2025 World Para Ice Hockey Championship
Buffalo, New York | May 24 - 31
The 2025 World Para Ice Hockey Championship will be held May 24-31, at the LECOM Harborcenter in Buffalo, N.Y.
The eight-nation tournament features the best sled hockey players in the world.
The LECOM Harborcenter will host all 19 games of the tournament over the course of the eight-day event.
The tournament schedule and ticket information will be available in December, and fans can visit paralympic.org to get the latest information as it becomes available.
The World Para Ice Hockey Championship has been held on U.S. soil three previous times, including Buffalo in 2015; Marlborough, Mass., in 2008; and Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2000.
Since the inaugural World Para Ice Hockey Championship in 1996, the U.S. has claimed six gold medals (2023, 2021, 2019, 2015, 2012, 2009) and is the only country to ever win back-to-back (2012, 2009) and three-consecutive gold medals (2023, 2021, 2019). Additionally, the U.S. has achieved five other medal finishes, earning four silver medals (2024, 2017, 2013, 2004) and one bronze medal (2008).
At the 2024 World Para Ice Hockey Championship in. Calgary, Alberta, the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team took home silver after falling 2-1 in the championship game to Canada. The U.S. finished the tournament with a 4-0-0-1 (W-OTW-OTL-L) record.
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