Facts & Figures

2010 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GERMANY

(Status September 2009 – Subject to Change)

Governing Body:
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Zurich

Host:
Deutscher Eishockey Bund e. V. (German Ice Hockey Federation), Munich

Organizer: DEB Eishockey-Sportgesellschaft mbH, Munich

Date: May 07 – 23, 2010

Venues: 
Cologne, LANXESS Arena - Capacity 18,500
Mannheim, SAP Arena – Capacity 13,500
Gelsenkirchen, VELTINS-Arena – Capacity 75,976

Participants:
The National Teams of the World's 16 best Ice Hockey Nations

Number of Games: 56

Organizing Committee: 
Uwe Harnos - President
Franz Reindl – General Secretary
Thomas Freyer – dep. General Secretary, Head of Administration/Logistics
Henner Ziegfeld – dep. General Secretary, Head of Marketing/Communication
Dirk Zscherpe – Project Manager Marketing/Communication
Franziska Wessely – Management Assistant/Competition
Robert Schütte - Management Assistant

Local Organization: 
Cologne: Ralf-Bernd Assenmacher, Stefan Löcher – Responsible Heads
Mannheim: Daniel Hopp, Jens Reithmann - Responsible Heads
Gelsenkirchen: Rüdiger Mengede – Responsible Head

Target: 500,000 spectators

Marketing & TV Rights: Infront Sports & Media AG, Zug

Official Main Sponsor: Škoda Auto a. s.

Official Sponsors: 
AJ, Bauhaus, Henkel, Intersport, Konica Minolta, Nike, Tissot

Official Partner: Coca-Cola, Concorde, Isostar, Mattoni, Ortema 

Media:
App. 1,000 accredited journalists from over 30 countries, around 190 involved TV stations, some 800    million TV viewers and about 3,000 hours of TV transmission world-wide. Almost 300 million page impressions on the official website

Central Ticketing Partner: 
SAP ARENA

Official Ambassadors: 
Erich Kühnhackl, Philipp Lahm, Olaf Thon (more to follow)