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Top 20 rankings as of May 2024[1]
Men's
Rank Change* Team Points
1 Steady  Canada 4100
2 Increase 1  Russia 4065
3 Decrease 1  Finland 3955
4 Increase 4  Czech Republic 3945
5 Increase 2   Switzerland 3945
6 Decrease 2  United States 3945
7 Decrease 1  Sweden 3910
8 Decrease 3  Germany 3865
9 Steady  Slovakia 3750
10 Steady  Latvia 3660
11 Steady  Denmark 3500
12 Steady  Norway 3380
13 Increase 3  Austria 3340
14 Decrease 1  France 3325
15 Steady  Kazakhstan 3305
16 Decrease 2  Belarus 3245
17 Increase 3  Great Britain 3095
18 Increase 1  Hungary 3090
19 Decrease 2  Slovenia 3090
20 Decrease 2  Italy 3025
Women's
Rank Change* Team Points
1 Steady  Canada 4270
2 Steady  United States 4210
3 Increase 1  Finland 3975
4 Increase 1  Czech Republic 3965
5 Decrease 2   Switzerland 3960
6 Steady  Russia 3880
7 Steady  Japan 3775
8 Steady  Sweden 3750
9 Steady  Germany 3650
10 Steady  Hungary 3520
11 Steady  Denmark 3490
12 Increase 2  China 3425
13 Decrease 1  France 3415
14 Increase 1  Norway 3340
15 Decrease 2  Austria 3315
16 Steady  Slovakia 3175
17 Steady  Netherlands 3170
18 Increase 1  South Korea 3080
19 Decrease 1  Italy 3025
20 Steady  Poland 2955

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 Canada in both men's and women's play.

Description

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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

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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 1600 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] Prior to 2023, the world champion received 1200 points, with other teams receiving the same point interval decreases.

Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ...
Points 1600 1560 1520 1500 1460 1440 1420 1400 1360 1340 1320 1300 1280 1260 1240 1220 1200 1180 1160 1140 ...

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[a], for a maximum ranking (gold medal in all five events) of: 5600 points at the completion of an Olympic year, 5200 points at the completion of the following year, 4800 points the next year, and 4400 points in the year before the next Olympics. For example, if after the 2026 Championship a team had won the gold medal in the last four championships and the last Olympic tournament, their score would be 5600:[b]

Competition Valuation
coefficient
Points
2026 IIHF World Championship 100% 1600
2026 Winter Olympics 100% 1600
2025 IIHF World Championship 75% 1200
2024 IIHF World Championship 50% 800
2023 IIHF World Championship 25% 400
2022 IIHF World Championship 0% 0
2022 Winter Olympics 0% 0
Counts Five Tournaments from Four Latest Years 5600
  1. ^ From April 2014 to August 2022, Women's rankings counted Olympics points twice, to be on same formula as Men's rankings, as no Women's top division World Championship was held in Olympic years. This changed with the Women's top division starting to be held in Olympic years in 2022.
  2. ^ Due to the point value change from 2023, tournaments from 2020-2022 will still use the 1200 point values in the formula.

Men's rankings

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The Men's 2024 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021, and at the Olympic Ice Hockey tournament of 2022.

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.[5]

For the 2022 Winter Olympics, Russia was still under a 2019 ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) because of that country's state-sponsored doping scheme.[6] On 19 February 2021, the International Olympic Committee announced that individual athletes from Russia, who had consistently passed ongoing anti-doping tests, could compete under the acronym "ROC" (the full name "Russian Olympic Committee" could not be displayed), and that the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee would be used for the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics and the unchanged 2022 Winter Olympics.[7]

Russia and Belarus were expelled from competing in the 2022 and 2023 World Championships because of their invasion of Ukraine. They were, however, granted the points of the positions they would have been seeded based on their 2021 ranking: in 2022, Russia in third place received 1120 points, and Belarus in 14th place received 860 points. Several nations withdrew from the 2022 World Championships over COVID-19 concerns. These nations similarly received the points of the positions they would have been seeded within their respective tournaments: Australia as second place in IIA received 560 points, New Zealand as third place in IIB received 440 points, North Korea as first place in IIIA received 360 points, Hong Kong as second place in IIIB received 220 points, and the Philippines as fourth place in IV received 100 points. [8]

The following table lists the full breakdown of ranking following the 2024 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships.[9] 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.

