2012 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

Tournament details
Host country	Germany
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	1 June – 7 June
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Slovakia
Runner-up	Hungary
Third place	Austria
Tournament statistics
Games played	23
Goals scored	264 (11.48 per game)
Attendance	3,934 (171 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Marcel Holovic
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The 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship and took place between 1 and 7 June 2012 in Ingolstadt, Germany. The tournament was won by Slovakia who upon winning gained promotion to the 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While Bulgaria and New Zealand were relegated after finishing last and second last respectively.

Six teams attempted to qualify for the two remaining spots in the 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The other six nations automatically qualified after their results from the 2011 World Championship and the 2011 Division I tournaments.^[1] Two qualification tournaments were held with a place awarded to the winner of each tournament.^[1] The European Qualification tournament was contested between Bulgaria, Macedonia and Turkey, with Bulgaria winning both of their games and earning a qualification spot.^[2] The Rest of the World Qualification tournament was contested between Chinese Taipei, New Zealand and South Africa, with New Zealand winning promotion.^[3]

The European Qualification tournament was held at the Winter Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria from 2 September 2011 to 4 September 2011.^[2] Bulgaria gained promotion to Division I after winning both of their games against Macedonia and Turkey. Turkey finished in second place after they won their other game against the Macedonian team.^[2]

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Bulgaria	2	2	0	0	0	37	6	+31	6	Qualified for Division I
Turkey	2	1	0	0	1	24	11	+13	3
North Macedonia	2	0	0	0	2	4	48	−44	0

All times are local.

2 September 2011 20:00

North Macedonia

2 – 20 (0–7, 0–5, 1–3, 1–5)

Turkey

Winter Palace

3 September 2011 18:00

Bulgaria

28 – 2 (6–1, 9–0, 4–1, 9–0)

North Macedonia

Winter Palace

4 September 2011 14:00

Turkey

4 – 9 (0–2, 1–2, 1–2, 2–3)

Bulgaria

Winter Palace

The Rest of the World Qualification tournament was held at the New Plymouth Rollersports Arena in New Plymouth, New Zealand from 18 November 2011 to 20 November 2011.^[3] New Zealand gained promotion to Division I after winning both of their games against Chinese Taipei and South Africa. Chinese Taipei finished in second place after they won their other game against the South African team.^[3]

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
New Zealand	2	2	0	0	0	18	4	+14	6	Qualified for Division I
Chinese Taipei	2	1	0	0	1	7	16	−9	3
South Africa	2	0	0	0	2	8	13	−5	0

All times are local.

18 November 2011 19:30

Chinese Taipei

1 – 11 (0–4, 0–3, 1–2, 0–2)

New Zealand

New Plymouth Rollersports Arena

19 November 2011 19:30

South Africa

5 – 6 (1–1, 2–2, 1–1, 1–2)

Chinese Taipei

New Plymouth Rollersports Arena

20 November 2011 16:30

New Zealand

7 – 3 (1–2, 4–1, 1–0, 1–0)

South Africa

New Plymouth Rollersports Arena

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2011 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship and 2011 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I. Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Ingolstadt, Germany.^[1] The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parentheses is the corresponding seeding):

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, every team advanced to the Playoff round.

All times are local (UTC+2).

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Slovakia	3	3	0	0	0	42	6	+36	9
Croatia	3	2	0	0	1	23	13	+10	6
Australia	3	1	0	0	2	17	20	−3	3
Bulgaria	3	0	0	0	3	3	46	−43	0

1 June 2012 15:00

Australia

4 – 5 (2–3, 1–0, 0–1, 1–1)

Croatia

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 93

1 June 2012 17:00

Bulgaria

0 – 21 (0–7, 0–3, 0–9, 0–2)

Slovakia

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 108

2 June 2012 13:00

Australia

9 – 1 (0–0, 2–1, 2–0, 5–0)

Bulgaria

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 50

2 June 2012 17:00

Slovakia

7 – 2 (2–1, 1–0, 2–0, 2–1)

Croatia

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 75

3 June 2012 13:00

Croatia

16 – 2 (5–1, 2–0, 3–0, 6–1)

Bulgaria

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 127

3 June 2012 17:00

Slovakia

14 – 4 (5–1, 5–0, 1–3, 3–0)

Australia

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 314

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hungary	3	3	0	0	0	22	7	+15	9
Austria	3	2	0	0	1	27	14	+13	6
Japan	3	0	1	0	2	12	18	−6	2
New Zealand	3	0	0	1	2	4	26	−22	1

