Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's qualification

Qualification for the men's tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics was determined by the IIHF World Ranking following the 2019 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships. The host along with the top eight teams in the world ranking received automatic berths into the Olympics, while all other teams have an opportunity to qualify for the remaining three spots in the Olympics.

Qualified teams

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Hosts	17 May 2018	Copenhagen	1	China
2019 IIHF World Ranking	31 March 2016 – 26 May 2019	Bratislava and Košice	8	Canada  ROC  Finland  Sweden  Czech Republic  United States  Germany  Switzerland
Final qualification tournaments	26–29 August 2021	Bratislava	1	Slovakia
		Riga	1	Latvia
		Oslo	1	Denmark
Total			12

Notes

Qualification seeding

To qualify directly, a nation had to be ranked in the top eight following the 2019 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. Using the IIHF World Ranking points system, the current year received full value, and each preceding year was worth 25% less. The following is a ranking based on points that were accumulated toward Olympic qualification of all countries participating in 2019.

Points were earned based on overall finish in 2019:

Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	...
Points	1200	1160	1120	1100	1060	1040	1020	1000	960	940	920	900	880	860	840	820	800	780	760	740	...

	Qualified directly to Olympic Tournament
	Entered qualifying in the final round
	Entered qualifying in the pre-qualification round 3
	Entered qualifying in the pre-qualification round 2
	Entered qualifying in the pre-qualification round 1

Qualifying seed	Team	WC 2019 (100%)	WC 2018 (75%)	OLY 2018 (75%)	WC 2017 (50%)	WC 2016 (25%)	Total
1	Canada	1160	1100	1120	1160	1200	3705
2	Russia	1120	1040	1200	1120	1120	3640
3	Finland	1200	1060	1040	1100	1160	3615
4	Sweden	1060	1200	1060	1200	1040	3615
5	Czech Republic	1100	1020	1100	1020	1060	3465
6	United States	1020	1120	1020	1060	1100	3430
7	Germany	1040	920	1160	1000	1020	3355
8	Switzerland	1000	1160	940	1040	920	3325
9	Slovakia	960	960	920	860	960	3040
10	Latvia	940	1000	860	940	880	3025
11	Norway	900	880	1000	920	940	3005
12	Denmark	920	940	800	900	1000	2925
13	France	840	900	840	960	860	2840
14	Belarus	780	840	880	880	900	2735
15	Austria	820	860	780	800	740	2635
16	Italy	860	780	760	820	780	2620
17	South Korea	760	820	900	780	720	2620
18	Slovenia	740	720	960	840	800	2620
19	Kazakhstan	800	760	820	760	820	2570
20	Great Britain	880	800	660	680	660	2480
21	Hungary	720	740	700	720	840	2370
22	Poland	660	700	740	740	760	2300
23	Japan	640	660	720	660	700	2180
24	Lithuania	700	680	560	640	640	2110
25	Ukraine	600	620	680	700	680	2095
26	Estonia	620	640	600	620	600	2010
27	Romania	680	600	580	560	580	1990
28	Netherlands	580	560	640	580	560	1910
29	Croatia	540	580	620	600	620	1895
30	Serbia	560	520	540	520	500	1740
31	Spain	500	440	520	460	540	1585
Host	China	480	500	440	440	460	1520
32	Iceland	420	460	480	480	480	1485
33	Israel	440	400	460	400	400	1385
	Australia	520	540	–	540	440	1305
34	Mexico	360	360	500	360	420	1290
	Belgium	460	480	–	500	520	1200
35	Bulgaria	320	300	420	300	340	1095
	Georgia	380	320	400	280	0	1060
	New Zealand	400	420	–	420	380	1020
	North Korea	340	380	–	380	360	905
36	Turkey	300	280	–	340	320	760
37	Luxembourg	260	340	–	320	280	745
	South Africa	220	240	–	240	300	595
38	Chinese Taipei	240	260	–	220	–	545
39	Hong Kong	180	220	–	260	240	535
	Turkmenistan	280	200	–	–	–	430
40	United Arab Emirates	200	160	–	200	–	420
41	Bosnia and Herzegovina	140	180	–	0	260	340
42	Kuwait	120	140	–	–	–	225
43	Thailand	160	–	–	–	–	160
44	Kyrgyzstan	100	–	–	–	–	100

• Teams with no seeding chose not to participate in Olympic qualifying.

Pre-qualification Round 1

Eight teams began the qualification process in two tournaments. The winners of each tournament advanced to round 2 as qualifiers ten and eleven, where qualifier ten was the winner with the higher qualification seeding.

Group N

Games were played in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg from 8 to 10 November 2019.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kyrgyzstan	3	3	0	0	0	29	10	+19	9	Pre-qualification Round 2
2	United Arab Emirates	3	2	0	0	1	15	16	−1	6
3	Luxembourg (H)	3	1	0	0	2	17	11	+6	3
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0	0	0	3	7	31	−24	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC+1).

8 November 2019 15:45

United Arab Emirates

4–9 (2–1, 2–3, 0–5)

Kyrgyzstan

Kockelscheuer Ice Rink, Kockelscheuer Attendance: 200

Game reference
	Khaled Al-Suwaidi Ahmed Al-Dhaheri	Goalies	Aleksandr Petrov	Referee: Li Ho Ching Linesmen: Espen Olsvik Chris Van Grinsven
	0–1 06:45 – Nosov (PP) Al-Nuami (Al-Mehairi) – 07:13 1–1 Zainutdinov – 16:04 2–1 2–2 22:04 – Titov (Kolodii, Kudashev) (PP) Zainutdinov – 31:23 3–2 3–3 31:56 – Titov (Gorobets, Kudashev) 3–4 35:21 – Tonkikh (Nosov) Zainutdinov (Al-Ameri) – 36:58 4–4 4–5 46:56 – Gorobets (Egorov) (PP) 4–6 48:41 – Tonkikh (Nosov, Chuvalov) 4–7 52:02 – Nosov (Chuvalov, Titov) 4–8 53:24 – Tagaev (Shushenkov) 4–9 54:41 – Tonkikh (Chuvalov, Nosov)
	34 min	Penalties	12 min
	25	Shots	45

8 November 2019 19:15

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1–10 (0–4, 0–5, 1–1)

Luxembourg

Kockelscheuer Ice Rink, Kockelscheuer Attendance: 676

Game reference
	Edis Pribišić	Goalies	Marcus Anselm	Referee: Vytautas Lukoševičius Linesmen: Sidor Krytski Tobias Schwenk
	0–1 05:23 – Shelest (Houdremont, Grein) (PP2) 0–2 06:17 – Farinon (Welter) (PP) 0–3 13:39 – Welter (Houdremont) 0–4 19:15 – Shelest (C. Cannon) (PP) 0–5 31:56 – Eriksson (T. Beran, Bechtold) 0–6 32:04 – Shelest (Eriksson, C. Cannon) 0–7 34:49 – Grein (Backes) (SH) 0–8 35:46 – C. Cannon (SH) 0–9 38:19 – Grein (Eriksson) (PP) 0–10 47:14 – Sinner (N. Mossong) Filipović (Mrkva, Ćatović) – 49:37 1–10
	12 min	Penalties	6 min
	14	Shots	50

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9 November 2019 15:45

United Arab Emirates

6–3 (3–1, 2–1, 1–1)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kockelscheuer Ice Rink, Kockelscheuer Attendance: 179

Game reference
	Ahmed Al-Dhaheri	Goalies	Dino Pašović Edis Pribišić	Referee: Vytautas Lukoševičius Linesmen: Espen Olsvik Tobias Schwenk
	0–1 05:11 – Hodžić (Mrkva, Ljevak) (PP) Remess (Zainutdinov) – 08:35 1–1 Zainutdinov (J. Al-Dhaheri) – 09:58 2–1 Zainutdinov (Remess) (PP) – 14:00 3–1 J. Al-Dhaheri (Zainutdinov) – 24:05 4–1 Al-Mazrouei (Rem) (PP) – 24:49 5–1 5–2 38:18 – Ćatović (PP) J. Al-Dhaheri, (Savko) – 54:34 6–2 6–3 55:48 – Filipović (PP)
	22 min	Penalties	18 min
	42	Shots	14

9 November 2019 19:15

Luxembourg

3–5 (1–0, 0–4, 2–1)

Kyrgyzstan

Kockelscheuer Ice Rink, Kockelscheuer Attendance: 734

Game reference
	Philippe Lepage Marcus Anselm	Goalies	Aleksandr Petrov	Referee: Cemal Kaya Linesmen: Sidor Krytski Chris Van Grinsven
	Eriksson (Shelest) (PP) – 17:58 1–0 1–1 25:17 – Nosov (Tonkikh, Chuvalov) (PP) 1–2 28:07 – Kudashev (Gorobets) 1–3 30:44 – Gorobets 1–4 35:44 – Nosov (Kudashev) (SH) Mosr (Backes) – 48:54 2–4 C. Cannon – 55:38 3–4 3–5 59:26 – Tonkikh (SH,ENG)
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	21	Shots	35

