and lasting until the late 2000s recession.  During that period, the population of the city more than doubled in most decades. The rate slowed down in the 1970s with the decrease of the white birth rate, but never dropped below 60% (1980–1990), and even accelerated after 1990 due to immigration. By 2000, Las Vegas was the largest city founded in the 20th century,[21] and by 2006 it was the 28th largest city in the US, with a population of 552,000 in the city and nearly 1.8 million in Clark County. The explosive growth resulted in rapid development of commercial and residential areas throughout the Las Vegas Valley. The strong boom in the resort business led to many new condominium developments all along the Strip and downtown area. Also urban sprawl development of single-family homes continued across the valley, building the areas of Henderson, North Las Vegas, Centennial Hills, and Summerlin.  The rapid development and population growth both halted abruptly in the late 2000s recession.[22][23]

text: During this period of time, American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson wrote and published his seminal novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, detailing the experience of his 1971 trip to the city.

text: On November 21, 1980 the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, suffered a devastating fire. A total of 85 people died and 785 were injured in what remains the worst disaster in Nevada history. The property was eventually sold and reopened as Bally's Las Vegas, while MGM moved south to Tropicana Avenue.

text: Since 1989: the megaresort era[edit]

text: The "Mafia/Rat Pack" Las Vegas of the mid-20th century came to a gradual end in the 1980s with the aging out of the World War II generation, the decline of organized crime elements, and the rise of baby boomer entrepreneurs who began a new chapter in the city's history, the so-called megaresort era. Las Vegas began to become a more commercialized, family-oriented place with large corporations coming to own the hotels, casinos, and nightclubs in place of Mafia bosses. The megaresort era kicked off in 1989 with the construction of The Mirage. Built by developer Steve Wynn, it was the first resort built with money from Wall Street, selling $630 million in junk bonds. Its 3,044 rooms, each with gold tinted windows, set a new standard for Vegas luxury and attracted tourists in droves, leading to additional financing and rapid growth on the Las Vegas Strip. More landmark hotels and other structures were razed to make way for ever-larger and more opulent resorts including:

text:
1990: Rio and Excalibur
1993: MGM Grand, Treasure Island, and Luxor,
1996: Stratosphere Tower and Monte Carlo
1997: New York-New York
1998: Bellagio
1999: Mandalay Bay, Venetian, and Paris
2000: Planet Hollywood (Formerly Aladdin)
2001: Palms
2005: Wynn (opened in April by Wynn Resorts Limited opened its new flagship, the constructed at a cost of US$2.7 billion.)

text: The Helldorado Days festival was resumed in 2005 for the City of Las Vegas' centennial celebration.[13]

text: Since 2007: downturn and recovery[edit]

text: The home mortgage crisis (2007-2010) and the late 2000s recession affected Las Vegas' economic success. New home construction was stalled, and construction projects were either canceled, postponed, or continued with financial troubles. Some of these projects included the MGM Mirage property of CityCenter, Fontainebleau, Echelon, and The Plaza. The global financial situation also had a negative effect on gaming and tourism revenue, causing many of the companies to report net loss.

text: Nevertheless, new landmark hotels and resorts were still to arise, including:

text:
2007: Palazzo
2008: Encore
2009: CityCenter
2010: The Cosmopolitan

text: Starting in 2013, the sector began to turn around with the proposal of the Resorts World projects replacing the Echelon currently under construction. The Alon resort is planned to resume the site formerly the Frontier and originally planned for the Plaza. Fontainbleau is currently being on the process of being sold and resumed. Wynn Resorts is also planning an additional tower with a central lake planned for 2020 and a new arena opened near the New York New York hotel on 2016.

text: Las Vegas has still managed to host many conventions and major events, such as the annual Latin Grammy Awards, & the Consumer Electronics Show.

text: Many analysts agree that the Las Vegas economy is recovering, with improving conditions in tourism and the housing market for 2013.[24][25] Prices are rising and there has been a large increase in the million dollar home market, with many new custom homes being built. January 2013 marks the 19th consecutive month with home sales higher than the same month in the previous year.[26] In addition, Las Vegas was named America's Top Turn Around Market for 2012 by Trulia.[27]

text: In June 2017, a heat wave grounded more than 40 airline flights of small aircraft were grounded, with American Airlines reducing sales on certain flights to prevent the vehicles from being over the maximum weight permitted for safe takeoff and Las Vegas tying its record high at 117 degrees Fahrenheit.[28]

text: During the late evening of October 1, 2017, Las Vegas became the scene of the deadliest mass shooting committed by a single gunman in the history of the United States. A gunman opened fire on Route 91 Harvest festival-goers from the Mandalay Bay resort, killing 58 and injuring 851.[29][30]


document_title: Aviva Stadium

question_text: who scored the first goal for ireland in the aviva

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text: Aviva Stadium

text: Facilities[edit]

text: The stadium is a bowl shape with four tiers on three sides of the ground; the lower and upper tiers being for general access, the second and third levels feed the second tier for premium tickets and the fourth tier for corporate boxes. The northern end of the stadium, due to its proximity to local housing, incorporates only the lower tier of the bowl. The North Stand is to be the away stand for football internationals. There is one basement level and seven storeys of floors including ground level. The premium level holds 10,000 spectators, while the box level holds 1,300.[2] The remaining 38,700 seats are shared between the top and bottom tiers. The capacity of the stadium was criticised even before its opening for being too small, particularly in light of the large supporter attendance figures for Irish rugby internationals and soccer internationals at Croke Park since 2007.[14] The stadium's roof is designed to undulate in a wave-like manner so as to avoid blocking light to local residences.[15]

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text: History[edit]

text: The stadium was officially opened on 14 May 2010 by then Taoiseach Brian Cowen.[16][17][18]

text: In 2011, the stadium won a British Construction Industry Award.[19]

text: Events[edit]

text: Rugby union[edit]

