2025 IIHF World Championship

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. At the same time, it was announced that Denmark will co-host the championship.

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.


 * Group A (Stockholm)
 * (1)
 * (3)
 * (7)
 * (9)
 * (10)
 * (13)
 * (14)
 * (19)


 * Group B (Herning)
 * (4)
 * (5)
 * (6)
 * (8)
 * (11)
 * (12)
 * (15)
 * (18)

Marketing
The slogan of the competition is pulse.

Preliminary round
The groups were announced on 30 May 2024.