New Dates of the 2025 World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships

Canada has officially confirmed new date for the World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships on 08-17 May 2025 in Vancouver, Canada. There will be two (2) official ice hockey events at the Championships:
- Men Ice Hockey – Maximum: 16 teams
- Women Ice Hockey - Maximum: 16 teams

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 52 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 48.9 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 50.6 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups.