Ice Hockey World Champions Quiz: Rules & What Counts
The Ice Hockey World Championship is the main tournament of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Since 1920, only 10 countries have won it, and this quiz asks you to name all 10.
The board shows one card for each country, from the most titles to the fewest.
Each card shows the number of titles. Under the card, you see the year of the first title and the year of the last title.
A correct name shows the flag of the country.
How to play
Just start typing. The quiz checks your answer at every keystroke. There is no submit button.
A correct country flips its card. You can answer in any order.
Common short names and initials count. Capitals and accents are ignored, and common misspellings count.
A country that never won clears the input, so you know that the quiz read the guess.
The timer starts at your first keystroke and counts up. Give Up ends the run and shows every country that you missed. Progress saves automatically.
What counts in this quiz
Every country that won the men's World Championship, from 1920 to 2026.
From 1920 to 1968, the ice hockey tournament of the Winter Olympics also counted as the World Championship. A gold medal from one of those Olympic tournaments counts as a title.
A country that no longer exists has its own card. Its titles do not go to the country that came after it.
What's not included, and why
The women's World Championship does not count. Only two countries have won it.
Olympic gold medals after 1968 do not count. Since 1972, the Olympic tournament and the World Championship are two different events.
The European Championship and the junior tournaments do not count.
When a new country wins its first title, the board gets a new card.
Good to know
There were 89 tournaments from 1920 to 2026. Each one had a champion.
One country won 28 titles. That is the most of all.
From 1963 to 1971, one country won nine titles in a row.
One country waited 65 years between two titles, from 1960 to 2025.
The newest first-time champion won its title in 2002.
The tournament became yearly in 1930. Since then, there was no tournament from 1940 to 1946, in the Olympic years 1980, 1984 and 1988, and in 2020.