2020 IIHF World Championship

The 2020 IIHF World Championship should have been hosted from 8 to 24 May 2020 by Switzerland, as the IIHF announced on 15 May 2015.
As of a conference call on March 21, 2020 was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
==Venues==
Zürich 	Lausanne
Hallenstadion 	Vaudoise Aréna
Capacity: 11,200	Capacity: 10,000
 	
==Participants==
;Qualified as host
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; Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2019 IIHF World Championship:
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;Qualified through winning a promotion at the 2019 IIHF World Championship Division I:
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==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 (Lausanne)
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* (7)
* (9)
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;Group B (Zürich)
* (2)
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* (6)
* (8)
* (10)
* (11)
* (16)
* (19)
==References==
2020 Men