2025 IIHF World Championship

2025 IIHF World Championship
Världsmästerskapet i ishockey för herrar 2025 (in Swedish); IIHF Verdensmesterskabet 2025 (in Danish)
Tournament details
Host countries	Sweden; Denmark
Venue(s)	2
Dates	9–25 May
Teams	16
	← 2024 2026 →

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.^[1] At the same time, it was announced that Denmark would co-host the championship.^[2]

Venues

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

Participants

Qualified as hosts

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

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

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.^[3]

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

Slogan

The slogan of the competition is pulse, and main phrase of it is "Feel the Pulse".^[4]

Mascot

The mascot of the event is called Beaty, a character with a heart-shaped face and bright cheeks. Beaty is a lively and agile mascot who bounces around, spreading energy to everyone around it, and always with a high pulse.^[5]

Preliminary round

The groups were announced on 30 May 2024,^[6] with the schedule being revealed on 19 August 2024.^[7]

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification or relegation
1	Canada	Quarterfinals
2	Finland
3	Sweden (H)
4	Slovakia
5	Latvia	Qualification for 2026 IIHF World Championship
6	Austria
7	France
8	Slovenia	Relegation to 2026 Division I A

First match(es) will be played: 9 May 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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


9 May 2025
Austria	v	Finland
Sweden	v	Slovakia
10 May 2025
Slovenia	v	Canada
Sweden	v	Austria
France	v	Latvia
11 May 2025
Slovakia	v	Slovenia
Latvia	v	Canada
Finland	v	France
12 May 2025
Austria	v	Slovakia
Finland	v	Sweden
13 May 2025
Slovenia	v	Latvia
Canada	v	France
14 May 2025
Slovakia	v	France
Latvia	v	Sweden
15 May 2025
Finland	v	Slovenia
Canada	v	Austria
16 May 2025
Austria	v	France
Sweden	v	Slovenia
17 May 2025
Finland	v	Latvia
France	v	Sweden
Canada	v	Slovakia
18 May 2025
Slovenia	v	Austria
Slovakia	v	Latvia
19 May 2025
France	v	Slovenia
Canada	v	Finland
20 May 2025
Latvia	v	Austria
Slovakia	v	Finland
Canada	v	Sweden

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification or relegation
1	Czechia	Quarterfinals
2	Switzerland
3	United States
4	Germany
5	Denmark (H)	Qualification for 2026 IIHF World Championship
6	Norway
7	Kazakhstan
8	Hungary	Relegation to 2026 Division I A

First match(es) will be played: 9 May 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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


9 May 2025
Switzerland	v	Czechia
Denmark	v	United States
10 May 2025
Norway	v	Kazakhstan
Germany	v	Hungary
Denmark	v	Switzerland
11 May 2025
United States	v	Hungary
Germany	v	Kazakhstan
Norway	v	Czechia
12 May 2025
United States	v	Switzerland
Czechia	v	Denmark
13 May 2025
Norway	v	Germany
Kazakhstan	v	Hungary
14 May 2025
United States	v	Norway
Kazakhstan	v	Denmark
15 May 2025
Switzerland	v	Germany
Czechia	v	Hungary
16 May 2025
Hungary	v	Denmark
Switzerland	v	Norway
17 May 2025
United States	v	Germany
Czechia	v	Kazakhstan
Denmark	v	Norway
18 May 2025
Kazakhstan	v	United States
Hungary	v	Switzerland
19 May 2025
Germany	v	Czechia
Hungary	v	Norway
20 May 2025
Switzerland	v	Kazakhstan
Czechia	v	United States
Germany	v	Denmark