2026 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship

The 2017 Women-s World Hockey Championships will take place, for the first time ever, at USA Hockey Arena in the Detroit suburb of Plymouth, Michigan. The eight-team, 22-game tournament takes place annually in non-Olympic years to determine the world champion in senior women's hockey. It will begin with pool play consisting of two pools with four teams each (March 31-April 3). The four teams from Pool A advance to the playoff round and the top two teams from Pool B join them in the standard championship bracket format (April 4, 6-7). The teams competing in Plymouth, in ranking order, include USA, Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Germany. Team USA won gold in the 2016 tournament, held in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The IIHF Women-s World Championship is an event 8organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. This will be the last Women-s World Championship conducted prior to the 2018 Olympics, meaning fans will have a chance to see many of the same players they will watch on TV less than a year later when they compete in Pyeongchang, South Korea. This is only the fourth Women-s World Championship to be hosted in the United States. For more info, visit http://www.2017womensworlds.com/.