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10 November 2019 15:45

Kyrgyzstan

15–3 (5–2, 2–0, 8–1)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kockelscheuer Ice Rink, Kockelscheuer Attendance: 232

Game reference
	Kadyr Alymbekov	Goalies	Dino Pašović Ismar Hadžić	Referee: Li Ho Ching Linesmen: Sidor Krytski Espen Olsvik
	Tonkikh (Nosov) – 01:29 1–0 Chuvalov (Egorov) – 01:48 2–0 2–1 08:49 – Cordalija (Mrkva, Ćatović) (PP) Nosov (Tonkikh) – 09:28 3–1 3–2 10:09 – Hadžihasanović (Mušić, Ljevak) Kolodii (Aiapov, Titov) – 11:58 4–2 Gorobets (Terentyev, Tursunbekov) (PP) – 15:20 5–2 Kolodii (Kudashev, Shushenkov) (PP) – 33:02 6–2 Kachkybekov (Titov) (PP) – 37:33 7–2 Tursunbekov (Gorobets, Nosov) – 40:49 8–2 Egorov (Chuvalov) – 42:02 9–2 Terentyev (Tonkikh, Nosov) – 46:22 10–2 Egorov (Chuvalov) – 47:06 11–2 11–3 47:25 – Rakić (Hadžihasanović) Titov – 52:07 12–3 Kolodii (Trishkin) – 52:14 13–3 Mirbekov (Ulugbek Uuly) – 54:36 14–3 Kudashev (Shushenkov) (PP) – 58:45 15–3
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	49	Shots	12

10 November 2019 19:15

Luxembourg

4–5 (2–2, 2–2, 0–1)

United Arab Emirates

Kockelscheuer Ice Rink, Kockelscheuer Attendance: 403

Game reference
	Philippe Lepage Marcus Anselm	Goalies	Ahmed Al-Dhaheri	Referee: Cemal Kaya Linesmen: Tobias Schwenk Chris Van Grinsven
	0–1 02:07 – Al-Zaabi (Remess, Al-Mazrouei) 0–2 10:25 – J. Al-Dhareri (PP) Backes (Welter) – 13:12 1–2 C. Cannon – 14:05 2–2 C. Cannon (Bechtold, Eriksson) (PP) – 23:33 3–2 3–3 24:59 – Zainutdinov Backes (Mosr) (PP) – 25:48 4–3 4–4 31:42 – Savko (Al-Nuaimi, Al-Kaabi) (PP) 4–5 49:29 – Remess
	12 min	Penalties	22 min
	24	Shots	32

Group O

Due to unrest in Hong Kong this tournament was moved to Sanya, China, and was played from 7 to 10 November 2019.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chinese Taipei	3	3	0	0	0	20	8	+12	9	Pre-qualification Round 2
2	Thailand	3	2	0	0	1	21	8	+13	6
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	0	2	19	14	+5	3
4	Kuwait	3	0	0	0	3	1	31	−30	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.

All times are local (UTC+8).

7 November 2019 13:00

Chinese Taipei

5–3 (1–1, 0–0, 4–2)

Thailand

TUS Ice and Snow Park, Sanya Attendance: 301

Game reference
	Liao Yu-cheng	Goalies	Pattarapol Ungkulpattanasuk	Referee: François Gautier Linesmen: Attila Nagy Yeung Ting Kwan
	0–1 04:21 – Nagayama (Thanakroekkiat, Kindborn) (PP) Yu Sh. (Yang, Yin) – 16:53 1–1 Yang (Lin H.) (SH) – 43:34 2–1 Hsiao Po-yua. (Lin H., Shen) (PP) – 47:20 3–1 3–2 52:01 – Thanakroekkiat (Kindborn) (PP) 3–3 55:24 – Forstner (Kindborn, Nagayama) (PP) Yu Sh. (Chen, Yen) – 58:43 4–3 Yu Su. (ENG) – 59:27 5–3
	10 min	Penalties	10 min
	29	Shots	46

7 November 2019 17:00

Kuwait

0–12 (0–4, 0–3, 0–5)

Hong Kong

TUS Ice and Snow Park, Sanya Attendance: 250

Game reference
	Jasem Al-Sarraf Ahmad Al-Saegh	Goalies	Cheung Ching Ho	Referee: Mohamad Yusoff Linesmen: Omar Al-Yassi Tam Weng Leong
	0–1 09:36 – Cheng (Yeung) 0–2 14:25 – R. Lee (Cheng) (PP) 0–3 18:04 – Y. Wong (Au-Yeung) 0–4 19:03 – Lui (L. Wong) 0–5 24:11 – R. Lee (Cheng) 0–6 38:00 – Cheng (Yeung) 0–7 39:26 – Kan (To, Au-Yeung) 0–8 46:48 – Cheng (Lui, L. Wong) (PP) 0–9 49:28 – Kan (Y. Wong) 0–10 50:36 – Chau (Law) (PP) 0–11 58:15 – Cheng (R. Lee) (PP) 0–12 59:44 – Wong K. (Au-Yeung, Kan) (PP2)
	28 min	Penalties	8 min
	13	Shots	54

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8 November 2019 13:00

Chinese Taipei

8–0 (0–0, 5–0, 3–0)

Kuwait

TUS Ice and Snow Park, Sanya Attendance: 230

Game reference
	He Wei-chih Liao Yu-cheng	Goalies	Jasem Al-Sarraf	Referee: Lee Joo-hyun Linesmen: Tam Weng Leong Yeung Ting Kwan
	Lu (Yu Sh.) – 22:15 1–0 Hsiao Po-yua. (Shen, Hsiao Po-yun) (PP) – 28:43 2–0 Shen (Lin H.) (PP) – 30:25 3–0 Hsiao Po-yun (Chuang) (SH) – 32:49 4–0 Yu Sh. (Lu) (SH) – 34:16 5–0 Chang (Lu) – 46:15 6–0 Pao (Lin K.) – 52:34 7–0 Hsiao Po-yun (Yu Sh., Shen) – 57:32 8–0
	29 min	Penalties	22 min
	60	Shots	13

8 November 2019 17:00

Hong Kong

2–7 (0–3, 1–1, 1–3)

Thailand

TUS Ice and Snow Park, Sanya Attendance: 255

Game reference
	Ho King Chi King	Goalies	Pattarapol Ungkulpattanasuk	Referee: François Gautier Linesmen: Omar Al-Yassi Attila Nagy
	0–1 07:20 – Luckanatinakorn 0–2 09:46 – Tengsakul (Kitayama, Nagayama) 0–3 16:01 – Thanakroekkiat (Kindborn, Forstner) (PP) Cheng (Y. Wong) – 21:08 1–3 1–4 26:30 – Luckanatinakorn (Forstner, Suwachirat) Y. Wong (Au-Yeung, To) – 46:38 2–4 2–5 52:50 – Rattanachot (Suwachirat, Kindborn) 2–6 58:33 – Kitayama (Nagayama, Chartsuwan) 2–7 59:20 – Suwachirat (Tengsakul, Khuhakaew)
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	30	Shots	55

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10 November 2019 13:00

Thailand

11–1 (2–0, 4–0, 5–1)

Kuwait

TUS Ice and Snow Park, Sanya Attendance: 318

Game reference
	Prawes Kaewjeen Supanat Rungruangwat	Goalies	Jasem Al-Sarraf Ahmad Al-Saegh	Referee: Mohamad Yusoff Linesmen: Tam Weng Leong Yeung Ting Kwan
	Kindborn – 02:41 1–0 Sukwiboon (Vattanapanyakul) – 03:27 2–0 Forstner (Nagayama, Sukwiboon) (PP) – 32:06 3–0 Forstner (Suwachirat, Kindborn) (PP2) – 33:38 4–0 Kindborn (Tengsakul, Vattanapanyakul) (PP) – 34:04 5–0 Kitayama (Nagayama) – 34:40 6–0 Chartsuwan (Nagayama, Sukwiboon) – 42:43 7–0 Kindborn – 44:59 8–0 Luckanatinakorn (Tengsakul) – 45:45 9–0 9–1 47:44 – Al-Ajmi (A. Al-Sarraf) (PP) Kitayama (Kindborn, Nagayama) (SH) – 57:13 10–1 Phasukkijwatana (Jaradwuttipreeda) – 59:39 11–1
	4 min	Penalties	24 min
	64	Shots	9

