Women's Ice Hockey World Championship 2021

	Ice Hockey World Championship for women
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The top division of the Women's Ice Hockey World Championship 2021 is expected to take place in the Canadian cities of Halifax and Truro in the province of Nova Scotia . In the previous year, the 20th tournament in the top division was canceled due to the Covid-19 epidemic . The intended venues are the Scotiabank Center in Halifax with 10,595 seats and the Rath Eastlink Community Center in Truro, which can seat 3,100 spectators.

The tournaments of Division I and Division II Group A were also canceled in the previous year. The Division I Group A and Division II Group A tournaments were awarded to the hosts of the canceled 2020 tournaments. The Division I Group B tournament, on the other hand, will take place in Beijing to prepare the venue for the Olympic tournament in 2022 . The winner of Division II B 2020, Australia was refused promotion to Group A because there was no relegation from Division II A. In contrast, the last of Division II B was relegated to Group III, the winner of Division III 2020 rose accordingly.

Participants, venues and periods

• Top Division: April 7-17, 2021 in Halifax and Truro , Nova Scotia , Canada

  Participants: Denmark (promoted 2019) , Germany , Finland , Japan , Canada , Russia , Switzerland , Czech Republic , Hungary (promoted 2019) , USA (defending champion)            

• Division I.
  • Group A: April 11-18, 2021 in Angers , France

    Participants:  France (relegated in 2019) , Netherlands (promoted in 2019) , Norway , Austria , Sweden (relegated in 2019) , Slovakia         

  • Group B: April 8-14, 2021 in Beijing , People's Republic of China

    Participants: People's Republic of China , Italy (relegated 2019) , Kazakhstan , Poland , Slovenia (promoted 2019) , South Korea        

• Division II
  • Group A: April 10-16, 2021 in Jaca , Spain

    Participants: Republic of China (Taiwan) (promoted 2019) , Great Britain , Latvia (relegated 2019) , Mexico , North Korea , Spain        

  • Group B: March 7-13, 2021 in Zagreb , Croatia

    Participants: Australia , Iceland , Croatia , New Zealand , South Africa (promoted 2020) , Turkey       

• Division III: March 15-21 in Kaunas , Lithuania

  Participants: Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina (newcomer) , Bulgaria , Estonia (first participation since 2008) , Hong Kong , Lithuania , Romania , Ukraine (relegated 2020)          

Top division

Ten national teams will take part in the tournament, playing in two performance-graded groups of five teams each. The group division was determined on the basis of the IIHF world rankings that were current after the 2019 World Cup .

Group A	Group B
USA (1)	Japan (6)
Canada (2)	Czech Republic (8)
Finland (3)	Germany (9)
Russia (4)	Denmark (11)
Switzerland (5)	Hungary (14)

mode

The mode corresponds to the one from 2019 . The ten participants are divided into two performance-graded groups of five teams. All teams initially play four games, after which all five teams in Group A and the three teams with the highest points in Group B qualified for the quarter-finals after the preliminary round. The last two teams in Group B were relegated to Division IA.

The teams in the quarterfinals each play a qualifying game for participation in the semi-finals. The winners of the two semi-finals qualify for the final. The teams eliminated in the quarter-finals determined the fifth participant in Group A in a further placement round in the following year.

Venues

Halifax	Halifax Truro World Championship venues	Truro
Scotiabank Center Capacity: 10,595		Rath Eastlink Community Center Capacity: 3,100

See also

• U18 women's ice hockey world championship 2021
• Men's Ice Hockey World Championship 2021
• U20 Juniors Ice Hockey World Championship 2021
• Ice Hockey World Cup 2021 for the U18 juniors

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adam Steiss: Women's Worlds canceled. In: iihf.com. International Ice Hockey Federation , March 7, 2020, accessed March 8, 2020 .