2012 IIHF World U18 Championships
The 2012 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 14th IIHF World U18 Championship and was hosted in Brno, Znojmo and Břeclav, Czech Republic. It began on 12 April 2012 with the gold medal game played on 22 April 2012.
Brno and Znojmo were originally to co-host, but a schedule change became necessary when Kometa Brno unexpectedly advanced to the Czech Extraliga finals, making their home ice unavailable to the tournament on three days.
The United States defeated Sweden 7–0 in the final to win their seventh title. Canada captured the bronze medal by beating Finland 5–4 in overtime.
Top Division
All times are local.Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Relegation round
Final round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Fifth place game
Bronze medal game
Final
Final standings
| Team | |
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Scoring leaders
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/− | PIM |
 Mathew Dumba | 7 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +2 | 20 |
 Artturi Lehkonen | 7 | 7 | 3 | 10 | +3 | 6 |
| Henrik Haapala | 7 | 4 | 6 | 10 | +4 | 2 |
| Rasmus Kulmala | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | +4 | 2 |
 Sebastian Collberg | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +1 | 14 |
 Nicolas Kerdiles | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +8 | 2 |
| Alexander Wennberg | 6 | 3 | 6 | 9 | +2 | 0 |
| Kerby Rychel | 7 | 5 | 3 | 8 | +4 | 12 |
 Kristoffer Lauridsen | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | +4 | 4 |
| Gustav Possler | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | +5 | 0 |
| Hunter Shinkaruk | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | +3 | 6 |
 Dominik Simon | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | +2 | 4 |
Source:
Leading goaltenders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.| Player | TOI | SA | GA | GAA | Sv% | SO |
| Collin Olson | 300:00 | 116 | 4 | 0.80 | 96.55 | 3 |
| Oscar Dansk | 272:47 | 143 | 9 | 1.98 | 93.71 | 1 |
 Andrei Vasilevski | 299:20 | 141 | 11 | 2.20 | 92.20 | 1 |
| Matt Murray | 419:51 | 210 | 19 | 2.72 | 90.95 | 0 |
| George Sørensen | 276:12 | 193 | 18 | 3.91 | 90.67 | 0 |
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Tournament Awards
Best players selected by the directorate:- Best Goalkeeper:
- Best Defenseman:
- Best Forward:
Best players of each team selected by the coaches.
| Team | Players |
| Mathew Dumba Matt Murray Adam Pelech | |
| Petr Šidlík Jakub Vrána Dominik Simon | |
| Oliver Bjorkstrand Kristoffer Lauridsen Bjørn Uldall | |
| Henrik Happala Rasmus Kulmala Artturi Lehkonen | |
| Marcel Kurth Lennart Palausch Sven Ziegler | |
| Georgs Golovkovs Teodors Bļugers Rūdolfs Kalvītis | |
| Anton Slepyshev Alexander Barabanov Bogdan Yakimov | |
| Lucas Balmelli Samuel Kreis Nico Dunner | |
| Oscar Dansk Hampus Lindholm Sebastian Collberg | |
| Seth Jones Matt Lane Collin Olson |