2020 IIHF World Championship

Main article: 2020 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

The 2020 IIHF World Championship would have been hosted by Switzerland from 8 to 24 May 2020, as the IIHF announced on 15 May 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.^[1]

2020 IIHF World Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Switzerland
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	8–24 May (cancelled)
Teams	16
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The tournament was cancelled on 21 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

Venues

Zürich	Zürich   Lausanne	Lausanne
Hallenstadion		Vaudoise Aréna
47°24′41″N 8°33′6″E / 47.41139°N 8.55167°E / 47.41139; 8.55167 (Zürich)		46°31′43″N 6°36′0″E / 46.52861°N 6.60000°E / 46.52861; 6.60000 (Lausanne)
Capacity: 11,200		Capacity: 9,600

Participants

Qualified as host

•    Switzerland

Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2019 IIHF World Championship

•   Canada
•   Czech Republic
•   Denmark
•   Finland
•   Germany
•   Great Britain
•   Italy
•   Latvia
•   Norway
•   Russia
•   Slovakia
•   Sweden
•   United States

Qualified through winning a promotion at the 2019 IIHF World Championship Division I

•   Belarus
•   Kazakhstan

Seeding

The seedings in the preliminary round are based on the 2019 IIHF World Ranking, as of the end of the 2019 IIHF World Championship, using the serpentine system.^[3]

Group A (Lausanne)   Canada (1)   Sweden (4)   Czech Republic (5)   Germany (7)   Slovakia (9)   Denmark (12)   Belarus (14)   Great Britain (20)

Group B (Zürich)   Russia (2)   Finland (3)   United States (6)    Switzerland (8)   Latvia (10)   Norway (11)   Italy (16)   Kazakhstan (19)

Match officials

16 referees and linesmen were announced on 25 February 2020.^[4]

Referees	Linesmen
Maxim Sidorenko   Alexandre Garon   Oliver Gouin   Antonín Jeřábek   Robin Sir   Mads Frandsen   Mikko Kaukokari   Anssi Salonen   Marian Rohatsch   Roman Gofman   Yevgeni Romasko   Mikael Nord   Linus Öhlund   Daniel Stricker   Andrew Bruggeman   Jeremy Tufts	Elias Seewald   Dmitri Golyak   Maxime Chaput   Dustin McCrank   Jiří Ondráček   Henrik Haurum   Hannu Sormunen   Lauri Nikulainen   Alexander Waldejer   Dmitri Shishlo   Nikita Shalagin   David Obwegeser   Andreas Malmqvist   Emil Yletyinen   Jake Davis   William Hancock

Preliminary round

The schedule was announced on 1 August 2019.^[5]

Group A

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Canada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Slovakia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Great Britain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.

Matches

8 May 2020
Canada		Cancelled		Germany
Sweden		Cancelled		Czech Republic
9 May 2020
Germany		Cancelled		Great Britain
Slovakia		Cancelled		Denmark
Belarus		Cancelled		Czech Republic
10 May 2020
Great Britain		Cancelled		Slovakia
Canada		Cancelled		Denmark
Sweden		Cancelled		Belarus
11 May 2020
Czech Republic		Cancelled		Canada
Germany		Cancelled		Sweden
12 May 2020
Great Britain		Cancelled		Denmark
Belarus		Cancelled		Slovakia
13 May 2020
Czech Republic		Cancelled		Great Britain
Canada		Cancelled		Belarus
14 May 2020
Denmark		Cancelled		Germany
Sweden		Cancelled		Slovakia
15 May 2020
Germany		Cancelled		Belarus
Great Britain		Cancelled		Canada
16 May 2020
Denmark		Cancelled		Belarus
Canada		Cancelled		Sweden
Slovakia		Cancelled		Czech Republic
17 May 2020
Sweden		Cancelled		Great Britain
Germany		Cancelled		Slovakia
18 May 2020
Belarus		Cancelled		Great Britain
Czech Republic		Cancelled		Denmark
19 May 2020
Slovakia		Cancelled		Canada
Czech Republic		Cancelled		Germany
Denmark		Cancelled		Sweden

Group B

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Switzerland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Kazakhstan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

Matches

8 May 2020
Finland		Cancelled		United States
Russia		Cancelled		Switzerland
9 May 2020
Italy		Cancelled		United States
Latvia		Cancelled		Norway
Switzerland		Cancelled		Kazakhstan
10 May 2020
Russia		Cancelled		Norway
Kazakhstan		Cancelled		Latvia
Finland		Cancelled		Italy
11 May 2020
United States		Cancelled		Russia
Switzerland		Cancelled		Finland
12 May 2020
Kazakhstan		Cancelled		Norway
Italy		Cancelled		Latvia
13 May 2020
United States		Cancelled		Kazakhstan
Russia		Cancelled		Italy
14 May 2020
Norway		Cancelled		Switzerland
Finland		Cancelled		Latvia
15 May 2020
Kazakhstan		Cancelled		Russia
Switzerland		Cancelled		Italy
16 May 2020
Latvia		Cancelled		United States
Norway		Cancelled		Italy
Russia		Cancelled		Finland
17 May 2020
Finland		Cancelled		Kazakhstan
Switzerland		Cancelled		Latvia
18 May 2020
Italy		Cancelled		Kazakhstan
United States		Cancelled		Norway
19 May 2020
Latvia		Cancelled		Russia
Norway		Cancelled		Finland
United States		Cancelled		Switzerland

Playoff round

Bracket

There will be a re-seeding after the quarterfinals.^[6]

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal game
	21 May – Lausanne
	A1
					23 May – Zürich
	B4
					1st
	21 May – Zürich
					4th
	B1
									24 May – Zürich
	A4
									W1
	21 May – Lausanne
									W2
	A2
					23 May – Zürich
	B3
					2nd
	21 May – Zürich
					3rd				Bronze medal game
	B2
									24 May – Zürich
	A3
									L1
									L2

All times are local (UTC+2).

Quarterfinals

21 May 2020 14:20

N/A

Cancelled

N/A

Vaudoise aréna, Lausanne

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21 May 2020 16:20

N/A

Cancelled

N/A

Hallenstadion, Zürich

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21 May 2020 18:20

N/A

Cancelled

N/A

Vaudoise aréna, Lausanne

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21 May 2020 20:20

N/A

Cancelled

N/A

Hallenstadion, Zürich

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Semifinals

23 May 2020 14:20

N/A (Highest seed)

Cancelled

N/A (Lowest seed)

Hallenstadion, Zürich

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23 May 2020 18:20

N/A (Second seed)

Cancelled

N/A (Third seed)

Hallenstadion, Zürich

Bronze medal game

24 May 2020 15:20

N/A (LSF1)

Cancelled

N/A (LSF2)

Hallenstadion, Zürich

Gold medal game

24 May 2020 20:20

N/A (WSF1)

Cancelled

N/A (WSF2)

Hallenstadion, Zürich

References

1. . iihfworlds2015.com. 15 May 2015. Archived from the original on 20 January 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
2. Steiss, Adam. "2020 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship cancelled". IIHF. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
3. "Groups for Switzerland 2020". iihf.com. 28 May 2019.
4. "Your refs for Switzerland 2020". iihf.com. 25 February 2020.
5. "Switzerland opens Worlds vs. Russia". iihf.com. 1 August 2019.
6. "Semi-final format changed". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 May 2019.

External links

• Official website