2024
Rank
2023
Rank
Team WC division
(as of 2024)
WC2024
(—)
(100%)
WC2023
(100%)
(75%)
WC2022
(75%)
(50%)
OLY2022
(75%)
(50%)
WC2021
(50%)
(25%)
WC2020
(25%)
(—)
2024
Total
+/− 2023
Total
+/−
1 1  Canada Championship 1500 1600 1160 1040 1200 1200 4100 Steady 4150 Increase 1
2 3  Russia Expelled 1520 1520 1120 1160 1060 1160 4065 Increase 1 4050 Steady
3 2  Finland Championship 1400 1420 1200 1200 1160 1120 3955 Decrease 1 4080 Decrease 1
4 8  Czech Republic Championship 1600 1400 1120 960 1020 1060 3945 Increase 4 3735 Decrease 2
5 7   Switzerland Championship 1560 1460 1060 1000 1040 1000 3945 Increase 2 3775 Steady
6 4  United States Championship 1460 1500 1100 1060 1120 1040 3945 Decrease 2 3940 Steady
7 6  Sweden Championship 1520 1440 1040 1100 960 1100 3910 Decrease 1 3800 Decrease 1
8 5  Germany Championship 1440 1560 1020 940 1100 1020 3865 Decrease 3 3835 Increase 4
9 9  Slovakia Championship 1420 1360 1000 1120 1000 960 3750 Steady 3690 Decrease 1
10 10  Latvia Championship 1360 1520 940 920 920 940 3660 Steady 3610 Increase 1
11 11  Denmark Championship 1280 1340 960 1020 900 900 3500 Steady 3500 Decrease 1
12 12  Norway Championship 1320 1280 880 880 880 920 3380 Steady 3270 Steady
13 16  Austria Championship 1340 1260 920 800 780 780 3340 Increase 3 3135 Decrease 1
14 13  France Championship 1260 1300 900 860 840 800 3325 Decrease 1 3240 Steady
15 15  Kazakhstan Championship 1300 1320 860 700 940 840 3305 Steady 3170 Increase 1
16 14  Belarus Expelled 1240 1260 860 840 840 880 3245 Decrease 2 3175 Steady
17 20  Great Britain Championship 1240 1200 820 660 860 820 3095 Increase 3 2945 Decrease 2
18 19  Hungary Division I A 1200 1240 780 780 720 720 3090 Increase 1 2950 Increase 1
19 17  Slovenia Division I A 1180 1220 800 820 740 740 3090 Decrease 2 2990 Increase 2
20 18  Italy Division I A 1160 1160 840 740 820 860 3025 Decrease 2 2970 Decrease 1
21 22  Poland Championship 1220 1180 700 760 700 660 3010 Increase 1 2790 Steady
22 21  South Korea Division I A 1100 1140 740 720 760 760 2875 Decrease 1 2805 Steady
23 23  Romania Division I A 1140 1120 720 640 660 700 2825 Steady 2645 Increase 1
24 25  Japan Division I A 1120 1080 680 680 640 640 2770 Increase 1 2580 Steady
25 24  Lithuania Division I B 1060 1100 760 600 680 680 2735 Decrease 1 2630 Decrease 1
26 26  China Division I B 1020 1040 600 900 500 480 2675 Steady 2535 Steady
27 27  Ukraine Division I B 1080 1060 660 620 600 600 2665 Steady 2470 Steady
28 28  Estonia Division I B 1040 1020 640 580 620 620 2570 Steady 2400 Steady
