1976 IIHF European U19 Championship

The 1976 IIHF European U19 Championship was the ninth playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.

Group A

Played in Kopřivnice and Opava, Czechoslovakia in March 21–29, 1976.

First round

Group 1
Team URS FIN POL TCH'B' GF/GA Points
1.  Soviet Union 6:1 9:2 4:2 15:3 4
2.  Finland 1:6 5:2 6:8 2
3.  Poland 2:9 2:5 2:11 4:14 0
NR  CzechoslovakiaB 2:4 11:2 13:6 2
  • NOTE Bulgaria was supposed to participate in this group, but could not because of an epidemic of the Grippe. An under 18 Czech team filled in, but arrived too late to play their game against Finland. None of their games counted in the standings, so their totals are only shown for interest.[1]
Group 2
Team TCH SWE FRG SUI GF/GA Points
1.  Czechoslovakia 4:3 5:3 8:1 17:7 6
2.  Sweden 3:4 7:2 8:1 18:7 4
3.  West Germany 3:5 2:7 7:5 12:17 2
4.   Switzerland 1:8 1:8 5:7 7:23 0

Final round

Championship round
Team URS SWE FIN TCH GF/GA Points
1.  Soviet Union 2:2 (6:1) 7:4 15:7 5
2.  Sweden 2:2 5:1 (3:4) 10:7 3
3.  Finland (1:6) 1:5 6:3 8:14 2
4.  Czechoslovakia 4:7 (4:3) 3:6 11:16 2
Placing round
Team FRG POL SUI TCH'B' GF/GA Points
1.  West Germany 11:5 (7:5) 1:10 18:10 4
2.  Poland 5:11 8:4 (2:11) 13:15 2
3.   Switzerland (5:7) 4:8 2:16 9:15 0
NR  CzechoslovakiaB 10:1 (11:2) 16:2 37:5 6
  • The Czechoslovakia B games do not count in the standings. Bulgaria was relegated to Group B for 1977.

Tournament Awards

Group B

Played in Bucharest and Ploiești, Romania from March 13–21, 1976

First round

Group 1
Team ROM NOR FRA ITA ESP GF/GA Points
1.  Romania 6:4 3:2 7:3 12:2 28:11 8
2.  Norway 4:6 6:1 6:1 15:2 31:10 6
3.  France 2:3 1:6 6:4 6:1 15:14 4
4.  Italy 3:7 1:6 4:6 7:3 15:22 2
5.  Spain 2:12 2:15 1:6 3:7 8:40 0
Group 2
Team YUG AUT DEN HUN GF/GA Points
1.  Yugoslavia 4:0 9:0 12:0 25:0 6
2.  Austria 0:4 4:0 6:2 10:6 4
3.  Denmark 0:9 0:4 8:5 8:18 2
4.  Hungary 0:12 2:6 5:8 7:26 0

Placing round

7th place Italy  7:5
(0:1, 4:2, 3:2) 		 Hungary
5th place Denmark  7:6 o.t.
(4:1, 0:1, 2:4, 1:0) 		 France
3rd place Austria  3:2
(1:0, 0:2, 2:0) 		 Norway
Final Romania  6:2
(1:0, 2:0, 3:2) 		 Yugoslavia
  • Results for the fifth and the seventh place games are taken from the International Ice Hockey Encyclopedia and disagree with the scores posted on passionhockey.com's archive page.

Romania was promoted to Group A for 1977.

References

  1. ^ Bulgaria withdraws
  • Complete results
  • Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports. pp. 530–2. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9.
  • Müller, Stephan (2005). International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia 1904–2005. Germany: Books on Demand. pp. 240–395. ISBN 3-8334-4189-5.