NHL Names Host Cities for the 2028 World Cup Of Hockey Tournament.
The NHL announced on Monday that the World Cup of Hockey is returning for 2028, with Edmonton hosting its championship game alongside new venues in neighboring cities: Scotias's state-of-the-art Rogers Arena will host preliminary rounds while Scotia Place and Prague O2 arena are set to serve as co-hosts.
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1The NHL announced on Monday that the host cities for the February 2028 World Cup of Hockey are Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, also in Canada's province of Alberta (which won a bid to co-host); Prague, Czechia. Eight nations will compete as eight teams representing their home countries or specially formed squads.
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2The tournament structure features preliminary rounds at Scotia Place and O2 Arena with the semifinals and championship match taking place exclusively at Rogers Place in Edmonton for its fourth time hosting this event since 1984 (the last edition was held there).
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3Calgary is set to host seven games while Prague will also handle a total of seven matches, whereas all six semifinal matchups are scheduled within Alberta's venues.
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4The selection process involved evaluating bids from twenty-eight cities across North America and Europe before the NHL General Managers' Meetings in Florida finalized these three locations.
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Perspectives
The NHL has announced that the World Cup of Hockey 2028, featuring eight nations competing for 'best-on-best' honors between February dates set to follow a pause in regular season play.
— [Mar 16, 17:45] Sports.yahoo.comEdmonton will host its first championship game since the tournament's debut and last appearance at Toronto as part of this best-of-eight-nation competition organized by Calgary Scotia Place Rogers place O2 Arena Prague Czechia.
— [Mar 16, 17:34] EdmontonjournalThe NHL announced that Alberta wins bid to host the World Cup in February with eight nations competing for country-versus-country hockey tournament hosted at new venues including Calgary Scotia Place and state-of-the-art Rogers place O2 Arena Prague Czechia.
— [Mar 16, 17:04] CBC | CanadaThe NHL announced that the World Cup of Hockey will be held in February with eight nations competing for country-versus-country hockey tournament hosted at new venues including Calgary Scotia Place and state-of-the-art Rogers place O2 Arena Prague Czechia.
— [Mar 16, 17:04] CBC | CanadaThe NHL announced that the World Cup of Hockey will be held in February with eight nations competing for country-versus-country hockey tournament hosted at new venues including Calgary Scotia Place and state-of-the-art Rogers place O2 Arena Prague Czechia.
— [Mar 16, 17:04] CBC | CanadaThe National Hockey League (NHL) will host an eight-nation best-on-best tournament at three venues—Scotia Place and Rogers Place in Alberta's Calgary-Edmonton area plus O2 Arena in Prague—in February 2028. The event, which includes seventeen games alongside extensive fan programming, aims to showcase the world's top players representing their countries following recent Olympic competition.
Edmonton and Calgary have been selected as North American host cities for the four-team (eight team) 2028 NHL/MLPA-hosted "World" Cup of Hockey championship. The tournament will feature eight teams playing seventeen games across three venues, with Edmonton hosting both semi-finals and finals while Prague hosts in Europe; this marks a return to Canada after its fourth World Cup appearance since the event's inception (1976).
The NHL has selected Calgary (North America) as one host for 2028 alongside Edmonton; Prague will also be chosen to co-host with another North American city. The tournament is scheduled on a biennial cycle, alternating between Olympic and World Cup years starting in February of the following year after last winter's games were played at Scotia Place
The National Hockey League has selected Calgary, Edmonton (which hosted a pandemic bubble), and Prague as hosts for its 2028 World Cup of Hockey. This international tournament will feature NHL's top players competing every even-numbered year to complement the Olympic stage where they recently returned after twelve years away from competition in Milan.