29 29  Netherlands Division I B 980 1000 580 560 580 560 2445 Steady 2285 Steady
30 32  Spain Division I B 1000 960 540 520 520 500 2380 Increase 2 2140 Steady
31 30  Serbia Division II A 940 980 620 500 560 580 2375 Decrease 1 2245 Steady
32 31  Croatia Division II A 960 940 560 540 540 540 2350 Decrease 1 2170 Steady
33 33  Israel Division II A 900 900 520 420 460 460 2160 Steady 1950 Steady
34 34  Iceland Division II A 860 880 480 480 440 420 2110 Steady 1925 Steady
35 35  Australia Division II A 880 920 560 480 520 1970 Steady 1710 Increase 1
36 39  United Arab Emirates Division II A 920 840 360 320 200 220 1940 Increase 3 1505 Increase 4
37 36  Bulgaria Division II B 780 800 420 380 340 340 1865 Decrease 1 1655 Increase 1
38 38  Turkey Division II B 740 760 340 460 300 300 1785 Steady 1585 Steady
39 40  Belgium Division II B 840 820 440 420 440 1780 Increase 1 1470 Steady
40 41  Chinese Taipei Division II B 760 720 300 440 240 240 1730 Increase 1 1455 Decrease 2
41 42  New Zealand Division II B 820 780 440 360 400 1715 Increase 1 1390 Steady
42 37  Mexico Division III A 620 740 400 360 400 360 1655 Decrease 5 1600 Decrease 2
43 44  Thailand Division III A 720 660 220 340 140 160 1530 Increase 1 1190 Increase 2
44 43  Luxembourg Division III A 680 640 280 300 280 260 1520 Decrease 1 1280 Increase 1
45 46  Kyrgyzstan Division III A 700 600 160 400 100 100 1455 Increase 1 1095 Increase 3
46 45  Turkmenistan Division III A 660 700 320 260 280 1410 Decrease 1 1140 Increase 3
47 49  South Africa Division III A 640 680 240 220 200 1325 Increase 2 1020 Increase 2
48 48  Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III B 600 580 200 260 160 140 1305 Steady 1040 Increase 2
49 47  Hong Kong Division III B 560 560 220 280 180 180 1275 Decrease 2 1070 Steady
50 53  Georgia Division II B 800 0[a] 460 380 380 1125 Increase 3 630 Decrease 12
51 51  Singapore Division III B 520 540 120 40 995 Steady 650 Increase 4
52 50  Kuwait Division IV 460 440 80 240 120 120 980 Decrease 2 770 Increase 2
53 55  Philippines Division III B 540 480 100 60 60 965 Increase 2 600 Decrease 1
54 54  Iran Division III B 500 520 140 960 Steady 625 Increase 2
55 52  Malaysia Division IV 420 500 100 80 80 865 Decrease 3 635 Increase 1
56 56  North Korea Division III B 580 360 320 320 840 Steady 510 Decrease 11
57 57  Mongolia Division IV 480 460 825 Steady 460 new
58 58  Indonesia Division IV 440 420 755 Steady 420 new
  1. ^ Georgia's result in 2023 was invalidated by the IIHF.

