2018 Bandy World Championship

The 2018 Bandy World Championship was the 38th Bandy World Championship between men's bandy teams. The tournament took place in China and Russia. Division A matches were played in the Russian city of Khabarovsk and Division B matches in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.^[1][2][3]

2018 Bandy World Championship

XXXVIIIth Bandy World Championship
Tournament details
Host countries	China Russia
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	28 January – 4 February
Teams	8 (Division A) and 8 (Division B)
Final positions
Champions	Russia (11th title)
Runners-up	Sweden
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	Kazakhstan
Tournament statistics
Games played	22 (Division A) 22 (Division B)
Scoring leader(s)	Division A Rauan Isaliyev (21 goals) Division B Aleksei Ibatulov (18 goals)
Awards
MVP	Daniel Berlin
← Sandviken 2017 Vänersborg 2019 →

Participating teams and officials

Logo of the B Division, which was played in Harbin, China.

Eight nations were qualified for the Division A, where the matches were played in Khabarovsk, Russia. Canada would have made its return to Division A, as it won in the Division B last year, but declined to participate and was replaced by Hungary.^[4] The other teams in Division A were directly qualified through their results in the same division last year.

The Division B matches were played in Harbin, Manchuria, and made up of eight teams. Of the countries from 2017, Belarus, which finished in last place of Division A, and the Czech Republic, chose not to participate.^[5]

Division A

Pool A

•  Finland
•  Norway
•  Russia
•  Sweden

Pool B

•  Germany
•  Hungary
•  Kazakhstan
•  United States

Division B

Pool A

•  Estonia
•  Japan
•  Mongolia
•  Ukraine

Pool B

•  China
•  Netherlands
•  Slovakia
•  Somalia

Officials

	Referees	Assistants
Division A	Petri Kuusela Pontus Petersson Nikita Yuklyaevskikh Jonas Kandell Eric William Hemmesch	Mika Mutanen Harri Pietilaintn Fredrik Bjørseth Sergey Beskonchin Denis Pronin Per Jacobsson Thomas Persson
Division B	Brenden Burnell Radek Kopal Andrey Piunov Egor Lukyanchenko Rodion Yarovenko Adam Jokinen	Sang Hong Wang Xue Feng Dmitri Antropov Ryuji Tsujitsugu Nurlan Urazgaliev Bas van Meijel Jimmy Elwing Steven Shinn

Squads

Main article: 2018 Bandy World Championship squads

Venues

Khabarovsk	Harbin
Arena Yerofey	Harbin Sport University Stadium
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 5,000

Division A

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+10).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Sweden	3	3	0	0	32	4	+28	6
2	Russia (H)	3	2	0	1	20	8	+12	4
3	Finland	3	1	0	2	9	11	−2	2
4	Norway	3	0	0	3	1	39	−38	0

Source: ^[6]
(H) Hosts

Game 3

29 January 2018

16:00

Sweden	9–1	Finland
Berlin  4', 33' Löfstedt  9' Fagerström  19', 82' Johansson  28' Westh  68' E. Pettersson  78' (p), 81'	Report	53' Tu. Määttä

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 2,605

Referee: Nikita Yuklyaevskikh (Russia)

Game 4

29 January 2018

19:30

Russia	15–1	Norway
A. Prokopiev  3' Ishkeldin  15', 74' Dergaev  16', 75', 82' Lomanov  20', 53', 63', 65' Mirgazov  21', 71' Dzhusoev  36' Kalanchin  85' Bondarenko  87'	Report	79' Kristoffersen

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 9,432

Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

Game 7

30 January 2018

16:00

Sweden	17–0	Norway
Löfstedt  4', 16', 34', 46', 59' J. Andersson  16' E. Pettersson  33', 45' (p), 66' Säfström  50', 82' Eriksson  63' Jansson  68', 73', 86' Fagerström  71' H. Andersson  88'	Report

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 1,262

Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

Game 8

30 January 2018

19:30

Russia	2–1	Finland
Ishkeldin  31' Mirgazov  66'	Report	25' (p) J. Liukkonen

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 4,321

Referee: Jonas Kandell (Sweden)

Game 11

31 January 2018

16:00

Norway	0–7	Finland
	Report	17', 33' (p), 68' Kumpuoja  22' Helavuori  48' (p) Nissinen  52', 89' Te. Määttä

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 737

Referee: Nikita Yuklyaevskikh (Russia)

Game 12

31 January 2018

19:30

Sweden	6–3	Russia
Berlin  5' J. Andersson  10', 53' Johansson  60' Fagerström  63', 69'	Report	29' Dzhusoev  48' Ishkeldin  87' Befus

