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IIHF increases roster size, revamps format for women's hockey world championship

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The International Ice Hockey Federation has revamped both the format and roster size for the women's hockey world championship.

At the organization's semi-annual congress on Saturday, it decided both the women's world championship and under-18 championship will allow rosters of 22 skaters and three goalies on each team, which aligns with male rosters.

Women's rosters were previously 20 skaters and three goalies. The 2025 women's world championship in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic will revert to "snake seeding" in the two groups of the 10-team tournament to create two pools of more equal rank.

That format is the same as the men's world under-20 championship and women's world under-18 championship. In an attempt to reduce lopsided scores in the women's championship, the IIHF began seeding the top countries in one pool and lower seeds in another in 2012.

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