It is time for the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 2023 edition and fans can find out all the details including a brief competition preview, schedule, how to watch live, and more
Finland and Latvia will co-host the 2023 men’s world championship in Tampere and Riga respectively.
IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 2023 schedule, date, time, teams, groups, fixtures and live stream telecast
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📅12th-28th May, 2023
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The IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 2023 will feature 16 of the world’s top ice hockey teams battling it out.
IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 2023 competition preview
Going into the competition, co-hosts Finland will be looking to retain their men’s world title. Last season, the Leijonat (Lions) achieved the rare Olympic Games–World Championship double. This year again, the reigning world and Olympic champions will seek to hold on to their title.
Interestingly, National Hockey League (NHL) players are eligible to play in the World Championship this year as long as their respective NHL franchise is no longer involved in the Stanley Cup playoffs. This is a key factor as these NHL players could play a large difference in the results again this year.
2023 Men’s IIHF World Championship groups and teams
Group A
Austria, France, Finland, Sweden, USA, Germany, Denmark, and Hungary.
Group B
Canada, Latvia, Czechia, Kazakhstan, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland.
2023 Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship format
The upcoming Championship will feature 16 teams split into two round-robin groups of eight. The two groups will be Group A and Group B and each team will play the other seven teams in their group. The top four teams from each group will then progress into the quarter-finals.
The bottom two teams will get relegated to Division 1a of the World Championships for the following year. Great Britain and Poland are the promoted teams for next year’s edition from after winning first and second respectively in this year’s Division 1a.
The quarter-finals round will follow a cross-group format, with the first-placed team facing the fourth-placed team from the opposing group. Meanwhile, the second will play the third. However, if both Finland and Latvia qualify and are set to meet each other, the order will changed to the opposite. The teams will then be reseeded for the semi-finals round based on their group stage performances.
Each match will feature three periods of 20 minutes, following which it will enter into a sudden-death first-goal-wins overtime period if the scores are tied at the end of regulation time. The overtime period will last for five minutes in the group stage. Teams in this period will play three-on-three and head to a best-of-five penalty-shot shootout if the score remains tied.
The matches will feature a 3-2-1-0 points system. Three points for a win in regulation, two points for an overtime or penalty-shot shootout win and one point for losing in overtime or shootout.
The length of the overtime period will change in the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and bronze-medal game to 10 minutes. In the gold-medal game, the overtime period will further increase to 20 minutes with no shootout. As such, the game will feature multiple overtime periods until a goal is scored.
2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Men’s World Championship schedule
Given below is the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Men’s World Championship schedule with all times in Eastern European Summer Time (UTC +3 hours):
| Date | Timings | Fixtures |
| Friday 12 May | 16:20 | FIN v USA, SVK v CZE |
| 20:20 | SWE v GER, LAT v CAN | |
| Saturday 13 May | 12:20 | FRA v AUT, SUI v SLO |
| 16:20 | HUN v DEN, NOR v KAZ | |
| 20:20 | GER v FIN, SVK v LAT | |
| Sunday 14 May | 12:20 | USA v HUN, SLO v CAN |
| 16:20 | FRA v DEN, NOR v SUI | |
| 20:20 | SWE v AUT, CZE v KAZ | |
| Monday 15 May | 16:20 | GER v USA, SVK v CAN |
| 20:20 | FIN v SWE, CZE v LAT | |
| Tuesday 16 May | 16:20 | DEN v AUT, SLO v NOR |
| 20:20 | FRA v HUN, SUI v KAZ | |
| Wednesday 17 May | 16:20 | USA v AUT, LAT v NOR |
| 20:20 | FIN v FRA, CAN v KAZ | |
| Thursday 18 May | 16:20 | HUN v SWE, CZE v SLO |
| 20:20 | DEN v GER, SUI v SVK | |
| Friday 19 May | 16:20 | HUN v FIN, LAT v SLO |
| 20:20 | AUT v GER, KAZ v SVK | |
| Saturday 20 May | 12:20 | USA v DEN, NOR v CZE |
| 16:20 | AUT v FIN, CAN v SUI | |
| 20:20 | SWE v FRA, KAZ v LAT | |
| Sunday 21 May | 16:20 | GER v HUN, SLO v SVK |
| 20:20 | USA v FRA, CZE v SUI | |
| Monday 22 May | 16:20 | DEN v SWE, CAN v NOR |
| 20:20 | AUT v HUN, KAZ v SLO | |
| Tuesday 23 May | 12:20 | GER v FRA, SVK v NOR |
| 16:20 | SWE v USA, CAN v CZE | |
| 20:20 | FIN v DEN, SUI v LAT | |
| Thursday 25 May | 16:20 | Quarter-final games (2)
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| Saturday 27 May | 14:20 | Semi-final 1 |
| 18:20 | Semi-final 2 | |
| Sunday 28 May | 15:20 | Bronze-medal game |
| 20:20 | Gold-medal game |
2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Men’s World Championship how to watch live
Fans can watch the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Men’s World Championship live via broadcasting partners in specific territories. Fans across some regions can also watch livestream and highlights clips online on the IIHF YouTube channel. Check out the official website of organisers IIHF to get the full information on how to watch in your region.
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