From May 12 to May 28, Tampere in Finland and Riga in Latvia will host the 2023 Ice Hockey World Championship in the elite division. This is the 86th men's hockey championship in history.. The tournament is attended by 16 national teams, divided into two groups. In Group A, teams from Finland, USA, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France, Austria and Hungary compete.. Matches in this group are held in Tampere. Teams of Canada, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Slovakia, Latvia, Norway, Kazakhstan and Slovenia are fighting in Group B. Matches in this group are hosted by Riga. The top four teams from each group will advance to the playoffs.. Teams finishing last in groups will be relegated to Division IA.

The 2023 World Cup was supposed to take place in Russia, but due to the full-scale war that the Russian Federation, with the assistance of its ally Belarus, unleashed against Ukraine, the teams of the aggressor countries were removed from the tournament, and the venue of the planetary championship was changed. Recall that the 2022 World Cup was won by the Finnish team. In the final of the home tournament, the Finns defeated Canada with a score of 4:3. In the duel for the " ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 Group stage FRIDAY 12 May Group B 16:20 SLOVAKIA 2:3 CZECH REPUBLIC 16:20 FINLAND 1:4 USA Group B 20:20 LATVIA 0:6 CANADA Group A 20:20 SWEDEN 1:.