The 2016 IIHF Inline Hockey Qualification Europe was held in Steindorf, Austria from 22 to 25 June 2016. Latvia gained promotion after defeating Austria 4–2 in the final. Israel finished third place after defeating Macedonia in the 10–5 in the third place match. Preliminary round Group A Group B Placement round 7th/8th game 5th/6th game 3rd/4th game 1st/2nd game Seeding and groups The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, and the qualification tournaments. Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Bratislava, Slovakia. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parenthesis is the corresponding seeding): Group C (9) (12) (13) (16) Group D (10) (11) (14) (15) Preliminary round Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, every team advanced to the Playoff round. All times are local (UTC+3). Group C Group D Playoff round All eight teams advanced into the playoff round and were seeded into the quarterfinals according to their result in the preliminary round. The winning quarter finalists advanced through to the semifinals, while the losing teams moved through to the classification round. New Zealand and Brazil were relegated to the Qualifications after losing their classification round games and finished the tournament in seventh and eighth respectively. After winning their classification games Hungary and Argentina competed in the relegation game with Hungary being relegated to the Qualifications after losing 4–5 after a shootout. In the semifinals Slovenia defeated Great Britain and Latvia beat Australia, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Great Britain and Australia played off for the bronze medal with Australia winning 7–3. Slovenia defeated Latvia 6–3 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2019 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. All times are local (UTC+2). Quarterfinals Classification Semifinals Relegation game Bronze medal game Gold medal game Ranking and statistics Final standings The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF: Tournament Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goalkeeper: David Duschek Best Defenseman: Luis Custodio Best Forward: Owen Haiek Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.