World Men’s Curling Championship 2025: Find out more about the event
The World Men’s Curling Championship is heading to Moose Jaw, Canada, where, from 29 March to 6 April, 13 of the world’s best curling teams will compete for the world crown.
In addition to those honours, the final set of Olympic Qualification Points are also on the line and will be used to determine quota spots for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, adding an extra layer of tension to proceedings.
The championship will begin with all teams playing each other once in a round-robin. The top two teams after round-robin play will gain direct entry into the semi-finals while third and fourth will play fifth and sixth in qualification games. The winners of those matches will take the final two semi-final spots.
The winners of the semis will then advance to the final while a bronze medal match will take place for the runners-up.
Reigning Olympic and world champions Sweden arrive at this year’s tournament as the defending champions after defeating Canada’s Brad Gushue in last year’s final.
As he tries to go back-to-back and claim an eighth world title Niklas Edin will have a host of challengers, including Canada, only this time represented by Sochi 2014 Olympic gold medallist Brad Jacobs. Also in the wings, are Bruce Mouat‘s Scotland, the United States skipped by Korey Dropkin and reigning European champions Germany.
Discover more about Olympic qualification, teams and how you can watch all the action live, below.
As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes’ participation at the Milano Cortina Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Milano Cortina 2026.
Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Qualification – How does it work?
Curling at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 is comprised of three competitions with ten National Olympic Committees in each – women’s, men’s and mixed doubles.
As hosts, Italy qualify for each competition leaving nine quota spots available for National Olympic Committees.
Eight of those NOC quota spots will be determined using Olympic Qualification Points earned at the 2024 and 2024 women’s, men’s and mixed doubles world championships.
Should Italy finish in the top eight places of the respective discipline, only the seven highest-ranked NOCs will qualify through this path.
The final two quota spots will be secured at the Olympic Qualification Event (OQE) to be held in December 2025. In the case of the women’s competition, the NOCs ranked 9-13 from the ranking list created from the results at the 2024 and 2025 world championships as well as the top three NOCs from the Pre-Qualification Event (PQE) to be held in the autumn of 2025, will take part.
Those eligible for the PQE for the women’s event will be any NOC that qualified for the 2024 or 2025 world championship, but didn’t qualify for the Olympic Winter Games or the OQE, as well as any NOC that qualified for the A-Division of the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2024 or 2025 or the A-Division of the Pan Continental Curling Championships 2024 or 2025, but haven’t qualified for the Olympic Winter Games or the OQE yet.
Below is the Olympic Qualification Points ranking ahead of the 2025 world championships.
Points are allocated to the Member Associations ranked from 1-13, in each women’s and men’s world championship, in the following order: 15, 13, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
| Ranking | Country | Year: 2024 | Year: 2025 | Olympic Qualification Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 11 | 11 | |
| 2 | Sweden | 15 | 15 | |
| 3 | Canada | 13 | 13 | |
| 4 | Scotland/Great Britain | 10 | 10 | |
| 5 | Germany | 9 | 9 | |
| 6 | United States of America | 8 | 8 | |
| 7 | Switzerland | 7 | 7 | |
| 8 | Netherlands | 6 | 6 | |
| 9 | Czechia | 5 | 5 | |
| 10 | Norway | 4 | 4 | |
| 11 | Japan | 3 | 3 | |
| 12 | Republic of Korea | 2 | 2 | |
| 13 | New Zealand | 1 | 1 |
World Men’s Curling Championships 2025: Teams
Austria
- Skip: Mathias Genner
- Third: Jonas Backofen
- Second: Martin Reichel
- Lead: Florian Mavec
- Alternate: Matthaeus Hofer
Canada
- Skip: Brad Jacobs
- Third: Marc Kennedy
- Second: Brett Gallant
- Lead: Ben Hebert
- Alternate: Tyler Tardi
Czechia
- Skip: Lukas Klima
- Third: Marek Cernovsky
- Second: Martin Jurik
- Lead: Lukas Klipa
- Alternate: Radek Bohac
Germany
- Skip: Marc Muskatewitz
- Third: Benjamin Kapp
- Second: Felix Messenz
- Lead: Johannes Scheuerl
- Alternate: Mario Trevisiol
Italy
- Skip: Joel Retornaz
- Third: Amos Mosaner
- Second: Sebastiano Arman
- Lead: Mattia Giovanella
- Alternate: Giacomo Colli
Japan
- Fourth: Yanagisawa Riku
- Skip: Yamaguchi Tsuyoshi
- Second: Yamamoto Takeru
- Lead: Koizumi Satoshi
- Alternate: Usui Shingo
Norway
- Skip: Magnus Ramsfjell
- Third: Martin Sesaker
- Second: Bendik Ramsfjell
- Lead: Gaute Nepstad
- Alternate: Wilhelm Naess
People’s Republic of China
- Skip: Xu Xiaoming
- Third: Fei Xueqing
- Second: Wang Zhiyu
- Lead: Li Zhichao
- Alternate: Yang Bohao
Republic of Korea
- Skip: Kim Hyojun
- Third: Kim Eunbin
- Second: Pyo Jeongmin
- Lead: Kim Jinhun
- Alternate: Kim Changmin
Scotland
- Skip: Bruce Mouat
- Third: Grant Hardie
- Second: Bobby Lammie
- Lead: Hammy McMillan
- Alternate: Kyle Waddell
Sweden – defending champions
- Skip: Niklas Edin
- Third: Oskar Eriksson
- Second: Rasmus Wranaa
- Lead: Christoffer Sundgren
- Alternate: Simon Olofsson
Switzerland
- Fourth: Benoit Schwarz-Van Berkel
- Skip: Yannick Schwaller
- Second: Sven Michel
- Lead: Pablo Lachat-Couchepin
- Alternate: Kim Schwaller
United States
- Skip: Korey Dropkin
- Third: Tom Howell
- Second: Andrew Stopera
- Lead: Mark Fenner
- Alternate: Christopher Plys
How to watch the Men’s World Curling Championships 2025 live?
Global audiences will be able to watch all games from the World Men’s Curling Championship 2025 live on the Curling Channel.
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