2021 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

The 2021 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships will be the 85th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams will participate in several levels of competition. The competition will also serve as qualifications for division placements in the 2022 competition.

After all events were cancelled in 2020, the teams stayed pat in their respective divisions. Singapore was scheduled to be the newest national team to participate and has been assigned to Division IV. On 18 November 2020, the IIHF announced that they had cancelled the tournaments for Divisions I, II, III and IV due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Controversy
On 17 September 2020, the European Parliament adopted the resolution "Situation in Belarus" in which it called on the national ice hockey federations to urge the International Ice Hockey Federation to withdraw its decision to hold the 2021 World Ice Hockey Championship partially in Belarus.

Championship (Top Division)
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Minsk, Belarus and Riga, Latvia from 21 May to 6 June 2021. In January 2021, the IIHF chose to remove Belarus as the host, due to security concerns.


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Group A
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 9 to 15 May 2021.



Group B
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Katowice, Poland from 26 April to 2 May 2021.



Group A
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Beijing, China from 10 to 16 April 2021.



Group B
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Reykjavík, Iceland from 18 to 24 April 2021.



Group A
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg from 18 to 24 April 2021.



Group B
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 19 to 25 April 2021.



Division IV
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from 3 to 5 March 2021.