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 7,520

Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	0	60	3	+57	6
2	United States	3	2	0	1	31	19	+12	4
3	Germany	3	1	0	2	15	36	−21	2
4	Hungary	3	0	0	3	6	54	−48	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Game 1

29 January 2018

10:00

United States	14–4	Germany
Brown  1', 19', 24', 85', 90' Lickteig  18', 28', 42' Wenzel  38' Richardson  48' Carman  52' Dwyer  56' Erickson  57' Williams  72'	Report	16' Völker  23', 58', 65' Kolyagin

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 520

Referee: Jonas Kandell (Sweden)

Game 2

29 January 2018

13:00

Hungary	0–29	Kazakhstan
	Report	2', 9', 18', 22', 24', 40', 50', 72' Isaliyev  4' Zhaukenov  8', 23', 60', 90' Chernyshev  13' Nugmanov  14', 27' Vshivkov  25', 27', 34', 51', 64' Leonov  29' Riazanov  37', 49', 82' Khrapenkov  44' (p) Kadirzhanov  55' Utebaliev  58', 74' Zavidovskiy

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 495

Referee: Eric William Hemmesch (USA)

Game 6

30 January 2018

13:00

Kazakhstan	14–1	United States
Isaliyev  1', 14' (p), 31', 65' (p) Vshivkov  37', 78' Chernyshev  39', 41', 42' Leonov  52', 61' Nugmanov  68' Galyautdinov  77' Utebaliev  79'	Report	34' Brown

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 538

Referee: Nikita Yuklyaevskikh (Russia)

Game 9

31 January 2018

10:00

Germany	2–17	Kazakhstan
Kolyagin  17' Kuznetsov  57'	Report	3' Vshivkov  5', 33', 48', 49' Isaliyev  24', 37', 83' Chernyshev  26' Kadirzhanov  29', 32' Utebaliev  35' Zhaukenov  39', 61' Leonov  41' Nugmanov  55' Riazanov  66' Galyautdinov

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 567

Referee: Pontus Petersson (Norway)

Game 10

31 January 2018

13:00

United States	16–1	Hungary
Brown  1', 6', 31', 38', 39' Zitouni  4', 13' Erickson  18', 80' Carman  20' Blucher  35' Williams  42' Knutson  44' Wenzel  65' Lickteig  85', 87'	Report	59' Kordisz

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 376

Referee: Jonas Kandell (Sweden)

Game 5

1 February 2018

09:00

Germany	9–5	Hungary
Dunaev  9', 42' Völker  13', 51' Kolyagin  22', 40' Kail  63' Kusmin  67' Houck  69'	Report	18' Frajka  31' Pacsai  37', 82' Schellin  47' Polgar

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 138

Referee: Pontus Petersson (Norway)

Play-off

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	2 February
	Russia	26
					3 February
	Germany	1
					Russia	8
	2 February
					Finland	2
	Finland	13
									4 February
	United States	4
									Russia	5
	2 February
									Sweden	4
	Sweden	16
					3 February
	Hungary	3
					Sweden	5
	2 February
					Kazakhstan	4			Third place
	Norway	1
									4 February
	Kazakhstan	6
									Finland	8
									Kazakhstan	4

Quarterfinals

Game 13

2 February 2018

10:00

Norway	1–6	Kazakhstan
Jensen  25'	Report	7', 89' (p) Vshivkov  15' Riazanov  44', 78', 79' Isaliyev

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 234

Referee: Nikita Yuklyaevskikh (Russia)

Game 14

2 February 2018

13:00

Finland	13–4	United States
Kumpuoja  1', 17', 65', 67', 83' (p) Lukkarila  4', 6', 65' Heinonen  5', 44' Peuhkuri  11' Tu. Määttä  51' (p) Te. Määttä  86'	Report	56' Erickson  59' (p) Richardson  66' Carman  89' Knutson

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 487

Referee: Pontus Petersson (Norway)

Game 15

2 February 2018

16:00

Sweden	16–3	Hungary
Edlund  3', 44' Gilljam  15', 75' Fagerström  18', 32', 69' Jansson  28', 70', 80' Pizzoni Elfving  39' Löfstedt  53', 71' H. Andersson  56' Säfström  58' J. Andersson  84'	Report	79' Jankovics  83', 86' Kordisz

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 738

Referee: Jonas Kandell (Sweden)