Women's rankings

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The Women's 2024 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021, and at the Olympic Ice Hockey tournament of 2022.

Most of the tournaments in 2020 and 2021 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 previous year's 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 in 2020.

For the 2022 Winter Olympics, Russia was still under a 2019 ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) because of that country's state-sponsored doping scheme.[6] On 19 February 2021, the International Olympic Committee announced that individual athletes from Russia, who had consistently passed ongoing anti-doping tests, could compete under the acronym "ROC" (the full name "Russian Olympic Committee" could not be displayed), and that the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee would be used for the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics and the unchanged 2022 Winter Olympics.[7]

The following table lists the ranking following the 2024 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships.[9] 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.

2024
Rank
2023
Rank
Team WC division
(as of 2023)
WC2024
(—)
(100%)
WC2023
(100%)
(75%)
WC2022
(75%)
(50%)
OLY2022
(75%)
(50%)
WC2021
(50%)
(25%)
WC2020
(25%)
(0%)
2024
Total
+/− 2023
Total
+/−
1 1  Canada Championship 1600 1560 1200 1200 1200 1160 4270 Steady 4250 Steady
2 2  United States Championship 1560 1600 1160 1160 1160 1200 4210 Steady 4220 Steady
3 4  Finland Championship 1520 1460 1040 1120 1120 1120 3975 Increase 1 3920 Decrease 1
4 5  Czech Republic Championship 1500 1520 1120 1020 1020 1020 3965 Increase 1 3890 Increase 1
5 3   Switzerland Championship 1460 1500 1100 1100 1100 1060 3960 Decrease 2 3965 Increase 1
6 6  Russia Expelled 1440 1460 1100 1060 1060 1100 3880 Steady 3885 Decrease 1
7 7  Japan Championship 1400 1420 1060 1040 1040 1040 3775 Steady 3775 Steady
8 8  Sweden Championship 1420 1440 1020 1000 960 920 3750 Steady 3665 Steady
9 9  Germany Championship 1440 1400 960 860 1000 1000 3650 Steady 3515 Increase 1
10 10  Hungary Division I A 1300 1360 1000 920 960 940 3520 Steady 3515 Decrease 1
11 11  Denmark Championship 1340 1300 940 940 940 960 3490 Steady 3420 Steady
12 14  China Championship 1360 1320 820 960 740 740 3425 Increase 2 3210 Increase 2
13 12  France Division I A 1280 1340 920 880 920 900 3415 Decrease 1 3375 Steady
14 15  Norway Division I A 1320 1240 900 840 880 880 3340 Increase 1 3205 Decrease 2
15 13  Austria Division I A 1260 1280 860 900 860 860 3315 Decrease 2 3245 Increase 1
16 16  Slovakia Division I B 1200 1220 880 820 840 840 3175 Steady 3125 Decrease 1
17 17  Netherlands Division I A 1240 1260 840 740 780 820 3170 Steady 3040 Increase 1
18 19  South Korea Division I A 1220 1200 740 780 800 780 3080 Increase 1 2935 Steady
19 18  Italy Division I B 1160 1160 780 800 820 800 3025 Decrease 1 2955 Decrease 1
20 20  Poland Division I B 1100 1180 800 760 760 760 2955 Steady 2920 Steady
21 23  Great Britain Division I B 1140 1120 700 720 660 660 2855 Increase 2 2680 Steady
22 21  Slovenia Division I B 1120 1140 720 680 680 700 2845 Decrease 1 2705 Increase 1
23 22  Kazakhstan Division II A 1080 1100 760 660 720 720 2795 Decrease 1 2705 Decrease 1
24 24  Spain Division II A 1060 1060 660 700 640 640 2695 Steady 2560 Steady
25 25  Mexico Division II A 1040 1040 620 640 620 620 2605 Steady 2450 Steady
26 26  Chinese Taipei Division II A 1020 1020 640 620 540 580 2550 Steady 2380 Steady
27 29  Latvia Division I B 1180 1080 680 700 680 2505 Increase 2 2110 Steady
28 27  Iceland Division II A 1000 1000 580 600 520 540 2470 Decrease 1 2280 Steady
29 28  Turkey Division II B 880 860 540 580 580 500 2275 Decrease 1 2115 Steady
30 30  Hong Kong Division II B 920 840 380 560 460 340 2135 Steady 1860 Steady
31 31  Australia Division II B 940 940 560 560 560 2065 Steady 1780 Increase 2
32 36  Belgium Division II A 980 960 460 400 420 2030 Increase 4 1610 Increase 3
33 34  New Zealand Division II B 900 920 540 500 520 1985 Increase 1 1705 Increase 1
34 32  Lithuania Division III A 800 800 440 520 340 360 1965 Decrease 2 1780 Increase 2
35 37  South Africa Division II B 860 900 520 420 440 1900 Increase 2 1610 Steady
36 33  Bulgaria Division III A 740 760 420 540 360 380 1880 Decrease 3 1755 Decrease 1
37 35  Croatia Division III A 760 880 500 480 480 1790 Decrease 2 1615 Increase 1
38 38  Ukraine Division III A 840 820 460 380 460 1780 Steady 1470 Steady
39 39  Romania Division III A 820 780 420 440 400 1725 Steady 1415 Increase 1
40 41  Estonia Division III B 700 740 340 320 1505 Increase 1 1155 Steady
41 43  Serbia Division III A 780 720 320 1480 Increase 2 960 Steady
42 40  North Korea Division II B 960 620 600 600 1420 Decrease 2 1315 Decrease 9
43 42  Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III B 640 680 300 300 1375 Decrease 1 1055 Steady
44 44  Israel Division III B 680 700 280 1345 Steady 910 Steady
45  Thailand Division III B 720 720 new
46  Singapore Division III B 660 660 new

See also

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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. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. ^ "IIHF – Groups for 2022". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. ^ a b Ruiz, Rebecca R.; Panja, Tariq (5 December 2017). "Russia Banned From Winter Olympics by I.O.C." The New York Times.
  7. ^ a b "Olympics: Russia to compete under ROC acronym in Tokyo as part of doping sanctions". Reuters. 19 February 2021. Archived from the original on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Finland Stays #1 in World Ranking". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  9. ^ a b "IIHF - World Ranking". IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
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