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Top 20 rankings as of March 2022[1]
Men's
Rank Change* Team Points
1 Increase 1  Finland 4065
2 Decrease 1  Canada 3995
3 Steady  Russia 3910
4 Steady  United States 3750
5 Increase 2  Sweden 3715
6 Increase 2   Switzerland 3580
7 Decrease 1  Czech Republic 3580
8 Increase 1  Slovakia 3560
9 Decrease 4  Germany 3555
10 Increase 2  Denmark 3290
11 Decrease 1  Latvia 3265
12 Decrease 1  Norway 3120
13 Increase 2  France 2945
14 Steady  Belarus 2940
15 Decrease 2  Kazakhstan 2860
16 Increase 1  Italy 2830
17 Increase 1  Austria 2790
18 Decrease 2  Great Britain 2775
19 Increase 1  Slovenia 2665
20 Decrease 1  South Korea 2635
Women's
Rank Change* Team Points
1 Increase 1  Canada 4120
2 Decrease 1  United States 4120
3 Steady  Finland 3940
4 Increase 1   Switzerland 3790
5 Decrease 1  Russia 3770
6 Steady  Japan 3620
7 Steady  Czech Republic 3575
8 Increase 1  Sweden 3385
9 Decrease 1  Germany 3365
10 Increase 1  Denmark 3275
11 Decrease 1  Hungary 3275
12 Steady  France 3185
13 Increase 1  Austria 3070
14 Decrease 1  Norway 3040
15 Steady  Slovakia 2925
16 Steady  Italy 2840
17 Increase 3  China 2815
18 Decrease 1  South Korea 2760
19 Decrease 1  Netherlands 2715
20 Decrease 1  Poland 2655

The IIHF World Ranking is a ranking of the performance of the national ice hockey teams of member countries of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It is based on a formula giving points for each team's placings at IIHF-sanctioned tournaments over the previous four years. The ranking is used to determine seedings and qualification requirements for future IIHF tournaments. The current leader in rankings is Finland in men's play and Canada in women's play.

Description

The system was approved at the IIHF congress of September 2003.[2] According to former IIHF President René Fasel, the system was designed to be simple to understand and "reflect the long-term quality of all national hockey programs and their commitment to international hockey".[3]

The ranking is used to determine the seeding of the teams for the next World Championship and to select the teams which can participate in Winter Olympics without playing in the qualifying round. For example, for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the first eight teams of the Men's World Ranking and the first six of the Women's World Ranking were pre-qualified. Qualification for the men's tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics was structured around the 2019 ranking. Twelve spots were made available for teams. The top eight teams in the World Ranking after the 2019 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships received automatic berths into the Ice Hockey event. All IIHF teams had an opportunity to qualify for the event. Teams that wished to participate ranked below 36th played in two preliminary qualifications in November 2019. The two winners of the first preliminaries and teams ranked 27–36th were divided in three groups to play in the second pre-qualification round in December 2019. The three winners of those preliminaries joined teams ranked 18–26th for the third pre-qualification round of three groups in February 2020. The winner of each of these pre-qualification groups and teams ranked 9–17 were divided in three groups to play in the final qualification in August 2021. The winner of each group then joined the eight top-ranked teams plus the host in the Olympics in 2022.

The women's tournament uses a similar qualification format. The top six teams in the IIHF Women's World Ranking after the 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship received automatic berths into the ice hockey event. Lower ranked teams had an opportunity to qualify for the event. Teams ranked 16th and below were divided into three groups where they played in a preliminary qualification round in the October 2021. The three group winners from the round advanced to the final qualification round, where the teams ranked seventh through fifteenth joined them.[4]

Formula

The world ranking is based on the final positions of the last four Men's or Women's IIHF World Championships and last Olympic ice hockey tournament. Points are assigned according to a team's final placement in the World Championship or the Olympic tournament. The world champion receives 1200 points and then a 20-point interval is used between teams. However, a 40-point interval is used between gold and silver, silver and bronze, fourth and fifth, and eighth and ninth. This is used as a bonus for the teams who reach the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the final and for winning the gold medal.[1]

Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ...
Points 1200 1160 1120 1100 1060 1040 1020 1000 960 940 920 900 880 860 840 820 800 780 760 740 ...

