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IIHF World Ranking

Summary

Top 20 rankings as of May 2023[1]
Men's
Rank Change* Team Points
1 Increase 1  Canada 4150
2 Decrease 1  Finland 4080
3 Steady  Russia 4050
4 Steady  United States 3940
5 Increase 4  Germany 3835
6 Decrease 1  Sweden 3800
7 Steady   Switzerland 3775
8 Decrease 2  Czech Republic 3735
9 Decrease 1  Slovakia 3690
10 Increase 1  Latvia 3610
11 Decrease 1  Denmark 3500
12 Steady  Norway 3270
13 Steady  France 3240
14 Steady  Belarus 3175
15 Increase 1  Kazakhstan 3170
16 Decrease 1  Austria 3135
17 Increase 2  Slovenia 2990
18 Decrease 1  Italy 2970
19 Increase 1  Hungary 2950
20 Decrease 2  Great Britain 2945
Women's
Rank Change* Team Points
1 Steady  Canada 4250
2 Steady  United States 4220
3 Increase 1   Switzerland 3965
4 Decrease 1  Finland 3920
5 Increase 1  Czech Republic 3890
6 Decrease 1  Russia 3885
7 Steady  Japan 3775
8 Steady  Sweden 3665
9 Increase 1  Germany 3515
10 Decrease 1  Hungary 3515
11 Steady  Denmark 3420
12 Steady  France 3375
13 Increase 1  Austria 3245
14 Increase 2  China 3210
15 Decrease 2  Norway 3205
16 Decrease 1  Slovakia 3125
17 Increase 1  Netherlands 3040
18 Decrease 1  Italy 2955
19 Steady  South Korea 2935
20 Steady  Poland 2920

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 2023 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships,[9] and the calculations of the rankings during the 2024 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.

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 1220 1600 1160 1040 1200 1200 3820   4150   1
2 2   Finland Championship 1220 1420 1200 1200 1160 1120 3775   4080   1
3 3   Russia Expelled 1220 1520 1120 1160 1060 1160 3765   4050  
4 4   United States Championship 1220 1500 1100 1060 1120 1040 3705   3940  
5 5   Germany Championship 1220 1560 1020 940 1100 1020 3645   3835   4
6 6   Sweden Championship 1220 1440 1040 1100 960 1100 3610   3800   1
7 7    Switzerland Championship 1220 1460 1060 1000 1040 1000 3605   3775  
8 8   Czech Republic Championship 1220 1400 1120 960 1020 1060 3565   3735   2
9 9   Slovakia Championship 1220 1360 1000 1120 1000 960 3550   3690   1
10 10   Latvia Championship 1220 1520 940 920 920 940 3520   3610   1
11 11   Denmark Championship 1220 1340 960 1020 900 900 3440   3500   1
12 13   France Championship 1220 1300 900 860 840 800 3285   1 3240  
13 12   Norway Championship 1220 1280 880 880 880 920 3280   1 3270  
14 14   Belarus Expelled 1220 1260 860 840 840 880 3225   3175  
15 15   Kazakhstan Championship 1220 1320 860 700 940 840 3225   3170   1
16 16   Austria Championship 1220 1260 920 800 780 780 3220   3135   1
17 20   Great Britain Championship 1220 1200 820 660 860 820 3075   3 2945   2
18 22   Poland Championship 1220 1180 700 760 700 660 3010   4 2790  
19 17   Slovenia Division I A 1100 1220 800 820 740 740 3010   2 2990   2
20 19   Hungary Division I A 1100 1240 780 780 720 720 2990   1 2950   1
21 18   Italy Division I A 1100 1160 840 740 820 860 2965   3 2970   1
22 21   South Korea Division I A 1100 1140 740 720 760 760 2875   1 2805  
23 23   Romania Division I A 1100 1120 720 640 660 700 2785   2645   1
24 25   Japan Division I A 1100 1080 680 680 640 640 2750   1 2580  
24 24   Lithuania Division I B 980 1100 760 600 680 680 2655   1 2630   1
26 26   China Division I B 980 1040 600 900 500 480 2635   2535  
27 27   Ukraine Division I B 980 1060 660 620 600 600 2565   2470  
28 28   Estonia Division I B 980 1020 640 580 620 620 2510   2400  
29 29   Netherlands Division I B 980 1000 580 560 580 560 2445   2285  
30 32   Spain Division I B 980 960 540 520 520 500 2360   2 2140  
31 30   Serbia Division II A 860 980 620 500 560 580 2295   1 2245  
32 31   Croatia Division II A 860 920 560 540 540 540 2250   1 2170  
33 33   Israel Division II A 860 880 520 420 460 460 2120   1950  
34 34   Iceland Division II A 860 860 480 480 440 420 2110   1925  
35 35   Australia Division II A 860 900 560 — 480 520 1950   1710   1
36 39   United Arab Emirates Division II A 860 840 360 320 200 220 1880   3 1505   4
37 36   Bulgaria Division II B 740 800 420 380 340 340 1825   1 1655   1
38 38   Turkey Division II B 740 760 340 460 300 300 1785   1585  
39 41   Chinese Taipei Division II B 740 720 300 440 240 240 1710   2 1455   2
40 40   Belgium Division II B 740 820 440 — 420 440 1680   1470  
41 37   Mexico Division III A 620 740 400 360 400 360 1655   4 1600   2
42 42   New Zealand Division II B 740 780 440 — 360 400 1635   1390  
43 44   Thailand Division III A 720 660 220 340 140 160 1530   1 1190   2
44 43   Luxembourg Division III A 680 640 280 300 280 260 1520   1 1280   1
45 46   Kyrgyzstan Division III A 700 600 160 400 100 100 1455   1 1095   3
46 45   Turkmenistan Division III A 660 700 320 — 260 280 1410   1 1140   3
47 49   South Africa Division III A 640 680 240 — 220 200 1325   2 1020   2
48 48   Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III B 600 580 200 260 160 140 1305   1040   2
49 47   Hong Kong Division III B 560 560 220 280 180 180 1275   2 1070  
50 53   Georgia Division II B 740 0[a] 460 — 380 380 1065   3 630   12
51 51   Singapore Division III B 520 540 120 — 40 — 995   650   4
52 55   Philippines Division III B 540 480 100 — 60 60 965   3 600   1
53 54   Iran Division III B 500 520 140 — — — 960   1 625   2
54 50   Kuwait Division IV 420 440 80 240 120 120 940   4 770   2
55 52   Malaysia Division IV 420 500 100 — 80 80 865   3 635   1
56 56   North Korea Division III B 580 — 360 — 320 320 840   510   11
57 57   Mongolia Division IV 420 460 — — — — 765   460 new
58 58   Indonesia Division IV 420 420 — — — — 735   420 new
  1. ^ Georgia's result in 2023 was invalidated by the IIHF.