10 November 2019 17:00

Hong Kong

5–7 (1–2, 2–2, 2–3)

Chinese Taipei

TUS Ice and Snow Park, Sanya Attendance: 333

Game reference
	Cheung Ching Ho	Goalies	Liao Yu-cheng He Wei-chih	Referee: Lee Joo-hyun Linesmen: Omar Al-Yassi Attila Nagy
	Chau (SH) – 01:31 1–0 1–1 03:21 – Lin 1–2 07:15 – Lin (Yang) 1–3 23:26 – Shen (Hsiao Po-yua.) (SH) 1–4 25:47 – Hsiao Po-yun (Tang) Cheng – 27:15 2–4 Lau (A. Wong) – 28:32 3–4 Cheng (L. Wong, Lui) – 44:33 4–4 R. Lee (Au-Yeung) (PP) – 46:43 5–4 5–5 50:04 – Yang (Hsiao Po-yua., Shen) (PP) 5–6 52:21 – Hsiao Po-yun (Lin, Yang) (PP) 5–7 59:02 – Lin (SH, ENG)
	14 min	Penalties	12 min
	22	Shots	50

Pre-qualification Round 2

Twelve countries played in three tournaments to determine qualifiers for the next round. Each tournament winner was ranked by their qualification seeding and entered the next round as qualifier seven, eight, or nine.

Group K

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania (H)	3	3	0	0	0	43	3	+40	9	Pre-qualification Round 3
2	Iceland	3	2	0	0	1	15	14	+1	6
3	Israel	3	0	1	0	2	5	24	−19	2
4	Kyrgyzstan	3	0	0	1	2	10	32	−22	1

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC+2).

12 December 2019 15:00

Iceland

9–4 (2–0, 2–2, 5–2)

Kyrgyzstan

Brașov Olympic Ice Rink, Brașov Attendance: 100

Game reference
	Dennis Hedström	Goalies	Alexander Petrov Kadyr Alymbekov	Referee: Tomasz Radzik Linesmen: Attila André Sem Ramírez
	Björnsson (Árnason) – 01:20 1–0 Birgisson (G. Arason, Atlason) – 10:55 2–0 Leifsson (Mikaelsson, Sveinsson) – 21:31 3–0 3–1 22:35 – Terentyev (Mirbekov) Björnsson (Sigurðsson, Orongan) (PP) – 24:53 4–1 4–2 26:30 – Tonkikh (Terentyev) Sigrúnarson (Leifsson) – 48:26 5–2 Björnsson (Orongan) (PP) – 50:08 6–2 6–3 50:57 – Nichipurenko (Kolodii) Björnsson (Jóhannesson, Sigurðsson) (PP) – 54:29 7–3 Kristveigarson (Pálsson, Atlason) – 56:18 8–3 Sigrúnarson (Þorsteinsson, Leifsson) (PP) – 58:51 9–3 9–4 59:41 – Nichipurenko (Tagaev)
	18 min	Penalties	61 min
	46	Shots	26

12 December 2019 19:00

Israel

0–15 (0–1, 0–4, 0–10)

Romania

Brașov Olympic Ice Rink, Brașov Attendance: 300

Game reference
	Yehonatan Reisinger Omer Sharir	Goalies	Zoltán Tőke	Referee: Ramon Sterkens Linesmen: Alejandro García Nicholas Verbruggen
	0–1 04:08 – Trancă (Borysenko, B. Péter) (PP) 0–2 21:43 – Butochnov (Salló) (PP) 0–3 22:41 – Gajdó (Győrfy, O. Bíró) 0–4 29:06 – Kirichenko (Góga, Borysenko) 0–5 39:40 – Salló (Fodor, Butochnov) (PP) 0–6 44:13 – Trancă (Borysenko, B. Péter) (PP) 0–7 47:36 – Cășăneanu (Gajdó, O. Bíró) 0–8 49:07 – Gliga (Góga, Molnár) 0–9 52:33 – O. Bíró (Gajdó) 0–10 54:33 – Farkas (Molnár, Gliga) 0–11 55:28 – Fodor (Butochnov, Kirichenko) 0–12 57:05 – Borysenko (Yemelianenko, Trancă) 0–13 57:56 – Borysenko (Trancă, G. Bíró) 0–14 59:03 – Butochnov (Salló, Fodor) 0–15 59:53 – Cășăneanu (Z. Péter)
	24 min	Penalties	6 min
	6	Shots	92

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13 December 2019 15:00

Iceland

5–0 (1–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Israel

Brașov Olympic Ice Rink, Brașov Attendance: 50

Game reference
	Jóhann Ragnarsson	Goalies	Yehonatan Reisinger	Referee: Ramon Sterkens Linesmen: Attila André Alejandro García
	Racansky (Þorsteinsson, Sveinsson) – 03:00 1–0 Leifsson (Sigrúnarson, Mikaelsson) (PP2) – 20:58 2–0 Orongan (Racansky, Sigurðsson) – 27:58 3–0 Orongan (Björnsson) – 47:34 4–0 Björnsson (Pálsson, Árnason) – 53:07 5–0
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	64	Shots	9

13 December 2019 19:00

Romania

18–2 (3–0, 7–1, 8–1)

Kyrgyzstan

Brașov Olympic Ice Rink, Brașov Attendance: 601

Game reference
	Patrik Polc	Goalies	Alexander Petrov Kadyr Alymbekov	Referee: Jørn McCall Linesmen: Sem Ramírez Nicholas Verbruggen
	Cășăneanu (Győrfy, Z. Péter) (SH) – 10:04 1–0 Borysenko (Trancă, B. Péter) (SH) – 16:47 2–0 Kirichenko (Butochnov, Fodor) – 18:58 3–0 B. Péter (Borysenko, Trancă) – 24:08 4–0 Constantin (Góga) – 24:22 5–0 Gajdó (O. Bíró) – 25:22 6–0 Trancă (B. Péter) – 27:02 7–0 Molnár – 31:23 8–0 Győrfy (O. Bíró, Z. Péter) (PP) – 32:51 9–0 Kirichenko (Fodor) – 34:01 10–0 10–1 39:45 – Nichipurenko (Kolodii, Tagaev) 10–2 42:58 – Titov Gecse (Salló) – 47:09 11–2 Molnár (O. Bíró) – 49:27 12–2 Kirichenko (Butochnov, Salló) – 51:24 13–2 Gliga (Trancă, Góga) – 53:12 14–2 Constantin (Gliga, Molnár) – 53:41 15–2 Trancă (B. Péter) – 55:53 16–2 Fodor (Kirichenko) – 58:31 17–2 B. Péter (Trancă, Fodor) – 59:55 18–2
	6 min	Penalties	10 min
	69	Shots	32

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15 December 2019 15:00

Kyrgyzstan

4–5 OT (3–1, 1–1, 0–2) (OT: 0–1)

Israel

Brașov Olympic Ice Rink, Brașov Attendance: 50

Game reference
	Alexander Petrov	Goalies	Yehonatan Reisinger	Referee: Jørn McCall Linesmen: Attila André Nicholas Verbruggen
	0–1 00:26 – Ben Tov (Aharonovich, Greenberg) Nosov (Titov, Terentyev) – 07:48 1–1 Mirbekov (Kudashev, Gorobets) – 08:07 2–1 Nosov (Terentyev, Isamatov) (PP) – 19:32 3–1 3–2 36:52 – Ibragimov (Hoffman, Vaitz) (PP) Gorobets (Egorov) – 38:37 4–2 4–3 56:09 – Sherf (Kaznatcheev) 4–4 58:47 – Mostovoy 4–5 63:30 – Vaitz
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	44	Shots	32

15 December 2019 19:00

Romania

10–1 (4–0, 4–0, 2–1)

Iceland

Brașov Olympic Ice Rink, Brașov Attendance: 1,200

Game reference
	Patrik Polc	Goalies	Dennis Hedström	Referee: Tomasz Radzik Linesmen: Alejandro García Sem Ramírez
	Borysenko (Góga, G. Bíró) – 11:11 1–0 Butochnov (Fodor, Gecse) (PP) – 16:01 2–0 B. Péter (Borysenko, Góga) – 17:32 3–0 B. Péter (Gliga) – 19:37 4–0 Molnár (B. Péter, O. Bíró) – 22:55 5–0 Góga (Molnár, B. Péter) (PP) – 29:04 6–0 Molnár (B. Péter, Polc) (PP) – 31:18 7–0 Yemelianenko (G. Bíró, Constantin) (PP) – 37:33 8–0 Fodor (Gajdos, Casaneanu) – 45:53 9–0 Kirichenko (Fodor, Butochnov) – 51:16 10–0 10–1 57:15 – Birgisson (Kristinsson, Atlason)
	6 min	Penalties	18 min
	54	Shots	22

Group L

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	0	36	5	+31	9	Pre-qualification Round 3
2	Spain (H)	3	2	0	0	1	29	6	+23	6
3	Chinese Taipei	3	1	0	0	2	8	26	−18	3
4	Mexico	3	0	0	0	3	3	39	−36	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC+1).