text:
[show]Rugby union matches

Date
Competition
Home
Away
Score
Attendance

31 July 2010
Challenge match
 Leinster/Ulster
 Munster/Connacht
68–0
34,000

2 October 2010
2010-11 Magners League
 Leinster
 Munster
13–9
50,645

6 November 2010
Test match
 Ireland
 South Africa
21–23
35,515

13 November 2010
Test match
 Ireland
 Samoa
20–10
37,955

20 November 2010
Test match
 Ireland
 New Zealand
18–38
49,640

28 November 2010
Test match
 Ireland
 Argentina
29–9
45,340

18 December 2010
2010–11 Heineken Cup pool stage
 Leinster
 Clermont Auvergne
24–8
44,873

13 February 2011
2011 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 France
22–25
51,700

19 March 2011
2011 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 England
24–8
51,700

9 April 2011
2010–11 Heineken Cup quarter-final
 Leinster
 Leicester Tigers
17–10
49,672

30 April 2011
2010–11 Heineken Cup semi-final
 Leinster
 Toulouse
32–23
50,073

20 August 2011
Test match
 Ireland
 France
22–26
45,165

27 August 2011
Test match
 Ireland
 England
6–20
48,523

4 November 2011
2011–12 Pro12
 Leinster
 Munster
24–19
48,365

17 December 2011
2011–12 Heineken Cup pool stage
 Leinster
 Bath
52–27
46,365

5 February 2012
2012 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Wales
21–23
51,000

25 February 2012
2012 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Italy
42–10
51,000

19 March 2012
2012 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Scotland
32–14
51,000

7 April 2012
2011–12 Heineken Cup quarter-final
 Leinster
 Cardiff Blues
34–3
50,340

28 April 2012
2011–12 Heineken Cup semi-final
 Ulster
 Edinburgh
22–19
45,147

6 October 2012
2012–13 Pro12
 Leinster
 Munster
30-21
46,280

10 November 2012
Test match
 Ireland
 South Africa
12-16
49,781

24 November 2012
Test match
 Ireland
 Argentina
46-24
43,406[20]

15 December 2012
2012–13 Heineken Cup pool stage
 Leinster
 Clermont Auvergne
21-28
48,964[21]

10 February 2013
2013 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 England
6-12
51,000[22]

9 March 2013
2013 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 France
13-13
51,000[23]

18 May 2013
2013 Heineken Cup Final
 Clermont
 Toulon
15–16
50,148[24]

9 November 2013
Test match
 Ireland
 Samoa
40-9
39,108[25]

16 November 2013
Test match
 Ireland
 Australia
15-32
51,000[26]

24 November 2013
Test match
 Ireland
 New Zealand
22-24
51,000[27]

14 December 2013
2013–14 Heineken Cup pool stage
 Leinster
 Northampton Saints
9-18
47,370[28]

2 February 2014
2014 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Scotland
28-6
51,000[29]

8 February 2014
2014 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Wales
26-3
51,045[30]

8 March 2014
2014 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Italy
46-7
52,000[31]

29 March 2014
2013–14 Pro12
 Leinster
 Munster
22–18
51,700[32]

4 October 2014
2014–15 Pro12
 Leinster
 Munster
23–34
43,817[33]

8 November 2014
Test match
 Ireland
 South Africa
29-15
51,100 [34]

16 November 2014
Test match
 Ireland
 Georgia
49-7
40,156 [35]

22 November 2014
Test match
 Ireland
 Australia
26-23
51,100 [36]

13 December 2014
2014–15 Rugby Champions Cup pool stage
 Leinster
 Harlequins
14-13
38,503[37]

14 February 2015
2015 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 France
18-11
51,200[38]

1 March 2015
2015 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 England
19-9
51,200[39]

4 April 2015
2014–15 Rugby Champions Cup Quarter-finals
 Leinster
 Bath
18-12
43,958[40]

15 August 2015
Test match
 Ireland
 Scotland
28–22
31,780[41]

19 December 2015
2015–16 Rugby Champions Cup pool stage
 Leinster
 RC Toulonnais
16-20
44,925 [42]

7 February 2016
2016 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Wales
16-16
51,700[43]

12 March 2016
2016 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Italy
58-15
51,700[44]

19 March 2016
2016 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 Scotland
35-25
51,700[45]

2 April 2016
2015–16 Pro12
 Leinster
 Munster
16–13
43,108

8 October 2016
2016–17 Pro12
 Leinster
 Munster
25–14
40,527

12 November 2016
Test match
 Ireland
 Canada
52-21
43,000[46]

19 November 2016
Test match
 Ireland
 New Zealand
9-21
51,700[47]

26 November 2016
Test match
 Ireland
 Australia
27-24
51,700[48]

17 December 2016
2016–17 Rugby Champions Cup pool stage
 Leinster
 Northampton Saints
60-13
38,584 [49]

25 February 2017
2017 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 France
19-9
51,700[50]

18 March 2017
2017 Six Nations Championship
 Ireland
 England
13-9
51,700 [51]

1 April 2017
2016–17 Rugby Champions Cup Quarterfinal
 Leinster
 Wasps
32–17
50,226[52]

22 April 2017
2016–17 Rugby Champions Cup Semi-final
 Munster
 Saracens
10–26
51,300[53]

27 May 2017
2017 Pro12 Grand Final
 Munster
 Scarlets
22–46
44,558

7 October 2017
2016–17 Pro12
 Leinster
 Munster
23–17
46,374

11 November 2017
Test match
 Ireland
 South Africa
38-3
51,700[54]

18 November 2017
Test match
 Ireland
 Fiji
23-20
51,700

25 November 2017
Test match
 Ireland
 Argentina
28-19
51,700

16 December 2017
2017–18 Rugby Champions Cup pool stage
 Leinster
 Exeter Chiefs
22–17
40,604[55]

 Row colours: green for club matches, yellow for international ones

 Row colours: green for club matches, yellow for international ones

tag: table

text: Leinster Records against Pro12 and European Cup opponents in the Aviva Stadium[edit]

text: Updated as of 16 December 2017

tag: ul

text:
Competition
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
 % Won

Pro12/Pro14
8
7
0
1
87.50%

European Rugby Champions Cup/Heineken Cup
13
10
0
3
76.92%

Total
21
17
0
4
80.95%

text: Ireland Records in the Aviva Stadium[edit]

text: Updated as of 26 November 2017

text:
Competition
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
 % Won

Test Match
21
13
0
8
61.90%

Six Nations
17
12
2
3
70.58%

Total
38
25
2
11
65.78%

text: The Ireland national rugby union team plays its home games at the stadium, as it did previously at Lansdowne Road, taking over from their temporary home, Croke Park, where games were played during Aviva's construction. Ireland's first international game was on 6 November 2010 against South Africa, with the Springboks winning 23–21. The game drew a crowd of 35,515, mainly due to a backlash by Ireland supporters over the IRFU's controversial ticketing strategy for the November Test series.[56] Initially, the IRFU announced that tickets to the November Tests would only be sold as packages for all four matches. Later, it announced that the tickets would instead be split into two packages, with the South Africa Test bundled with the following week's match with Samoa for a minimum of €150, and the New Zealand and Argentina Tests bundled for a minimum of €190. Single-game tickets were to be available only for the Samoa and Argentina Tests. On 1 November, the IRFU backed away from this plan amid heavy criticism from member clubs that had problems selling the packages in a difficult economy.[57]

text: The first rugby union game at the Aviva was an exhibition game on 31 July 2010, billed as the O2 Challenge, involving under-18 and under-20 players from all four of Ireland's provincial sides, with a Leinster/Ulster side defeating a Munster/Connacht combination 68–0.[58] As part of the run-up to the event, O2 ran a promotion which gave the winner the opportunity to attempt to score the ceremonial first points at the Aviva via a simulated conversion kick on the day before the match. The winner of the promotion, John Baker of Ennis, was successful.[59] The first official points at the Aviva were scored by Ulster's Craig Gilroy with a try in the O2 Challenge.[58]

text: The stadium also hosts some home games for Leinster when the RDS Arena's smaller capacity doesn't satisfy demand. Leinster won their opening home game in the Aviva against Munster 13-9, in the Magners League (now PRO12) season, in front of a then record Pro12 attendance of 50,645.[60] This league record was exceeded on 29 March 2014 when Leinster again beat Munster, 22-18, in front of 51,700 people.[32]

text: Heineken Cup[edit]

text: Leinster won their first Heineken Cup game in the Aviva 24–8, against Clermont Auvergne in a pool game during the 2010–11 season.[61] During Leinster's successful run to the Heineken Cup title that season, they took their quarter-final and semi-final matches to the Aviva, defeating Leicester Tigers[62] and Toulouse respectively.[63]

text: Ulster took their 2012 Heineken Cup semi-final to the Aviva as well,[64] defeating Edinburgh.[65]

text: The 2013 Heineken Cup Final took place in the Aviva Stadium on 18 May 2013[66] where Toulon beat Clermont Auvergne 16-15. The Heineken Cup final was last held in Dublin in 2003 when Toulouse beat Perpignan 22–17 at Lansdowne Road.

text: Association football[edit]

