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2025 IIHF World Championship final

2025 ice hockey tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ134570875 ↗
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The 2025 IIHF World Championship final was played at the Avicii Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on 25 May 2025 to decide the winner of the 2025 IIHF World Championship.

The United States won the title for the third time, beating Switzerland 1–0 in overtime, ending the Americans' 92-year gold medal drought after winning the standalone World Championship for the first time since 1933. Switzerland lost its second consecutive final, having never won gold before.

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“2025 IIHF World Championship final” enters the record as 2025 ice hockey tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what IIHF, World and Championship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “2025 IIHF World Championship final” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.