13 December 2019 16:00

Mexico

1–17 (1–6, 0–5, 0–6)

Netherlands

Palau de Gel, Barcelona Attendance: 103

Game reference
	Gerardo García Paulo Rivera	Goalies	Ian Meierdres	Referee: Tilen Pahor Linesmen: Csaba Bándi Carlos Trobajo
	0–1 00:46 – Bison (Van Oorschot) 0–2 01:03 – Knoop (Smit, Van Gestel) 0–3 04:03 – Verschuren (Smit, Loginov) 0–4 05:41 – De Bonth (Van Gestel) Sierra (Pérez, Ar. García) – 11:18 1–4 1–5 19:07 – Verkiel (Van der Schuit) 1–6 19:19 – Verschuren (Smit, Oosterveld) 1–7 27:24 – Bison (Stempher) (PP) 1–8 28:49 – Stempher (Verschuren, Van Oorschot) (PP) 1–9 36:48 – Nordemann (Van Oorschot) (PP) 1–10 38:24 – Turpijn (Oosterveld, Verschuren) 1–11 38:36 – Van der Schuit (Knoop) 1–12 47:00 – Stempher (De Bonth, Loginov) (PP) 1–13 50:22 – Bison (Knoop) 1–14 55:58 – Verschuren (Oosterveld) 1–15 57:11 – Smit (De Bonth) 1–16 58:40 – Verschuren (Oosterveld) 1–17 59:04 – Borgman (Den Edel)
	18 min	Penalties	18 min
	7	Shots	88

13 December 2019 20:00

Spain

11–0 (3–0, 4–0, 4–0)

Chinese Taipei

Palau de Gel, Barcelona Attendance: 348

Game reference
	Ander Alcaine Raul Barbo	Goalies	Liao Yu-cheng He Wei-chih	Referee: Gergely Kincses Linesmen: Knut Bråten Gil Tichon
	Hernández (Baldris, Ubieto) – 02:41 1–0 Carbonell (Ubieto, Burgos) – 12:38 2–0 Fuentes (Hernández) – 13:51 3–0 Baldris (Fernández-Pola, Martínez) – 26:46 4–0 Burgos (Paul) – 27:47 5–0 Martínez (A. García) – 29:41 6–0 Ós. Rubio (Martínez) – 29:48 7–0 Boronat (Donath, Baldris) – 50:05 8–0 Donath (Fuentes, A. García) – 53:25 9–0 Or. Rubio – 55:33 10–0 Lasuen (Ubieto) – 56:41 11–0
	2 min	Penalties	2 min
	65	Shots	8

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14 December 2019 16:00

Netherlands

14–1 (4–1, 7–0, 3–0)

Chinese Taipei

Palau de Gel, Barcelona Attendance: 433

Game reference
	Martijn Oosterwijk	Goalies	He Wei-chih Liao Yu-cheng	Referee: Tilen Pahor Linesmen: Knut Bråten Carlos Trobajo
	Verschuren (Van der Schuit, Loginov) (PP) – 01:54 1–0 1–1 04:10 – Hsiao Po-yun (Shen) Bison (Loginov) – 04:48 2–1 Verschuren (Turpijn) – 05:33 3–1 Van Gorp (De Bonth) – 05:40 4–1 Stempher (Bison) – 21:27 5–1 Verkiel (Oosterveld) – 22:04 6–1 Stempher (Bison) – 27:38 7–1 Oosterveld (Verschuren, Turpijn) – 29:23 8–1 Stempher (Verkiel) (SH) – 32:46 9–1 Verschuren (Van der Schuit) (SH) – 33:02 10–1 Oosterveld (Verschure, Turpijn) – 37:09 11–1 Stempher (Van der Schuit) – 40:54 12–1 Stempher (Verkiel) – 45:08 13–1 Van der Schuit (Stempher) – 53:32 14–1
	8 min	Penalties	2 min
	60	Shots	11

14 December 2019 20:00

Spain

15–1 (4–1, 4–0, 7–0)

Mexico

Palau de Gel, Barcelona Attendance: 612

Game reference
	Raul Barbo Ignacio García	Goalies	Gerardo García Paulo Rivera	Referee: Stian Halm Linesmen: Csaba Bándi Gil Tichon
	Hernández (A. García, Burgos) (PP) – 14:33 1–0 1–1 15:20 – Sierra (Ar. García, Pérez) Lasuen – 17:19 2–1 Boronat (Baldris, Bravo) (PP) – 17:56 3–1 Hernández (Lasuen, García-Zarandieta) – 19:27 4–1 A. García (Carbonell) – 24:42 5–1 Martínez (Ós. Rubio) – 32:30 6–1 Donath (Fuentes, A. García) – 35:36 7–1 Or. Rubio (A. García, Donath) (PP) – 38:22 8–1 Granell (Boronat, A. García) – 41:20 9–1 Donath (Burgos) – 43:35 10–1 A. García (Ós. Rubio) – 55:34 11–1 Fuentes (Boronat) – 57:15 12–1 Ós. Rubio (Fernández-Pola) – 57:36 13–1 Hernández (Granell, Donath) – 59:02 14–1 Ós. Rubio (Martínez) – 59:38 15–1
	37 min	Penalties	22 min
	85	Shots	12

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15 December 2019 16:00

Chinese Taipei

7–1 (3–0, 3–0, 1–1)

Mexico

Palau de Gel, Barcelona Attendance: 210

Game reference
	Liao Yu-cheng	Goalies	Gerardo García	Referee: Stian Halm Linesmen: Gil Tichon Carlos Trobajo
	Pan (Sang, Lin H.) – 10:35 1–0 Lin H. (Hsiao Po-yun, Shen) (PP) – 14:00 2–0 Lin H. (Shen, Hsiao Po-yun) (PP) – 19:19 3–0 Hsiao Po-yun (Hsiao Po-yuan, Lin H.) (PP) – 27:31 4–0 Yang (Lin H.) – 30:13 5–0 Hsiao Po-yun (Chang) – 31:01 6–0 6–1 47:08 – Sierra (Pérez) Lin H. – 53:45 7–1
	6 min	Penalties	16 min
	34	Shots	23

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8 January 2020[N 1] 12:00

Netherlands

5–3 (1–1, 2–2, 2–0)

Spain

Palau de Gel, Barcelona Attendance: 274

Game reference
	Frederik Meierdres	Goalies	Ander Alcaine	Referee: Gergely Kincses Linesmen: Csaba Bándi Knut Bråten
	Bison (Vogelaar, Stempher) – 03:12 1–0 1–1 10:46 – Or. Rubio (Ubieto, González) (PP) 1–2 23:09 – Fernández-Pola (Granell) De Hondt (Bison, Stempher) – 23:26 2–2 De Bonth (Van der Schuit, Bastings) – 29:04 3–2 3–3 34:13 – Or. Rubio (Granell, Giménez) (PP) Van der Schuit (De Bonth) – 43:55 4–3 Stempher (De Hondt) (ENG) – 59:43 5–3
	6 min	Penalties	2 min
	37	Shots	17

^ The game was originally supposed to be played on 15 December 2019 but was stopped after a scoreless first period because of problems with the ice surface.

Group M

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia (H)	3	3	0	0	0	24	4	+20	9	Pre-qualification Round 3
2	Serbia	3	2	0	0	1	16	5	+11	6
3	Turkey	3	1	0	0	2	9	19	−10	3
4	Bulgaria	3	0	0	0	3	2	23	−21	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC+1).