Points awarded in the current year are valued at the full amount. Points award in the prior years decline linearly by 25% until the fifth year when they are dropped from the calculation. Under this formula, any year with a World Championship and an Olympics will be counted twice in the tables, for a maximum ranking (gold medal in all five events) of: 4200 points at the completion of an Olympic year, 3900 points at the completion of the following year, 3600 points the next year, and 3300 points in the year before the next Olympics. For example, if after the 2020 Championship a team had won the gold medal in the last four championships and the last Olympic tournament, their score would be 3600:

Competition Valuation
coefficient 		Points
2022 Winter Olympics 100% 1200
2021 IIHF World Championship 100% 1200
2020 IIHF World Championship 75% 900
2019 IIHF World Championship 50% 600
2018 IIHF World Championship 25% 300
2018 Winter Olympics 0% 0
2017 IIHF World Championship 0% 0
Counts Five Tournaments from Four Latest Years 4200
Starting April 2014, Women's rankings count Olympics points twice, to be on same formula
as Men's rankings, as no Women's top division World Championship is held in Olympic years

Men's rankings

See also: List of IIHF World Rankings

The Men's 2022 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019, and at the 2022 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Beijing, China.

For the 2018 Winter Olympics, Russia's Olympic Committee and many of its athletes were banned for illegal doping.[5] The IIHF opposed an outright ban on all Russian players,[6] concerned that the KHL would disallow its players from participating in the tournament, as the NHL had done. The ice hockey team from the Russian hockey federation played under the banner of the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic Athletes from Russia", along with other Russian athletes not banned for doping.

All tournaments in 2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, teams were awarded points based on their seeding for their respective tournaments. The Championship division received points based on the 2019 World Ranking, while the remaining divisions received points based on the previous year's results. For a fairer ranking and point distribution, the IIHF Council decided that the points for 2021 in case of tournament cancellations are given according to the ranking position of each team in the 2021 Pre-Championship Report – taking into consideration the results in 2018, 2019 and 2020 – rather than by seeding as in the past.[7]

The following table lists the full breakdown of ranking following the 2021 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships,[8] and the calculations of the rankings following the 2022 Men's Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament and the 2022 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships. Scores in italics represent minimum possible scores for unfinished tournaments. All tournament's points have their full value displayed, while the ranking is calculated by adding the current year's tournament points to the depreciated previous three years' tournament points as explained above. The depreciated percentages are shown in the column headings, first for the current total, then for the new total. The "Total" columns are the sums of the current tournament points and the depreciated values for past tournaments. The "+/–" columns indicate the increase or decrease in ranking since the last tournament. A dash in a tournament column indicates that the country did not participate.


