2022 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 2022 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2022 WJHC) will be the 46th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. It will begin on December 26, 2021, and will end with the gold medal game being played on January 5, 2022.

2022 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country Canada
DatesDecember 26, 2021 – January 5, 2022
Teams10
Venue(s)Rogers Place and Westerner Park Centrium (in 2 host cities)
← 2021
2023 →

Background

On March 14, 2019, it was announced that Gothenburg would be the host city.[1] It was to be the first time that Gothenburg has hosted the tournament (having previously hosted the Senior IIHF World Championships twice in 1981 and 2002), and the seventh time that Sweden had hosted the tournament.

On September 17, 2020, the IIHF announced that the 2022 tournament would instead be hosted by Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta. They were originally intended to co-host the 2021 tournament, but it was simultaneously announced that the 2021 tournament would be hosted solely by Edmonton in a "bubble" behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will mark the 15th time that Canada has hosted the tournament. Gothenburg was re-assigned the 2024 tournament.[2][3] It will mark the fourth time Edmonton has hosted the tournament, and the second time games have been hosted in Red Deer, following the 1995 edition.

Top division

Venues
Edmonton
Red Deer
Rogers Place
Capacity: 18,347		 Westerner Park Centrium
Capacity: 7,111

Seedings

References
  1. "World Juniors in Gothenburg". IIHF. March 14, 2019. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  2. "World Juniors will be hosted in an Edmonton bubble: TSN". Edmonton. 2020-09-17. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  3. "IIHF announces 2021 world juniors will be played in Edmonton bubble - Sportsnet.ca". Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
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