text:
[show]Football matches

Date
Competition
Home
Away
Score
Attendance

31 July 2010
Challenge Match
 League of Ireland XI
 Manchester United
1–7
49,800

11 August 2010
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Argentina
0–1
45,133

7 September 2010
Euro 2012 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Andorra
3–1
40,283

8 October 2010
Euro 2012 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Russia
2–3
50,411

14 November 2010
2010 FAI Cup Final
 Sligo Rovers
 Shamrock Rovers
0–0 AET
Penalties: 2–0
36,101

17 November 2010
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Norway
1–2
25,000

8 February 2011
2011 Nations Cup
 Republic of Ireland
 Wales
3–0
19,783

9 February 2011
2011 Nations Cup
 Scotland
 Northern Ireland
3–0
18,742

26 March 2011
Euro 2012 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Macedonia
2–1
32,000

29 March 2011
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Uruguay
2–3
15,000

18 May 2011
2011 UEFA Europa League Final
 Porto
 Braga
1–0
44,391

24 May 2011
2011 Nations Cup
 Republic of Ireland
 Northern Ireland
5–0
19,783

25 May 2011
2011 Nations Cup
 Wales
 Scotland
1–3
6,036

27 May 2011
2011 Nations Cup
 Wales
 Northern Ireland
2–0
529

29 May 2011
2011 Nations Cup
 Republic of Ireland
 Scotland
1–0
29,986

30 July 2011
Dublin Super Cup
 Inter Milan
 Celtic
2–0
N/A

30 July 2011
Dublin Super Cup
 Manchester City
 League of Ireland XI
3–0
N/A

31 July 2011
Dublin Super Cup
 League of Ireland XI
 Celtic
0–5
N/A

31 July 2011
Dublin Super Cup
 Inter Milan
 Manchester City
0–3
N/A

10 August 2011
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Croatia
0–0
20,179

2 September 2011
Euro 2012 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Slovakia
0–0
35,480

11 October 2011
Euro 2012 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Armenia
2–1
45,200

6 November 2011
2011 FAI Cup Final
 Shelbourne
 Sligo Rovers
1–1 AET
Penalties: 1–4
21,662

15 November 2011
Euro 2012 play-offs
 Republic of Ireland
 Estonia
1–1
51,151

29 February 2012
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Czech Republic
1–1
37,741

26 May 2012
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
1–0
37,100

12 October 2012
2014 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Germany
1–6
51,700

4 November 2012
2012 FAI Cup Final
 Derry City
 St Patrick's Athletic
3-2
16,117

14 November 2012
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Greece
0-1
16,256

6 February 2013
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Poland
2-0
43,112

26 March 2013
2014 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Austria
2-2
35,100

7 June 2013
2014 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Faroe Islands
3-0
19,000

10 August 2013
Friendly
 Liverpool
 Celtic
0-1
51,000

6 September 2013
2014 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Sweden
1-2
49,500

15 October 2013
2014 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Kazakhstan
3-1
21,700

3 November 2013
2013 FAI Cup Final
 Drogheda United
 Sligo Rovers
2-3
17,753

15 November 2013
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Latvia
3-0
37,100

5 March 2014
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Serbia
1-2
37,243[67]

14 May 2014
Friendly
 Liverpool
 Shamrock Rovers
4-0
42,517[68]

25 May 2014
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Turkey
1-2
22,000[69]

3 September 2014
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Oman
2-0
14,376[70]

11 October 2014
Euro 2016 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Gibraltar
7-0
35,123[71]

2 November 2014
2014 FAI Cup Final
 Derry City
 St Patrick's Athletic
0-2
17,038[72]

18 November 2014
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 United States
4-1
23,000 [73]

29 March 2015
Euro 2016 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Poland
1-1
50,500[74]

7 June 2015
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 England
0-0
43,486[75]

13 June 2015
Euro 2016 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Scotland
1-1
49,063[76]

8 October 2015
Euro 2016 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Germany
1-0
51,000

8 November 2015
2015 FAI Cup Final
 Cork City
 Dundalk
0-1 AET
25,103

16 November 2015
Euro 2016 qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
2-0
51,000

25 March 2016
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
  Switzerland
1-0
35,450

29 March 2016
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Slovakia
2-2
30,217

27 May 2016
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Netherlands
1-1
42,438

30 July 2016
Friendly
 Celtic
 Barcelona
1-3
47,900

17 August 2016
UEFA Champions League Play-off
 Dundalk
 Legia Warsaw
0-2
30,417

31 August 2016
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Oman
4-0
27,000

6 October 2016
2018 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Georgia
1-0
39,793

6 November 2016
2016 FAI Cup Final
 Cork City
 Dundalk
1-0
26,400

24 March 2017
2018 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Wales
0-0
51,700

28 March 2017
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Iceland
0-1
37,241

4 June 2017
Friendly
 Republic of Ireland
 Uruguay
3-1
27,193

11 June 2017
2018 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Austria
1-1
50,000

5 September 2017
2018 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Serbia
0-1
50,153

6 October 2017
2018 World Cup qualification
 Republic of Ireland
 Moldova
2-0
50,560

5 November 2017
2017 FAI Cup Final
 Dundalk
 Cork City
0-0 (3-5)
24,210

 Row colours: green for club matches, yellow for international ones

text: The stadium also hosts the home games of the Republic of Ireland national football team, as did Lansdowne Road. The team had played most home games at Croke Park during the construction of the Aviva Stadium. The first soccer match in the Aviva Stadium was Manchester United against a League of Ireland XI side, managed by Damien Richardson, on 4 August 2010.[77] Manchester United won the game 7–1, with Park Ji-Sung scoring the first ever goal in the Aviva Stadium.[78] The first international game for Ireland in the Aviva Stadium was a 1–0 friendly loss against Argentina on 11 August 2010.[79] The first competitive goal was scored by Kevin Kilbane in a Euro 2012 qualifying game on 7 September 2010 against Andorra.[80]

text: FAI Cup Final[edit]

text: The Aviva annually hosts the FAI Cup Final, which was shared between the RDS Arena and the Tallaght Stadium while the Aviva Stadium was being built. The first Cup Final at the new stadium was the 2010 FAI Cup Final, held on Sunday 14 November 2010. Sligo Rovers beat Shamrock Rovers 2–0 on penalties after the game finished 0–0 after extra time. A total of 36,101 attended the game making it the biggest attendance at an FAI Cup Final since 1968.[citation needed]

text: 2011 Nations Cup[edit]

text: The 2011 Nations Cup took place in the Aviva Stadium. The tournament featured national football teams from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In the opening round of fixtures the Republic of Ireland beat Wales 3–0 while Scotland beat Northern Ireland 3–0. The remaining four fixtures took place in May, with the Republic of Ireland winning the tournament after beating Scotland 1–0 on 29 May, with Keane scoring the only goal.[81]

text: 2011 Europa League Final[edit]

text: The 2011 UEFA Europa League Final between Portuguese sides Porto and Braga took place in the Aviva Stadium. Due to UEFA rules against corporate sponsorship outside the federation, the stadium was referred to as the "Dublin Arena" for this final,[82][83] that ended with a 1–0 victory for Porto.[84]

text: Dublin Super Cup[edit]

text: The Dublin Super Cup was a pre-season football tournament which was held at the Aviva. Celtic, Manchester City, Inter Milan and a League of Ireland XI competed in the 2011 edition, with Manchester City winning the tournament.[85][86]

text: The 'Dublin Decider'[edit]

text: The 'Dublin Decider' was a game which took place on 10 August 2013. The match was played between Celtic and Liverpool, with both teams having large support in Ireland. Celtic won the match 1-0 thanks to a goal from Amido Balde.[87] There were talks ongoing about a return of the 'Dublin Decider' in the summer of 2014 with clubs such as Barcelona, Manchester United and Celtic being mentioned as potential visitors to the Aviva Stadium. It was confirmed in March 2016 that Celtic will face Barcelona in the stadium on 30 July 2016, however this is as part of the annual International Champions Cup pre-season tournament, and not any sort of independent 'Dublin Decider' fixture. Barcelona won the game 3-1.

text: UEFA Euro 2020[edit]

text: On 19 September 2014, it was announced by UEFA that the stadium will host four Euro 2020 finals fixtures, three group games and a round of 16 match.[88] Should Ireland qualify they will be guaranteed two home group games.[89]

text: American football[edit]

text: On 1 September 2012, the stadium hosted an American college football game billed as the Emerald Isle Classic between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Navy Midshipmen. Notre Dame won 50–10.[90]

text: The 2016 Aer Lingus College Football Classic was announced as a matchup between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Boston College Eagles to be played on 3 September 2016. This game marked Georgia Tech's first game played overseas. Georgia Tech finished the 2014 football season with an 11–3 record and ranked in the top ten, but finished the 2015 season with a 3–9 record and ranked last in their division. In 2016, they ended their season 9-4 starting with a win against Boston College in Aviva Stadium. The result was a 17-–14 win by the Yellow Jackets.[91]

text: Aviva Stadium in Fiction[edit]

text: The children's writer Gerard Siggins has based much of his 'Rugby Spirit' series in Aviva Stadium. His hero, Eoin Madden, is on a school tour to the ground when he meets Brian Hanrahan, a true-life figure who was the only man ever to die playing sport in Lansdowne Road. Hanrahan, a Lansdowne FC rugby player, died when a scrum collapsed during a Leinster Senior Cup game against Trinity in 1928.

text: The five books so far published in the series feature frequent visits to Aviva Stadium for matches.[92]

text: Siggins also co-authored the history of the previous stadium on the site, Lansdowne Road: The Stadium, The Matches, The Greatest Days (O'Brien Press, 2010) [93]

text: Concerts[edit]

text:
Concerts at the Aviva Stadium

Date
Artist
Tour
Attendance

24–25 September 2010
Michael Bublé
Crazy Love Tour
95,895

25 June 2011
Neil Diamond
World Tour 2011
50,108

2 July 2011
The Script
Science & Faith Tour
47,910

24 July 2012
Madonna
The MDNA Tour
33,953

15 September 2012
Lady Gaga
The Born This Way Ball
37,005

14 June 2013
Robbie Williams
Take the Crown Stadium Tour
36,928

21 June 2013
Rihanna
Diamonds World Tour
48,482

18 September 2013
Roger Waters
The Wall Live
24,210

1 July 2015
AC/DC
Rock or Bust World Tour
50,000

21 June 2016
Rihanna
Anti World Tour
29,017

17 June 2017
Robbie Williams
The Heavy Entertainment Show Tour
35,900

25 June 2017
Phil Collins
Not Dead Yet Tour

text: Transport connections[edit]

text: The stadium is served by public transport with Bus and DART. More remotely, it may also be reached, following a journey on foot by the Luas and Busáras. The stadium is inaccessible by car on match days due to a 1 km car-free exclusion zone in operation.

text:
Service
Location
Route

Dublin Bus
Pembroke Road
Bus routes 4, 7, 7a, 18 – 600 metre walk to stadium entrance

Charlotte Quay
Bus routes 1, 77a – 1.2 km walk to stadium entrance

Luas – Green Line
Charlemont
2.2 km walk

Iarnród Éireann – DART
Lansdowne Road
Direct to stadium


document_title: List of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel

question_text: who has the largest standing army in the world

text: Guide to the list

text: The list consists of columns which can be sorted by clicking on the appropriate title:

text:
The names of the states, accompanied by their respective national flags.
The number of military personnel on active duty that are currently serving full-time in their military capacity.
The number of military personnel in the reserve forces that are not normally kept under arms, whose role is to be available to mobilize when necessary.
The number of personnel in paramilitary forces, armed units that are not considered part of a nation's formal military forces.
The total number of military and paramilitary personnel, and the ratio per thousand inhabitants.
As military forces around the world are constantly changing in size, no definitive list can ever be compiled.

text: Many of the 171 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers, such as the two Koreas and Vietnam, include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel. Some countries, such as Italy and Japan, have only volunteers in their armed forces; while others, such as Mauritius and Panama, have no national armies, but only a paramilitary force.

text: List

text: The following list is sourced from the 2017 edition of "The Military Balance" published annually by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

text:
Flag
Country
Active military
Reserve military
Paramilitary
Total
Per 1000 capita
(total)
Per 1000 capita
(active)

