Today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced that hosting rights for the 2025 World Juniors have been awarded to Canada’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario, with the tournament set to begin on 26 December 2024.

Ottawa will split hosting duties between the nearly 19,000-seat Canadian Tire Centre in suburban Kanata, home of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, and the 9,000-seat TD Place, which hosts the junior Ottawa 67’s in the heart of downtown Ottawa. Both venues will host the tournament for the second time, with Jordan Eberle’s semifinal heroics and Canada’s fifth straight Gold Medal capping one of the most historic tournaments of all time in the nation’s capital, giving the returning tournament sixteen years later a lot to live up to.

Both venues have hosted Women’s World Championships as well, with TD Place hosting the inaugural 1990 tournament, while Canadian Tire Centre hosted in 2013. Canada will host the World Juniors for the seventeenth time, returning to hosting in odd-numbered years for the first time since 2021, after COVID-19 forced the tournament to be hosted for three straight years in Canada. This will also mark the fifth time the province of Ontario has hosted (1986, 2009, 2015, 2017), with previous iterations hosted in Hamilton, London and Toronto.

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