2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	6–11 July 2015
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Croatia (1st title)
Runner-up	Australia
Third place	Great Britain
Fourth place	Argentina
Tournament statistics
Games played	23
Goals scored	241 (10.48 per game)
Attendance	3,440 (150 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Ivan Jankovic
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The 2015 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 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 5 and 11 July 2015 in Tampere, Finland. The tournament was won by Croatia who upon winning gained promotion to the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While Austria and Bulgaria were relegated to the European Qualification after losing their placement round games along with Latvia who lost the relegation game against Hungary.

Seven teams attempted to qualify for the two remaining spots in the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The other six nations automatically qualified after their results from the 2014 Championship and the 2014 Division I tournaments. Two qualification tournaments were held with a place awarded to the winner of each tournament. The European Qualification tournament was contested between Bulgaria, Israel, Macedonia and Serbia, with Bulgaria winning promotion and returning to Division I after being relegated in 2013.^[1][2] The Rest of the World Qualification tournament was contested between Argentina, Chile and Hong Kong, with Argentina winning promotion after also being relegated in 2013.^[2][3]

The European Qualification tournament was held at the Winter Sports Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria from 4 July to 6 July 2014.^[1] Bulgaria gained promotion to Division I after winning their three games and finishing first in the standings. Israel finished in second place and Serbia in third.^[1]

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Bulgaria	3	2	1	0	0	18	7	+11	8	Qualified for Division I
Israel	3	2	0	0	1	25	22	+3	6
Serbia	3	1	0	1	1	27	18	+9	4
North Macedonia	3	0	0	0	3	13	36	−23	0

All times are local.

4 July 2014 17:00

Israel

10 – 8 (1–1, 4–1, 0–5, 5–1)

Serbia

Winter Sports Palace

4 July 2014

Bulgaria

6 – 3 (2–0, 1–0, 1–1, 2–2)

North Macedonia

Winter Sports Palace

5 July 2014

Israel

14 – 6 (5–3, 2–1, 1–2, 6–0)

North Macedonia

Winter Sports Palace

5 July 2014

Serbia

3 – 4 (OT) (2–0, 0–0, 1–2, 0–1, 0–1)

Bulgaria

Winter Sports Palace

6 July 2014

North Macedonia

4 – 16 (2–4, 1–3, 0–4, 1–5)

Serbia

Winter Sports Palace

6 July 2014

Bulgaria

8 – 1 (0–0, 1–0, 3–0, 4–1)

Israel

Winter Sports Palace

The Rest of the World Qualification tournament was held at the Peru Beach Hockey Arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 19 November to 21 November 2014.^[3] Argentina gained promotion to Division I after winning both of their games and finishing first in the standings.^[3] Hong Kong finished in second place after winning their game against Chile.^[3]

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Argentina	2	2	0	0	0	12	2	+10	6	Qualified for Division I
Hong Kong	2	1	0	0	1	11	7	+4	3
Chile	2	0	0	0	2	2	16	−14	0

All times are local.

19 November 2014 21:00

Chile

2 – 9 (1–2, 1–4, 0–3, 0–0)

Hong Kong

Peru Beach Hockey Arena

20 November 2014 21:00

Hong Kong

2 – 5 (0–3, 2–0, 0–1, 0–1)

Argentina

Peru Beach Hockey Arena

21 November 2014 21:00

Argentina

7 – 0 (2–0, 2–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Chile

Peru Beach Hockey Arena

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I.^[6] Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Tampere, Finland.^[6] 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+3).

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Latvia	3	3	0	0	0	36	6	+30	9
Great Britain	3	2	0	0	1	26	11	+15	6
Austria	3	1	0	0	2	12	17	−5	3
Bulgaria	3	0	0	0	3	2	42	−40	0

5 July 2015 13:00

Latvia

12 – 0 (3–0, 1–0, 3–0, 5–0)

Austria

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 90

5 July 2015 17:00

Bulgaria

1 – 16 (1–0, 0–7, 0–5, 0–4)

Great Britain

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 127

6 July 2015 13:00

Latvia

18 – 1 (5–0, 6–0, 5–0, 2–1)

Bulgaria

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 124

6 July 2015 17:00

Great Britain

5 – 4 (0–1, 2–3, 2–0, 1–0)

Austria

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 252

7 July 2015 13:00

Austria

8 – 0 (1–0, 2–0, 3–0, 2–0)

Bulgaria

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 138

7 July 2015 17:00

Great Britain

5 – 6 (2–4, 1–1, 1–1, 1–0)

Latvia

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 106

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Croatia	3	2	0	0	1	17	9	+8	6
Australia	3	2	0	0	1	17	14	+3	6
Hungary	3	1	0	1	1	10	12	−2	4
Argentina	3	0	1	0	2	7	16	−9	2

5 July 2015 15:00

Croatia

1 – 5 (1–0, 0–2, 0–2, 0–1)

Hungary

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 38

5 July 2015 19:00

Argentina

3 – 6 (1–2, 0–1, 1–1, 1–2)