Afghanistan[1]
171,200
0
148,200
319,400
9.6
5.1

Albania[2]
8,000
0
500
8,500
2.8
2.6

Algeria[3]
130,000
150,000
187,200
467,200
11.6
3.2

Angola[4]
107,000
0
10,000
117,000
5.8
5.3

Antigua and Barbuda[5]
180
80
0
260
2.8
1.9

Argentina[6]
74,200
0
31,250
105,450
2.4
1.7

Armenia[7][Note 1][Note 2]
44,800
210,000
4,300
259,100
84.9
14.7

Australia[8]
57,800
21,100
0
78,900
3.4
2.5

Austria[9]
21,350
146,000
0
167,350
19.2
2.5

Azerbaijan[10]
66,950
300,000
15,000
381,950
38.7
6.8

Bahamas[11]
1,300
0
0
1,300
4
4

Bahrain[12]
8,200
0
11,260
19,460
14.1
5.9

Bangladesh[13]
157,050
0
63,900
220,950
1.4
1

Barbados[14]
610
430
0
1,040
3.6
2.1

Belarus[15]
48,000
289,500
110,000
447,500
46.8
5

Belgium[16]
29,600
6,750
0
36,350
3.2
2.6

Belize[17]
1,500
700
0
2,200
6.2
4.2

Benin[18]
7,250
0
2,500
9,750
0.9
0.7

Bolivia[19]
34,100
0
37,100
71,200
6.5
3.1

Bosnia and Herzegovina[20]
10,500
0
0
10,500
2.7
2.7

Botswana[21]
9,000
0
0
9,000
4.1
4.1

Brazil[22]
334,500
1,340,000
395,000
2,069,500
10.1
1.6

Brunei[23]
7,000
700
2,250
9,950
22.8
16

Bulgaria[24]
31,300
3,000
16,000
50,300
7
4.4

Burkina Faso[25]
11,200
0
250
11,450
0.6
0.6

Burundi[26]
30,000
0
21,000
51,000
4.6
2.7

Cambodia[27]
124,300
0
67,000
191,300
12
7.8

Cameroon[28]
14,400
0
9,000
23,400
1
0.6

Canada[29]
63,000
30,000
4,500
97,500
2.8
1.8

Cape Verde[30]
1,200
0
0
1,200
2.2
2.2

Central African Republic[31]
7,150
0
1,000
8,150
1.5
1.3

Chad[32]
30,350
0
9,500
39,850
3.4
2.6

Chile[33]
64,750
40,000
44,700
149,450
8.5
3.7

China[34]
2,183,000
510,000
660,000
3,353,000
2.4
1.6

Colombia[35]
293,200
34,950
187,900
516,050
10.9
6.2

Costa Rica[36]
0
0
9,800
9,800
2
0

Côte d'Ivoire[37]
25,400
0
0
25,400
1.1
1.1

Croatia[38]
15,550
0
3,000
18,550
4.3
3.6

Cuba[39][Note 3]
49,000
1,159,000
26,500
1,234,500
110.4
4.4

Cyprus[40]
12,000
50,000
750
62,750
52
10

Czech Republic[41]
21,950
0
3,100
25,050
2.3
2.1

Democratic Republic of the Congo[42]
134,250
0
0
134,250
1.7
1.7

Denmark[43]
16,600
45,700
0
62,300
11.1
3

Djibouti[44]
10,450
0
2,500
12,950
15.3
12.3

Dominican Republic[45]
56,050
0
15,000
71,050
6.7
5.3

Ecuador[46]
40,250
118,000
500
158,750
9.9
2.5

Egypt[47]
438,500
479,000
397,000
1,314,500
13.9
4.6

El Salvador[48]
24,500
9,900
17,000
51,400
8.3
4

Equatorial Guinea[49]
1,450
0
0
1,450
1.9
1.9

Eritrea[50]
201,750
120,000
0
321,750
54.8
34.4

Estonia[51]
6,400
12,000
15,800
34,200
27.2
5.1

Ethiopia[52]
138,000
0
0
138,000
1.3
1.3

Fiji[53]
3,500
6,000
0
9,500
10.4
3.8

Finland[54][55]
22,200
900,000
2,700
924,900
168.2
4

France[56]
202,950
68,100
103,400
374,450
5.6
3

Gabon[57]
4,700
0
2,000
6,700
3.9
2.7

Gambia[58]
800
0
0
800
0.4
0.4

Georgia[59]
20,650
0
5,400
26,050
5.3
4.2

Germany[60]
176,800
27,600
500
204,900
2.5
2.2

Ghana[61]
15,500
0
0
15,500
0.6
0.6

Greece[62]
142,950
220,500
4,000
367,450
34.1
13.3

Guatemala[63]
18,050
63,850
25,000
106,900
7
1.2

Guinea[64]
9,700
0
2,600
12,300
1
0.8

Guinea-Bissau[65]
4,450
0
0
4,450
2.5
2.5

Guyana[66]
3,400
670
0
4,070
5.5
4.6

Haiti[67]
70
0
50
120
0
0

Honduras[68]
10,700
60,000
8,000
78,700
8.8
1.2

Hungary[69]
26,500
44,000
12,000
82,500
8.4
2.7

Iceland[70]
0
0
250
250
0.7
0

India[71]
1,395,100
2,142,800
1,403,700
4,941,600
3.9
1.1

Indonesia[72]
395,500
400,000
280,000
1,075,500
4.2
1.5

Iran[73][Note 4]
523,000
350,000
40,000
913,000
11
6.3

Iraq[74]
64,000
0
145,000
209,000
5.5
1.7

Ireland[75]
9,100
2,630
0
11,730
2.4
1.8

Israel[76]
176,500
465,000
8,000
649,500
79.5
21.6

Italy[77][Note 5]
174,500
18,300
182,350
375,150
6.1
2.8

Jamaica[78]
3,450
980
0
4,430
1.5
1.2

Japan[79]
247,150
56,000
12,650
315,800
2.5
2

Jordan[80]
100,500
65,000
15,000
180,500
22.1
12.3

Kazakhstan[81]
39,000
0
31,500
70,500
3.8
2.1

Kenya[82]
24,100
0
5,000
29,100
0.6
0.5

Kosovo[83]
2,500
800
0
3,300
1.8
1.3

Kuwait[84]
15,500
23,700
7,100
46,300
16.3
5.5

Kyrgyzstan[85]
10,900
0
9,500
20,400
3.6
1.9

Laos[86]
29,100
0
100,000
129,100
18.4
4.1

Latvia[87]
5,310
7,850
0
13,160
6.7
2.7

Lebanon[88]
60,000
0
20,000
80,000
12.8
9.6

Lesotho[89]
2,000
0
0
2,000
1
1

Liberia[90]
2,050
0
0
2,050
0.5
0.5

Libya[91][Note 6]
0
0
0
0
0
0

Lithuania[92]
17,030
6,700
11,300
35,030
12.3
6

Luxembourg[93]
900
0
600
1,500
2.6
1.5

Madagascar[94]
13,500
0
8,100
21,600
0.9
0.6

Malawi[95]
5,300
0
1,500
6,800
0.4
0.3

Malaysia[96][Note 7]
109,000
51,600
269,300
429,900
13.9
3.5

Mali[97]
8,000
0
7,800
15,800
0.9
0.5

Malta[98]
1,950
180
0
2,130
5.1
4.7

Mauritania[99]
15,850
0
5,000
20,850
5.7
4.3

Mauritius[100]
0
0
2,550
2,550
1.9
0

Mexico[101]
277,150
81,500
58,900
417,550
3.4
2.3

Moldova[102]
5,150
58,000
2,400
65,550
18.7
1.5

Mongolia[103]
9,700
137,000
7,500
154,200
50.9
3.2

Montenegro[104]
1,950
0
10,100
12,050
18.7
3

Morocco[105]
195,800
150,000
50,000
395,800
11.8
5.8

Mozambique[106]
11,200
0
0
11,200
0.4
0.4

Myanmar[107]
406,000
0
107,250
513,250
9
7.1

Namibia[108]
9,900
0
6,000
15,900
6.8
4.2

Nepal[109]
96,600
0
62,000
158,600
5.5
3.3

Netherlands[110]
35,410
4,500
6,060
45,970
2.7
2.1

New Zealand[111]
8,950
2,200
0
11,150
2.5
2

Nicaragua[112]
12,000
0
0
12,000
2
2

Niger[113]
5,300
0
5,400
10,700
0.6
0.3

Nigeria[114]
118,000
0
82,000
200,000
1.1
0.6

North Korea[115][Note 8]
1,190,000
6,300,000
189,000
7,679,000
305.7
47.4

Norway[116]
24,950
45,590
0
70,540
13.4
4.7

Oman[117]
42,600
0
4,400
47,000
14
12.7

Pakistan[118]
653,800
0
282,000
935,800
4.6
3.2

Palestine[119][Note 9]

