IIHF World Ranking

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The IIHF World Ranking is a ranking of the national teams of member countries of the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The system was approved by the IIHF congress in September 2003.[1] According to 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."[2]

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[edit] Current calculation method

The world ranking is based on the final positions of the last four Ice Hockey World Championships and last Olympic ice hockey tournament. Since the women have no world championship in the year of the Olympics is based only on the last three world championships and the Olympic tournament. Points are assigned according to a teams 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.[3]

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

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.[3] For example if a country after 2011 had won the gold medal in the last four championships and the last Olympic tournament their score would be 3900:

Competition Valuation
coefficient		 Points
2011 IIHF World Championship 100% 1200
2010 IIHF World Championship 75% 900
2010 Winter Olympics 75% 900
2009 IIHF World Championship 50% 600
2008 IIHF World Championship 25% 300
2007 IIHF World Championship 0% 0

[edit] Effects

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 the 2010 Winter Olympics the first nine teams of the Men's World Ranking and the first six of the Women's World Ranking can participate without qualification. Qualification for the men's tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics was structured around the 2008 ranking. Twelve spots were made available for teams. The top nine teams in the World Ranking after the 2008 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships received automatic berths into the Ice Hockey event. Teams ranked 10th through 30th had an opportunity to qualify for the event.[4][5] The women's tournament uses a similar qualification format. The top six teams in the IIHF Women's World Ranking after the 2008 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships received automatic berths into the ice hockey event. Lower ranked teams had an opportunity to qualify for the event. Teams ranked 13th and below were divided into two groups where they played in a first qualification round in September 2008. The two group winners from the round advanced to the second qualification round, where the teams ranked seventh through twelfth joined them.[6]

[edit] Men's rankings

Graph of the evolution of the top ten men's nations (2003-2011).

The Men's 2011 ranking is based on the performance at World Championship of 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008, and at the 2010 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Vancouver, Canada.[3] For all years the points received is the shown at their full value. The "Total" column is the countries score after the previous years have been depreciated by their respected value. A dash in a tournament column indicates that the country did not participate.

Eight nations have achieved a top ten ranking every year between 2003-2011, they are: Canada, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic, Finland, the United States, Slovakia, and Switzerland. An additional four nations, Latvia (6 years), Germany (6 years), Belarus (5 years), and Norway (1 year) have been in the top ten at least once. Three countries have accomplished a first place ranking; Canada with four years, Russia with three years, and Sweden with two years. Only Sweden have achieved a top three ranking every year.


Rank
 Team World Championship
division (as of 2011)		 WC 2011
(100%)		 WC 2010
(75%)		 OLY 2010
(75%)		 WC 2009
(50%)		 WC 2008
(25%)		 Total Change
+/−
1  Russia Championship 1100 1160 1040 1200 1200 3650 –
2  Finland Championship 1200 1040 1120 1060 1120 3630 +2
3  Sweden Championship 1160 1120 1060 1120 1100 3630 –
4  Canada Championship 1060 1020 1200 1160 1160 3595 –2
5  Czech Republic Championship 1120 1200 1020 1040 1060 3570 –
6  United States Championship 1000 880 1160 1100 1040 3340 –
7  Switzerland Championship 960 1060 1000 960 1020 3240 –
8  Germany Championship 1020 1100 920 840 940 3190 +1
9  Norway Championship 1040 960 940 920 1000 3175 +2
10  Slovakia Championship 940 900 1100 940 880 3130 –2
11  Belarus Championship 860 940 960 1000 960 3025 –1
12  Latvia Championship 880 920 900 1020 920 2985 –
13  Denmark Championship 920 1000 840 880 900 2965 –
14  France Championship 900 860 740 900 860 2765 +1
15  Austria Division I 840 800 880 860 800 2730 –1
16  Kazakhstan Championship 800 820 820 800 740 2615 +1
17  Italy Championship 780 840 800 780 820 2605 –1
18  Slovenia Division I 820 780 760 760 840 2565 +1
19  Ukraine Division I 720 760 860 740 760 2495 –1
20  Hungary Division I 760 740 720 820 780 2460 –
21  Great Britain Division I 740 680 640 700 680 2250 +2
22  Japan Division I 580 720 780 720 720 2245 –1
23  Poland Division I 680 700 660 680 700 2215 –1
24  Lithuania Division I 640 620 700 660 660 2125 –
25  Netherlands Division I 660 660 600 640 620 2080 –
26  Estonia Division II 600 560 680 520 600 1940 +1
27  Croatia Division II 520 580 620 620 640 1890 –1
28  Romania Division II 560 520 560 580 560 1800 –
29  Spain Division II 620 540 540 480 460 1785 +1
30  Serbia Division II 480 600 580 540 480 1755 –1
31  South Korea Division I 700 640 – 560 580 1605 +2
32  Bulgaria Division II 380 440 520 420 380 1405 –1
33  Mexico Division II 400 400 500 400 440 1385 –1
34  Australia Division II 540 500 – 600 540 1350 –
35  Belgium Division II 440 480 – 500 520 1180 +1
36  Iceland Division II 460 460 – 440 400 1125 +2
37  Turkey Division III 280 340 480 300 260 1110 –2
38  New Zealand Division II 500 420 – 320 360 1065 +2
39  China Division II 420 380 – 460 500 1060 –2
40  Israel Division II 320 360 – 380 420} 885 –1
41  Ireland Division III 340 320 – 240 340 785 –
42  South Africa Division II 300 260 – 340 300 740 –
43  Luxembourg Division III 260 240 – 280 280 650 +1
44  Greece Division III 240 280 – 260 240 640 +1
45  North Korea Division III – 300 – 360 320 485 –2
46  Mongolia Division III – 200 – 220 220 315 –
47  United Arab Emirates Division III – 220 – – – 165 –
48  Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III – – – – 200 50 –