13 December 2019 15:00

Serbia

8–3 (6–0, 1–3, 1–0)

Turkey

Ledena dvorana Zibel, Sisak Attendance: 106

Game reference
	Jug Mitić	Goalies	Tolga Bozacı	Referee: Miha Bajt Linesmen: Martin Boyadjiev Marko Saković
	Podunavac (Anić, Vučurević) – 00:28 1–0 Zwick (Popović, Dragović) – 01:47 2–0 Mitrović (Čengeri, Podunavac) – 02:14 3–0 Đumić – 13:14 4–0 Marković (Zwick) – 16:03 5–0 Vučurević (Pajić, Podunavac) – 17:32 6–0 6–1 27:56 – Bakal (Aktürk, Halil) Španjević (Mitrović) – 32:16 7–1 7–2 34:32 – Solak (Gümüş) 7–3 39:51 – Hars (E. Faner) Đumić (Anić, Vučurević) (PP) – 51:22 8–3
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	36	Shots	14

13 December 2019 19:00

Bulgaria

1–12 (0–3, 0–2, 1–7)

Croatia

Ledena dvorana Zibel, Sisak Attendance: 289

Game reference
	Dimitar Dimitrov Ivan Stoynov	Goalies	Vilim Rosandić	Referee: Krzysztof Kozłowski Linesmen: Tibor Fazekas Daniel Sparer
	0–1 03:16 – Kaleb (Vedlin) 0–2 08:59 – Čizmadija (Šakić) 0–3 18:15 – Kanaet (Šakić) (SH) 0–4 36:48 – Mirić (F. Jarčov, Kegalj) 0–5 37:14 – Puzić (Kanaet, Paulović) 0–6 41:42 – Kanaet (Mirić) (SH) 0–7 47:07 – Fičur 0–8 47:39 – L. Jarčov (Šakić, Tadić) (PP2) 0–9 50:52 – Mikulić (SH) 0–10 53:19 – L. Jarčov (Šakić) (PP) 0–11 55:22 – Kaleb (Brenčun, Mikulić) (PP) 0–12 58:03 – L. Jarčov Gatsev (Nakov) – 59:08 1–12
	34 min	Penalties	12 min
	14	Shots	62

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14 December 2019 15:00

Serbia

7–0 (1–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Bulgaria

Ledena dvorana Zibel, Sisak Attendance: 80

Game reference
	Arsenije Ranković	Goalies	Dimitar Dimitrov Ivan Stoynov	Referee: Vladimír Snášel Linesmen: Marko Saković Daniel Sparer
	Grković (Čengeri, Podunavac) – 09:28 1–0 Popović (Leštarić) (PP) – 22:04 2–0 Bjelogrlić (Radosavljević, Anić) – 26:54 3–0 Anić (Novaković, Leštarić) – 33:53 4–0 Bjelogrlić (PP) – 35:04 5–0 Bjelogrlić (Pajić) – 46:23 6–0 Bjelogrlić (Podunavac) – 51:09 7–0
	18 min	Penalties	18 min
	54	Shots	7

14 December 2019 19:00

Croatia

10–2 (2–1, 4–0, 4–1)

Turkey

Ledena dvorana Zibel, Sisak Attendance: 380

Game reference
	Ivan Štimac-Rojtinić	Goalies	Tolga Bozacı Onurcan Kaya	Referee: Krzysztof Kozłowski Linesmen: Martin Boyadjiev Tibor Fazekas
	Čizmadija (Brenčun) – 05:55 1–0 Čunko (Šakić, Tadić) (PP) – 12:33 2–0 2–1 19:09 – Gümüş (Halil) (PP) Mikulić (Čizmadija, Kaleb) – 21:27 3–1 Puzić (Čunko, Šakić) – 25:05 4–1 Mirić (Fičur) – 26:30 5–1 Kramarič (Paulović, Čanić) – 38:14 6–1 Vedlin (Kegalj) (PP) – 41:37 7–1 7–2 44:34 – Bakal (Savaş) Šakić (Tadić) – 51:42 8–2 Srketić (L. Jarčov, Čunko) (PP) – 56:38 9–2 Ličina (Paulović) – 58:58 10–2
	18 min	Penalties	22 min
	38	Shots	8

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15 December 2019 15:00

Turkey

4–1 (1–0, 3–1, 0–0)

Bulgaria

Ledena dvorana Zibel, Sisak Attendance: 50

Game reference
	Tolga Bozacı	Goalies	Dimitar Dimitrov	Referee: Miha Bajt Linesmen: Tibor Fazekas Marko Saković
	Karş (Hars, F. Faner) – 19:09 1–0 Anlar (H. Salt, E. Faner) (PP) – 25:25 2–0 Anlar (K. Salt) – 35:29 3–0 3–1 35:58 – T. Abdi (V. Dikov) Solak (H. Salt) (PP) – 37:53 4–1
	12 min	Penalties	102 min
	45	Shots	19

15 December 2019 19:00

Croatia

2–1 (1–0, 0–1, 1–0)

Serbia

Ledena dvorana Zibel, Sisak Attendance: 989

Game reference
	Vilim Rosandić	Goalies	Arsenije Ranković	Referee: Vladimír Snášel Linesmen: Martin Boyadjiev Daniel Sparer
	Mirić (Kaleb) – 06:09 1–0 1–1 39:12 – Đumić (Anić) Mikulić (Čanić) – 57:35 2–1
	26 min	Penalties	28 min
	31	Shots	29

Pre-qualification Round 3

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovenia (H)	3	3	0	0	0	25	4	+21	9	Final qualification
2	Japan	3	2	0	0	1	15	6	+9	6
3	Lithuania	3	1	0	0	2	5	17	−12	3
4	Croatia	3	0	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC+1).

6 February 2020 15:30

Japan

9–0 (4–0, 2–0, 3–0)

Croatia

Podmežakla Hall, Jesenice Attendance: 100

Game reference
	Yutaka Fukufuji Yuta Narisawa	Goalies	Ivan Štimac-Rojtinić	Referees: Andris Ansons Lasse Kopitz Linesmen: Nicolas Constantineau Matjaž Hribar
	Echigo (Nakajima, Osawa) (PP) – 05:53 1–0 Yamada (Kawai, Terao) – 06:42 2–0 Takagi (Ueno, Osawa) – 09:54 3–0 Osawa (Echigo, Nakajima) (PP) – 15:07 4–0 Irikura (Ikeda) – 20:46 5–0 Hirano (Nakajima, Echigo) – 29:42 6–0 Sato (Furuhashi, Ikeda) (PP) – 44:40 7–0 Hashimoto (Nakajima, Hirano) – 48:56 8–0 Hirano (Nakajima, Y. Otsu) – 56:36 9–0
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	56	Shots	15

6 February 2020 19:00

Lithuania

2–12 (0–4, 1–3, 1–5)

Slovenia

Podmežakla Hall, Jesenice Attendance: 500

Game reference
	Laurynas Lubys Artur Pavliukov	Goalies	Gašper Krošelj	Referees: Joris Müller Trpimir Piragić Linesmen: Håvar Dahl Mihail Stupak
	0–1 02:32 – Koblar (Pretnar) 0–2 04:01 – Zajc (Ograjenšek, Čepon) 0–3 10:53 – Koblar (Čimžar, Pretnar) 0–4 12:46 – Urbas (Kuralt) (PP) 0–5 21:05 – Ograjenšek (Urbas, Gregorc) (PP) 0–6 29:31 – Jeglič (Čimžar, Repe) 0–7 36:14 – Verlič (Kuralt) Verenis (Bosas) (PP) – 39:53 1–7 1–8 43:31 – Gregorc (Kalan) 1–9 46:02 – Sabolič (Jeglič, Tičar) 1–10 47:52 – Verlič (Urbas, Čepon) 1–11 52:19 – Jeglič (Tičar, Sabolič) 1–12 53:47 – Koblar (Kalan, Pavlin) Krakauskas (Žukauskas, Misiuk) – 59:59 2–12
	10 min	Penalties	8 min
	9	Shots	61

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7 February 2020 15:30

Japan

4–0 (4–0, 0–0, 0–0)

Lithuania

Podmežakla Hall, Jesenice Attendance: 150

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	Yuta Narisawa	Goalies	Laurynas Lubys	Referees: Geoffrey Barcelo Trpimir Piragić Linesmen: Dominik Altmann Matjaž Hribar
	Terao (Takahashi, Yanadori) – 02:04 1–0 Echigo (Hirano, Hashimoto) (PP2) – 05:37 2–0 Sato (Furuhashi, Takagi) (PP) – 14:04 3–0 Takahashi (Terao) – 17:16 4–0
	26 min	Penalties	10 min
	27	Shots	24

7 February 2020 19:00

Slovenia

7–0 (1–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Croatia

Podmežakla Hall, Jesenice Attendance: 900

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	Matija Pintarič	Goalies	Vito Nikolić	Referees: Lasse Kopitz Joris Müller Linesmen: Nicolas Constantineau Mihail Stupak
	Tičar (Sabolič) – 16:15 1–0 Urbas (Gregorc, Ograjenšek) (PP) – 23:40 2–0 Tičar (Pretnar, Sabolič) (PP) – 32:06 3–0 Kuralt (Gregorc, Urbas) (PP) – 37:54 4–0 Zajc (Logar, Čepon) – 38:28 5–0 Verlič (Koren) – 51:22 6–0 Kalan (Pretnar, Čepon) – 59:54 7–0
	6 min	Penalties	12 min
	67	Shots	4

