2022 IIHF World Championship Division IV

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The 2022 IIHF World Championship Division IV was an international ice hockey tournament organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

2022 IIHF World Championship
Division IV

Tournament details
Host country	Kyrgyzstan
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	3–8 March
Teams	5
Tournament statistics
Games played	10
Goals scored	115 (11.5 per game)
Attendance	7,666 (767 per game)
Scoring leader	Vladimir Nosov (20 points)
Official website
Website
← 2021 (cancelled) 2023 →

The tournament was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from 3 to 8 March 2022.^[1][2]

This was the first edition of the Division IV tournament, which had been cancelled the previous two years.^[3]

Kyrgyzstan won the tournament, earning promotion to Division III Group B for 2023.^[4] Iran, Singapore and Malaysia were also promoted with Kuwait continuing to participate in Division IV.

Participants

Team	Qualification
Kuwait	Placed 5th in Division III Q in 2019.
Kyrgyzstan	Host, placed 6th in Division III Q in 2019.
Malaysia	First time participating in tournament.
Philippines	Was supposed to be the first time participating in tournament.
Singapore	First time participating in tournament.
Iran	First time participating in tournament.

Match officials

Two referees and five linesmen were selected for the tournament.^[5]

Referees	Linesmen
Vladimir Suslov Mihai Paul	Tornike Kuchava Timur Iskakov Alexander Yadryshnikov Yntymak Abdykalykov Edmond Ng

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Kyrgyzstan (H, P)	4	4	0	0	0	64	2	+62	12	Promoted to the 2023 Division III B
2	Iran (P)	4	3	0	0	1	22	20	+2	9
3	Singapore (P)	4	2	0	0	2	14	22	−8	6
4	Malaysia (P)	4	1	0	0	3	11	39	−28	3
5	Kuwait	4	0	0	0	4	4	32	−28	0
6	Philippines[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrawn

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host; (P) Promoted
Notes:

1. The Philippines withdrew their team on 13 December 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as they were unable to practice as the ice rinks were closed.^[6]

Results

All times are local (UTC+6)

3 March 2022 16:00

Kuwait

2–5 (1–0, 0–5, 1–0)

Malaysia

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 135

Game reference
	Ahmad Al-Saegh	Goalies	Meng Chow	Referee: Vladimir Suslov Linesmen: Tornike Kuchava Edmond Ng
	Al-Ajmi (Al-Kandari, Al-Maraghy) – 04:53 1–0 1–1 20:32 – Mohammed (PP) 1–2 32:51 – Mohammed (Versluis, Muhd) (PP) 1–3 34:23 – Muhammad (Shaharudin, Raja) 1–4 37:28 – Muhammad (Low) 1–5 38:55 – Goh (Muhd) A. Al-Sarraf – 46:56 2–5
	16 min	Penalties	12 min
	29	Shots	22

3 March 2022 20:00

Iran

1–13 (1–4, 0–6, 0–3)

Kyrgyzstan

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 1,800

Game reference
	Oveis Hassanzadeh Alireza Mahdavi	Goalies	Alexander Petrov Kadyr Alymbekov	Referee: Mihai Paul Linesmen: Timur Iskakov Alexander Yadryshnikov
	0–1 02:09 – Nosov (Egorov, Terentyev) (PP) 0–2 08:23 – Chuvalov (PP) Keyhanfar (Mehraban, Houshidari) – 13:37 1–2 1–3 14:43 – Chuvalov (Nosov, Tonkikh) (PP2) 1–4 18:24 – Abdyraev (Kachkynbekov) 1–5 22:18 – Kim 1–6 27:48 – Egorov (Abdyraev) (PP) 1–7 29:42 – Nosov (Chuvalov) (PP) 1–8 29:57 – Titov (Mirbekov, Abdyraev) 1–9 32:08 – Titov (Egorov, Nosov) (PP) 1–10 32:50 – Abdyraev (Kudashev) 1–11 40:15 – Nosov (Chuvalov) 1–12 42:50 – Tonkikh (Egorov, Nosov) (PP) 1–13 59:42 – Tikhonov (Asanaliev) (SH)
	42 min	Penalties	22 min
	15	Shots	67

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4 March 2022 19:00

Singapore

2–5 (0–3, 1–0, 1–2)

Iran

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 104

Game reference
	Joshua Lee	Goalies	Oveis Hassanzadeh	Referee: Vladimir Suslov Linesmen: Yntymak Abdykalykov Tornike Kuchava
	0–1 15:53 – Ghorbani (Housidari) (PP2) 0–2 16:24 – Keyhanfar (Moghadasi) (PP) 0–3 16:58 – Housidari (SH) Chan (Chwe) (EA) – 34:51 1–3 1–4 45:05 – Keyhanfar (Housidari) (PP) Chan (Goh) – 45:49 2–4 2–5 58:19 – Moghadasi (Ghorbani) (EN)
	32 min	Penalties	26 min
	21	Shots	41

