2025 IIHF World Championship Division I

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2025 IIHF World Championship
Division I

Tournament details
Host countries	Romania Estonia
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	27 April – 3 May 26 April – 2 May
Teams	12

The 2025 IIHF World Championship Division I will be an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The Group A tournament is being held in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania from 27 April to 3 May and the Group B tournament in Tallinn, Estonia from 26 April to 2 May 2025.

Group A tournament

2025 IIHF World Championship Division I A

Tournament details
Host country	Romania
City	Sfântu Gheorghe
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	27 April – 3 May
Teams	6
Official website
Website

Participants

Team	Qualification
Great Britain	Placed 15th in the Elite Division in 2024 and was relegated.
Poland	Placed 16th in the Elite Division in 2024 and was relegated.
Italy	Placed 3rd in Division I A in 2024.
Romania	Host, placed 4th in Division I A in 2024.
Japan	Placed 5th in Division I A in 2024.
Ukraine	Placed 1st in Division I B in 2024 and was promoted.

Match officials

Seven referees and seven linesmen were selected for the tournament.

Referees	Linesmen
Jesse Gour Mark Pearce Daniel Pražák Anssi Salonen Geoffrey Barcelo Markus Wannerstedt Daniel Eriksson	Simon Riecken Kai Jürgens Norbert Muzsik Renārs Davidonis Gašper Zgonc Gustav Jonsson John Rey

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Italy	2	1	0	1	0	6	4	+2	4	Promoted to the 2026 Top Division
2	Poland	1	1	0	0	0	4	1	+3	3
3	Ukraine	2	0	1	1	0	6	6	0	3
4	Great Britain	1	0	1	0	0	4	3	+1	2
5	Japan	1	0	0	0	1	1	4	−3	0
6	Romania (H)	1	0	0	0	1	1	4	−3	0	Relegated to the 2026 Division I B

Updated to match(es) played on 27 April 2025. Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

Results

All times are local (UTC+3)

27 April 2025 12:30

Japan

1–4 (0–2, 1–2, 0–0)

Italy

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe Attendance: 1,960

Game reference
	Yuta Narisawa	Goalies	Davide Fadani	Referees: Mark Pearce Marcus Wannerstedt Linesmen: Norbert Muzsik John Rey
	0–1 02:25 – Purdeller (Pietroniro, Frycklund) (PP) 0–2 07:33 – Ierullo (Misley, Trivellato) 0–3 27:11 – Purdeller (Frycklund, Tedesco) 0–4 36:23 – Tedesco (Purdeller) Hanzawa (T. Nakajima, Kimura) (PP) – 37:53 1–4
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	19	Shots	30

27 April 2025 16:00

Ukraine

3–4 GWS (0–1, 2–1, 1–1) OT: (0–0) SO: (0–1)

Great Britain

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe Attendance: 2,112

Game reference
	Alexander Levshin	Goalies	Ben Bowns	Referees: Daniel Pražák Anssi Salonen Linesmen: Renārs Davidonis Simon Riecken
	0–1 11:08 – Waller (Halbert) 0–2 21:30 – Perlini (O'Connor, Brown) Zakharov (Denyskin) – 25:45 1–2 Trakht (Fadyeyev, Peresunko) – 32:01 2–2 Borodai (Kuprianov, Denyskin) – 49:16 3–2 3–3 52:42 – O'Connor (Shudra, Lachowicz)
	Korenchuk Trakht Vorona Peresunko	Shootout	O'Connor Lake Dowd
	2 min	Penalties	6 min
	30	Shots	26

27 April 2025 19:30

Romania

1–4 (0–1, 1–1, 0–2)

Poland

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe Attendance: 2,564

Game reference
	Attila Adorjan	Goalies	John Murray
	13	Shots	38

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28 April 2025 12:30

Italy

2–3 GWS (0–1, 1–1, 1–0) OT: (0–0) SO: (0–1)

Ukraine

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe Attendance: 1,274

	Davide Fadani	Goalies	Bogdan Dyachenko
	37	Shots	19

28 April 2025 16:00

Poland

2–1 (2–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Japan

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe Attendance: 1,112

	Tomáš Fučík	Goalies	Issa Otsuka
	31	Shots	28

28 April 2025 19:30

Great Britain

2–1 OT (1–1, 0–0, 0–0) (OT: 1–0)

Romania

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe Attendance: 2,435

	Jackson Whistle	Goalies	Zoltán Tőke
	36	Shots	25

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30 April 2025 12:30

Great Britain

v

Japan

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

30 April 2025 16:00

Poland

v

Italy

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

30 April 2025 19:30

Ukraine

v

Romania

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

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1 May 2025 12:30

Italy

v

Great Britain

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

1 May 2025 16:00

Poland

v

Ukraine

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

1 May 2025 19:30

Romania

v

Japan

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

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3 May 2025 12:30

Japan

v

Ukraine

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

3 May 2025 16:00

Italy

v

Romania

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

3 May 2025 19:30

Great Britain

v

Poland

Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe

Group B tournament

2025 IIHF World Championship Division I B

Tournament details
Host country	Estonia
City	Tallinn
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	26 April – 2 May
Teams	6
Official website
Website

Participants

Team	Qualification
South Korea	Placed 6th in Division I A in 2024 and was relegated.
Lithuania	Placed 2nd in Division I B in 2024.
Estonia	Host, placed 3rd in Division I B in 2024.
China	Placed 4th in Division I B in 2024.
Spain	Placed 5th in Division I B in 2024.
Croatia	Placed 1st in Division II A in 2024 and was promoted.

Match officials

Seven referees and seven linesmen were selected for the tournament.