2022
Rank 		OLY
2022
Rank 		Team WC division
(as of 2022) 		WC2022
(—)
(100%) 		OLY2022
(100%)
(100%) 		WC2021
(100%)
(75%) 		WC2020
(75%)
(50%) 		WC2019
(50%)
(25%) 		WC2018
(25%)
(0%) 		2022
Total 		+/- OLY
2022
Total 		+/−
1 1  Finland Championship 1000 1200 1160 1120 1200 1060 3930 Steady 4065 Increase 1
2 2  Canada Championship 1000 1040 1200 1200 1160 1100 3830 Steady 3995 Decrease 1
3 4  United States Championship 1000 1060 1120 1040 1020 1120 3675 Increase 1 3750 Steady
4 5  Sweden Championship 1000 1100 960 1100 1060 1200 3635 Increase 1 3715 Increase 2
5 8  Slovakia Championship 960 1120 1000 960 960 960 3550 Increase 3 3560 Increase 1
6 9  Germany Championship 1000 940 1100 1020 1040 920 3535 Increase 3 3555 Decrease 4
7 6   Switzerland Championship 1000 1000 1040 1000 1000 1160 3530 Decrease 1 3580 Increase 2
8 7  Czech Republic Championship 1000 960 1020 1060 1100 1020 3530 Decrease 1 3580 Decrease 1
9 10  Denmark Championship 960 1020 900 900 920 940 3335 Increase 1 3290 Increase 2
10 11  Latvia Championship 940 920 920 940 940 1000 3255 Increase 1 3265 Decrease 1
11 12  Norway Championship 880 880 880 920 900 880 3105 Increase 1 3120 Decrease 1
12 13  France Championship 900 860 840 800 840 900 3000 Increase 1 2945 Increase 2
13 15  Kazakhstan Championship 860 700 940 840 800 760 2885 Increase 2 2860 Decrease 2
14 17  Austria Championship 880 800 780 780 820 860 2860 Increase 3 2790 Increase 1
15 16  Italy Championship 840 740 820 860 860 780 2840 Increase 1 2830 Increase 1
16 3  Russia Expelled 0 1160 1060 1160 1120 1040 2815 Decrease 13 3910 Steady
17 18  Great Britain Championship 820 660 860 820 880 800 2755 Increase 1 2775 Decrease 2
18 19  Slovenia Division I A 760 820 740 740 740 720 2690 Increase 1 2665 Increase 1
19 21  Hungary Division I A 740 780 720 720 720 740 2600 Increase 2 2585 Steady
20 20  South Korea Division I A 700 720 760 760 760 820 2560 Steady 2635 Decrease 1
21 22  Poland Division I B 660 760 700 660 660 700 2440 Increase 1 2460 Steady
22 24  Lithuania Division I A 720 600 680 680 700 680 2345 Increase 2 2310 Decrease 1
23 23  Romania Division I A 680 640 660 700 680 600 2335 Steady 2315 Increase 1
24 25  Japan Division I B 640 680 640 640 640 660 2280 Increase 1 2285 Steady
25 27  China Division II A 560 900 500 480 480 500 2195 Increase 2 2125 Increase 5
26 28  Ukraine Division I B 620 620 600 600 600 620 2140 Increase 2 2125 Decrease 1
27 26  Estonia Division I B 600 580 620 620 620 640 2110 Decrease 1 2135 Steady
28 14  Belarus Expelled 0 840 840 880 780 840 2105 Decrease 14 2940 Steady
29 29  Netherlands Division II A 540 560 580 560 580 560 1960 Steady 1990 Decrease 1
30 30  Serbia Division I B 580 500 560 580 560 520 1930 Steady 1905 Decrease 1
31 31  Croatia Division II A 520 540 540 540 540 580 1870 Steady 1900 Decrease 1
32 32  Spain Division II A 500 520 520 500 500 440 1785 Steady 1775 Decrease 1
33 34  Israel Division II A 480 420 460 460 440 400 1585 Increase 1 1545 Steady
34 33  Iceland Division II B 440 480 440 420 420 460 1565 Decrease 1 1560 Increase 2
35 35  Mexico Division II B 360 360 400 360 360 360 1290 Steady 1300 Increase 2
36 37  Bulgaria Division II B 380 380 340 340 320 300 1265 Increase 1 1210 Increase 3
37 38  Turkey Division III A 300 460 300 300 300 280 1210 Increase 1 1205 Increase 4
38 40  Chinese Taipei Division III A 260 440 240 240 240 260 1060 Increase 2 1045 Increase 5
39 39  Belgium Division II B 400 — 420 440 460 480 1050 Steady 1100 Decrease 3
40 43  Georgia Division II B 420 — 380 380 380 320 990 Increase 3 935 Decrease 5
41 44  United Arab Emirates Division III A 320 320 200 220 200 160 950 Increase 3 825 Increase 3
42 41  Luxembourg Division III A 240 300 280 260 260 340 945 Decrease 1 990 Increase 2
43 36  Australia Division II A — — 480 520 520 540 750 Decrease 7 1265 Decrease 3
44 47  Thailand Division III B 180 340 140 160 160 — 745 Increase 3 680 Increase 3
45 48  Turkmenistan Division III A 280 — 260 280 280 200 685 Increase 3 660 Decrease 4
46 50  Kyrgyzstan Division IV 120 400 100 100 100 — 670 Increase 4 625 Increase 2
47 49  Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III B 160 260 160 140 140 180 645 Increase 2 640 Steady
48 42  New Zealand Division II B — — 360 400 400 420 570 Decrease 6 965 Decrease 3
49 46  Hong Kong Division III B — 280 180 180 180 220 550 Decrease 3 740 Increase 2
50 52  South Africa Division III B 200 — 220 200 220 240 520 Increase 2 540 Decrease 6
51 45  North Korea Division III A — — 320 320 340 380 485 Decrease 6 825 Decrease 4
52 51  Kuwait Division IV 40 240 120 120 120 140 460 Decrease 1 545 Steady
53 53  Malaysia Division IV 60 — 80 80 — — 160 Steady 140 Steady
54 55  Singapore Division IV 80 — 40 — — — 110 Increase 1 40 Steady
55 —  Iran Division IV 100 — — — — — 100 new
56 54  Philippines Division IV — — 60 60 — — 75 Decrease 2 105 Steady