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5 March 2022 17:00

Singapore

4–0 (2–0, 2–0, 0–0)

Kuwait

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 200

Game reference
	Joshua Lee	Goalies	Jasem Al-Sarraf	Referee: Mihai Paul Linesmen: Edmond Ng Alexander Yadryshnikov
	Tan (Chua) (PP) – 06:39 1–0 Redden (PP2) – 16:45 2–0 Chan (Chua) – 21:51 3–0 Redden (Chew, Wong) – 30:07 4–0
	12 min	Penalties	20 min
	30	Shots	27

5 March 2022 20:00

Kyrgyzstan

22–1 (6–0, 10–1, 6–0)

Malaysia

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 1,712

Game reference
	Alexander Petrov Kadyr Alymbekov	Goalies	Muhammad Haikal Meng Chow	Referee: Vladimir Suslov Linesmen: Timur Iskakov Tornike Kuchava
	Nosov (Tonkikh) – 03:12 1–0 Egorov (PP) – 05:57 2–0 Nosov (Terentyev, Chuvalov) – 07:50 3–0 Titov (Mirbekov) – 08:07 4–0 Kudashev – 16:21 5–0 Tonkikh (Nosov) – 17:25 6–0 Ismanov (Tynaliev) – 21:25 7–0 7–1 21:53 – Versluis Tonkikh (Chuvalov, Nosov) – 22:39 8–1 Myrzabaev (Tursunbekov) – 23:23 9–1 Ismanov – 23:47 10–1 Tonkikh (Chuvalov) – 25:47 11–1 Tynaliev (Ismanov) – 27:26 12–1 Kim (SH) – 29:41 13–1 Ismanov (SH) – 31:20 14–1 Nosov (Chuvalov) – 32:04 15–1 Titov (Abdyraev) – 32:30 16–1 Mirbekov (Titov) – 41:35 17–1 Ismanov (Kim) (PP) – 43:33 18–1 Titov (Mirbekov, Abdyraev) – 46:36 19–1 Kim (Egorov) – 47:07 20–1 Abdyraev (Titov) (PP) – 51:29 21–1 Chuvalov (Nosov) – 53:02 22–1
	12 min	Penalties	6 min
	89	Shots	5

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6 March 2022 19:00

Iran

9–2 (4–0, 3–0, 2–2)

Kuwait

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 74

Game reference
	Oveis Hassanzadeh<bt>Alireza Mahdavi	Goalies	Jasem Al-Sarraf	Referee: Vladimir Suslov Linesmen: Yntymak Abdykalykov Alexander Yadryshnikov
	Houshidari – 00:40 1–0 Ghorbani (Keyhanfar) (PP2) – 04:42 2–0 Ghorbani (Houshidari) (PP) – 11:43 3–0 Ghahar (Bagheri) – 13:19 4–0 Houshidari (Keyhanfar) (SH) – 25:15 5–0 Houshidari (PS) – 30:56 6–0 Mehraban (Bagheri) – 38:40 7–0 7–1 46:56 – Al-Ajmi 7–2 48:37– A. Al-Sarraf Mehraban (Ghorbani) (PP) – 50:07 8–2 Keyhanfar (Mehraban) (PP) – 51:39 9–2
	50 min	Penalties	68 min
	38	Shots	26

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7 March 2022 17:00

Malaysia

3–7 (2–2, 1–2, 0–3)

Iran

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 165

Game reference
	Meng Chow	Goalies	Oveis Hassanzadeh Alireza Mahdavi	Referee: Vladimir Suslov Linesmen: Yntymak Abdykalykov Alexander Yadryshnikov
	Muhd (SH) – 01:58 1–0 1–1 11:27 – Korehei (Ghafoori, Moghadasi) (PP) Mohammad (Versluis, Goh) – 15:23 2–1 2–2 16:51 – Aghamohammadi (Ghorbani) Aiman Zul (SH) – 22:27 3–2 3–3 24:10 – Ghorbani (Keyhanfar, Bahri) (PP) 3–4 39:59 – Bagheri (Ghorbani) (PP) 3–5 44:07 – Houshidari (Bahri, Keyhanfar) (SH) 3–6 52:12 – Ghafoori (Keyhanfar, Korehei) 3–7 57:20 – Heidari (Keyhanfar)
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	11	Shots	51

7 March 2022 20:00

Kyrgyzstan

15–0 (6–0, 4–0, 5–0)