Women's rankings edit

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 2022 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships,[9] and the calculations of the rankings following the 2023 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.

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   4250  
2 2   United States Championship 1560 1600 1160 1160 1160 1200 4210   4220  
3 4   Finland Championship 1520 1460 1040 1120 1120 1120 3975   1 3920   1
4 5   Czech Republic Championship 1500 1520 1120 1020 1020 1020 3965   1 3890   1
5 3    Switzerland Championship 1460 1500 1100 1100 1100 1060 3960   2 3965   1
6 6   Russia Expelled 1400 1460 1100 1060 1060 1100 3840   3885   1
7 7   Japan Championship 1400 1420 1060 1040 1040 1040 3775   3775  
8 8   Sweden Championship 1420 1440 1020 1000 960 920 3750   3665  
9 9   Germany Championship 1440 1400 960 860 1000 1000 3650   3515   1
10 11   Denmark Championship 1340 1300 940 940 940 960 3490   1 3420  
11 10   Hungary Division I A 1220 1360 1000 920 960 940 3440   1 3515   1
12 14   China Championship 1360 1320 820 960 740 740 3425   2 3210   2
13 12   France Division I A 1220 1340 920 880 920 900 3355   1 3375  
14 13   Austria Division I A 1220 1280 860 900 860 860 3275   1 3245   1
15 15   Norway Division I A 1220 1240 900 840 880 880 3240   3205   2
16 16   Slovakia Division I B 1200 1220 880 820 840 840 3175   3125   1
17 17   Netherlands Division I A 1220 1260 840 740 780 820 3150   3040   1
18 19   South Korea Division I A 1220 1200 740 780 800 780 3080   1 2935  
19 18   Italy Division I B 1160 1160 780 800 820 800 3025   1 2955   1
20 20   Poland Division I B 1100 1180 800 760 760 760 2955   2920  
21 23   Great Britain Division I B 1140 1120 700 720 660 660 2855   2 2680  
22 21   Slovenia Division I B 1120 1140 720 680 680 700 2845   1 2705   1
23 22   Kazakhstan Division II A 1080 1100 760 660 720 720 2795   1 2705   1
24 24   Spain Division II A 1060 1060 660 700 640 640 2695   2560  
25 25   Mexico Division II A 1040 1040 620 640 620 620 2605   2450  
26 26   Chinese Taipei Division II A 1020 1020 640 620 540 580 2550   2380  
27 29   Latvia Division I B 1180 1080 680 — 700 680 2505   2 2110  
28 27   Iceland Division II A 1000 1000 580 600 520 540 2470   1 2280  
29 28   Turkey Division II B 880 860 540 580 580 500 2275   1 2115  
30 30   Hong Kong Division II B 920 840 380 560 460 340 2135   1860  
31 31   Australia Division II B 940 940 560 — 560 560 2065   1780   2
32 36   Belgium Division II A 980 960 460 — 400 420 2030   4 1610   3
33 34   New Zealand Division II B 900 920 540 — 500 520 1985   1 1705   1
34 32   Lithuania Division III A 800 800 440 520 340 360 1965   2 1780   2
35 37   South Africa Division II B 860 900 520 — 420 440 1900   2 1610  
36 33   Bulgaria Division III A 740 760 420 540 360 380 1880   3 1755   1
37 35   Croatia Division III A 760 880 500 — 480 480 1790   2 1615   1
38 38   Ukraine Division III A 840 820 460 — 380 460 1780   1470  
39 39   Romania Division III A 820 780 420 — 440 400 1725   1415   1
40 41   Estonia Division III B 700 740 340 — 320 — 1505   1 1155  
41 43   Serbia Division III A 780 720 320 — — — 1480   2 960  
42 40   North Korea Division II B 960 — 620 — 600 600 1420   2 1315   9
43 42   Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III B 640 680 300 — 300 — 1375   1 1055  
44 44   Israel Division III B 680 700 280 — — — 1345   910  
45 —   Thailand Division III B 720 — — — — — 720 new — —
46 —   Singapore Division III B 660 — — — — — 660 new — —

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "IIHF – World Ranking". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  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. ^ "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 2 March 2022.

External links edit

  • World Ranking for the current year at IIHF.com
  • World Rankings from 2007 to 2018 at IIHF.com

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