2024 IIHF World Championship
The 2024 IIHF World Championship was hosted by Czechia from 10 to 26 May 2024. It was held in Prague and Ostrava, and organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was the most attended Hockey Championship in history with a total attendance of 797,727 spectators.
Hosts Czechia won the title for the seventh time, beating Switzerland 2–0 in the final. Czechia ended their 14-year gold drought after winning it for the first time since 2010. It was the third title won on homesoil in the 21st century, after Sweden in 2013 and Finland in 2022. Sweden won the bronze medal, defeating Canada 4–2 in the third place match. This tournament marked the first time since 2014 that all three medalists were European teams.
Bids
and Ostrava were officially announced as venues of the championship on 24 May 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The two cities co-hosted the 2015 IIHF World Championship, the last tournament to be held in the country. The city of Brno wanted to build a new ice hockey hall to co-host the championship. Martin Urban, general secretary of the hockey association, confirmed Brno would not be considered as a host city without the new arena.Rosters
Each team's roster consisted of at least 15 skaters and two goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and three goaltenders. All 16 participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a "Long List" no later than two weeks before the tournament, and a final roster by the Passport Control meeting prior to the start of the tournament.Marketing
According to estimates, fans' spending during the championship could reach two billion CZK. The medal weighing 250 grams with cut glass was produced by the Kolektiv Ateliers studio in Nový Bor. As in the previous Czech World Championship 2015, the mascots were announced as rabbit duo Bob and Bobek. For this tournament, they have blue jerseys instead of their previous red, with their numbers 20 and 24 corresponding to the year of the event. The total attendance was 797,727 viewers, it broke the audience record of World Championship 2015.Venues
Participants
; Qualified as hosts; Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2023 IIHF World Championship
; Qualified through winning promotion at the 2023 IIHF World Championship Division I:
Seeding
The seedings in the preliminary round are based on the 2023 IIHF World Ranking, as of the end of the 2023 IIHF World Championship, using the serpentine system while allowing the organizer, "to allocate a maximum of two teams to separate groups.";Group A
Match officials
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Group AGroup BPlayoff roundFinalFinal standingsStatisticsScoring leadersList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = Position Source: Goaltending leadersOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40 % of their team's minutes, are included in this list.
TOI = time on ice ; SA = shots against; GA = goals against; GAA = goals against average; Sv% = save percentage; SO = shutouts Source: AwardsThe awards were announced on 26 May 2024.Media All StarsIndividual awardsIIHF contributors' awardsThe first annual IIHF contributors' awards ceremony was held prior to the semifinal games of the men's championship.Award recipients
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees
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