1 June 2012 15:00

Austria

14 – 2 (3–0, 4–0, 3–1, 4–1)

Japan

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 93

1 June 2012 19:00

New Zealand

3 – 7 (1–2, 0–2, 0–0, 2–3)

Hungary

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 98

2 June 2012 15:00

Austria

9 – 6 (4–1, 2–0, 2–2, 1–3)

New Zealand

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 235

2 June 2012 19:00

Hungary

9 – 0 (3–0, 2–0, 0–0, 4–0)

Japan

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 45

3 June 2012 15:00

Japan

2 – 3 (0–1, 1–0, 1–1, 0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

New Zealand

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 318

3 June 2012 19:00

Hungary

6 – 4 (0–1, 1–2, 2–0, 3–1)

Austria

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 267

All eight teams advanced into the playoff round and were seeded into the quarterfinals according to their result in the preliminary round. The winning quarterfinalists advanced through to the semifinals, while the losing teams moved through to the placement round. Bulgaria and New Zealand were relegated after losing their placement round games, while Australia and Japan advanced to a 5/6 placement game with Australia defeating Japan 7–3. In the semifinals Hungary defeated Austria and Slovakia defeating Croatia, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Austria and Croatia played off for the bronze medal with Austria winning in overtime. Slovakia defeated Hungary 5–4 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.^[6]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

D2

Austria

7

C3

Australia

2

QF1

Hungary

5

QF2

Austria

2

D1

Hungary

12

C4

Bulgaria

2

SF1

Hungary

4

SF2

Slovakia

5

C1

Slovakia

14

D3

Japan

0

QF3

Slovakia

5

Bronze medal game

QF4

Croatia

3

C2

Croatia

5

SF1

Austria

7

D4

New Zealand

0

SF2

Croatia

6

All times are local (UTC+2).

5 June 2012 13:00

Croatia

5 – 0 (2–0, 1–0, 1–0, 1–0)

New Zealand

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 128

5 June 2012 15:00

Austria

7 – 2 (2–1, 1–0, 1–1, 3–0)

Australia

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 193

5 June 2012 17:00

Slovakia

14 – 0 (0–0, 5–0, 5–0, 4–0)

Japan

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 208

5 June 2012 19:00

Hungary

12 – 2 (1–0, 3–1, 5–0, 3–1)

Bulgaria

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 231

6 June 2012 13:00

New Zealand

2 – 3 (0–1, 0–1, 1–1, 1–0)

Japan

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 93

6 June 2012 15:00

Australia

16 – 4 (4–2, 2–0, 6–2, 4–0)

Bulgaria

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 93

7 June 2012 10:00

Australia

7 – 3 (1–0, 2–1, 2–1, 2–1)

Japan

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 123

6 June 2012 17:00

Hungary

5 – 2 (0–1, 3–0, 0–1, 2–0)

Austria

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 118

6 June 2012 19:00

Slovakia

5 – 3 (2–0, 0–1, 1–1, 2–1)

Croatia

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 193

7 June 2012 12:00

Austria

7 – 6 (OT) (1–3, 3–1, 1–1, 1–1 , 1–0)

Croatia

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 331

7 June 2012 14:00

Slovakia

5 – 4 (1–1, 4–1, 0–2, 0–0)

Hungary

Saturn Arena Attendance: 400

Final standings

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The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:^[7]

Rk.	Team
	Slovakia
	Hungary
	Austria
4.	Croatia
5.	Australia
6.	Japan
7.	New Zealand
8.	Bulgaria

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.^[9]

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	POS
Marcel Holovic	6	7	16	23	+19	0.0	F
Filip Novak	6	12	10	22	+19	3.0	F
Daniel Oberkofler	6	8	12	20	+11	1.5	F
Lukas Ruzicka	6	6	14	20	+18	3.0	F
Tomas Jasko	6	8	11	19	+17	0.0	F
Jonathon Bremner	6	10	7	17	+6	3.0	F
Harry Lange	6	7	9	16	+14	7.5	D
Roman Simunek	6	7	9	16	+17	0.0	F
Peter Sojcik	6	7	9	16	+17	4.5	F
Arnold Feil	6	8	7	15	+12	1.5	F

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.^[10]

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Vladimir Neumann	120:00	52	2	0.60	96.15	2
Tamas Kiss	166:17	85	6	1.30	92.94	1
Roman Hrusovsky	144:00	97	11	2.75	88.66	0
Lorenz Hirn	237:50	144	19	2.88	86.81	0
Vanja Belic	228:53	150	20	3.15	86.67	1

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