2025 IIHF World Championship

Main article: 2025 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

2025 IIHF World Championship

Tournament details
Host countries	Sweden Denmark
Venue(s)	2
Dates	9–25 May
Teams	16

The 2025 IIHF World Championship will be co-hosted by Stockholm, Sweden, and Herning, Denmark, from 9 to 25 May 2025. This decision regarding Sweden was made at the 2018 semi-annual International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) congress in Malta, and was officially announced on 24 May 2019, at the IIHF's annual congress during the World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia. At the same time, it was announced that Denmark will co-host the championship.

Venues

Sweden	Stockholm Herning	Denmark
Stockholm		Herning
Avicii Arena Capacity: 16,000		Jyske Bank Boxen Capacity: 15,000

Participants

Qualified as hosts

• Sweden
• Denmark

Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2024 IIHF World Championship

• Austria
• Canada
• Czechia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Kazakhstan
• Latvia
• Norway
• Slovakia
• Switzerland
• United States

Qualified through winning promotion from the 2024 IIHF World Championship Division I

• Hungary
• Slovenia

Seeding

The seedings in the preliminary round are based on the 2024 IIHF World Ranking, at the end of the 2024 IIHF World Championship, using the serpentine system while allowing the organizers, "to allocate a maximum of two teams to separate groups," while ensuring hosts Sweden and Denmark will be in separate groups.

Group A (Stockholm)

• Canada (1)
• Finland (3)
• Sweden (7)
• Slovakia (9)
• Latvia (10)
• Austria (13)
• France (14)
• Slovenia (19)

Group B (Herning)

• Czechia (4)
• Switzerland (5)
• United States (6)
• Germany (8)
• Denmark (11)
• Norway (12)
• Kazakhstan (15)
• Hungary (18)

Marketing

The slogan of the competition is pulse.

Preliminary round

The groups were announced on 30 May 2024.

Group A

Main article: 2025 IIHF World Championship Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Canada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Quarterfinals
2	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Sweden (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Slovakia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for 2026 IIHF World Championship
6	Austria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Slovenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to 2026 Division I A

First match(es) will be played: 9 May 2025. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best-ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament
(H) Host

Group B

Main article: 2025 IIHF World Championship Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Czechia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Quarterfinals
2	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Denmark (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for 2026 IIHF World Championship
6	Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Kazakhstan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to 2026 Division I A

First match(es) will be played: 9 May 2025. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best-ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament
(H) Host

External links

• Official website