2020 IIHF World Championship


The 2020 IIHF World Championship would have been hosted from 8 to 24 May 2020 by Switzerland, as the IIHF announced on 15 May 2015.
The tournament was cancelled on March 21, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Venues

Participants

;Qualified as host
; Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2019 IIHF World Championship:
;Qualified through winning a promotion at the 2019 IIHF World Championship Division I:

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.
;Group A
;Group B
16 referees and linesman were announced on 25 February 2020.
RefereesLinesmen

  • 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.

Group A

Standings

Matches

Group B

Standings

Matches

Playoff round

Bracket

There will be a re-seeding after the quarterfinals.

All times are local.

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Bronze medal game

Gold medal game