Game 16

2 February 2018

19:30

Russia	26–1	Germany
Lomanov  12', 34', 40' Bondarenko  13', 24' Dergaev  14', 21', 30' (p), 51' Vikulin  16', 77' Arkhipkin  19', 43', 73', 84' Mirgazov  23', 35', 42', 63' Befus  26', 53', 74' A. Prokopiev  28' Chernov  44', 82' Granovskiy  58'	Report	48' Völker

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 2,765

Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

7th place game

Game 17

3 February 2018

10:00

Germany	21–1	Hungary
Völker  3', 62' Kolyagin  4', 23' (p), 31', 45', 71', 81' Kail  5', 9', 20', 86' Kudrin  7' Kuznetsov  11', 69' Dunaev  27', 33' Kusmin  47' Laue  61' Houck  67' Paul  80'	Report	59' Pacsai

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 319

Referee: Pontus Petersson (Norway)

5th place game

Game 18

3 February 2018

13:00

United States	3–2	Norway
Carman  43', 72' Wenzel  56'	Report	37' Jerner  58' Kristoffersen

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 867

Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

Semifinals

Game 19

3 February 2018

16:00

Russia	8–2	Finland
Lomanov  2' Mirgazov  8', 53' Ishkeldin  18' Dergaev  22' A. Prokopiev  40' Chernov  52' Bondarenko  74'	Report	29' J. Liukkonen  90' Te. Määttä

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 6,186

Referee: Jonas Kandell (Sweden)

Game 20

3 February 2018

19:30

Sweden	5–4	Kazakhstan
Edlund  3', 49' (p), 78' Berlin  41' Löfstedt  66'	Report	18', 32', 84' Vshivkov  70' Galyautdinov

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 2,274

Referee: Nikita Yuklyaevskikh (Russia)

Third place game

Game 21

4 February 2018

11:00

Finland	8–4	Kazakhstan
Kumpuoja  13', 20' Lukkarila  35', 62' J. Liukkonen  57' (p) Peuhkuri  75' Tu. Määttä  76' Moisala  90'	Report	15' Zavidovskiy  54' Vshivkov  60', 79' Isaliyev

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 1,320

Referee: Jonas Kandell (Sweden)

Final

Game 22

4 February 2018

16:00

Russia	5–4	Sweden
Mirgazov  1', 5', 78' Dzhusoev  26' Ishkeldin  50'	Report	16' Hellmyrs  46' Löfstedt  61' Berlin  64' Gilljam

Arena Yerofey, Khabarovsk

Attendance: 8,967

Referee: Petri Kuusela (Finland)

Final ranking

	Russia
	Sweden
	Finland
4	Kazakhstan
5	United States
6	Norway
7	Germany
8	Hungary

Division B

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+8).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Estonia	3	2	0	1	14	7	+7	4
2	Japan	3	1	1	1	8	8	0	3
3	Mongolia	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	3
4	Ukraine	3	1	0	2	7	15	−8	2

Source:

Game 3

28 January 2018

13:00

Mongolia	1–1	Japan
Jargalsaikhan  10'	Report	47' Asano
Penalties
	2–3

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 500

Referee: Radek Kopal

Game 4

28 January 2018

15:30

Ukraine	2–8	Estonia
Levchenko  37', 47'	Report	6' (p), 14', 23' Kaup  10', 57' Andreev  33', 41' Ibatulov  46' Volin

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 300

Referee: Rodion Yarovenko

Game 7

29 January 2018

13:30

Ukraine	3–1	Mongolia
Levchenko  10' Markovichenko  41' Tsymbal  56'	Report	23' Tsogtoo

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 200

Referee: Adam Jokinen

Game 8

29 January 2018

15:30

Japan	1–5	Estonia
Aihara  17'	Report	16', 33' (p) Ibatulov  23' Andreev  58' Kabatchikov  59' Kaup

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 200

Referee: Andrey Piunov

Game 11

30 January 2018

13:00

Ukraine	2–6	Japan
Levchenko  35' Tsymbal  45'	Report	39' (p), 43' (p), 45' Aihara  34' Asano  51' Yamanouchi  52' Ishioka

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 200

Referee: Andrey Piunov

Game 12

30 January 2018

15:30

Estonia	1–4	Mongolia
Pankov  60'	Report	7', 25' Tsogtoo  22', 45' Jargalsaikhan

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 300

Referee: Radek Kopal

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	23	1	+22	6
2	China (H)	3	2	0	1	8	9	−1	4
3	Slovakia	3	1	0	2	10	10	0	2
4	Somalia	3	0	0	3	0	21	−21	0