Singapore

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 1,723

Game reference
	Alexander Petrov Kadyr Alymbekov	Goalies	Joshua Lee	Referee: Mihai Paul Linesmen: Timur Iskakov Edmond Ng
	Chuvalov – 02:18 1–0 Titov (Abdyraev, Kudashev) (PP) – 04:24 2–0 Ismanov – 10:00 3–0 Nosov (Tonkikh) – 12:25 4–0 Tonkikh (Nosov) (SH) – 16:06 5–0 Chuvalov (Egorov) – 19:15 6–0 Tonkikh – 23:34 7–0 Tonkikh (Egorov) (PP) – 26:48 8–0 Tonkikh (Nosov, Egorov) (PP) – 31:44 9–0 Titov (Egorov, Abdyraev) (PP) – 37:27 10–0 Nosov (Tonkikh, Chuvalov) – 48:54 11–0 Titov (Kudashev, Abdyraev) – 51:01 12–0 Ismanov (Tynaliev, Kim) – 55:13 13–0 Tonkikh (Nosov, Terentyev) (SH) – 56:42 14–0 Terentyev (Egorov, Ismanov) (PP) – 59:36 15–0
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	67	Shots	9

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8 March 2022 17:00

Malaysia

2–8 (1–2, 1–2, 0–4)

Singapore

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 95

Game reference
	Meng Chow	Goalies	Joshua Lee	Referee: Vladimir Suslov Linesmen: Tornike Kuchava Alexander Yadryshnikov
	0–1 03:56 – B. Lee (Hamnett, Redden) Mohammad (PP) – 13:45 1–1 1–2 16:02 – Tan (Chew) (SH) 1–3 31:10 – Redden (Chew) (PP) Muhammad (PP) – 33:19 2–3 2–4 35:03 – Chan (Chew) (PP) 2–5 45:43 – Wong 2–6 50:44 – Chan (Redden, Chew) (PP) 2–7 53:06 – Redden (Wong) (PP) 2–8 59:58 – Redden
	16 min	Penalties	16 min
	22	Shots	34

8 March 2022 20:00

Kuwait

0–14 (0–4, 0–5, 0–5)

Kyrgyzstan

Gorodskoi Katok, Bishkek Attendance: 1,658

Game reference
	Jasem Al-Sarraf	Goalies	Kadyr Alymbekov Alexander Petrov	Referee: Mihai Paul Linesmen: Timur Iskakov Edmond Ng
	0–1 02:06 – Tynaliev (Tonkikh, Myrzabaev) 0–2 03:18 – Nosov (Egorov) 0–3 06:04 – Abdyraev (Titov, Mirbekov) 0–4 09:16 – Mirbekov (Titov, Kachkynbekov) 0–5 21:13 – Kim 0–6 25:10 – Shamyrkanov (Chuvalov) 0–7 27:14 – Mirbekov (Abdyraev) 0–8 35:46 – Egorov (Chuvalov, Shamyrkanov) 0–9 36:26 – Ismanov 0–10 47:32 – Abdyraev (Titov) (PP) 0–11 49:54 – Ismanov (Tursunbekov, Nosov) (PP) 0–12 50:50 – Abdyraev (Terentyev, Mirbekov) 0–13 59:09 – Tursunbekov (Chuvalov, Shamyrkanov) 0–14 59:58 – Kim (Nosov)
	14 min	Penalties	2 min
	3	Shots	63

Statistics

Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Vladimir Nosov	4	9	11	20	+20	0	F
Mikhail Chuvalov	4	5	10	15	+17	0	F
Vladimir Tonkikh	4	9	5	14	+16	0	F
Islambek Abdyraev	4	6	8	14	+12	0	F
Alexander Titov	4	8	5	13	+11	2	F
Maxim Egorov	4	3	10	13	+19	4	D
Sultan Ismanov	4	8	2	10	+16	4	F
Jalal Keyhanfar	4	4	6	10	+2	0	F
Farzad Houshidari	4	5	4	9	−1	8	D
Maziar Ghorbani	4	4	4	8	+1	4	D

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF.com

Goaltending leaders

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.

Player	TOI	GA	GAA	SA	Sv%	SO
Kadyr Alymbekov	116:36	0	0.00	23	100.00	0
Joshua Lee	211:30	15	4.26	131	88.55	1
Alireza Mahdavi	98:04	8	4.89	55	85.45	0
Oveis Hassanzadeh	141:56	12	5.07	70	82.86	0
Meng Chow	216:13	29	8.05	169	82.84	0

TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com

Awards

Position	Player[7]
Goaltender	Joshua Shao Ern Lee
Defenceman	Farzad Houshidari
Forward	Sultan Ismanov