Women's rankings

See also: List of IIHF World Rankings

The Women's 2022 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019, and at the 2022 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Beijing, China.

For the 2018 Winter Olympics, Russia's Olympic Committee and many of its athletes were banned due to systemic illegal doping.[5] The IIHF opposed an outright ban on all Russian players[6] and the ice hockey team from the Russian hockey federation played under the banner of the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic Athletes from Russia", along with other Russian athletes not banned for doping.

Most of the tournaments in 2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, teams were awarded points based on their seeding for their respective tournaments. The Championship division received points based on the 2019 World Ranking, while Divisions IA, IB, and IIA received points based on the previous year's results. Divisions IIB and III were completed and scored as scheduled.

The following table lists the ranking following the 2021 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships,[8] and the calculations of the rankings following the 2022 Women's Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament and 2022 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships. Scores in italics represent minimum possible scores for unfinished tournaments. All tournament's points have their full value displayed, while the ranking is calculated by adding the current year's tournament points to the depreciated previous three years' tournament points as explained above. The depreciated percentages are shown in the column headings, first for the current total, then for the new total. The "Total" columns are the sums of the current tournament points and the depreciated values for past tournaments. The "+/–" columns indicate the increase or decrease in ranking since the last tournament. A dash in a tournament column indicates that the country did not participate.

