2008 IIHF World Championship Division I

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2008 IIHF World Championship
Division I
2008 IIHF World Championship Division I Logo.png
Tournament details
Host nations  Austria /  Japan
Dates April 13 - April 19
Teams 12 (two groups of 6)
Venue(s) OlympiaWorld Innsbruck
Tsukisamu Gymnasium (in 2 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Games played 30
Attendance 48,239  (1,608 per game)

The 2008 IIHF Division I World Championship was an ice hockey tournament under the authority of the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was contested from April 13-19, 2008. The tournament was played amongst two separate groups, with the best team in each group,  Austria and  Hungary, advanced to the top-level championship in 2009. The bottom team in each group,  South Korea and  Estonia, was relegated to the lower-level Division II.

Group A's tournament was held in Innsbruck, Austria. The Group B games was hosted by Sapporo, Japan

Participants

Group A

Group A was contested in Flag of Austria Innsbruck.

Team Qualification
 Austria Host, Relegated from Elite Pool in 2007.
 Great Britain Placed fourth in Group B at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Kazakhstan Placed third in Group A at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 South Korea Placed first in Division II tournament pool, Promoted to Division I.
 Netherlands Placed fifth in Group A at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Poland Placed second in Group A at the 2007 Division I tournament.

Group B

Group B was contested in Flag of Japan Sapporo.

Team Qualification
 Croatia Placed first in Division II tournament pool, Promoted to Division I.
 Estonia Placed fourth in Group A at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Hungary Placed second in Group B at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Japan Host, placed third in Group B at the 2007 Division I
 Lithuania Placed fifth in Group B at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Ukraine Relegated from Elite Pool at the 2007 tournament.

Tournament results

Group A

Promoted to Elite Pool for 2009
Relegated to Division II for 2009
Group A Final standings
Rk Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
1  Austria 5 5 0 0 0 34 12 22 15
2  Kazakhstan 5 3 1 0 1 21 12 9 11
3  Poland 5 2 1 1 1 18 17 1 9
4  Great Britain 5 2 0 1 2 19 17 2 7
5  Netherlands 5 0 1 0 4 15 30 -15 2
6  South Korea 5 0 0 1 4 8 27 -19 1
Results

All times local.

April 13, 2008
13:30 		Netherlands  3 – 6
( 1 - 3, 1 - 0, 1 - 3 ) 		 Kazakhstan TWK Arena
Attendance: 1354
April 13, 2008
16:30 		Great Britain  1 – 2 (PS)
( 0 - 1, 1 - 0, 0 - 0, 0 - 0, 0 - 1 ) 		 Poland TWK Arena
Attendance: 2490
April 13, 2008
20:30 		South Korea  0 – 8
( 0 - 3, 0 - 4, 0 - 1 ) 		 Austria TWK Arena
Attendance: 3100
April 14, 2008
13:30 		Poland  6 – 4
( 2 - 2, 1 - 1, 3 - 1 ) 		 Netherlands TWK Arena
Attendance: 1090
April 14, 2008
17:00 		Kazakhstan  5 – 1
( 2 - 0, 1 - 0, 2 - 1 ) 		 South Korea TWK Arena
Attendance: 1270
April 14, 2008
20:30 		Austria  10 – 5
( 4 - 3, 3 - 0, 3 - 2 ) 		 Great Britain TWK Arena
Attendance: 3100
April 16, 2008
13:30 		South Korea  1 – 4
( 0 - 1, 0 - 1, 1 - 2 ) 		 Great Britain TWK Arena
Attendance: 897
April 16, 2008
17:00 		Poland  3 – 4 (PS)
( 0 - 1, 0 - 1, 3 - 1, 0 - 0, 0 - 1) 		 Kazakhstan TWK Arena
Attendance: 2132
April 16, 2008
20:30 		Austria  5 – 1
( 0 - 0, 1 - 1, 4 - 0 ) 		 Netherlands TWK Arena
Attendance: 3100
April 18, 2008
13:30 		Great Britain  8 – 1
( 2 - 0, 4 - 0, 2 - 1 ) 		 Netherlands TWK Arena
Attendance: 1249
April 18, 2008
17:00 		Poland  4 – 1
( 0 - 0, 2 - 1, 2 - 0) 		 South Korea TWK Arena
Attendance: 2005
April 18, 2008
20:30 		Kazakhstan  3 – 4
( 1 - 1, 1 - 2, 1 - 1 ) 		 Austria TWK Arena
Attendance: 3200
April 19, 2008
13:30 		Netherlands  6 – 5 (OT)
( 2 - 1, 2 - 3, 1 - 1, 1 - 0 ) 		 South Korea TWK Arena
Attendance: 1890
April 19, 2008
17:00 		Kazakhstan  3 – 1
( 1 - 1, 0 - 0, 2 - 0 ) 		 Great Britain TWK Arena
Attendance: 2400
April 19, 2008
20:30 		Austria  7 – 3
( 1 - 1, 5 - 0, 1 - 2 ) 		 Poland TWK Arena
Attendance: 3200

