Ice Hockey World Championship 2020 Schedule
Follow the fixtures and matches of the Ice Hockey World Tournament which is set to hold this year. As announced by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) the matches of the tournament are set to begin in 2020 and will be held from May 8 to May 24, 2020. The event will be hosted in Switzerland, and the matches will be played in two different cities, Zurich and Lausanne. A total of sixteen teams have qualified for the tournament, with Switzerland getting an automatic qualification as the host. Belarus and Kazakhstan qualified after gaining promotion at the 2019 IIHF world championship. Other teams qualify for this tournament after having top placement in last year’s tournament.
The total number of teams contesting in the tournament sums up to sixteen. The seeding of the teams into two different groups, eight teams in each, for the preliminary round is determined by the world ranking of countries after the 2019 IIHF tournament and the seeding is done using the serpentine system. Since the 2013 edition of this tournament, there has been no qualifying round for teams to advance to the next stage of the event, rather, each team within a group is expected to play against the other seven teams in the preliminary round to qualify for the quarter-finals. Four teams with the highest points in each group after the preliminary round advances to the quarter-finals and the team with the least points get relegated into the 2021 division I A. A schedule for the tournament will be designed.
The schedule of the Ice Hockey 2020 world championship tournament will be made accessible to all who intend to follow the events of the tournament, and interestingly, it can be accessed anytime and anywhere in the world. The schedule will have the fixtures of matches throughout the tournament, the venues of the matches and the time for each match based on the time zone of your location, so you know when each game will be played in your local time. The schedule calendar for the tournament which is designed using Excel template is also available in different languages such as English, Spanish, French and German languages. The Excel schedule of the Ice Hockey World Championship 2020 is also developed with the rules of the qualification and relegation from the preliminary round through the allocation of points to teams based on the outcome of matches. The schedule also seeds the qualified teams from the groups into the quarter-final stage of the tournament based on the set rules of qualification to the next round. This also applies for the rest of the tournament, both the semi-finals, third-place play-off, and the finals.
This schedule is done to keep the fans of each team and the entire world updated with the fixtures and results of the tournament. It is also effective in eliminating any confusion faced by fans about qualifying teams for each round and also keeping track of the entire tournament.