2025 Womens World Championships

[Summer Rose]

Dates: April 9-20, 2025

Location: Budvar Arena, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Group A: Canada, United States, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland

Group B: Germany, Sweden, Japan, Hungary, Norway

Format:

All five teams from group A (seeded 1-5) plus the top three teams in group B (seeded 6-8) will advance to the quarterfinals. The 4th and 5th placed team in group B will be relegated. There will be re-seeding of the winners of the quarterfinals to determine the semi-final matchups.

Schedule:

All times given are local time (UTC+2).

April 9
11:00 - Sweden vs. Germany
15:00 - Finland vs. United States
19:00 - Czech Republic vs. Switzerland

April 10
11:00 - Japan vs. Norway
15:00 - Sweden vs. Hungary
19:00 - Canada vs. Finland

April 11
11:00 - Hungary vs. Japan
15:00 - Switzerland vs. Canada
19:00 - United States vs. Czech Republic

April 12
15:00 - Norway vs. Germany
19:00 - Finland vs. Czech Republic

April 13
11:00 - Hungary vs. Norway
15:00 - Japan vs. Sweden
19:00 - Canada vs. United States

April 14
11:00 - Germany vs. Hungary
15:00 - Switzerland vs. Finland
19:00 - Czech Republic vs. Canada

April 15
11:00 - Norway vs. Sweden
15:00 - Germany vs. Japan
19:00 - United States vs. Switzerland

April 17
10:00 - QF
13:30 -QF
17:00 - QF
20:30 - QF

April 19
11:00 - Fifth place game
15:00 - SF
19:00 - SF

April 20
14:00 - Third place game
18:00 - Final

 

[Summer Rose]

USA roster was announced two days ago.

Head coach: John Wroblewski

Goaltenders: Aerin Frankel, Ava McNaughton, Gwyneth Philips
Defenders: Cayla Barnes, Laila Edwards, Savannah Harmon, Caroline Harvey, Megan Keller, Lee Stecklein, Anna Wilgren, Haley Winn
Forwards: Alex Carpenter, Jesse Compher, Kendall Coyne Schofield, Britta Curl-Salemme, Joy Dunne, Lacey Eden, Taylor Heise, Tessa Janecke, Hilary Knight, Abbey Murphy, Kelly Pannek, Hayley Scamurra, Kirsten Simms, Grace Zumwinkle

 

[Eye of Ra]

Only Finland can challenge USA and Canada.

 

[Czechboy]

Home of the original and real Budweiser.
Czech lioness for bronze!

 

[Czechboy]

I still think they need to split pools as it is a nightmare to get out of pool B. I speak from experience.

 

[ES]

I still think they need to split pools as it is a nightmare to get out of pool B. I speak from experience.

They are doing it for 2026.

Gold
4th
5th
8th
Better of promoted teams

Silver
Bronze
6th
7th
Worse of promoted teams

I think it should be only one team getting relegated.

 

[Lartsaman]

Only Finland can challenge USA and Canada.

Nowadays its actually Czechia.

 

[Czechboy]

Nowadays its actually Czechia.

I 'think' you guys one that least big game for Bronze between us. It's a great rivalry and I hope we can battle for Olympic Bronze in 2026! I feel like every match is a 1 goal affair of nail biting and agony for both of us.lol

 

[Old Man Jags]

C

Nowadays its actually Czechia.

correct.

 

[ES]

Home tournament will hopefully raise the level of Czech team much like Finland in 2019.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

I think it should be only one team getting relegated.

Will be the case from next year onwards.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Swiss roster was announced on Friday.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Norway's roster for its comeback to the Top Division after 28 years.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Swiss goalies are legit.