The first round of the Youth Ice Hockey World Championship will end with a European confrontation between Sweden and Switzerland. The meeting of rivals in group B will be held on August 10 in Edmonton, on the ice of the local arena "Rogers Place".

On August 11, as part of the 1/2 finals of the LE qualification, at the Partizan Arena (Belgrade), the teams of Partizan and AEK Larnaca will meet. The result of the first meeting 1:2.