Group B

Promoted to Elite Pool for 2009
Relegated to Division II for 2009
Group B Final standings
Rk Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
1  Hungary 5 5 0 0 0 22 7 15 15
2  Ukraine 5 3 1 0 1 18 8 10 11
3  Japan 5 3 0 1 1 19 10 9 10
4  Lithuania 5 2 0 0 3 9 21 -12 6
5  Croatia 5 0 1 0 4 5 15 -10 2
6  Estonia 5 0 0 1 4 9 21 -12 1
Results

All times local.

April 13, 2008
13:00 		Croatia  0 – 4
( 0 - 1, 0 - 1, 0 - 2 ) 		 Ukraine
Attendance: 593
April 13, 2008
16:30 		Estonia  3 – 5
( 1 - 2, 2 - 1, 0 - 2 ) 		 Hungary Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 978
April 13, 2008
20:00 		Lithuania  0 – 5
( 0 - 4, 0 - 0, 0 - 1 ) 		 Japan Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 708
April 14, 2008
13:00 		Ukraine  3 – 1
( 0 - 0, 2 - 1, 1 - 0 ) 		 Estonia Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 195
April 14, 2008
16:30 		Hungary  6 – 0
( 2 - 0, 2 - 0, 2 - 0 ) 		 Lithuania Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 708
April 14, 2008
20:00 		Japan  3 – 0
( 1 - 0, 0 - 0, 2 - 0 ) 		 Croatia Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 1145
April 16, 2008
13:00 		Croatia  2 – 1 (PS)
( 0 - 1, 1 - 0, 0 - 0, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 ) 		 Estonia Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 153
April 16, 2008
16:30 		Ukraine  6 – 1
( 4 - 0, 1 - 1, 1 - 0 ) 		 Lithuania Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 438
April 16, 2008
20:00 		Hungary  4 – 2
( 0 - 0, 3 - 1, 1 - 1 ) 		 Japan Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 1363
April 18, 2008
13:00 		Estonia  1 – 4
( 0 - 1, 1 - 1, 0 - 2 ) 		 Lithuania Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 238
April 18, 2008
16:30 		Hungary  3 – 0
( 0 - 0, 1 - 0, 2 - 0 ) 		 Croatia Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 541
April 18, 2008
20:00 		Japan  2 – 3 (PS)
( 0 - 0, 2 - 2, 0 - 0, 0 - 0, 0 - 1 ) 		 Ukraine Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 1879
April 19, 2008
13:00 		Lithuania  4 – 3
( 0 - 2, 1 - 0, 3 - 1) 		 Croatia Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 989
April 19, 2008
16:30 		Japan  7 – 3
( 4 - 2, 1 - 0, 2 - 1) 		 Estonia Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
April 19, 2008
20:00 		Ukraine  2 – 4
( 0 - 2, 2 - 1, 0 - 1) 		 Hungary Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 2544

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