WIHF World Cup of Hockey

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World Cup of Hockey
Most recent season or competition:
2032 World Cup of Hockey
SportIce hockey
Founded1972
Inaugural season1972
No. of teams24
Most recent
champion(s)
Yonderre (3rd title)
(2032)
Most titlesKiravia (4 titles)
TV partner(s)Varies by country

The WIHF World Cup of Hockey, marketed as the World Cup of Hockey and WCH, is a quadrennial international ice hockey tournament, contested by all senior men's national teams affiliated with the World Ice Hockey Federation (WIHF), the sports governing body. Since the tournament's inauguration in 1972, the World Cup of Hockey has been held every four years, and is the most watched ice hockey tournament in the world.

Similar to the WAFF World Cup for association football, the current WCH format involves a qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the qualification phase, every WIHF-affiliated country competes in their respective continental association's qualifying stage, where a set number of nations are able to qualify for the final tournament. In the tournament phase, 24 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over about a month, typically beginning in mid-July, and the final taking place in mid-August.

The World Cup of Hockey is the most prestigious ice hockey tournament in the world, as well as one of the most widely viewed and followed single sporting event in the world. The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2032 World Cup of Hockey was estimated to be 7.4 billion, along with an estimated 644.3 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.

Format

Host

Editions

List of World Cups
No. Name Host Continent Notes
1 1972 World Cup of Hockey  Urcea Levantia First World Cup of Hockey, first World Cup of Hockey in Levantia
2 1976 World Cup of Hockey  Yonderre Levantia First World Cup of Hockey to be won by the host nation
3 1980 World Cup of Hockey  Caphiria Sarpedon First World Cup in Sarpedon; boycotted by Urcea
4 1984 World Cup of Hockey  Tierrador Crona First World Cup of Hockey in Crona, first time a previous winner (Kiravia) wins the trophy again
5 1988 World Cup of Hockey  Ardmore Levantia
6 1992 World Cup of Hockey  Daxia and  Metzetta Audonia First World Cup of Hockey in Audonia, first World Cup of Hockey with shared hosting duties
7 1996 World Cup of Hockey  Kiravia Great Kirav
8 2000 World Cup of Hockey  Faneria Levantia
9 2004 World Cup of Hockey  Tierrador and  Ceylonia Crona Most recent World Cup of Hockey with shared hosting duties
10 2008 World Cup of Hockey  Yonderre Crona
11 2012 World Cup of Hockey  Cartadania Sarpedon
12 2016 World Cup of Hockey  Urcea Levantia
13 2020 World Cup of Hockey  Burgundie Levantia
14 2024 World Cup of Hockey  Alstin Crona
15 2028 World Cup of Hockey  Fiannria Levantia Most recent World Cup of Hockey in Levantia
16 2032 World Cup of Hockey  Volonia Sarpedon Most recent World Cup of Hockey in Sarpedon
17 2036 World Cup of Hockey  Porlos Crona Not yet held
18 2040 World Cup of Hockey  Metzetta Audonia Not yet held

Results

List of World Cups
No. Name Host Winners Score Runners-up Notes Third Place Score Fourth Place Notes
1 1972 World Cup of Hockey  Urcea  Fiannria 2–0  Urcea  Tierrador 3–2/OT  Yonderre
2 1976 World Cup of Hockey  Yonderre  Yonderre 4–2  Kiravia  Caphiria 6–4  Urcea
3 1980 World Cup of Hockey  Caphiria  Kiravia 5–3  Porlos  Caphiria 3–0  Rumahoki
4 1984 World Cup of Hockey  Tierrador  Kiravia 2–1  Paulastra  Yonderre 3–1  Alstin
5 1988 World Cup of Hockey  Ardmore  Urcea 7–0  Alstin Largest margin of victory in the Final  Kiravia 4–2  Volonia
6 1992 World Cup of Hockey  Daxia and  Metzetta  Faneria 4–3  Yonderre  Metzetta 2–1  Tierrador
7 1996 World Cup of Hockey  Kiravia  Kiravia 7–5  Caphiria  Porlos 6–3  Fiannria
8 2000 World Cup of Hockey  Faneria  Urcea 3–1  Ardmore  Burgundie 4–0  Volonia
9 2004 World Cup of Hockey  Tierrador and  Ceylonia  Tierrador 4–2  Yonderre  Ceylonia 2–1  Burgundie
10 2008 World Cup of Hockey  Yonderre  Yonderre 4–3  Tierrador  Urcea 7–4  Kiravia
11 2012 World Cup of Hockey  Cartadania  Porlos 3–2/2OT  Cartadania Longest Final in World Cup of Hockey history
First Final to go into overtime
 Kiravia 5–4/OT  Tierrador
12 2016 World Cup of Hockey  Urcea  Tierrador 4–3/OT  Alstin  Rumahoki 5–2  Yonderre
13 2020 World Cup of Hockey  Burgundie  Kiravia 8–6  Burgundie Most goals scored in a Final  Paulastra 1–0  Cartadania
14 2024 World Cup of Hockey  Alstin  Tierrador 3–1  Pelaxia  Alstin 5–0  Burgundie
15 2028 World Cup of Hockey  Fiannria  Burgundie 2–0  Yonderre  Faneria 1–0/OT  Fiannria
16 2032 World Cup of Hockey  Volonia  Yonderre 6–5/OT  Fiannria  Faneria 3–1  Volonia