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National team · United States

«Team USA U18»

467 Matches
220 wins
247 losses
1893–1906 Goals
−13 Difference
4.1 Scored per game
Form L 20 Sep · Home Sioux Falls Stampede · 1:4 W 26 Sep · Away Muskegon Lumberjacks · 5:3 L 26 Sep · Away Muskegon Lumberjacks · 1:6 L 10 Oct · Home Tri-City Storm · 4:7 W 10 Oct · Home Tri-City Storm · 8:5 L 14 Oct · Away Youngstown Phantoms · 2:7

At the 2026 IIHF World U18 Men's Championship in Bratislava and Trenčín, Team USA U18 arrives as the team the rest of the field measures itself against. The roster is drawn entirely from the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, which cycles two full age groups of players through in a single season and sends them on to the next level regardless of what happens at the World Championship.

The programme moved its base from Ann Arbor to Plymouth, Michigan, for the 2014–15 season, and it plays home fixtures at USA Hockey Arena, sharing ice time with the Mitchel Kiefer Memorial Rink back in Ann Arbor for some of its domestic schedule. Alumni who came through that development pipeline before ever pulling on the U18 jersey include Auston Matthews and Jack Hughes, both first overall picks in the NHL draft, along with Patrick Kane and Erik Johnson.

Canada and Russia have been the fixtures on the other side of the biggest games, and against that competition the record since the tournament's founding in 1999 has tilted heavily American: eleven gold medals at the World U18 Championship, most recently in 2023, against six silvers and four bronzes. The Hlinka Gretzky Cup tells a different story — two golds, in 2003 and 2025, next to ten silver finishes stretching back to 1993, a tournament where getting to the final has rarely been the problem.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
14 Oct USHL Youngstown Phantoms A 2:7 L
10 Oct USHL Tri-City Storm H 8:5 W
10 Oct USHL Tri-City Storm H 4:7 L
26 Sep USHL Muskegon Lumberjacks A 1:6 L
26 Sep USHL Muskegon Lumberjacks A 5:3 W
20 Sep USHL Sioux Falls Stampede H 1:4 L

Standing

USHL

Group stage · Eastern Conference

# Team M W L Goals Pts
1 Cedar Rapids 9 7 2 34:19 0
2 Chicago Steel 6 4 2 21:17 0
3 Muskegon Lumberjacks 8 3 5 26:29 0
4 Dubuque Fighting Saints 7 3 4 24:27 0
5 Madison Capitols 6 2 4 20:22 0
6 USA U18 6 2 4 22:31 0
7 Green Bay Gamblers 6 2 4 12:24 0
8 Youngstown Phantoms 6 1 5 14:27 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 467
467 Matches
220 wins
247 losses
1893–1906 Goals
−13 Difference
4.1 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 467
220wins: 220 · 47% 247losses: 247 · 52%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
20 Sep · Home Sioux Falls Stampede · 1:4
26 Sep · Away Muskegon Lumberjacks · 5:3
26 Sep · Away Muskegon Lumberjacks · 1:6
10 Oct · Home Tri-City Storm · 4:7
10 Oct · Home Tri-City Storm · 8:5
14 Oct · Away Youngstown Phantoms · 2:7
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 467 238 229
Scored 1893 1011 882
Conceded 1906 904 1002
Scored per game 4.1 4.2 3.9
Conceded per game 4.1 3.8 4.4
Difference −13 +107 −120

Fixtures of USA U18

Honours of USA U18

  • IIHF World U18 Championship 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2023 11
  • Hlinka Gretzky Cup 2003, 2025 2
  • Hlinka Gretzky Cup 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2026 10
  • IIHF World U18 Championship 2004, 2007, 2013, 2018, 2022, 2024 6
  • Hlinka Gretzky Cup 2004, 2009, 2014, 2023 4
  • IIHF World U18 Championship 2008, 2016, 2019, 2025 4