0
0

Panama[120]
0
0
22,050
22,050
6
0

Papua New Guinea[121]
1,900
0
0
1,900
0.3
0.3

Paraguay[122]
10,650
164,500
14,800
189,950
27.7
1.6

Peru[123]
81,000
188,000
77,000
346,000
11.3
2.6

Philippines[124]
125,000
131,000
90,500
346,500
3.4
1.2

Poland[125]
99,300
0
73,400
172,700
4.5
2.6

Portugal[126]
29,600
211,950
44,000
285,550
26.4
2.7

Qatar[127]
11,800
0
0
11,800
5.2
5.2

Republic of Macedonia[128]
8,000
4,850
0
12,850
6.1
3.8

Republic of the Congo[129]
10,000
0
2,000
12,000
2.5
2.1

Romania[130]
70,500
50,000
79,900
200,400
9.3
3.3

Russia[131][Note 10]
831,000
2,000,000
659,000
3,490,000
24.5
5.8

Rwanda[132]
33,000
0
2,000
35,000
2.7
2.5

Saudi Arabia[133]
227,000
0
24,500
251,500
8.9
8.1

Senegal[134]
13,600
0
5,000
18,600
1.3
0.9

Serbia[135]
28,150
50,150
0
78,300
11
3.9

Seychelles[136]
420
0
0
420
4.5
4.5

Sierra Leone[137]
8,500
0
0
8,500
1.4
1.4

Singapore[138]
72,500
312,500
119,100
504,100
87.2
12.5

Slovakia[139]
15,850
0
0
15,850
2.9
2.9

Slovenia[140]
7,250
1,760
5,950
14,960
7.6
3.7

Somalia[141]
19,800
0
0
19,800
1.8
1.8

South Africa[142]
67,100
15,050
0
82,150
1.5
1.2

South Korea[143]
630,000
7,500,000
4,500
8,134,500
159.7
12.4

Spain[144]
123,200
8,200
76,750
208,150
4.3
2.5

Sri Lanka[145]
243,000
35,900
62,200
341,100
15.3
10.9

South Sudan[146]
185,000
0
0
185,000
14.8
14.8

Sudan[147]
244,300
85,000
20,000
349,300
9.5
6.7

Suriname[148]
1,840
0
100
1,940
3.3
3.1

Sweden[149]
29,750
0
21,950
51,700
5.2
3

Switzerland[150]
20,950
144,270
74,000
239,220
29.2
2.6

Syria[151]
127,500
0
150,000
277,500
16.1
7.4

Taiwan[152]
215,000
1,657,000
17,000
1,889,000
80.5
9.2

Tajikistan[153]
8,800
0
7,500
16,300
2
1.1

Tanzania[154]
27,000
80,000
1,400
108,400
2.1
0.5

Thailand[155]
360,850
245,000
93,700
699,550
10.3
5.3

Timor Leste[156]
1,330
0
0
1,330
1.1
1.1

Togo[157]
8,550
0
750
9,300
1.2
1.1

Trinidad and Tobago[158]
4,050
0
0
4,050
3.3
3.3

Tunisia[159]
35,800
0
12,000
47,800
4.3
3.2

Turkey[160]
355,200
378,700
156,800
890,700
11.1
4.4

Turkmenistan[161]
36,500
0
0
36,500
6.9
6.9

Uganda[162]
45,000
10,000
1,400
56,400
1.5
1.2

Ukraine[163]
204,000
900,000
88,000
1,192,000
27
4.6

United Arab Emirates[164]
63,000
0
0
63,000
10.6
10.6

United Kingdom[165]
152,350
81,350
0
233,700
3.6
2.4

United States[166]
1,347,300
865,050
14,850
2,227,200
6.9
4.2

Uruguay[167]
24,650
0
800
25,450
7.6
7.4

Uzbekistan[168]
48,000
0
20,000
68,000
2.3
1.6

Venezuela[169]
115,000
8,000
0
123,000
4
3.7

Vietnam[170]
482,000
5,000,000
40,000
5,522,000
58
5.1

Yemen[171]
20,000
0
0
20,000
0.7
0.7

Zambia[172]
15,100
3,000
1,400
19,500
1.3
1

Zimbabwe[173]
29,000
0
21,800
50,800
3.5
2

text: Not included in the list are the militaries of Abkhazia, Andorra, Bhutan, Northern Cyprus, Maldives, Monaco, Nagorno-Karabakh, San Marino, Saint Kitts and Nevis, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somaliland, Swaziland, Tonga and Vanuatu.


document_title: 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

question_text: who won the world junior hockey championship 2018

question_tokens: who won the world junior hockey championship 2018

text: 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

text: Top Division[edit]

text: Venues[edit]

text:
KeyBank Center
Capacity: 19,070
KeyBank Rink at HarborCenter
Capacity: 1,800
New Era Field
Capacity: 71,870

 United States – Buffalo
 United States – Buffalo
 United States – Orchard Park

text: Host selection[edit]

text: On July 28, 2015, USA Hockey named the five initial finalists for hosting the event:[4]

text:
Buffalo, New York
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Chicago
Tampa, Florida

text: Chicago and Tampa were eliminated on September 15.[5] Buffalo was chosen as the host site on December 3, with a formal announcement on December 4.[6]

text: Officials[edit]

text: The following officials were assigned by the International Ice Hockey Federation to officiate the 2018 World Junior Championships.[7]

text:
Referees

 Andris Ansons
 Alexandre Garon
 Jacob Grumsen
 Mikko Kaukokari
 Artur Kulev
 Manuel Nikolic
 Gordon Schukies
 Robin Šír
 Mikael Sjöqvist
 Stephen Thomson
 Jeremy Tufts
 Marc Wiegand

Linesmen

 Franco Castelli
 Markus Hägerström
 William Hancock II
 Rene Jensen
 Jon Kilian
 Dustin McCrank
 Jiří Ondráček
 Peter Šefčík
 Alexander Sysuev
 Emil Yletyinen

text: Rosters[edit]

text: Format[edit]

text: The preliminary round was a two group of five teams each internal round-robin format, followed by a three-round playoff. In the round-robin, two points were allotted for a win, and one additional point for a regulation win. One point was allotted for an overtime or game winning shots loss.

text: The four highest-ranked teams from each group of the preliminary round advanced to quarterfinals while the last-placed team from each group played a best-of-three series, the loser relegated to Division IA for 2019. All other teams will retain their Top Division status.[8]

text: Preliminary round[edit]

text: All times are local. (Eastern Standard Time – UTC-5)

text: Group A[edit]

text:
Pos
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification

1
 Canada
4
3
0
1
0
21
6
+15
10
Advance to Quarterfinals

2
 United States
4
2
1
0
1
20
10
+10
8

3
 Finland
4
2
0
0
2
15
12
+3
6

4
 Slovakia
4
2
0
0
2
10
14
−4
6

5
 Denmark
4
0
0
0
4
2
26
−24
0
Advance to Relegation

text:
December 26, 2017
16:00
Canada
4–2
(3–1, 1–1, 0–0)
 Finland
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 9,552

text:
[show]Game reference

Carter Hart
Goalies
Ukko–Pekka Luukkonen
Referees:
 Artur Kulev
 Manuel Nikolic
Linesmen:
 Jon Kilian
 Jiří Ondráček

Katchouk (Thomas) – 05:34
1–0

Steel (Raddysh, Kyrou) (PP) – 06:01
2–0

2–1
12:19 – Heponiemi (Välimäki)

Batherson (Gadjovich, Mete) – 12:52
3–1

3–2
27:31 – Jokiharju (Tolvanen, Koivula) (PP)

Raddysh (Katchouk) – 32:47
4–2

12 min
Penalties
6 min

32
Shots
31

text:
December 26, 2017
20:00
Denmark
0–9
(0–5, 0–2, 0–2)
 United States
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 7,207

text:
[show]Game reference

Kasper Krog
Emil Gransøe
Goalies
Joseph Woll
Referees:
 Gordon Schukies
 Robin Šír
Linesmen:
 Peter Šefčík
 Alexander Sysuev

0–1
02:27 – Jones (Peeke, Norris)

0–2
05:04 – Bellows (Brown) (PP)

0–3
08:26 – Mittelstadt (Hughes, M. Anderson)

0–4
11:35 – Yamamoto (Tkachuk, Hughes)

0–5
18:48 – Mittelstadt (Harper, Tufte)

0–6
24:08 – Bellows (PS)

0–7
39:31 – Harper (Fox)

0–8
52:30 – Peeke (Jones) (PP)

0–9
53:23 – Samberg (Perunovich, Norris)

10 min
Penalties
6 min

17
Shots
36

text:
December 27, 2017
19:00
Slovakia
0–6
(0–1, 0–3, 0–2)
 Canada
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 7,834

text:
[show]Game reference

Dávid Hrenák
Goalies
Colton Point
Referees:
 Jeremy Tufts
 Marc Wiegand
Linesmen:
 William Hancock II
 Rene Jensen

0–1
03:39 – Steel (Makar, Kyrou)

0–2
21:24 – Kyrou (Mete, Dubé) (PP)

0–3
25:43 – Gadjovich (Makar)

0–4
30:33 – Raddysh (Kyrou, Steel) (PP)

0–5
55:58 – Comtois

0–6
58:30 – Gadjovich (McLeod, Timmins) (PP)

12 min
Penalties
4 min

20
Shots
52

text:
December 28, 2017
12:00
Finland
4–1
(2–0, 2–1, 0–0)
 Denmark
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 5,026

text:
[show]Game reference

Ukka–Pekka Luukkonen
Goalies
Kasper Krog
Referees:
 Andris Ansons
 Alexandre Garon
Linesmen:
 Franco Castelli
 Jon Kilian

Koppanen (Välimäki, Heiskanen) – 02:49
1–0

Räsänen (Tolvanen, Jokiharju) – 06:56
2–0

2–1
21:38 – Krag (Røndbjerg, Setkov) (PP)

Välimäki (Heiskanen, Vaakanainen) – 35:38
3–1

Jokiharju (Koivula) – 37:44
4–1

2 min
Penalties
14 min

62
Shots
7

text:
December 28, 2017
20:00
United States
2–3
(0–0, 1–1, 1–2)
 Slovakia
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 8,188

text:
[show]Game reference

Joseph Woll
Goalies
Roman Durný
Referees:
 Artur Kulev
 Mikael Sjöqvist
Linesmen:
 Markus Hägerström
 Emil Yletyinen

0–1
24:52 – Krivošík (Buček)

Tkachuk (Poehling, J. Anderson) – 31:07
1–1

1–2
55:15 – Krivošík (Buček)

Mittelstadt – 56:49
2–2

2–3
57:52 – Buček

2 min
Penalties
4 min

45
Shots
25

text:
December 29, 2017
15:00
Canada
3–4 GWS
(2–0, 1–1, 0–2)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 0–2)
 United States
New Era Field
Attendance: 44,592

text:
[show]Game reference

Carter Hart
Goalies
Jake Oettinger
Referees:
 Mikko Kaukokari
 Marc Wiegand
Linesmen:
 Jiří Ondráček
 Alexander Sysuev

Makar (Thomas) (PP) – 04:13
1–0

Dubé (Steel) (PP) – 15:17
2–0

2–1
36:27 – Bellows (Mittelstadt, Oettinger) (PP2)

Katchouk (Bean) – 37:39
3–1

3–2
46:09 – Perunovich (Mittelstadt) (PP)

3–3
46:43 – Tkachuk (Mittelstadt)

Steel
Thomas
Raddysh
Batheson
Shootout
 Bellows
 Tkachuk
 Mittelstadt

12 min
Penalties
6 min

22
Shots
36

text:
December 30, 2017
16:00
Finland
5–2
(0–0, 2–1, 3–1)
 Slovakia
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 6,229

text:
[show]Game reference

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Goalies
Roman Durný
Referees:
 Gordon Schukies
 Stephen Thomson
Linesmen:
 Dustin McCrank
 Jiří Ondráček

Koppanen (Nurmi, Jääskä) – 27:02
1–0

1–1
34:14 – Bodák (Tamáši, Ivan)

