The 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship was held from December 26, 2013 to January 5, 2014 in Malmo, Sweden. Group A games were played at Malmo Isstadion and Group B games were played at Malmo Arena. The preliminary round games were played December 26th to December 31st. The championship game was played January 5th. All teams qualified for this tournament from the results of the 2013 tournament with the exception of Norway who were promoted from Division IA by virtue of winning the 2013 Division IA tournament. Each team played the other teams in their group once in the preliminary round.