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9 February 2020 15:30

Croatia

1–3 (0–2, 0–0, 1–1)

Lithuania

Podmežakla Hall, Jesenice Attendance: 150

Game reference
	Vito Nikolić	Goalies	Laurynas Lubys	Referees: Geoffrey Barcelo Joris Müller Linesmen: Dominik Altmann Mihail Stupak
	0–1 05:54 – Bosas (Verenis, Bendžius) (PP) 0–2 14:48 – Čižas (Bosas) Tadić (Šakić, Čanić) – 52:27 1–2 1–3 59:57 – Rumševičius (EN)
	12 min	Penalties	6 min
	22	Shots	33

9 February 2020 19:00

Slovenia

6–2 (0–1, 1–0, 5–1)

Japan

Podmežakla Hall, Jesenice Attendance: 1,700

Game reference
	Gašper Krošelj	Goalies	Yutaka Fukufuji	Referees: Andris Ansons Lasse Kopitz Linesmen: Nicolas Constantineau Håvar Dahl
	0–1 08:02 – Nakajima (Hashimoto, Hirano) Urbas (Ograjenšek) (PP) – 25:43 1–1 Ograjenšek (Gregorc, Verlič) (PP) – 45:19 2–1 Sabolič (Repe) – 46:47 3–1 Tičar (Sabolič) (EN) – 57:23 4–1 4–2 58:30 – Nakajima (PP, EA) Tičar (Jeglič) (EN) – 58:57 5–2 Zajc (Čepon) – 59:26 6–2
	20 min	Penalties	10 min
	38	Shots	13

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland	3	3	0	0	0	17	3	+14	9	Final qualification
2	Kazakhstan (H)	3	2	0	0	1	17	5	+12	6
3	Ukraine	3	1	0	0	2	5	14	−9	3
4	Netherlands	3	0	0	0	3	1	18	−17	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC+6).

6 February 2020 15:00

Poland

8–0 (3–0, 4–0, 1–0)

Netherlands

Barys Arena, Nur-Sultan Attendance: 228

Game reference
	John Murray Michał Kieler	Goalies	Ian Meierdres Martijn Oosterwijk	Referees: Pavel Halas Jr. Miroslav Iarets Linesmen: Martin Boyajiev Andrew Dalton
	Kostek (Kapica) (PP) – 02:58 1–0 Chmielewski (Kolusz, Paś) (PP) – 07:58 2–0 Urbanowicz (Chmielewski) (PP) – 13:09 3–0 Paś (Dziubiński, Kolusz) (PP) – 24:11 4–0 Wajda (Urbanowicz, Chmielewski) – 26:23 5–0 Jaśkiewicz (Przygodzki, Michałowski) – 26:55 6–0 Jaśkiewicz – 35:55 7–0 Komorski (Kostek) – 49:11 8–0
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	51	Shots	6

6 February 2020 19:30

Ukraine

1–8 (1–5, 0–2, 0–1)

Kazakhstan

Barys Arena, Nur-Sultan Attendance: 3,584

Game reference
	Kyrylo Kucher Mykyta Hordiushin	Goalies	Henrik Karlsson	Referees: Miklós Haszonits Adam Kika Linesmen: Paweł Kosidło Dániel Soós
	0–1 03:43 – Shevchenko (Maklyukov, Akolzin) 0–2 07:35 – Petukhov (Orekhov) 0–3 08:27 – Metalnikov (Dietz, Shestakov) 0–4 12:58 – Starchenko (Valk, Mikhailis) Babinets (Butsenko, Blagoy) – 14:56 1–4 1–5 17:39 – Zhailauov (Dietz) 1–6 32:56 – Dietz (Shestakov) 1–7 34:40 – Shestakov (Dietz) 1–8 51:06 – Orekhov (Zhailauov)
	4 min	Penalties	2 min
	13	Shots	60

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7 February 2020 15:00

Poland

6–1 (1–1, 2–0, 3–0)

Ukraine

Barys Arena, Nur-Sultan Attendance: 242

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	John Murray	Goalies	Kyrylo Kucher Mykyta Hordiushin	Referees: Adam Kika Gordon Schukies Linesmen: Andrew Dalton Andreas Malmqvist
	0–1 15:45 – Taran (Alexyuk, Butsenko) Starzyński (Dziubiński) – 19:34 1–1 Przygodzki (Wajda, Marzec) – 27:19 2–1 Marzec (SH) – 35:55 3–1 Kolusz (PP) – 40:44 4–1 Kapica (Ciura, Bettahar) – 52:16 5–1 Komorski – 55:11 6–1
	14 min	Penalties	12 min
	40	Shots	18

7 February 2020 19:30

Kazakhstan

7–1 (3–0, 1–1, 3–0)

Netherlands

Barys Arena, Nur-Sultan Attendance: 2,975

Game reference
	Sergei Kudryavtsev	Goalies	Martijn Oosterwijk	Referees: Pavel Halas Jr. Miklós Haszonits Linesmen: Martin Boyajiev Paweł Kosidło
	Blacker (Shalapov, Shestakov) – 01:01 1–0 Dietz (Rymarev, Starchenko) – 08:26 2–0 Rymarev (Boyd) – 10:33 3–0 Orekhov (Zhailauov, Petukhov) – 22:59 4–0 4–1 27:22 – Van der Schuit (Stempher) Sagadeyev (Petukhov) – 41:57 5–1 Zhailauov (Sagadeyev, Shalapov) – 52:16 6–1 Zhailauov (Petukhov, Sagadeyev) (PP) – 57:56 7–1
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	57	Shots	10

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9 February 2020 13:00

Netherlands

0–3 (0–1, 0–2, 0–0)

Ukraine

Barys Arena, Nur-Sultan Attendance: 372

Game reference
	Ian Meierdres	Goalies	Artur Ohandzhanyan	Referees: Pavel Halas Jr. Miroslav Iarets Linesmen: Paweł Kosidło Dániel Soós
	0–1 15:10 – Nimenko (Butsenko, Babinets) 0–2 22:12 – Butsenko (Babinets, Nimenko) 0–3 30:29 – Savchenko (Mikhnov, Tolstushko) (PP)
	10 min	Penalties	14 min
	19	Shots	31

9 February 2020 17:00

Kazakhstan

2–3 (0–1, 2–1, 0–1)

Poland

Barys Arena, Nur-Sultan Attendance: 5,622

Game reference
	Henrik Karlsson	Goalies	John Murray	Referees: Adam Kika Gordon Schukies Linesmen: Andrew Dalton Andreas Malmqvist
	0–1 07:28 – Ciura 0–2 30:30 – Przygodzki (Jaśkiewicz) Boyd (Valk, Dawes) – 30:47 1–2 Boyd (Dawes, Valk) – 35:29 2–2 2–3 40:29 – Urbanowicz (Komorski, Dziubiński)
	2 min	Penalties	6 min
	53	Shots	17

Group J

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	2	1	0	0	11	4	+7	8	Final qualification
2	Great Britain (H)	3	2	0	0	1	12	8	+4	6
3	Romania	3	1	0	1	1	12	10	+2	4
4	Estonia	3	0	0	0	3	5	18	−13	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC±0).

6 February 2020 15:30

Hungary

4–1 (1–0, 2–1, 1–0)

Estonia

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Nottingham Attendance: 861

Game reference
	Miklós Rajna	Goalies	Villem-Henrik Koitmaa	Referees: Alex DiPietro Ladislav Smetana Linesmen: Daniel Beresford Vladimir Suslov
	Hári (Galanisz, Terbócs) – 09:21 1–0 Hári (Nagy, Terbócs) (PP) – 26:20 2–0 2–1 29:29 – Lodeikin Hári (Stipsicz, Szabó) – 31:11 3–1 Csányi (Kiss) – 56:10 4–1
	2 min	Penalties	8 min
	36	Shots	20

6 February 2020 19:30

Great Britain

4–3 (2–1, 2–1, 0–1)

Romania

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Nottingham Attendance: 2,788

Game reference
	Ben Bowns	Goalies	Patrik Polc	Referees: Jonathan Alarie Vladimir Yefremov Linesmen: Joona Elonen Frederic Monnaie
	0–1 14:21 – Kirichenko D. Ehrhardt – 15:11 1–1 Farmer (D. Ehrhardt, T. Ehrhardt) – 17:16 2–1 2–2 29:46 – Tranca (B. Péter) Myers – 32:20 3–2 Connolly (Lake) – 32:50 4–2 4–3 56:41 – Salló
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	34	Shots	23

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8 February 2020 14:00

Hungary

3–2 OT (1–1, 0–0, 1–1) (OT: 1–0)

Romania

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Nottingham Attendance: 1,998

