2025 IIHF Asia Championship

{{For|the women's tournament|2025 IIHF Women's Asia Championship}}

{{Infobox international ice hockey competition

| tourney_name = IIHF Asia Championship

| year = 2025

| image = 2025 IIHF Asia Championship logo.png

| size = x250px

| caption =

| country = Kazakhstan

| city = Almaty

| dates = 6–9 November 2024

| num_teams = 4

| venues = 1

| cities = 1

| type =

| winners = KAZ

| count = 1

| second = JPN

| third = KOR

| games = 6

| fourth = CHN

| goals = 33

| attendance = 10715

| scoring_leader = {{ihicon|JPN}} Taiga Irikura

| points = 5

| mvp =

| website = [https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2025/aom www.iihf.com]

| prevseason =

| nextseason = 2026

}}

The 2025 IIHF Asia Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) as part of the IIHF Asia Championship Series. It was the first edition of this event. The tournament was played at Halyk Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan, from 6 to 9 November 2024.[https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2025/aom 2025 IIHF Asia Championship official website], www.iihf.com[https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/838/ 2025 IIHF Asia Championship statistics], stats.iihf.com Kazakhstan won the tournament after winning the group.[https://nationalteamsoficehockey.com/kazakhstan-wins-first-ever-iihf-asia-championship/ Kazakhstan wins first-ever IIHF Asia Championship], nationalteamsoficehockey.com

Creation

The tournament was first proposed in May 2023 after collaboration was agreed between China, Japan, Kazakhstan and South Korea with the IIHF to grow Asian Ice Hockey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iihf.com/en/news/62864/2024_iihf_asia_championship_series_approaches|title=IIHF - 2024 IIHF Asia Championship Series approaches|website=IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation}} The four nations have agreed to play this tournament for four years.

Venue

The venue was the Halyk Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Halyk Arena
Capacity: 12,000
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Final standings

{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WL OT

|source=[https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/838/IHM838200_76_7_0.pdf IIHF]

|update=complete

|team_order=KAZ, JPN, KOR, CHN

|hth_KAZ=Kazakhstan 5–1 Japan

|hth_JPN=KAZ

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|name_JPN={{ih|JPN}}

|name_KOR={{ih|KOR}}

|name_CHN={{ih|CHN}}

|result1=A|col_A=gold

|result2=B|col_B=silver

|result3=C|col_C=#cc9966

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Match results

All times are local (Time in Kazakhstan – UTC+5).

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| date = 6 November 2024

| time = 16:00

| stadium = Halyk Arena, Almaty

| team1 = {{ih-rt|JPN}}

| team2 = {{ih|CHN}}

| score = 4–1

| periods = (2–1, 1–0, 1–0)

| reference = {{cite web |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/838/IHM838901_74_4_0.pdf |title=Round Robin, Game 1 |date=6 November 2024 |website=IIHF.com |publisher=International Ice Hockey Federation |access-date=23 January 2025}}

| goalie1 = Eiki Sato

| goalie2 = Chen Shifeng

| progression = 1–0 / 1–1 / 2–1 / 3–1 / 4–1

| goals1 = Ushio (Takebe, Ishida) (PP) – 14:22 / Tokoro (Kamada) – 14:57 / Hanzawa (Kobayashi, Yoneyama) (PP) – 29:40 / Isogai (Kobayashi, Yoneyama) (PP) – 57:28

| goals2 = 07:19 – Han (Yan, Wang J.)

| official = {{flagicon|KOR}} Chae Young-kin

| official2 = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Konstantin Chubenko

| linesman = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Timur Iskakov

| linesman2 = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Vladislav Zotov

| attendance = 293

| penalties1 = 12

| penalties2 = 12

| shots1 = 38

| shots2 = 15

}}

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| date = 6 November 2024

| time = 19:30

| stadium = Halyk Arena, Almaty

| team1 = {{ih-rt|KOR}}

| team2 = {{ih|KAZ}}

| score = 4–1

| periods = (0–0, 2–1, 2–0)

| reference = {{cite web |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/838/IHM838902_74_4_0.pdf |title=Round Robin, Game 2 |date=6 November 2024 |website=IIHF.com |publisher=International Ice Hockey Federation |access-date=23 January 2025}}

| goalie1 = Lee Yeon-seung

| goalie2 = Jelal-ad-Din Amirbekov

| progression = 1–0 / 1–1 / 2–1 / 3–1 / 4–1

| goals1 = Oh (Lee S., Lee H.) – 20:56 / Jeong – 34:46 / Kim G. (Kim Sa., Kang Y.) (EN) – 58:03 / Kim Sa. (Kim G., Kang Y.) – 59:18

| goals2 = 23:51 – Borissevich (Presnov)

| official = {{flagicon|JPN}} Goro Terakado

| official2 = {{flagicon|SWE}} Johan Wedin

| linesman = {{flagicon|CHN}} Chi Hongda

| linesman2 = {{flagicon|KOR}} Choi Do-yeon

| attendance = 2,921

| penalties1 = 6

| penalties2 = 2

| shots1 = 20

| shots2 = 28

}}

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| date = 8 November 2024

| time = 16:00

| stadium = Halyk Arena, Almaty

| team1 = {{ih-rt|JPN}}

| team2 = {{ih|KOR}}

| score = 5–2

| periods = (2–0, 2–2, 1–0)

