Schedule and fixtures for World Cham­pi­onship prepa­ra­tion

“As usual, planning for World Championship preparations is a rolling process. Many players in Austria and abroad are still involved in the play-offs and are therefore unavailable. In recent years, the players from the first few weeks have always taken their opportunity, developed and put themselves forward for further duties. One or two have also caused a surprise and made the World Championship squad. Every individual player has the opportunity to make the World Championship,” stresses Head Coach Roger Bader.

World Championship preparations begin on 2 April in Villach, where the first warm-up match against Slovenia will also be played on 6 April*. The players called up will be those whose clubs have already been eliminated from the championship. In terms of the win2day ICE Hockey League, this includes, for example, all Austrian players not involved in the semi-finals.

By the final team camp, from 2 to 6 May in Vienna, Roger Bader will finally have all players from the domestic league at his disposal. Players and fans can look forward to a high-calibre programme over the five weeks of preparation. In addition to Division IA nation Italy and this year's promoted side Slovenia, Austria will face the leading nations Germany, Czechia and Slovakia.

World Championship preparation dates

Team camp 1
2 to 6 April 2023, Villach

Team camp 2
9 to 14 April 2023, Innsbruck

Team camp 3
17 to 22 April 2023, Deggendorf (GER)

Team camp 4
25 to 29 April 2023, Vienna

Team camp 5
2 to 6 May 2023, Kapfenberg

Warm-up matches

(subject to change)

Austria vs. Slovenia
Thu, 6 April 2023*, 18:30, Villach
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Italy vs. Austria
Wed., 12 April 2023, 19:30, Bruneck (ITA)

Austria vs. Italy
Fri., 14 April 2023, 17:30, Innsbruck
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Germany vs. Austria
Thu., 20 April 2023, 19:30, Deggendorf (GER)

Germany vs. Austria
Sat., 22 April 2023, 17:00, Landshut (GER)

Austria vs. Czechia
Thu., 27 April 2023, 18:30, Vienna
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Czechia vs. Austria
Sat., 29 April 2023, 16:00, Brno (CZE)

Austria vs. Slovakia
Thu., 4 May 2023, 18:30, Kapfenberg
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Slovakia vs. Austria
Sat., 6 May 2023, 16:00, Trencin (SVK)

*Game 7 of the win2day ICE Hockey League semi-final series is scheduled for 6 April. Should VSV be involved in this game and have home-ice advantage, the international match against Slovenia will be brought forward to 5 April.

86th IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship

12 May 2023 - 28 May 2023, Tampere (FIN) and Riga (LAT)

Group A, Tampere: Finland, USA, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France, Austria, Hungary
Group B, Riga: Canada, Czechia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Latvia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Slovenia

Schedule
Dates and times are given in our local time zone, with the local time shown in brackets.

France vs. Austria
Sat, 13 May 2023, 11:20 (12:20 local time)

Sweden vs. Austria
Sun, 14 May 2023, 19:20 (20:20 local time)

Denmark vs. Austria
Tue, 16 May 2023, 15:20 (16:20 local time)

USA vs. Austria
Wed, 17 May 2023, 15:20 (16:20 local time)

Austria vs. Germany
Fri, 19 May 2023, 19:20 (20:20 local time)

Austria vs. Finland
Sat, 20 May 2023, 15:20 (16:20 local time)

Austria vs. Hungary
Mon, 22 May 2023, 19:20 (20:20 local time)

All information and the full schedule can be found at www.iihf.com