Game reference
	Gergely Arany	Goalies	Patrik Polc	Referees: Alex DiPietro Anton Hladchenko Linesmen: Daniel Beresford Frederic Monnaie
	0–1 00:35 – Tranca (Molnár) (PP) Sarauer (Galanisz, Csányi) – 01:56 1–1 Papp (Sofron, Szabó) – 44:24 2–1 2–2 55:09 – Butochnov (Borysenko) Erdély (Hári, Stipsicz) – 60:15 3–2
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	43	Shots	24

8 February 2020 18:00

Estonia

1–7 (0–0, 1–4, 0–3)

Great Britain

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Nottingham Attendance: 4,465

Game reference
	Villem-Henrik Koitmaa	Goalies	Ben Bowns	Referees: Jonathan Alarie Ladislav Smetana Linesmen: Josef Špůr Vladimir Suslov
	0–1 22:04 – Perlini (D. Phillips) 0–2 28:26 – Betteridge (Richardson, Connolly) 0–3 29:18 – Conway (D. Ehrhardt) 0–4 32:43 – Perlini (O'Connor, Hammond) (PP) Sibirtsev (Ossipov) – 38:56 1–4 1–5 48:40 – Lake (Farmer, Conway) (PP) 1–6 49:04 – J. Phillips (Hammond, Lachowicz) 1–7 54:47 – Conway (Ferrara)
	4 min	Penalties	2 min
	23	Shots	38

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9 February 2020 14:00

Romania

7–3 (2–2, 2–0, 3–1)

Estonia

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Nottingham Attendance: 1,561

Game reference
	Zoltán Tőke	Goalies	Roman Shumikhin Villem-Henrik Koitmaa	Referees: Anton Hladchenko Vladimir Yefremov Linesmen: Daniel Beresford Frederic Monnaie
	Butochnov (Borysenko) – 02:05 1–0 1–1 02:49 – Slessarevski (Lahesalu, Puzakov) 1–2 10:52 – Saskin Borysenko (Kirichenko) (PP) – 15:44 2–2 Rokaly (Góga) – 30:49 3–2 Tranca (B. Péter) – 34:12 4–2 Tranca (Molnár) – 41:06 5–2 5–3 44:18 – Andrejev (Aleksandrov) Butochnov (Constantin, Kirichenko) – 49:47 6–3 Tranca (Góga) – 53:43 7–3
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	39	Shots	31

9 February 2020 18:00

Great Britain

1–4 (0–0, 0–2, 1–2)

Hungary

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Nottingham Attendance: 4,544

Game reference
	Ben Bowns	Goalies	Miklós Rajna	Referees: Jonathan Alarie Ladislav Smetana Linesmen: Joona Elonen Josef Špůr
	0–1 20:32 – Stipsicz (Nagy, Hári) (PP) 0–2 31:17 – Erdély (Stipsicz, Sofron) Myers (PP) – 40:57 1–2 1–3 45:11 – Hári 1–4 52:00 – Sofron (Hári)
	8 min	Penalties	24 min
	48	Shots	20

Final qualification

The tournaments were scheduled to take place from 27 to 30 August 2020, but were moved to 26 to 29 August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Group D

The tournament was held at the Ondrej Nepela Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovakia (H)	3	3	0	0	0	9	3	+6	9	2022 Winter Olympics
2	Belarus	3	1	0	0	2	6	5	+1	3
3	Austria	3	1	0	0	2	7	8	−1	3
4	Poland	3	1	0	0	2	3	9	−6	3

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host
Notes:

All times are local (UTC+2).

26 August 2021 15:15

Belarus

0–1 (0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Poland

Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 150

Game reference
	Danny Taylor	Goalies	John Murray	Referees: Riku Brander Michael Tscherrig Linesmen: Jonas Merten Jiří Ondráček
	0–1 54:59 – Komorski (Łyszczarczyk)
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	46	Shots	19

26 August 2021 19:15

Austria

1–2 (0–1, 0–1, 1–0)

Slovakia

Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 4,241

Game reference
	David Kickert	Goalies	Branislav Konrád	Referees: Roy Hansen Linus Öhlund Linesmen: Daniel Hynek Andreas Kroyer
	0–1 01:46 – Hudáček (Čerešňák) 0–2 28:28 – Gernát (Čerešňák, Studenič) Lebler (Heinrich) – 52:45 1–2
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	21	Shots	32

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27 August 2021 15:15

Belarus

5–2 (0–2, 5–0, 0–0)

Austria

Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 148

Game reference
	Danny Taylor	Goalies	Bernhard Starkbaum David Kickert	Referees: Andris Ansons Roy Hansen Linesmen: Daniel Hynek Jonas Merten
	0–1 08:35 – Herburger (Haudum, Baumgartner) (PP) 0–2 18:40 – Lebler (Rossi, Zwerger) Stas (Bailen) (PP) – 20:43 1–2 Sharangovich (Stas, Komarov) – 25:55 2–2 Sharangovich (Protas, Komarov) – 32:25 3–2 Prince (Demkov) (PP) – 36:51 4–2 Platt (Prince, Paré) – 39:38 5–2
	6 min	Penalties	12 min
	28	Shots	18

27 August 2021 19:15

Slovakia

5–1 (1–0, 3–1, 1–0)

Poland

Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 3,685

Game reference
	Branislav Konrád	Goalies	John Murray	Referees: Linus Öhlund Michael Tscherrig Linesmen: Andreas Kroyer Dāvis Zunde
	Ružička (Čerešňák, Gernát) – 08:06 1–0 Hudáček (Čerešňák, Gernát) – 24:38 2–0 Roman (Slafkovský, Nemec) – 26:11 3–0 3–1 30:17 – Dziubiński (Łyszczarczyk, Chmielewski) (PP) Cehlárik (Hudáček, Jurčo) (PP) – 32:39 4–1 Ružička (Pospíšil, Lantoši) – 48:02 5–1
	6 min	Penalties	12 min
	48	Shots	17

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29 August 2021 13:30

Poland

1–4 (1–2, 0–1, 0–1)

Austria

Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 182

Game reference
	John Murray	Goalies	David Kickert	Referees: Andris Ansons Riku Brander Linesmen: Daniel Hynek Jonas Merten
	0–1 04:10 – Ganahl (Schneider, Hundertpfund) Urbanowicz (Kolusz, Łyszczarczyk) – 11:53 1–1 1–2 19:02 – Lebler (Haudum) 1–3 34:38 – Lebler (Wolf) 1–4 53:03 – Lebler (Zwerger, Rossi)
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	10	Shots	30

29 August 2021 17:30

Slovakia

2–1 (1–0, 0–1, 1–0)

Belarus

Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 7,105

Game reference
	Branislav Konrád	Goalies	Danny Taylor	Referees: Linus Öhlund Michael Tscherrig Linesmen: Jiří Ondráček Dāvis Zunde
	Cehlárik (Hrivík) (PP) – 04:38 1–0 1–1 21:07 – Sharangovich Hudáček (Čerešňák) (EN) – 57:43 2–1
	36 min	Penalties	39 min
	39	Shots	22

Group E

The tournament was played at the Arēna Rīga in Riga, Latvia.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Latvia (H)	3	3	0	0	0	17	1	+16	9	2022 Winter Olympics
2	France	3	2	0	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	Hungary	3	1	0	0	2	5	15	−10	3
4	Italy	3	0	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC+3).

26 August 2021 15:30

France

5–3 (0–2, 3–0, 2–1)

Hungary

Arena Riga, Riga Attendance: 200

Game reference
	Florian Hardy	Goalies	Zoltán Hetényi	Referees: André Schrader Christoph Sternat Linesmen: Simon Riecken Alexander Waldejer
	0–1 12:43 – Hári (Erdély, Sofron) 0–2 14:51 – Papp (Hári) (PP) Texier (Chakiachvili, Bozon) (PP) – 23:09 1–2 Manavian (Da Costa, Fleury) – 28:00 2–2 Texier (Chakiachvili) (PP) – 34:45 3–2 Treille (Rech, Chakiachvili) (PP) – 45:28 4–2 4–3 45:38 – Bartalis (Mihály, Magosi) Fleury (Texier, Da Costa) – 56:53 5–3
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	31	Shots	33

26 August 2021 19:30

Italy

0–6 (0–2, 0–2, 0–2)

Latvia

Arena Riga, Riga Attendance: 4,100

Game reference
	Andreas Bernard	Goalies	Ivars Punnenovs	Referees: Mads Frandsen Maxim Sidorenko Linesmen: Dmitry Golyak Lauri Nikulainen
	0–1 03:23 – Jaks (Dārziņš) 0–2 05:28 – Ābols (Ro. Bukarts, Daugaviņš) 0–3 26:15 – Rubins (Ri. Bukarts, Balinskis) 0–4 29:48 – Indrašis (Dārziņš) (PP2) 0–5 48:56 – Indrašis (Girgensons, Rubins) 0–6 52:54 – Daugaviņš (Punnenovs) (PP)
	14 min	Penalties	6 min
	16	Shots	36