Australia

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 300

6 July 2015 15:00

Croatia

7 – 0 (0–0, 1–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Argentina

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 179

6 July 2015 19:00

Australia

7 – 2 (0–0, 3–1, 0–0, 4–1)

Hungary

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 183

7 July 2015 15:00

Hungary

3 – 4 (OT) (2–0, 1–1, 0–1, 0–1, 0–1)

Argentina

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 130

7 July 2015 19:00

Australia

4 – 9 (0–2, 1–3, 1–1, 2–3)

Croatia

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 223

All eight teams advanced into the playoff round and were seeded into the quarterfinals according to their result in the preliminary round. The winning quarter finalists advanced through to the semifinals, while the losing teams moved through to the placement round. Austria and Bulgaria were relegated to the European Qualification after losing their placement round games and finished the tournament in seventh and eighth respectively. After winning their placement round games Latvia and Hungary competed in the relegation game with Latvia being relegated to the European Qualification after losing 3–4. The number of teams relegated to the Qualification tournaments was increased from two to three due to a change in format by the IIHF. The change means that three qualification tournaments will be held in the even years, starting in 2016, and the World Championships will be held in the odd years, starting in 2017. The qualification tournaments have been restructured into three regions to lower travel costs with the regions now being Africa / South America, Asia / Oceania, and Europe / North America.^[7] In the semifinals Australia defeated Great Britain and Croatia beat Argentina, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Great Britain and Argentina played off for the bronze medal with Great Britain winning 3–2. Croatia defeated Australia 5–4 in overtime in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.^[7][8]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

D2

Australia

6

C3

Austria

3

QF1

Australia

7

QF2

Great Britain

4

C2

Great Britain

7

D3

Hungary

5

SF1

Australia

4

SF2

Croatia

5

D1

Croatia

23

C4

Bulgaria

0

QF3

Croatia

7

Bronze medal game

QF4

Argentina

0

C1

Latvia

4

SF1

Great Britain

3

D4

Argentina

5

SF2

Argentina

2

All times are local (UTC+3).

9 July 2015 13:00

Australia

6 – 3 (2–0, 0–2, 2–1, 2–0)

Austria

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 103

9 July 2015 15:00

Great Britain

7 – 5 (0–0, 3–1, 2–0, 2–4)

Hungary

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 119

9 July 2015 17:00

Croatia

23 – 0 (6–0, 4–0, 7–0, 6–0)

Bulgaria

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 82

9 July 2015 19:00

Latvia

4 – 5 (0–1, 1–0, 1–4, 2–0)

Argentina

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 215

10 July 2015 13:00

Hungary

7 – 1 (1–1,2–0,0–0,4–0)

Austria

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 68

10 July 2015 15:00

Latvia

14 – 0 (2–0,1–0,4–0,7–0)

Bulgaria

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 127

10 July 2015 17:00

Great Britain

4 – 7 (2–0, 2–3, 0–2, 0–2)

Australia

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 101

10 July 2015 19:00

Croatia

7 – 0 (1–0, 2–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Argentina

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 154

11 July 2015 12:00

Latvia

3 – 4 (0–2, 1–0, 1–0, 1–2)

Hungary

Hakametsa Rink 2 Attendance: 73

11 July 2015 13:00

Great Britain

3 – 2 (1–0, 1–1, 1–0, 0–1)

Argentina

Hakametsa Arena Attendance: 191

11 July 2015 15:00

Croatia

5 – 4 (OT) (1–1, 0–1, 3–1, 0–1, 1–0)

Australia

Hakametsa Arena Attendance: 317

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:^[9]

Rk.	Team
	Croatia
	Australia
	Great Britain
4.	Argentina
5.	Hungary
6.	Latvia
7.	Austria
8.	Bulgaria

• Best players selected by the directorate:^[10]
  • Best Goalkeeper: Mate Tomljenovic
  • Best Defenseman: Cameron Todd
  • Best Forward: Ivan Jankovic

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.^[11]

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	POS
Ivan Jankovic	6	12	13	25	+21	1.5	F
Igor Jacmenjak	6	5	16	21	+17	9.0	F
Roberts Lipsbergs	6	7	11	18	+10	6.0	D
Aleksandrs Galkins	6	6	12	18	+19	1.5	D
Domen Vedlin	6	5	12	17	+16	1.5	D
Miks Lipsbergs	6	7	9	16	+10	3.0	F
Nathan Finney	6	3	11	14	+10	1.5	D
Aleksandrs Kercs	6	9	4	13	+13	1.5	F
Sam Jones	6	6	7	13	+10	7.5	F
Rudolfs Maslovskis	6	6	7	13	+15	0.0	D
Rustams Begovs	6	2	11	13	+13	3.0	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.^[12]

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Tamas Kiss	143:28	76	7	1.76	90.79	0
Mate Tomljenovic	192:08	76	8	1.50	89.47	2
Kristaps Kruze	201:52	70	9	1.61	87.14	2
Patrick Machreich	204:16	159	23	4.05	85.53	0
Lucas Marcolongo	259:42	164	27	3.74	83.54	0

• Division I at IIHF.com