IIHF World Championship Division II

IIHF World Championship Division II
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2016 IIHF World Championship Division II
Sport Ice hockey
Founded 1961 (Pool C)
2001 (Division II)
No. of teams 12
Most recent
champion(s)		  Netherlands (Group A),
 Australia (Group B)
Most titles  Romania (7)
Qualification Division III
Official website IIHF.com

The IIHF World Championship Division II are an annual sports event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The division championships are played in two groups.

From 2001 until 2011, the two national teams that finished last in their groups in Division I were relegated to Division II for next year's World Championships. At the Division II Championship, the winner of each group was promoted to next year's Division I, while the loser of each group was relegated to the IIHF World Championship Division III. Beginning in 2012, the Group A champion was promoted to Division I Group B, and was replaced by that tournament's last placed team. The Group B champion was promoted to Group A, and was replaced by the team relegated from there. Last place in Group B is relegated to Division III, being replaced by their champion.

The Division II World championships have been played in their current format since 2001. Division II was formed from the teams ranked 29th to 40th, which was the five lowest-placing teams in Pool C, and the seven best teams from Pool D. Beginning in 2012, the two groups became tiered rather than parallel. Teams qualified for Group A by either being relegated from Division I, or placing 2nd or 3rd in their 2011 groups. Group B teams were formed from the teams placing 4th, 5th, or promoted from Division III.

Results

Year Co-Champions and Promoted Relegated
2001  South Korea  Romania  New Zealand  Mexico
2002  Estonia  Lithuania  Turkey  Luxembourg
2003  South Korea  Belgium  Mexico  Iceland
2004  China  Lithuania  Luxembourg  South Africa
2005  Croatia  Israel  Turkey  Iceland
2006  Romania  China  South Africa  New Zealand
2007  Croatia  South Korea  Turkey  North Korea
2008  Romania  Australia  Ireland  New Zealand
2009  Serbia  South Korea  North Korea  South Africa
2010  Spain  Estonia  Turkey  Israel
2011  Australia  Romania  North Korea  Ireland
2012  Estonia (Group A)  Belgium (Group B)  New Zealand (to Group B)  South Africa
2013  Croatia (Group A)  Israel (Group B)  Spain (to Group B)  Bulgaria
2014  Estonia (Group A)  Spain (Group B)  Israel (to Group B)  Turkey
2015  Romania (Group A)  China (Group B)  Australia (to Group B)  South Africa
2016  Netherlands (Group A)  Australia (Group B)  China (to Group B)  Bulgaria

Pool C

Champions 1961–2000

Following the year 2000, Pool C became Division II and was split into two sections as a result of an influx of competing teams.

Year National team
1961  Romania
1963  Austria
1966  Italy
1967  Japan
1969  Japan
1970  Austria
1971  Romania
1972  Austria
1973  Norway
1974   Switzerland
1975  Norway
1976  Austria
1977  Italy
1978  Netherlands
1979  Yugoslavia
1981  Austria
1982  Japan
1983  Netherlands
1985  France
1986  Norway
1987  Japan
1989  Netherlands
1990  Yugoslavia
1991  Denmark
1992  Great Britain
1993  Latvia
1994  Slovakia
1995  Belarus
1996  Kazakhstan
1997  Ukraine
1998  Hungary
1999  Netherlands
2000  Hungary

Summary of participation

46 championships

Team Times First Last Gold Silver Bronze Total Best finish (first/last) Hosted[N2]
 Australia 21 1974 2016 0 2 2 4 2nd (2008/2011) 3
 Austria 7 1963 1981 5 1 1 7 1st (1963/1981) 1
 Belgium 26 1961 2016 0 3 3 6 2nd (2003/2015) 0
 Belarus 2 1994 1995 1 1 0 2 1st (1994) 0
 Bulgaria 38 1963 2016 0 1 4 5 2nd (1975) 5
 China 27 1972 2016 0 6 4 10 2nd (1981/2006) 2
 Croatia 10 2001 2013 3 0 3 6 1st (2005/2013) 4
 Denmark 20 1963 1991 1 3 5 9 1st (1991) 3
 Estonia 8 1995 2014 4 0 2 5 1st (2002/2014) 2
 France 16 1961 1985 1 2 2 5 2nd (1985) 2
 Great Britain 8 1971 1992 1 0 0 1 1st (1992) 1
 Hungary 25 1963 2000 2 3 6 11 1st (1998/2000) 3
 Ireland 2 2008 2011 0 0 0 0 12th (2008/2011) 0
 Iceland 13 2001 2016 0 1 1 2 2nd (2014) 1
 Israel 14 1993 2016 0 1 0 1 2nd (2005) 0
 Italy 6 1966 1979 2 4 0 6 1st (1966/1977) 0
 Japan 5 1967 1997 4 0 0 4 1st (1967/1987) 0
 Kazakhstan 4 1993 1996 1 1 1 3 1st (1996) 0
 South Korea 17 1979 2009 2 2 1 5 1st (2003/2009) 2
 Latvia 1 1993 1993 1 0 0 1 1st (1993) 0
 Lithuania 6 1997 2004 1 1 2 4 1st (2004) 1
 Luxembourg 2 2002 2004 0 0 0 0 11th (2004) 0
 Mexico 12 2001 2016 0 0 0 0 7th (2008) 2
 Netherlands 13 1961 2016 5 1 0 6 1st (1978/2016) 2
 Norway 3 1973 1986 3 0 0 3 1st (1973/1986) 0
 New Zealand 11 2001 2016 0 0 0 0 4th (2011) 1
 North Korea 17 1974 2016 0 1 0 1 2nd (1992) 0
 Romania 17 1961 2015 7 2 3 12 1st (1961/2015) 4
 South Africa 11 1961 2015 0 0 1 1 3rd (1966) 1
 Serbia[N1] 8 2007 2016 0 1 2 3 2nd (2009) 2
 Serbia and Montenegro[N1] 9 1995 2006 0 0 1 1 3rd (2003) 2
 Slovenia 5 1993 1997 0 1 1 2 2nd (1997) 2
 Spain 24 1977 2016 0 3 1 4 2nd (2010/2016) 8
  Switzerland 2 1969 1974 1 1 0 2 1st (1974) 2
 Slovakia 1 1994 1994 1 0 0 1 1st (1994) 1
 Turkey 6 2002 2014 0 0 0 0 11th (2002/2013) 1
 Ukraine 5 1993 1997 1 2 2 5 1st (1997) 0
 Yugoslavia[N1] 7 1961 1990 2 3 1 6 1st (1979/1990) 2

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