2019 IIHF World Championship

The 2019 IIHF World Championship was hosted from 10 to 26 May 2019 by Slovakia. It was the second time that Slovakia has hosted the event as an independent country, as was the case in 2011. The host cities were Bratislava and Košice, as announced by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) on 15 May 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Finland won their third title by defeating Canada in the final. The Finns had 18 first-timers for the 2019 IIHF World Championship and were widely regarded as an outsider to win any medal at all. Despite this, the Finns won their third World Championship and lost only two games in the tournament (against the USA, and Germany). Russia secured the bronze medal after a penalty-shootout win over the Czech Republic. This tournament was also the first time since the 2006 IIHF World Championship that both promoted teams (Great Britain and Italy) stayed in the top division.
==Rule changes==
In December 2018, the IIHF announced changes to the overtime procedures beginning at this tournament: all overtime periods would be 3-on-3 regardless of round (rather than progressing from 3-on-3 to 4-on-4 and 5-on-5 over the course of the tournament), and the gold medal game would no longer go to a shootout; play would continue in 20-minute periods of 3-on-3 until a winning goal would be scored.
In the semifinals, there was no set bracket. After the quarterfinals, a re-seeding took place with the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed. Seeds were determined by performance in the preliminary round.
==Participants==
; Qualified as host
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; Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2018 IIHF World Championship:
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; Qualified through winning a promotion at the 2018 IIHF World Championship Division I:
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==Seeding==
The seedings in the preliminary round are based on the 2018 IIHF World Ranking, as of the end of the 2018 IIHF World Championship, using the serpentine system. On 22 May 2018, the IIHF and the local organizing committee announced the groups, in which Slovakia and Norway switched places so that Slovakia would play in Košice and the Czech Republic and Austria would play in Bratislava.
;Group A (Košice)
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;Group B (Bratislava)
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==Preliminary round==
The schedule was announced on 15 August 2018.
===Group A===
Group A matches were played at the Steel Arena in Košice.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1 	 	7 	6	0 	0 	1	36	11	25 	18 	Quarterfinals
2 	 	7 	5	0 	1 	1	22	11	11 	16 	Quarterfinals
3 	 	7 	5	0 	0 	2	18	18	0 	15 	Quarterfinals
4 	 	7 	4	1 	0 	2	27	15	12 	14 	Quarterfinals
5 	(H) 	7 	3	1 	0 	3	28	19	9 	11 	
6 	 	7 	1	1 	1 	4	18	23	−5 	6 	
7 	 	7 	0	1 	0 	6	9 	41	−32	2 	
8 	(R) 	7 	0	0 	2 	5	14	34	−20	2 	Relegation to 2020 Division I A
 		 			
10 May 2019		 			
align=right		3–1			
align=right		1–4			
11 May 2019		 			
align=right		5–4			
align=right		3–1			
align=right		2–4			
12 May 2019		 			
align=right		7–1			
align=right		1–2			
align=right		0–8			
13 May 2019		 			
align=right		3–2			
align=right		5–6			
14 May 2019		 			
align=right		0–9			
align=right		4–1			
15 May 2019		 			
align=right		6–3			
align=right		3–2			
16 May 2019		 			
align=right		5–2			
align=right		3–1			
17 May 2019		 			
align=right		3–6			
align=right		5–0			
18 May 2019		 			
align=right		1–7			
align=right		8–1			
align=right		1–7			
19 May 2019		 			
align=right		1–3			
align=right		0–3			
20 May 2019		 			
align=right		3–4			
align=right		5–0			
21 May 2019		 			
align=right		2–4			
align=right		2–1			
align=right		3–0			
===Group B===
Group B matches were played at the Ondrej Nepela Arena in Bratislava.
Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1 	 	7 	7	0 	0 	0	36	7 	29 	21 	Quarterfinals
2 	 	7 	6	0 	0 	1	39	14	25 	18 	Quarterfinals
3 	 	7 	5	0 	0 	2	41	21	20 	15 	Quarterfinals
4 	 	7 	4	0 	0 	3	27	14	13 	12 	Quarterfinals
5 	 	7 	3	0 	0 	4	21	20	1 	9 	
6 	 	7 	2	0 	0 	5	19	33	−14	6 	
7 	 	7 	0	1 	0 	6	5 	48	−43	2 	
8 	(R) 	7 	0	0 	1 	6	9 	40	−31	1 	Relegation to 2020 Division I A
 		 			
10 May 2019		 			
align=right		5–2 			
align=right		5–2 			
11 May 2019		 			
align=right		9–0 			
align=right		5–2 			
align=right		2–7 			
12 May 2019		 			
align=right		5–0 			
align=right		0–8 			
align=right		1–3 			
13 May 2019		 			
align=right		3–0 			
align=right		1–9 			
14 May 2019		 			
align=right		0–3 			
align=right		4–0 			
15 May 2019		 			
align=right		4–1 			
align=right		10–0			
16 May 2019		 			
align=right		9–1 			
align=right		6–3 			
17 May 2019		 			
align=right		3–5 			
align=right		8–0 			
18 May 2019		 			
align=right		1–3 			
align=right		1–7 			
align=right		4–3 			
19 May 2019		 			
align=right		0–8 			
align=right		0–3 			
20 May 2019		 			
align=right		5–4 			
align=right		3–4 			
21 May 2019		 			
align=right		5–4 			
align=right		1–4 			
align=right		4–7 			
==Playoff round==
===Quarterfinals===
===Semifinals===
===Bronze medal game===
===Gold medal game===
==References==
World Ice Hockey Championships, Men's
Category:IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships