The 2004 IIHF World Women's Championships were held March 30 – April 6, 2004 in Halifax and Dartmouth, Canada at the Halifax Metro Centre (now known as Scotiabank Centre), and the Dartmouth Sportsplex (now known as Zatzman Sportsplex). The Canadian national women's hockey team won their eighth straight World Championships. The event had 9 teams, because the 2003 event was cancelled due to the SARS epidemic, therefore no teams were relegated and the winners of the 2002 and 2003 Division I tournaments qualified. Canada won their 37th consecutive World Championship game before losing 3–1 in their third game. They later avenged their loss to the US by defeating them in the gold medal game 2–1. Sweden and Finland also met each other twice, with Finland winning the bronze medal game 3–2 improving on the earlier draw. In addition to being the qualifications for the 2005 world tournaments, this year also finalized the qualification for the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Top Division

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Qualifying round

Group D

Group E

Group F

Final round

Bronze medal game

Final

Final standings

Awards and statistics

Scoring leaders

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Directorate Awards

All-Star team

Division I

The Division I IIHF World Women's Championships were held March 14–20, 2004 in Ventspils, Latvia is promoted to the 2005 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships, and are demoted to Division II

Awards and statistics

Directorate Awards

Source: Passionhockey.com

Scoring leaders

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Division II

The Division II IIHF World Women's Championships will be held March 14–20, 2004 in Sterzing, Italy is promoted to Division I while and are demoted to Division III in the 2005 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

Awards and statistics

Directorate Awards

Source: Passionhockey.com

Scoring leaders

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Division III

The Division III IIHF Women World Championships were held March 21–28, 2004 in Maribor, Slovenia. was promoted to Division II at the 2005 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships, while both and were relegated to the newly formed Division IV.

Awards and statistics

Directorate Awards

Source: Passionhockey.com

Scoring leaders

Goaltending leaders

Citations