2022 IIHF World Championship Division II

Main article: 2022 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships
2022 IIHF World Championship
Division II
Tournament details
Host countries Croatia
 Iceland
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates25–30 April
18–23 April
Teams10
← 2021 (cancelled)
2023 →

The 2022 IIHF World Championship Division II was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The Group A tournament was held in Zagreb, Croatia from 25 to 30 April and the Group B tournament in Reykjavík, Iceland from 18 to 23 April 2022.[1][2]

After the tournament was cancelled the two previous years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all teams stayed put in their respective groups.[3]

China won Group A and got promoted to Division IB, while Iceland won Group B and got promoted to Group A.[4][5]

In order to fill each group of the World Championships back to their normal amount of teams, the IIHF made the decision following the tournament not to relegate Israel or Mexico, who finished last in Groups A and B respectively, but instead to promote the Netherlands and Georgia, the runners-up of each group.[6]

  1. ^ "U18 Worlds in Germany". IIHF.com. 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Tournaments". IIHF.com. 10 August 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  3. ^ Steiss, Adam (18 November 2020). "IIHF Council announces more cancellations". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  4. ^ "China marching to gold". IIHF.com. 1 May 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Gold for Iceland". IIHF.com. 24 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  6. ^ "IIHF - To Tampere/Riga in '23; to Switzerland in '26". International Ice Hockey Federation. 27 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.