Source:
(H) Hosts

Game 5

28 January 2018

11:30

China	1–7	Netherlands
Wu H.  55'	Report	12', 23' Den Brok  16', 59' (p) S.Tveitan  32', 45', 57' Cras

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 650

Referee: Andrey Piunov

Game 2

29 January 2018

10:00

China	4–0	Somalia
Yu  1' Lu  11', 28' Nan  15'	Report

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 500

Referee: Radek Kopal

Game 1

29 January 2018

11:30

Netherlands	7–0	Slovakia
De Bie  9' Cras  23', 43', 53' (p) Den Brok  25' Hengst  46' Speijers  57'	Report

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 300

Referee: Rodion Yarovenko

Game 9

30 January 2018

10:00

Slovakia	2–3	China
Blišťan  6' Nezník  31'	Report	2' Wu H.  12' Yu  25' Nan

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 600

Referee: Rodion Yarovenko

Game 10

30 January 2018

11:30

Netherlands	9–0	Somalia
S.Tveitan  18' (p), 26', 47' Cras  20' (p), 41', 42' B. Tveitan  24' Hengst  34', 39'	Report

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 200

Referee: Adam Jokinen

Game 6

30 January 2018

18:00

Slovakia	8–0	Somalia
Beneš  7', 28' Blišťan  12', 45', 50' Krídl  13' Michalovič  19' Rusnák  34'	Report

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 150

Referee: Adam Jokinen

Play-off

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	31 January
	Mongolia	2
					2 February
	China	3
					China	1
	31 January
					Japan	2
	Japan	4
									3 February
	Slovakia	1
									Japan	2
	31 January
									Netherlands	3
	Ukraine	1
					2 February
	Netherlands	4
					Netherlands	8
	31 January
					Estonia	4			Third place
	Estonia	20
									3 February
	Somalia	0
									China	3
									Estonia	11

Quarterfinals

Game 13

31 January 2018

09:00

Ukraine	1–4	Netherlands
Markovichenko  44' (p)	Report	35', 45' Den Brok  51' (p) Cras  65' Speijers

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 150

Referee: Brenden Burnell

Game 14

31 January 2018

11:30

Mongolia	2–3	China
Davaadorzh  21' Ganbold  80'	Report	40' Yu  60', 62' Nan

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 300

Referee: Andrey Piunov

Game 15

31 January 2018

14:00

Japan	4–1	Slovakia
Kobayashi  27' Yamanouchi  52' Aihara  60', 72' (p)	Report	57' Blišťan

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 300

Referee: Adam Jokinen

Game 16

31 January 2018

16:30

Estonia	20–0	Somalia
Jürisson  12', 72' Kaup  16', 22', 34', 61', 86' Ibatulov  18' (p), 20', 39', 41', 65', 68', 70', 85', 89' Andreev  23' Baranin  27' Kaidash  77' Kabatchikov  79'	Report

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 250

Referee: Rodion Yarovenko

7th place game

Game 17

2 February 2018

09:00

Somalia	0–2	Slovakia
	Report	23' Blišťan  44' Štofik

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 150

Referee: Andrey Piunov

5th place game

Game 18

2 February 2018

11:30

Mongolia	3–2 (OT)	Ukraine
Ganbold  42' Jargalsaikhan  52' Gerelt  64'	Report	1' Shvedchenko  38' Badamshyn

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 250

Referee: Egor Lukyanchenko

Semifinals

Game 19

2 February 2018

14:00

China	1–2	Japan
Wu H.  27'	Report	56' Otani  85' Asano

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 850

Referee: Rodion Yarovenko

Game 20

2 February 2018

16:30

Netherlands	8–4	Estonia
Cras  38', 47', 60', 68', 78' Speijers  64', 70' Geenen  82'	Report	16' Ibatulov  24', 37' Kaup  29' (p) Andreev

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 150

Referee: Radek Kopal

Third place game

Game 21

3 February 2018

11:00

China	3–11	Estonia
Lu  10', 80' Zhang Z.  74'	Report	7', 19', 51', 82' Kaup  22' (p), 23', 60', 84' Ibatulov  59' Andreev  65' Pankov  68' Baranin

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 300

Referee: Rodion Yarovenko

Final

Game 22

3 February 2018

14:00

Japan	2–3	Netherlands
Nakai  46', 62'	Report	23', 48' Cras  44' Speijers

Harbin Sport University Stadium, Harbin

Attendance: 600

Referee: Adam Jokinen

Final ranking

1	Netherlands
2	Japan
3	Estonia
4	China
5	Mongolia
6	Ukraine
7	Slovakia
8	Somalia

External links

• Official site Division A
• Official site Division B