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27 August 2021 16:00

France

2–0 (0–0, 2–0, 0–0)

Italy

Arena Riga, Riga Attendance: 197

Game reference
	Henri-Corentin Buysse	Goalies	Andreas Bernard	Referees: Mads Frandsen Mikko Kaukokari Linesmen: Dmitry Golyak Alexander Waldejer
	Treille (Gallet, Bozon) – 23:23 1–0 Treille (Texier, Chakiachvili) (PP) – 33:41 2–0
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	22	Shots	23

27 August 2021 20:00

Latvia

9–0 (1–0, 0–0, 8–0)

Hungary

Arena Riga, Riga Attendance: 3,250

Game reference
	Ivars Punnenovs	Goalies	Zoltán Hetényi	Referees: Maxim Sidorenko Christoph Sternat Linesmen: Simon Riecken Dmitri Shishlo
	Ābols (Jaks, Kenins) (PP) – 07:18 1–0 Balcers (Kenins) – 40:32 2–0 Kenins (Balcers) – 42:51 3–0 Blugers (Balcers, Dārziņš) (PP) – 51:54 4–0 Ābols (Kenins, Ro. Bukarts) (PP) – 54:35 5–0 Balcers (Kenins) – 54:58 6–0 Blugers – 56:31 7–0 Balcers (Dārziņš, Indrašis) (PP) – 58:23 8–0 Kenins (Balcers, Ābols) – 58:36 9–0
	0 min	Penalties	14 min
	45	Shots	17

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29 August 2021 13:00

Hungary

2–1 (0–0, 1–0, 1–1)

Italy

Arena Riga, Riga Attendance: 460

Game reference
	Miklós Rajna	Goalies	Andreas Bernard	Referees: André Schrader Christoph Sternat Linesmen: Simon Riecken Alexander Waldejer
	Nagy (Sofron, Stipsicz) (PP) – 38:13 1–0 Mihály (Bartalis) – 47:23 2–0 2–1 53:07 – Morini (Frigo, Kostner)
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	24	Shots	30

29 August 2021 17:00

Latvia

2–1 (1–0, 0–0, 1–1)

France

Arena Riga, Riga Attendance: 7,954

Game reference
	Ivars Punnenovs	Goalies	Henri-Corentin Buysse	Referees: Mikko Kaukokari Maxim Sidorenko Linesmen: Lauri Nikulainen Dmitri Shishlo
	Ri. Bukarts – 10:56 1–0 Indrašis (Bļugers, Balinskis) (PP) – 45:50 2–0 2–1 51:15 – Da Costa
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	26	Shots	30

Group F

The tournament was played at the Jordal Amfi in Oslo, Norway.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	3	3	0	0	0	17	4	+13	9	2022 Winter Olympics
2	Norway (H)	3	2	0	0	1	11	7	+4	6
3	Slovenia	3	1	0	0	2	11	12	−1	3
4	South Korea	3	0	0	0	3	3	19	−16	0

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

All times are local (UTC+2).

26 August 2021 15:00

Denmark

4–3 (3–0, 1–1, 0–2)

Slovenia

Jordal Amfi, Oslo Attendance: 174

Game reference
	Sebastian Dahm	Goalies	Gašper Krošelj	Referees: Lassi Heikkinen Sergey Yudakov Linesmen: Knut Bråten David Obwegeser
	Ehlers (M. Lauridsen, Bjorkstrand) (PP) – 02:17 1–0 Storm (M. Lauridsen, Bjorkstrand) (PP) – 12:59 2–0 Russell (O. Lauridsen) – 14:52 3–0 3–1 20:49 – Drozg (Kopitar, Pretnar) (PP) Ehlers – 21:51 4–1 4–2 49:20 – Urbas (Gregorc, Jeglič) (PP) 4–3 57:28 – Verlič (Gregorc, Jeglič)
	10 min	Penalties	10 min
	21	Shots	23

26 August 2021 19:00

South Korea

1–4 (1–2, 0–1, 0–1)

Norway

Jordal Amfi, Oslo Attendance: 1,483

Game reference
	Matt Dalton	Goalies	Henrik Haukeland	Referees: Christoffer Holm Peter Stano Linesmen: Niolas Constantineau Ludvig Lundgren
	Kim K. (Shin Sang-w., Shin Sang-h.) – 05:47 1–0 1–1 06:07 – Lesund (Olden, Trettenes) 1–2 08:32 – K. Olimb (Rosseli Olsen) 1–3 24:22 – Espeland (Rosseli Olsen, K. Olimb) 1–4 49:35 – Lindström (Kåsastul, Espeland)
	6 min	Penalties	4 min
	9	Shots	49

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27 August 2021 17:00

Denmark

11–1 (1–1, 7–0, 3–0)

South Korea

Jordal Amfi, Oslo Attendance: 207

Game reference
	Sebastian Dahm	Goalies	Matt Dalton Hwang Hyun-ho	Referees: Geoffrey Barcelo Sergey Yudakov Linesmen: Ludvig Lundgren Simon Synek
	0–1 13:29 – Kim K. (Kim S., Lee Jo.) (PP) Blichfeld (M. Lauridsen, O. Lauridsen) – 19:07 1–1 Ehlers (M. Lauridsen, Storm) (PP) – 20:43 2–1 Bjorkstrand (M. Lauridsen, Ehlers) (PP) – 25:02 3–1 Poulsen (Larsen, Jakobsen) – 27:00 4–1 Bjorkstrand (Ehlers, Jensen Aabo) – 27:29 5–1 Bjorkstrand (Ehlers, M. Lauridsen) (PP) – 30:26 6–1 Storm – 31:56 7–1 Blichfeld (Ehlers, Storm) (PP) – 34:40 8–1 Ehlers (Nielsen, Jensen Aabo) – 40:17 9–1 Russell (Storm) – 41:54 10–1 Poulsen (N. Jensen, Jakobsen) – 53:36 11–1
	6 min	Penalties	10 min
	48	Shots	8

27 August 2021 21:00

Norway

7–4 (3–2, 3–0, 1–2)

Slovenia

Jordal Amfi, Oslo Attendance: 2,490

Game reference
	Henrik Haukeland	Goalies	Gašper Krošelj Luka Gračnar	Referees: Lassi Heikkinen Peter Stano Linesmen: Niolas Constantineau David Obwegeser
	Røymark (Salsten, Lesund) – 06:04 1–0 Kåsastul (Olden, Zuccarello) – 06:57 2–0 K. Olimb (Rosseli Olsen) (SH) – 09:04 3–0 3–1 12:34 – Gregorc (Ograjenšek, Jeglič) (PP) 3–2 13:54 – Sabolič (Kopitar, Drozg) Zuccarello (PS) – 24:27 4–2 M. Olimb (K. Olimb) – 38:04 5–2 Rosseli Olsen (K. Olimb, M. Olimb) – 39:33 6–2 6–3 43:04 – Sabolič (Pretnar, Kopitar) (PP) 6–4 43:49 – Čepon (Ograjenšek, Logar) Kåsastul (Martinsen, Haga) – 55:48 7–4
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	31	Shots	21

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29 August 2021 12:00

Slovenia

4–1 (0–1, 3–0, 1–0)

South Korea

Jordal Amfi, Oslo Attendance: 97

Game reference
	Gašper Krošelj	Goalies	Matt Dalton	Referees: Geoffrey Barcelo Lassi Heikkinen Linesmen: Knut Bråten Simon Synek
	0–1 19:03 – Ahn (Kim K., Jung) (PP) Jeglič (Urbas, Kopitar) (PP2) – 30:40 1–1 Tičar (Kopitar, Gregorc) (PP) – 32:46 2–1 Sabolič (Tičar, Kopitar) – 35:12 3–1 Kopitar (SH, EN) – 59:45 4–1
	12 min	Penalties	12 min
	43	Shots	18

29 August 2021 16:00

Norway

0–2 (0–0, 0–1, 0–1)

Denmark

Jordal Amfi, Oslo Attendance: 2,500

Game reference
	Henrik Haukeland	Goalies	Sebastian Dahm	Referees: Christoffer Holm Sergey Yudakov Linesmen: Ludvig Lundgren David Obwegeser
	0–1 37:49 – Storm (M. Lauridsen, Blichfeld) 0–2 56:48 – Ehlers (Nielsen)
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	26	Shots	19