2022 IIHF World Championship Division III

Main article: 2022 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

2022 IIHF World Championship
Division III
Tournament details
Host countries Luxembourg
 South Africa
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates3–8 April
13–18 March
Teams8
← 2021 (cancelled)
2023 →

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

The Group A tournament was held in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg from 3 to 8 April and the Group B tournament in Cape Town, South Africa from 13 to 18 March 2022.[1][2]

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

The United Arab Emirates secured the top spot in Group A and were promoted to Division II, while South Africa won the Group B tournament and were promoted to Group A.[4][5]

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus were suspended from the 2022 and 2023 editions of the World Championship. 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 Luxembourg or Bosnia and Herzegovina, who finished last in Groups A and B respectively, but instead to promote Turkey and Thailand, 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. ^ "United Arab Emirates win Division III". IIHF.com. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  5. ^ "South Africa emerges". IIHF.com. 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  6. ^ "IIHF - To Tampere/Riga in '23; to Switzerland in '26". International Ice Hockey Federation. 27 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.