The IIHF European Junior Championships were held from 1968 to 1998, with an unofficial tournament being held in 1967. The tournament was played as a U19 tournament from 1968-1976. In 1977, the IIHF created the IIHF World Junior Championships, and the U19 championships became U18. The tournament was dominated by the Russians, Czechs, Swedes and Finns, winning all but two of the medals in the thirty-one years it was held.

The U18 Championships remained strong until 1999, when the new IIHF World U18 Championships

IIHF World U18 Championships

The IIHF World U18 Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for national under-18 ice hockey teams from around the world. The tournament is usually played in April and is organized according to a system similar to Ice Hockey World Championships and World...

 were introduced, thus rendering the U18 European Championships redundant. Two European Divisions continued until 2000, but were tiered qualifiers, alongside Asian Divisions

IIHF Asian Oceanic U18 Championships

The IIHF Asian Oceanic U18 Championship was an annual event held by the International Ice Hockey Federation each at the start of every year for national under-18 ice hockey teams from Asia and Oceania...

, with promotion and relegation to the World Group B.

U19

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Host
1967 (unofficial)	Soviet Union	Finland	Sweden	Soviet Union
1968	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Sweden	Finland
1969	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	West Germany
1970	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Switzerland
1971	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovakia
1972	Sweden	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden
1973	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union
1974	Sweden	Soviet Union	Finland	Switzerland
1975	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	France
1976	Soviet Union	Sweden	Finland	Czechoslovakia

U18

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Host
1977	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	West Germany
1978	Finland	Soviet Union	Sweden	Finland
1979	Czechoslovakia	Finland	Soviet Union	Poland
1980	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Czechoslovakia
1981	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Soviet Union
1982	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Sweden
1983	Soviet Union	Finland	Czechoslovakia	Norway
1984	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	West Germany
1985	Sweden	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	France
1986	Finland	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	West Germany
1987	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Finland
1988	Czechoslovakia	Finland	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia
1989	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Finland	Soviet Union
1990	Sweden	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden
1991	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Finland	Czechoslovakia
1992	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Russia	Norway
1993	Sweden	Russia	Czech Republic	Poland
1994	Sweden	Russia	Czech Republic	Finland
1995	Finland	Germany	Sweden	Germany
1996	Russia	Finland	Sweden	Russia
1997	Finland	Sweden	Switzerland	Czech Republic
1998	Sweden	Finland	Russia	Sweden

Medal Table

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Medals
	10	7	9	26
	4	5	4	13
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	1	1

European Division I(Qualifier for World Group B)

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Host
1999	Latvia	Slovenia	Lithuania	Romania
2000	Kazakhstan	Estonia	Slovenia	Slovenia