| reference = {{cite web |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/838/IHM838903_74_6_0.pdf |title=Round Robin, Game 3 |date=8 November 2024 |website=IIHF.com |publisher=International Ice Hockey Federation |access-date=23 January 2025}}

| goalie1 = Takayuki Ito

| goalie2 = Lee Yeon-seung

| progression = 1–0 / 2–0 / 3–0 / 3–1 / 3–2 / 4–2 / 5–2

| goals1 = Takebe (Ando, Ishida) (PP) – 12:45 / Irikura (Hanzawa, Yoneyama) (PP) – 15:33 / Irikura (Hanzawa, Ishida) – 23:11 / Irikura (Isogai, Kobayashi) (PP) – 29:48 / Isogai (Hanzawa, Irikura) – 43:42

| goals2 = 23:46 – Lee S. (Lee H.) / 27:35 – Kang M. (Nam, Kang Y.) (PP)

| official = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Konstantin Chubenko

| official2 = {{flagicon|CHN}} Liu Jiaqi

| linesman = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Nurian Alpyspayev

| linesman2 = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Vladislav Mashenkin

| attendance = 715

| penalties1 = 8

| penalties2 = 8

| shots1 = 33

| shots2 = 30

}}

{{Ice hockey box

| bg =

| date = 8 November 2024

| time = 19:30

| stadium = Halyk Arena, Almaty

| team1 = {{ih-rt|KAZ}}

| team2 = {{ih|CHN}}

| score = 6–1

| periods = (1–0, 1–1, 4–0)

| reference = {{cite web |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/838/IHM838904_74_3_0.pdf |title=Round Robin, Game 4 |date=8 November 2024 |website=IIHF.com |publisher=International Ice Hockey Federation |access-date=23 January 2025}}

| goalie1 = Amirbekov

| goalie2 = Sun Zehao

| progression = 1–0 / 1–1 / 2–1 / 3–1 / 4–1 / 5–1 / 6–1

| goals1 = Breus (Grents, Rymarev) (PP) – 16:34 / Buyalski (Korolinskiy) – 30:32 / Grents (Rymarev) – 44:13 / Korolinskiy (Breus, Zubov) – 44:53 / Breus (Buyalskiy) (PP) – 50:26 / Breus (Grents, Rymarev) – 56:52

| goals2 = 26:52 – Zheng (Hou, Zhang P.)

| official = {{flagicon|KOR}} Chae Young-jin

| official2 = {{flagicon|JPN}} Goro Terakado

| linesman = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Damir Dairov

| linesman2 = {{flagicon|JPN}} Ryohma Taniguchi

| attendance = 2,283

| penalties1 = 8

| penalties2 = 8

| shots1 = 47

| shots2 = 21

}}

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| date = 9 November 2024

| time = 16:00

| stadium = Halyk Arena, Almaty

| team1 = {{ih-rt|CHN}}

| team2 = {{ih|KOR}}

| score = 2–1 {{small|OT}}

| periods = (1–1, 0–0, 0–0)
(OT: 1–0)

| reference = {{cite web |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/838/IHM838905_74_6_0.pdf |title=Round Robin, Game 5 |date=9 November 2024 |website=IIHF.com |publisher=International Ice Hockey Federation |access-date=23 January 2025}}

| goalie1 = Chen Shifeng

| goalie2 = Ha Jung-ho

| progression = 1–0 / 1–1 / 2–1

| goals1 = Hou (Wang J., Yan) (PP) – 02:43 / Zhang Z. (Zhang J., Zhang P.) (PP) – 61:45

| goals2 = 07:40 – Kim Sa. (Kwon, Nam)

| official = {{flagicon|KOR}} Chae Young-jin

| official2 = {{flagicon|CHN}} Liu Jiaqi

| linesman = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Timur Iskakov

| linesman2 = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Vladislav Mashenkin

| attendance = 1,408

| penalties1 = 2

| penalties2 = 4

| shots1 = 24

| shots2 = 38

}}

{{Ice hockey box

| bg =

| date = 9 November 2024

| time = 19:30

| stadium = Halyk Arena, Almaty

| team1 = {{ih-rt|KAZ}}

| team2 = {{ih|JPN}}

| score = 5–1

| periods = (1–0, 2–0, 2–1)

| reference = {{cite web |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/838/IHM838906_74_3_0.pdf |title=Round Robin, Game 6 |date=9 November 2024 |website=IIHF.com |publisher=International Ice Hockey Federation |access-date=23 January 2025}}

| goalie1 = Jelal-ad-Din Amirbekov

| goalie2 = Issa Otsuka

| progression = 1–0 / 2–0 / 3–0 / 3–1 / 4–1 / 5–1

| goals1 = Rymarev (Borissevich, Grents) – 07:16 / Rymarev (Alexandrov) – 27:47 / Namestnikov (Korolinskiy) – 29:11 / Grebenshikov (Volkov, Korolinskiy) – 44:58 / Korolinskiy (EN) – 58:26

| goals2 = 42:51 – Irikura (Hanzawa, Kobayashi) (PP)

| official = {{flagicon|KAZ}} Konstantin Chubenko

| official2 = {{flagicon|SWE}} Johan Wedin

| linesman = {{flagicon|CHN}} Chi Hongda

| linesman2 = {{flagicon|KOR}} Choi Do-yeon

| attendance = 3,095

| penalties1 = 6

| penalties2 = 6

| shots1 = 23

| shots2 = 24

}}