The allocation was made during the 2014 IIHF Semi-Annual Congress on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

Krakow, the former capital of the country, will be the host city of the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A. The games will take place at Krakow Arena, which has a seating capacity of 15,328 and is also scheduled to host the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship tournament and the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship.

The arena boasts Poland's biggest LED facade, 5,200 square metres of LED strip lighting that wraps around the stadium, and one of Europe's biggest LED screens at 540 square metres.

“We’ve been waiting for the decision regarding the tournament for a few months now,” said Polish Ice Hockey Federation President Dawid Chwalka. “We hope that with a good location, and good atmosphere and great fans we can put together a great World Championship.”

The tournament will take place during the 90th anniversary of the Polish Ice Hockey Federation, which has been an IIHF member since 1926. It will be contested between Italy, Kazakhstan, Japan, Ukraine, Hungary and Poland, in April 2015.

In other tournament allocations, Poland also stepped up and offered to host the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship Division I Qualification in Katowice.