Räsänen (Juolevi, Tolvanen) (PP) – 39:02
2–1

Heponiemi (Kuokkanen) – 46:23
3–1

3–2
49:03 – Buček (Krivošík, Ružička)

Ikonen – 52:36
4–2

Nurmi (Koppanen) – 54:01
5–2

8 min
Penalties
8 min

39
Shots
26

text:
December 30, 2017
20:00
Denmark
0–8
(0–3, 0–2, 0–3)
 Canada
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 8,671

text:
[show]Game reference

Emil Gransøe
Goalies
Carter Hart
Referees:
 Manuel Nikolic
 Mikael Sjöqvist
Linesmen:
 Peter Šefčík
 Emil Yletyinen

0–1
03:52 – Thomas (Raddysh, Katchouk)

0–2
17:21 – Howden (Comtois, Foote)

0–3
19:39 – Steel (Clague, Kyrou)

0–4
27:52 – Makar (Bean) (PP)

0–5
29:20 – Howden (Foote, Formenton)

0–6
43:30 – Formenton (Timmins)

0–7
49:03 – McLeod

0–8
52:26 – Batherson (Foote, McLeod) (PP)

8 min
Penalties
4 min

18
Shots
44

text:
December 31, 2017
16:00
United States
5–4
(2–0, 2–2, 1–2)
 Finland
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 7,884

text:
[show]Game reference

Joseph Woll
Goalies
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Referees:
 Alexandre Garon
 Robin Šír
Linesmen:
 Rene Jensen
 Peter Šefčík

Frederic (Tufte, Yamamoto) – 03:59
1–0

Mittelstadt (Tkachuk) – 14:33
2–0

J. Anderson (Tkachuk, Fox) (PP2) – 26:56
3–0

3–1
29:01 – Räsänen (Tolvanen)

3–2
38:44 – Tolvanen (Jokiharju, Vesalainen) (PP)

J. Anderson (Fox, Mittelstadt) (PP) – 39:26
4–2

4–3
48:25 – Koppanen (Nurmi, Vaakanainen) (SH)

4–4
49:31 – Vesalainen (Juolevi, Välimäki)

Fox (Mittelstadt, Tkachuk) – 58:23
5–4

8 min
Penalties
10 min

37
Shots
24

text:
December 31, 2017
18:00
Slovakia
5–1
(1–1, 2–0, 2–0)
 Denmark
HarborCenter
Attendance: 1,419

text:
[show]Game reference

Roman Durný
Goalies
Kasper Krog
Referees:
 Andris Ansons
 Jeremy Tufts
Linesmen:
 Franco Castelli
 Alexander Sysuev

0–1
04:46 – Blichfield (Krag, Røndbjerg) (PP)

Roman (Tamáši) – 11:42
1–1

Fehérváry (Ružička, Buček) – 29:38
2–1

Roman (SH) – 34:38
3–1

Buček (Fehérváry) – 44:06
4–1

Liška (Kundrík, Solenský) – 45:22
5–1

12 min
Penalties
10 min

40
Shots
31

text: Group B[edit]

text:
Pos
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification

1
 Sweden
4
3
1
0
0
20
7
+13
11
Advance to Quarterfinals

2
 Czech Republic
4
3
0
0
1
18
15
+3
9

3
 Russia
4
2
0
1
1
17
13
+4
7

4
  Switzerland
4
1
0
0
3
10
20
−10
3

5
 Belarus
4
0
0
0
4
10
20
−10
0
Advance to Relegation

text:
December 26, 2017
12:00
Czech Republic
5–4
(2–2, 2–0, 1–2)
 Russia
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 4,998

text:
[show]Game reference

Josef Kořenář
Goalies
Alexei Melnichuk
Vladislav Sukhachyov
Referees:
 Andris Ansons
 Alexandre Garon
Linesmen:
 Franco Castelli
 Markus Hägerström

Nečas (Kaut, Zadina) (PP) – 04:42
1–0

1–1
05:21 – Polodyan (Altybarmakyan, Zaitsev)

Safin (Chytil, Hájek) – 07:28
2–1

2–2
09:16 – Sholokhov (Kostin, Syomin)

Zadina (Kaut, Nečas) (PP) – 25:34
3–2

Chytil (Safin, Zachar) – 37:26
4–2

Král (Kaut, Galvas) – 46:16
5–2

5–3
57:48 – Kayumov (Maunkyan, Rubstov)

5–4
59:02 – Syomin (Kayumov, Rubstov) (EA)

14 min
Penalties
6 min

24
Shots
38

text:
December 26, 2017
14:00
Belarus
1–6
(1–1, 0–3, 0–2)
 Sweden
HarborCenter
Attendance: 1,754

text:
[show]Game reference

Andrei Grishenko
Goalies
Filip Gustavsson
Referees:
 Jacob Grumsen
 Mikko Kaukokari
Linesmen:
 William Hancock II
 Rene Jensen

0–1
08:44 – Pettersson (Dahlin) (PP)

Sharangovich (SH) – 14:56
1–1

1–2
30:57 – Brännström (Nylander, Steen)

1–3
32:33 – Gustafsson (G. Lindström, Sellgren)

1–4
34:18 – Boqvist (Brännström, Karlström)

1–5
42:17 – Andersson (Nylander, Pettersson) (PP)

1–6
51:07 – Andersson (Dahlin, Karlström)

16 min
Penalties
8 min

9
Shots
36

text:
December 27, 2017
15:00
Switzerland
3–2
(1–1, 0–0, 2–1)
 Belarus
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 5,224

text:
[show]Game reference

Philip Wüthrich
Goalies
Andrei Grishenko
Referees:
 Mikael Sjöqvist
 Stephen Thomson
Linesmen:
 Dustin McCrank
 Emil Yletyinen

Müller – 08:07
1–0

1–1
18:34 – Sushko (Martynyuk, Gabrus)

1–2
44:25 – Bovbel (Litvinov, Sushko) (PP)

Nussbaumer (Luenberger) – 48:12
2–2

Kurashev (Maillard, Miranda) – 51:16
3–2

4 min
Penalties
2 min

39
Shots
29

text:
December 28, 2017
14:00
Russia
5–2
(1–0, 1–1, 3–1)
  Switzerland
HarborCenter
Attendance: 1,895

text:
[show]Game reference

Vladislav Sukhachyov
Goalies
Philip Wüthrich
Referees:
 Jacob Grumsen
 Jeremy Tufts
Linesmen:
 Jiří Ondráček
 Peter Šefčík

Syomin (Sokolov) (PP) – 10:21
1–0

1–1
20:09 – Miranda (Kurashev, Maillard)

Kostin (Svechnikov, Syomin) – 38:16
2–1

2–2
42:10 – Jäger (Heim, Sigrist)

Kayumov (Kostin) – 51:02
3–2

Ivanov (Svechnikov) – 58:18
4–2

Abramov (Sokolov) (ENG) – 58:31
5–2

6 min
Penalties
8 min

37
Shots
13

text:
December 28, 2017
16:00
Sweden
3–1
(2–0, 0–1, 1–0)
 Czech Republic
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 6,890

text:
[show]Game reference

Filip Gustavsson
Goalies
Jakub Škarek
Referees:
 Filip Larsson
 Marc Wiegand
Linesmen:
 Dustin McCrank
 Alexander Sysuev

Davidsson (Fjällby, Gustafsson) – 05:56
1–0

Pettersson (Nylander, Dahlin) (PP) – 19:04
2–0

2–1
39:02 – Zadina (Nečas, Hájek) (PP)

Nylander (Dahlin) (PP) – 44:25
3–1

10 min
Penalties
8 min

35
Shots
25

text:
December 29, 2017
12:00
Belarus
2–5
(0–2, 0–1, 2–2)
 Russia
HarborCenter
Attendance: 1,841

text:
[show]Game reference

Andrei Grishenko
Goalies
Vladislav Sukhachyov
Referees:
 Manuel Nikolic
 Gordon Schukies
Linesmen:
 William Hancock II
 Jon Kilian

0–1
10:14 – Polodyan (Makeyev, Maltsev)

0–2
12:44 – Rubtsov (Manukyan, Minulin)

0–3
23:33 – Kostin (Svechnikov)

Deryabin (Pishuk) – 42:03
1–3

1–4
44:21 – Kayumov (Rubtsov, Manukyan)

1–5
48:12 – Kostin (Svechnikov, Ivanov)

Pishuk (Martynov) – 50:43
2–5

6 min
Penalties
10 min

19
Shots
40

text:
December 30, 2017
12:00
Czech Republic
6–5
(0–1, 5–2, 1–2)
 Belarus
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 5,222

text:
[show]Game reference

Josef Kořenář
Jakub Škarek
Goalies
Andrei Grishenko
Dmitri Rodik
Referees:
 Jacob Grumsen
 Artur Kulev
Linesmen:
 Franco Castelli
 Rene Jensen

0–1
08:31 – Sharangovich (Yeryomenko, Litvinov) (PP)

0–2
20:48 – Drozdov (Sushko, Bovbel)

Pavlík (Safin, Reichel) – 21:29
1–2

Hájek (Nečas, Budík) – 21:53
2–2

Zadina (Michnáč, Kaut) (PP) – 25:58
3–2

Chytil (Zachar, Hájek) – 32:45
4–2

Pavlík (Chytil) – 35:26
5–2

5–3
38:45 – Sharangovich (Sushko, Bovbel) (PP)

5–4
50:27 – Martynov (Drozdov, Yeryomenko) (PP)

Zachar (Budík) – 53:23
6–4

6–5
54:52 – Gabrus

41 min
Penalties
4 min

39
Shots
21

text:
December 30, 2017
14:00
Sweden
7–2
(1–1, 2–1, 4–0)
  Switzerland
HarborCenter
Attendance: 2,115

text:
[show]Game reference

Filip Larsson
Goalies
Matteo Ritz
Referees:
 Andris Ansons
 Robin Šír
Linesmen:
 Markus Hägerström
 William Hancock II

