# 2020 IIHF World Championship

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.
The tournament was cancelled on 21 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Venues

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

## Match officials

16 referees and linesmen were announced on 25 February 2020.
| 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.

### 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 |

#### 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 |

#### 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.
| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal game | Gold medal game |
| 21 May – Lausanne | 21 May – Lausanne | | |
| A1 | | | |
| A1 | | 23 May – Zürich | 23 May – Zürich | |
| B4 | | 23 May – Zürich | 23 May – Zürich |
| B4 | | 1st | |
| 21 May – Zürich | 21 May – Zürich | | 1st | |
| 21 May – Zürich | 21 May – Zürich | 4th | |
| B1 | | 4th | |
| B1 | | | | 24 May – Zürich | 24 May – Zürich |
| A4 | | | | 24 May – Zürich | 24 May – Zürich |
| A4 | | | | W1 | |
| 21 May – Lausanne | 21 May – Lausanne | | | | W1 |
| 21 May – Lausanne | 21 May – Lausanne | | | W2 | |
| A2 | | | | W2 | |
| A2 | | 23 May – Zürich | 23 May – Zürich | | |
| B3 | | 23 May – Zürich | 23 May – Zürich | | |
| B3 | | 2nd | | | |
| 21 May – Zürich | 21 May – Zürich | | 2nd | | |
| 21 May – Zürich | 21 May – Zürich | 3rd | | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| B2 | | 3rd | | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| B2 | | | | 24 May – Zürich | 24 May – Zürich |
| A3 | | | | 24 May – Zürich | 24 May – Zürich |
| A3 | | | | L1 | |
| | | | | L2 | |
All times are local (UTC+2).