The German U20 national team will be preparing for the upcoming 10 IIHF U18 Ice Hockey World Championship in Füssen from December 2019th to 2020th, 20 (December 26th, 2019 to January 5th, 2020 in Ostrava/Trinec). U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter nominated three goalkeepers, nine defenders and 15 strikers for the measure.
The 27-man squad includes 21 players who narrowly missed out on winning the four-nation tournament in Piešťany (Slovakia). There are also goalie Tobias Ancicka (Lukko Rauma), defender Tobias Möller (Heilbronner Falken) and the strikers Dominik Bokk (Rögle BK), Nino Kinder (Winnipeg Ice), Taro Jentzsch (Sherbrooke Phoenix) and Valentino Klos (Heilbronner Falken/Adler Mannheim). In addition to U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter, the coaching team also includes national coach Toni Söderholm, assistant coach Patrick Strauch, goalkeeping coach Ilpo Kauhanen and athletics coach Christian Bachmann.
The DEB-Selection meets on December 10th for the first training measures in the Federal Training Center in Füssen. On December 13th (19.00 p.m.) and December 14th (14.00 p.m.), the German team will face Switzerland in two preparatory games. Both games will be played in Lenzerheide (Switzerland). The departure of the DEB-Selection to Ostrava (Czech Republic) will take place on December 18th. The German U20 national team will play two more preparatory games on site: on December 21st DEB-Selection on Finland and on December 23rd on the eventual World Cup preliminary round opponent from the USA. Both encounters will take place in the evening - but the exact face-off times will be announced later.
Tobias Abstreiter, U20 national coach: “We will use the time in Füssen and Ostrava to prepare for the World Cup in the best possible way and to test some tactical things. The standard of the four preparatory games is very high as we face other World Cup participants. Here it is important to work on the finer details and find the rhythm for the upcoming tournament. After the first two matches against Switzerland, we will announce the expanded World Cup squad on December 16th - we will announce the final 23-man squad after the games against Finland and the USA.”
Squad:
| Pos | Name | First Name | gestation am | Club |
| GK | Ancicka | Tobias | 27.02.2001 | Lukko Rauma |
| GK | Digit | Hendrik | 18.09.2000 | Düsseldorfer EG |
| GK | Maurer | Philipp | 02.12.2000 | EV Landshut |
| D | Dersh | Alexander | 30.03.2000 | Düsseldorfer EG |
| D | Heinzinger | Niklas | 09.01.2000 | Tölzer Löwen |
| D | Hüttl | Leon | 21.09.2000 | Löwen Frankfurt |
| D | host | Daniel | 13.04.2000 | Löwen Frankfurt |
| D | Mass | Philip | 30.09.2000 | Red Bull Hockey Juniors |
| D | Mik | Eric | 28.02.2000 | Eisbären Berlin / Lausitzer Füchse |
| D | Gnyp | Simon | 10.09.2001 | Kölner Haie |
| D | Möller | Tobias | 27.07.2000 | Heilbronner Falken |
| D | Glötzl | Maximilian | 16.03.2002 | Kölner Haie |
| F | Schutz | Justin | 24.06.2000 | EHC Red Bull München |
| F | Support | Tim | 15.01.2002 | Adler Mannheim |
| F | Peter | John Jason | 14.01.2002 | EHC Red Bull München |
| F | Bokk | Dominik | 03.02.2000 | Rögle BK |
| F | Lobach | Dennis | 11.03.2000 | EHC Red Bull München |
| F | Shinko | Luis | 12.07.2000 | Löwen Frankfurt |
| F | Brown | Louis | 05.06.2000 | Adler Mannheim / Heilbronner Falken |
| F | Children | Nino | 22.02.2001 | Winnipeg Ice |
| F | Valenti | yannik | 24.09.2000 | Adler Mannheim / Heilbronner Falken |
| F | Jentzsch | taro | 11.06.2000 | Sherbrooke Phoenix |
| F | Varejcka | Filip | 09.01.2001 | Red Bull Hockey Juniors / EHC Red Bull München |
| F | Reichel | Lukas | 17.05.2002 | Eisbären Berlin |
| F | Klos | Valentino | 01.02.2000 | Adler Mannheim / Heilbronner Falken |
| F | Nijenhuis | Jan | 04.08.2001 | Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg |
| F | Fleischer | Tim | 29.09.2000 | Iserlohn Roosters / Bietigheim Steelers |