Andersson (Nylander, Pettersson) (PP) – 05:25
1–0

1–1
10:13 – Müller

Andersson – 26:07
2–1

Fjällby (SH) – 32:27
3–1

3–2
39:14 – Miranda (PP)

Pettersson – 44:55
4–2

Söderlund (Dahlin, Brännström) – 50:01
5–2

Zetterlund – 51:43
6–2

Pettersson (Andersson, Dahlin) – 52:17
7–2

6 min
Penalties
8 min

42
Shots
22

text:
December 31, 2017
12:00
Switzerland
3–6
(1–2, 2–2, 0–2)
 Czech Republic
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 5,548

text:
[show]Game reference

Philip Wüthrich
Goalies
Jakub Škarek
Josef Kořenář
Referees:
 Mikko Kaukokari
 Mikael Sjöqvist
Linesmen:
 Jon Kilian
 Emil Yletyinen

0–1
02:38 – Lauko (Hájek, Budík)

Jäger (Miranda, Kurashev) – 02:51
1–1

1–2
11:07 – Nečas (Kaut, Hájek) (PP)

1–3
22:11 – Reichel (Pavlík)

Rohrbach – 22:20
2–3

Riva (le Coultre, Heim) (PP) – 23:55
3–3

3–4
28:38 – Kaut (Michnáč, Nečas) (PP)

3–5
47:46 – Kurovský (Kodýtek)

3–6
57:40 – Reichel (Kurovský)

4 min
Penalties
8 min

31
Shots
60

text:
December 31, 2017
20:00
Russia
3–4 GWS
(2–2, 0–0, 1–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–2)
 Sweden
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 6,121

text:
[show]Game reference

Vladislav Sukhachyov
Goalies
Filip Gustavsson
Referees:
 Gordon Schukies
 Stephen Thomson
Linesmen:
 Markus Hägerström
 Dustin McCrank

0–1
07:18 – Andersson (Liljegren, Nylander)

Sokolov (Maltsev, Polodyan) – 15:09
1–1

1–2
17:32 – Liljegren (Söderlund, L. Lindström)

Kostin (Ivanov, Svechnikov) – 18:18
2–2

2–3
54:21 – Gustafsson (Fjällby, Davidsson)

Polodyan (Shepelev, Ivanov) – 56:15
3–3

Yelizarov
Abramov
Maltsev
Kostin
Kayumov
Shootout
 Pettersson
 Nylander
 L. Lindström
 Steen

12 min
Penalties
8 min

31
Shots
43

text: Relegation[edit]

text:
January 2, 2018
14:00
Belarus
4–5
(0–2, 2–0, 2–3)
 Denmark
HarborCenter
Attendance: 1,245

text:
[show]Game reference

Andrei Grishenko
Goalies
Kasper Krog
Referees:
 Gordon Schukies
 Marc Wiegand
Linesmen:
 Franco Castelli
 Markus Hägerström

0–1
15:56 – Røndbjerg (Blichfeld)

0–2
16:48 – Schultz (Madsen, Grundtvig)

Litvinov (SH) – 21:01
1–2

Yeryomenko (Sushko, Sharangovich) (PP) – 29:13
2–2

Drozdov (SH) – 41:44
3–2

Martynov (Sushko, Sharangovich) (PP) – 48:30
4–2

4–3
49:04 – Blichfeld (Røndbjerg, Jessen)

4–4
59:26 – Blichfeld (Setkov) (EA)

4–5
59:45 – Grundtvig (Røndbjerg, Mogensen)

20 min
Penalties
14 min

28
Shots
29

text:
January 4, 2018
12:00
Denmark
3–2 GWS
(2–0, 0–0, 0–2)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 4–2)
 Belarus
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 4,295

text:
[show]Game reference

Kasper Krog
Goalies
Andrei Grishenko
Dmitri Rodik
Referees:
 Andris Ansons
 Alexandre Garon
Linesmen:
 William Hancock II
 Emil Yletyinen

Nielsen (Blichfeld, Røndbjerg) – 10:47
1–0

Røndbjerg (Blichfeld, Schmidt-Svestrup) – 12:23
2–0

2–1
48:54 – Sushko (Yeryomenko) (PP2)

2–2
49:40 – Litvinov (Bovbel, Sushko) (PP)

Molge
Grundtvig
Andersen
Schmidt-Svejstrup
Røndbjerg
Shootout
 Drozdov
 Sharangovich
 Mikhalchuk
 Martynov

10 min
Penalties
33 min

28
Shots
30

text: Playoff round[edit]

text:
Quarterfinal

1B
 Sweden
3

4A
 Slovakia
2

Semifinal

1B
 Sweden
4

Quarterfinal

2A
 United States
2

2A
 United States
4

3B
 Russia
2

Final

1B
 Sweden
1

Quarterfinal

1A
 Canada
3

1A
 Canada
8

4B
  Switzerland
2

Semifinal

Bronze medal game

1A
 Canada
7

2B
 Czech Republic
3

Quarterfinal

2B
 Czech Republic
2

2A
 United States
9

2B
 Czech Republic (GWS)
4

3A
 Finland
3

text: Quarterfinals[edit]

text:
January 2, 2018
12:00
Czech Republic
4–3 GWS
(1–0, 1–2, 1–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 2–1)
 Finland
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 5,109

text:
[show]Game reference

Josef Kořenář
Goalies
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Referees:
 Stephen Thomson
 Jeremy Tufts
Linesmen:
 Jon Kilian
 Emil Yletyinen

Zadina (Nečas, Hájek) (PP) – 06:20
1–0

1–1
23:04 – Räsänen (Vesalainen, Juolevi) (PP)

1–2
29:53 – Juolevi (Vesalainen, Kuokkanen)

Reichel (Pavlík, Budík) – 34:17
2–2

2–3
46:30 – Vesalainen (Tolvanen)

Zadina (Galvas, Nečas) (EA) – 57:34
3–3

Reichel
Zadina
Nečas
Kaut
Zachar
Shootout
 Räsänen
 Tolvanen
 Kuokkanen
 Vesalainen
 Juolevi

8 min
Penalties
4 min

30
Shots
54

text:
January 2, 2018
16:00
Canada
8–2
(3–0, 3–1, 2–1)
  Switzerland
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 5,533

text:
[show]Game reference

Carter Hart
Goalies
Philip Wüthrich
Matteo Ritz
Referees:
 Jacob Grumsen
 Mikael Sjöqvist
Linesmen:
 Rene Jensen
 Alexander Sysuev

Howden (Comtois, Makar) – 00:48
1–0

Makar (Timmins, Comtois) – 08:29
2–0

Batherson (Katchouk, Thomas) (PP) – 12:06
3–0

Batherson (Howden) – 26:12
4–0

Kyrou (Steel) – 27:24
5–0

5–1
28:46 – Rohrbach (Le Coultre, Maillard)

Timmins (Steenbergen, Howden) – 32:19
6–1

6–2
50:26 – Simic (Maillard) (SH)

Dubé (Kyrou, Raddysh) (PP) – 51:12
7–2

Comtois (Howden) – 59:09
8–2

6 min
Penalties
8 min

60
Shots
15

text:
January 2, 2018
18:00
Sweden
3–2
(0–0, 2–1, 1–1)
 Slovakia
HarborCenter
Attendance: 1,445

text:
[show]Game reference

Philip Larsson
Goalies
Roman Durný
Referees:
 Alexandre Garon
 Manuel Nkolic
Linesmen:
 William Hancock II
 Jiří Ondráček

Lundeström (Söderlund) – 20:09
1–0

Zetterlund – 26:55
2–0

2–1
37:41 – Bodák (Čacho, Buček) (PP)

Lundeström (Söderlund, Steen) – 50:17
3–1

3–2
51:58 – Bodák (Kelemen, Smolka)

10 min
Penalties
4 min

39
Shots
22

text:
January 2, 2018
20:00
United States
4–2
(2–1, 0–0, 2–1)
 Russia
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 6,242

text:
[show]Game reference

Joseph Woll
Goalies
Vladislav Sukhachyov
Referees:
 Mikko Kaukokari
 Robin Šír
Linesmen:
 Dustin McCrank
 Peter Šefčík

Bellows (Tkachuk, Fox) (PP) – 02:18
1–0

1–1
10:32 – Sholokhov (Kostin, Yelizarov)

Yamamoto (Mittelstadt, Samberg) – 14:34
2–1

2–2
43:39 – Altybarmakyan (Samorukov)

Bellows (Samberg) – 52:31
3–2

J. Anderson (Poehling, Lindgren) (ENG) – 59:18
4–2

8 min
Penalties
33 min

43
Shots
29

text: Semifinals[edit]

text:
January 4, 2018
16:00
Sweden
4–2
(0–0, 1–0, 3–2)
 United States
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 7,524

text:
[show]Game reference

Filip Gustavsson
Goalies
Joseph Woll
Jake Oettinger
Referees:
 Manuel Nikolic
 Marc Wiegand
Linesmen:
 Rene Jensen
 Peter Šefčík

Pettersson (Nylander, L. Lindström) (PP) – 33:30
1–0

Andersson (Karlström) – 46:17
2–0

Steen (SH) – 47:47
3–0

Fjällby (Davidsson) (SH) – 48:25
4–0

4–1
52:24 – Bellows (Yamamoto) (PP)

4–2
56:59 – Tkachuk (J. Anderson) (EA)

