2021 IIHF World Championship (WFAC)

The 2021 IIHF World Championship will be the 75th edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships hosted by the (IIHF). It is scheduled to take place from 5 to 21 February 2021 in,.

Bidding process
Latvia had originally submitted an application to host the 2020 Ice Hockey World Championship, competing with a bid from Switzerland. However, Latvia later announced they had withdrawn their application for 2020, leaving Switzerland as the only applicant. At the annual IIHF congress in Prague on 15 May 2015, the 2020 tournament was allocated to Switzerland along with the 2021 tournament to Latvia.

Latvia has earlier hosted the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in 2007 in Latvia.