Referees	Linesmen
Nicolas Crégut Lukas Kohlmüller Attila Nagy Michał Baca Andreas Harnebring Alexander Österberg Nolan Bloyer	Savva Azarov David Szabó Davide Mantovani Lim Jun-seo Michał Gerne Michael Stalder Daniel Konc

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Estonia (H)	2	2	0	0	0	12	3	+9	6	Promoted to the 2026 Division I A
2	Lithuania	2	2	0	0	0	6	0	+6	6
3	South Korea	2	2	0	0	0	7	3	+4	6
4	China	2	0	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0
5	Croatia	2	0	0	0	2	4	11	−7	0
6	Spain	2	0	0	0	2	1	11	−10	0	Relegated to the 2026 Division II A

Updated to match(es) played on 27 April 2025. Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

Results

All times are local (UTC+3)

26 April 2025 12:30

China

0–1 (0–0, 0–1, 0–0)

Lithuania

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn Attendance: 181

Game reference
	Chen Shifeng	Goalies	Laurynas Lubys	Referees: Nolan Bloyer Alexander Österberg Linesmen: Michał Gerne Lim Jun-seo
	0–1 22:24 – Kaleinikovas (Grinius, Noreika) (PP)
	10 min	Penalties	10 min
	18	Shots	36

26 April 2025 16:00

Spain

1–6 (0–1, 0–0, 1–5)

Estonia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn Attendance: 2,135

Game reference
	Raul Barbo	Goalies	Conrad Mölder	Referees: Andreas Harnebring Lukas Kohlmüller Linesmen: Daniel Konc Davide Mantovani
	0–1 08:13 – Burkov (Timofejev, Rooda) (PP) 0–2 41:48 – Timofejev (Rooda, Burkov) (PP) Rubio (Fernandez, P. Cerda) – 45:23 1–2 1–3 47:54 – Arrak (Viitanen) 1–4 48:09 – M. Potsinok (E. Potsinok, Novikov) 1–5 52:29 – Arrak (Slessarevski, Viitanen) (PP) 1–6 59:17 – Burkov (Rooda, Timofejev)
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	24	Shots	37

26 April 2025 19:30

Croatia

2–5 (1–0, 0–2, 1–3)

South Korea

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn Attendance: 165

Game reference
	Vilim Rosandić	Goalies	Ha Jung-ho	Referees: Nicolas Crégut Attila Nagy Linesmen: Savva Azarov Michael Stalder
	Marinkovic (Idzan, Rendulić) – 08:54 1–0 1–1 22:29 – Lee Y. 1–2 34:18 – Nam (Ahn, Kim S. W.) Dobric (Zavrski, Malenica) – 51:43 2–2 2–3 56:01 – Kim G. (Kim S. Y., Chung) 2–4 57:26 – Lee M. (Kim S. W.) 2–5 59:16 – Kim S. W. (Lee C. , Kang Y.) (ENG)
	6 min	Penalties	0 min
	10	Shots	55

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27 April 2025 12:30

Lithuania

5–0 (2–0, 3–0, 0–0)

Spain

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn Attendance: 315

Game reference
	Laurynas Lubys	Goalies	Marco Hernandez Raul Barbo	Referees: Lukas Koklmüller Alexander Österberg Linesmen: Michael Stalder David Śzabo
	Dedinas (Grinius) – 14:29 1–0 Noreika – 14:56 2–0 Alisauskas (Cizas, Bendžius) (PP) – 22:03 3–0 Krakauskas (Dedinas, Alisauskas) – 24:55 4–0 Grinius (Cetvertak, Noreika) (PP) – 32:46 5–0
	6 min	Penalties	35 min
	25	Shots	21

27 April 2025 16:00

Estonia

6–2 (3–0, 2–2, 1–0)

Croatia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn Attendance: 1,935

Game reference
	Villem-Henrik Koitmaa	Goalies	Vilim Rosandić Vito Nikolić	Referees: Michał Baca Nolan Bloyer Linesmen: Michał Gerne Lim Jun-seo
	Timofejev (Rooda) – 01:01 1–0 Arrak (Kudeviita) – 11:45 2–0 Rooda (Kulintsev, Burkov) (PP) – 18:47 3–0 Jurgens (M. Potsinok, E. Potsinok) – 31:18 4–0 Viitanen (Arrak, Kulintsev) – 34:00 5–0 5–1 35:05 – Marinkovic (Malenica, Rendulić) (PP) 5–2 37:31 – Malenica (Idzan, Marinkovic) (PP) Jurgens (Viitanen, Arrak) – 53:27 6–2
	8 min	Penalties	2 min
	36	Shots	25

27 April 2025 19:30

South Korea

2–1 (0–0, 2–1, 0–0)

China

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn Attendance: 155

Game reference
	Ha Jung-ho	Goalies	Chen Shifeng	Referees: Nicolas Crégut Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Daniel Konc Davide Mantovani
	0–1 21:50 – Wang (Yu) Kim S. W. (Lee. S, Kang Y.) – 26:38 1–1 Kim S. W. (Shin, Kang Y.) – 38:29 2–1
	8 min	Penalties	4 min
	44	Shots	21

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29 April 2025 12:30

South Korea

v

Spain

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

29 April 2025 16:00

Croatia

v

China

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

29 April 2025 19:30

Lithuania

v

Estonia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

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1 May 2025 12:30

Lithuania

v

Croatia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

1 May 2025 16:00

Estonia

v

South Korea

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

1 May 2025 19:30

China

v

Spain

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

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2 May 2025 12:30

South Korea

v

Lithuania

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

2 May 2025 16:00

Spain

v

Croatia

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn

2 May 2025 19:30

Estonia

v

China

Tondiraba Ice Hall, Tallinn