See main article: 2012 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships.
| Tourney Name: | IIHF World Championship Division III |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Size: | 140px |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Dates: | 15 – 21 April |
| Num Teams: | 6 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Nextseason: | 2013 |
The 2012 IIHF World Championship Division III was an international Ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was contested in Erzurum, Turkey running from April 15–21, 2012.[1]
| Team | Qualification | |
|---|---|---|
| Placed 6th in Division II Group A and was relegated in 2011. | ||
| Placed 6th in Division II Group B and was relegated in 2011. | ||
| Host, placed 3rd in Division III last year. | ||
| Placed 4th in Division III last year. | ||
| ^ | Placed 5th in Division III last year. | |
| ^ | Placed 6th in Division III last year. |
^ – Both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chinese Taipei applied to participate in the Division III tournament, but the IIHF did not approve either, so Greece and Mongolia joined the other four teams for the Division III tournament.
| width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc" | Promoted to Division II B for 2013 | ||
| width=10px bgcolor="#ffcccc" | Relegated to Division III qualification for 2013 |
| width=165 | Team | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | width=40 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 7 | +26 | 15 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 8 | +19 | 12 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 15 | +5 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 24 | −6 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 22 | −13 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 39 | −31 | 0 |
All times are local (UTC+3).