16 min
Penalties
8 min

20
Shots
31

text:
January 4, 2018
20:00
Canada
7–2
(2–1, 4–0, 1–1)
 Czech Republic
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 6,941

text:
[show]Game reference

Carter Hart
Goalies
Josef Kořenář
Jakub Škarek
Referees:
 Gordon Schukies
 Jeremy Tufts
Linesmen:
 Markus Hägerström
 Jon Kilian

0–1
05:55 – Zadina (Nečas, Michnáč)

Steel (Clague, Kyrou) (PP) – 15:05
1–1

Batherson (Makar, Thomas) (PP) – 18:08
2–1

Batherson (Makar, Bean) (PP) – 27:48
3–1

Comtois (Howden, Formenton) – 29:43
4–1

Kyrou (Steel, Dubé) – 32:15
5–1

Batherson (McLeod) – 36:58
6–1

Katchouk (Thomas) – 45:15
7–1

7–2
50:11 – Zadina (Budík)

10 min
Penalties
8 min

39
Shots
20

text: Bronze medal game[edit]

text:
January 5, 2018
16:00
Czech Republic
3–9
(0–1, 0–6, 3–2)
 United States
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 7,122

text:
[show]Game reference

Josef Kořenář
Jakub Škarek
Goalies
Jake Oettinger
Jeremy Swayman
Referees:
 Gordon Schukies
 Mikael Sjöqvist
Linesmen:
 Jon Kilian
 Dustin McCrank

0–1
19:56 – Frederic (SH)

0–2
20:09 – Poehling (J. Anderson, Perunovich) (SH)

0–3
24:18 – J. Anderson (Tkachuk, Mittelstadt)

0–4
25:52 – Frederic (Hughes, Tufte)

0–5
27:23 – Bellows (PS)

0–6
32:55 – Frederic

0–7
39:01 – Bellows (Norris)

Kaut (Hájek, Nečas) (PP) – 40:43
1–7

Pavlík (Kodýtek, Vála) – 42:11
2–7

2–8
45:41 – Frederic (Bellows, Harper) (PP)

Kurovský (Kodýtek, Pavlík) – 47:45
3–8

3–9
57:10 – Harper (Samberg)

4 min
Penalties
8 min

35
Shots
39

text: Gold medal game[edit]

text:
January 5, 2018
20:00
Sweden
1–3
(0–0, 1–1, 0–2)
 Canada
KeyBank Center
Attendance: 17,544

text:
[show]Game reference

Filip Gustavsson
Goalies
Carter Hart
Referees:
 Mikko Kaukokari
 Robin Šir
Linesmen:
 Jiří Ondráček
 Peter Šefčík

0–1
21:49 – Dubé (Kyrou, Steel)

Söderlund (L. Lindström, Brännström) (SH) – 33:07
1–1

1–2
58:20 – Steenbergen (Timmins)

1–3
58:46 – Formenton (Mete) (ENG)

22 min
Penalties
2 min

36
Shots
28

text: Statistics[edit]

text: Scoring leaders[edit]

text:
Pos
Player
Country
GP
G
A
Pts
+/−
PIM

1
Casey Mittelstadt
 United States
7
4
7
11
+8
2

2
Martin Nečas
 Czech Republic
7
3
8
11
−5
0

3
Kieffer Bellows
 United States
7
9
1
10
+2
4

4
Jordan Kyrou
 Canada
7
3
7
10
+2
0

5
Sam Steel
 Canada
7
4
5
9
+3
0

6
Brady Tkachuk
 United States
7
3
6
9
+6
2

7
Filip Zadina
 Czech Republic
7
7
1
8
-4
2

8
Klim Kostin
 Russia
5
5
3
8
+7
2

9
Cale Makar
 Canada
7
3
5
8
+5
0

10
Maxim Sushko
 Belarus
6
2
6
8
−1
4

text: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes

text: Source: IIHF [9]

text: Goaltending leaders[edit]

text: (minimum 40% team's total ice time)

text:
Pos
Player
Country
TOI
GA
GAA
Sv%
SO

1
Carter Hart
 Canada
365:00
11
1.81
92.95
1

2
Roman Durný
 Slovakia
240:00
11
2.75
92.86
0

3
Filip Gustavsson
 Sweden
364:36
11
1.81
92.41
0

4
Vladislav Sukhachyov
 Russia
262:30
12
2.74
90.40
0

5
Philip Wüthrich
  Switzerland
207:22
17
4.92
88.74
0

text: TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts

text: Source: IIHF[10]

text: Tournament awards[edit]

text: Most Valuable Player

text: Casey Mittelstadt

text: All-star team

text:
Goaltender:  Filip Gustavsson
Defencemen:  Rasmus Dahlin,  Cale Makar
Forwards:  Casey Mittelstadt,  Filip Zadina,  Kieffer Bellows

text: IIHF best player awards

text:
Goaltender:  Filip Gustavsson
Defenceman:  Rasmus Dahlin
Forward:  Casey Mittelstadt

text: Final standings[edit]

text:
Pos
Grp
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Final result

1
A
 Canada
7
6
0
1
0
39
11
+28
19
Champions

2
B
 Sweden
7
5
1
0
1
28
14
+14
17
Runners-up

3
A
 United States (H)
7
4
1
0
2
35
19
+16
14
Third place

4
B
 Czech Republic
7
3
1
0
3
27
34
−7
11
Fourth place

5
B
 Russia
5
2
0
1
2
19
17
+2
7
Eliminated in
Quarter-finals

6
A
 Finland
5
2
0
1
2
18
16
+2
7

7
A
 Slovakia
5
2
0
0
3
12
17
−5
6

8
B
  Switzerland
5
1
0
0
4
12
28
−16
3

9
A
 Denmark
6
1
1
0
4
10
32
−22
5
Avoided Relegation

10
B
 Belarus
6
0
0
1
5
16
28
−12
1
Relegated to 2019 Division I

text: Division I[edit]

text: The Division IA tournament was held in Courchevel and Meribel, France from December 10-16, 2017. The Division IB tournament was held in Bled, Slovenia from December 9-15, 2017. As a result of the Division IA tournament, Kazakhstan was promoted to the Top Division, and Hungary was relegated to Division IB. As a result of the Division IB tournament, Norway was promoted to Division IA, and Lithuania was relegated to Division IIA.

text: Division IA[edit]

text:
Pos
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation

1
 Kazakhstan
5
3
2
0
0
20
10
+10
13
Promoted to Top Division

2
 Latvia
5
3
1
1
0
13
5
+8
12

3
 Germany
5
3
0
1
1
17
7
+10
10

4
 France (H)
5
1
1
1
2
11
15
−4
6

5
 Austria
5
1
0
0
4
10
20
−10
3

6
 Hungary
5
0
0
1
4
11
25
−14
1
Relegated to Division I B

text: Division IB[edit]

text:
Pos
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation

1
 Norway
5
3
2
0
0
18
5
+13
13
Promoted to Division I A

2
 Poland
5
3
1
1
0
23
14
+9
12

3
 Slovenia (H)
5
3
0
1
1
18
15
+3
10

4
 Ukraine
5
1
1
1
2
9
11
−2
6

5
 Italy
5
0
1
0
4
9
23
−14
2[a]

6
 Lithuania
5
0
0
2
3
7
16
−9
2[a]
Relegated to Division II A

text: ^ Jump up to: a b Italy defeated Lithuania 2–1

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text: Division II[edit]

text: The Division IIA tournament was held in Dumfries, Great Britain from December 10-16, 2017. The Division IIB tournament was held in Belgrade, Serbia from January 10-16, 2018. As a result of the Division IIA tournament, Japan was promoted to Division IB, and Netherlands was relegated to Division IIB.

text: Division IIA[edit]

text:
Pos
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation

1
 Japan
5
4
1
0
0
23
7
+16
14
Promotion to Division I B

2
 South Korea
5
2
2
0
1
21
19
+2
10[a]

3
 Great Britain (H)
5
3
0
1
1
23
15
+8
10[a]

4
 Estonia
5
1
0
1
3
20
25
−5
4[b]

5
 Romania
5
1
0
1
3
17
20
−3
4[b]

6
 Netherlands
5
1
0
0
4
13
31
−18
3
Relegation to Division II B

text:
^ Jump up to: a b South Korea defeated Great Britain 5–4
^ Jump up to: a b Estonia defeated Romania 8–4

text: Division II B[edit]

text:
Pos
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation

1
 Spain
5
4
1
0
0
26
8
+18
14
Promoted to Division II A

2
 Serbia (H)
5
4
0
1
0
22
12
+10
13

3
 Croatia
5
3
0
0
2
16
11
+5
9

4
 Belgium
5
1
0
0
4
22
28
−6
3

5
 Mexico
5
1
0
0
4
12
22
−10
3

6
 Turkey
5
1
0
0
4
13
30
−17
3
Relegation to Division III

text: Division III[edit]

text: The Division III tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria from January 22–28, 2018. The Division III qualification tournament was held in Cape Town, South Africa from February 5–7, 2018.

text:
Pos
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation

1
 Israel
5
5
0
0
0
25
11
+14
15
Promoted to Division II B

2
 China
5
3
0
0
2
30
12
+18
9

3
 Bulgaria (H)
5
3
0
0
2
22
24
−2
9

4
 Iceland
5
2
0
1
2
20
15
+5
7

5
 Australia
5
1
1
0
3
18
24
−6
5

6
 New Zealand
5
0
0
0
5
11
40
−29
0
Relegation to Division III qualification

text: Division III qualification[edit]

text:
Pos
Team
Pld
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation

1
 South Africa
2
2
0
0
0
6
4
+2
6
Promoted to Division III

2
 Chinese Taipei
2
0
0
0
2
4
6
−2
0