2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

The 2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championships was the ninth World Women's U18 Championship. The tournament was played in St. Catharines, Canada.

Relegation series
The third and fourth placed team from Group B will play a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.

Division I "A"
Was played in Miskolc, Hungary 10–16 January, 2016.


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Division I Qualification
Was played in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria, January 7 to 11, 2016. The teams were divided into two groups of four where the winners played off against each other for promotion to the 2017 Division I tournament. The top six teams remain in the newly titled Division 1 B, Romania and Australia were relegated to the new Division I B Qualication tournament.


 * Group A


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 * Group B


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