2022
Rank 		OLY
2022
Rank 		Team WC division
(as of 2022) 		WC2022
(—)
(100%) 		OLY2022
(100%)
(100%) 		WC2021
(100%)
(75%) 		WC2020
(75%)
(50%) 		WC2019
(50%)
(25%) 		WC2018
(25%)
(0%) 		2022
Total 		+/- OLY
2022
Total 		+/−
1 1  Canada Championship 940 1200 1200 1160 1120 1160 3900 Steady 4120 Increase 1
2 2  United States Championship 940 1160 1160 1200 1200 1200 3870 Steady 4120 Decrease 1
3 3  Finland Championship 940 1120 1120 1120 1160 1120 3750 Steady 3940 Steady
4 4   Switzerland Championship 940 1100 1100 1060 1060 1060 3660 Steady 3790 Increase 1
5 6  Japan Championship 940 1040 1040 1040 1000 1040 3530 Increase 1 3620 Steady
6 7  Czech Republic Championship 940 1020 1020 1020 1040 1000 3495 Increase 1 3575 Steady
7 8  Sweden Championship 940 1000 960 920 960 1020 3360 Increase 1 3385 Increase 1
8 9  Germany Championship 940 860 1000 1000 1020 980 3305 Increase 1 3365 Decrease 1
9 10  Denmark Championship 940 940 940 960 900 900 3290 Increase 1 3275 Increase 1
10 11  Hungary Championship 940 920 960 940 920 920 3280 Increase 1 3275 Decrease 1
11 12  France Division I A 900 880 920 900 940 960 3155 Increase 1 3185 Steady
12 14  Norway Division I A 880 840 880 880 880 880 3040 Increase 2 3040 Decrease 1
13 13  Austria Division I A 840 900 860 860 860 940 3030 Steady 3070 Increase 1
14 15  Slovakia Division I A 860 820 840 840 840 860 2940 Increase 1 2925 Steady
15 17  China Division I B 800 960 740 740 740 760 2870 Increase 2 2815 Increase 3
16 16  Italy Division I B 760 800 820 800 820 840 2780 Steady 2840 Steady
17 19  Netherlands Division I A 820 740 780 820 800 720 2755 Increase 2 2715 Decrease 1
18 20  Poland Division I B 780 760 760 760 760 740 2680 Increase 2 2655 Decrease 1
19 18  South Korea Division I B 720 780 800 780 780 820 2685 Decrease 1 2760 Decrease 1
20 5  Russia Expelled 0 1060 1060 1100 1100 1100 2680 Decrease 15 3770 Decrease 1
21 21  Kazakhstan Division I B 740 660 720 720 720 780 2480 Steady 2475 Steady
22 22  Slovenia Division I B 700 680 680 700 680 640 2410 Steady 2385 Increase 1
23 23  Great Britain Division II A 680 720 660 660 660 700 2390 Steady 2380 Increase 1
24 24  Spain Division II A 640 700 640 640 640 600 2300 Steady 2290 Increase 1
25 25  Mexico Division II A 600 640 620 620 620 620 2170 Steady 2190 Increase 1
26 26  Chinese Taipei Division II A 620 620 540 580 560 580 2075 Steady 2020 Increase 4
27 27  Iceland Division II B 560 600 520 540 520 560 1950 Steady 1925 Increase 4
28 28  Turkey Division II B 520 580 580 500 500 520 1910 Steady 1915 Steady
29 29  Latvia Division II A 660 — 700 680 700 800 1700 Steady 1760 Decrease 7
30 32  Bulgaria Division III A 400 540 360 380 360 400 1490 Increase 2 1465 Increase 7
31 33  Australia Division II B 540 — 560 560 580 660 1385 Increase 2 1435 Decrease 4
32 36  Lithuania Division III A 420 520 340 360 — — 1375 Increase 4 1130 Increase 4
33 35  Croatia Division II B 480 — 480 480 480 480 1200 Increase 2 1200 Decrease 2
34 30  Hong Kong Division III A — 560 460 340 380 420 1170 Decrease 4 1570 Increase 4
35 38  South Africa Division II B 500 — 420 440 400 440 1135 Increase 3 1060 Decrease 2
36 39  Belgium Division III A 440 — 400 420 420 460 1055 Increase 3 1040 Decrease 2
37 31  North Korea Division II A — — 600 600 600 680 900 Decrease 6 1520 Decrease 4
38 34  New Zealand Division II B — — 500 520 540 540 770 Decrease 4 1295 Decrease 2
39 37  Romania Division III A — — 440 400 460 500 645 Decrease 2 1095 Decrease 2
40 40  Ukraine Division III A — — 380 460 440 — 625 Steady 945 Decrease 2
41 41  Estonia Division III B 320 — 320 — — — 560 Steady 320 Steady
42 42  Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III B 280 — 300 — — — 505 Steady 300 Steady
43 —  Serbia Division III B 300 — — — — — 300 new
44 —  Israel Division III B 260 — — — — — 260 new

See also

References

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  2. ^ Hockey Canada (30 September 2003). "IIHF Introduces World Ranking and Ranks Canada First in Men's and Women's Hockey". Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  3. ^ Edvinsson, Jan-Ake, ed. (November 2003). "News release–Hockey fans are the best in the world" (PDF). Ice Times. 7 (5). International Ice Hockey Federation: 7. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Olympic Winter Games". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. ^ a b Ruiz, Rebecca R.; Panja, Tariq (5 December 2017). "Russia Banned From Winter Olympics by I.O.C." The New York Times.
  6. ^ a b Clinton, Jared (29 November 2017). "IIHF says complete ban of Russian Olympians would put 'health of hockey at risk'". The Hockey News.
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