[edit] 2003–2010

Key
 P  Points
 R  Rank
Team P-2003
 R-2003
 P-2004
 R-2004
 P-2005
 R-2005
 P-2006
 R-2006
 P-2007
 R-2007
 P-2008
 R-2008
 P-2009
 R-2009
 P-2010
 R-2010
 Armenia — — 240 45 420 45 580 45 390 45 200 48 70 48 0 49
 Australia 1080 36 1125 35 1195 34 1215 34 1260 33 1300 33 1385 31 1350 34
 Austria 2970 12 2755 11 2430 13 2930 16 2695 17 2445 16 2285 16 2935 14
 Belarus 2955 13 2590 13 2430 12 3230 10 3025 9 2845 9 2660 8 3360 10
 Belgium 1240 33 1345 33 1255 32 1200 35 1200 35 1230 34 1255 33 1240 36
 Bosnia and Herzegovina — — — — — — — — — — 200 47 150 47 100 48
 Bulgaria 1550 30 1375 32 1235 33 1715 30 1500 31 1305 32 1160 35 1560 31
 Canada 3685 1 3485 1 3220 1 3890 3 3670 2 3410 1 3160 2 3980 2
 China 1805 28 1630 28 1515 28 1970 28 1860 27 1650 28 1410 29 1120 37
 Croatia 1545 31 1425 31 1390 30 2000 27 1850 28 1790 26 1675 26 2125 26
 Czech Republic 3560 3 3225 4 3065 3 3985 2 3595 4 3265 5 2915 6 3785 5
 Denmark 2665 14 2575 14 2400 14 3005 14 2855 12 2660 13 2445 13 3185 13
 Estonia 2135 24 1995 24 1860 24 2325 24 2165 23 1930 25 1635 27 2100 27
 Finland 3525 4 3195 5 2865 7 3830 4 3640 3 3385 4 3050 4 3805 4
 France 2575 18 2400 18 2150 17 2720 19 2525 19 2410 18 2325 14 2900 15
 Germany 3240 8 2990 8 2580 10 3110 12 2925 11 2740 10 2460 12 3360 9
 Great Britain 2230 23 1990 25 1780 25 1580 31 1605 29 1645 29 1695 25 2350 23
 Greece — — — — — — — — — — 240 46 440 46 595 45
 Hungary 2255 22 2060 22 1920 22 2430 22 2320 21 2220 20 2130 20 2655 20
 Iceland 930 38 875 39 875 39 840 40 920 37 965 38 1030 37 1095 38
 Ireland — — 260 44 455 44 585 44 710 43 775 40 720 42 750 41
 Israel 1110 35 1035 36 1140 35 1275 33 1260 34 1190 35 1070 36 970 39
 Italy 2585 17 2315 19 2100 19 2915 17 2815 13 2580 14 2290 15 2860 16
 Japan 2605 15 2440 15 2090 20 2540 21 2305 22 2120 22 1965 21 2575 21
 Kazakhstan 2480 21 2410 17 2335 15 3115 11 2740 16 2405 19 2165 18 2790 17
 North Korea 680 41 950 37 1105 36 1105 36 660 44 645 44 705 43 730 43
 South Korea 1420 32 1455 30 1360 31 1320 32 1320 32 1365 31 1395 30 1485 33
 Latvia 3060 10 2900 10 2675 9 3310 9 2995 10 2740 11 2610 10 3265 12
 Lithuania 1885 27 1720 27 1620 27 2270 25 2105 25 1970 23 1810 23 2300 24
 Luxembourg 635 42 755 42 785 42 705 43 710 42 695 43 700 44 665 44
 Mexico 820 39 770 41 775 43 845 39 915 38 1010 37 1025 38 1520 32
 Mongolia — — — — — — — — 260 46 415 45 515 45 540 46
 Netherlands 2135 25 2015 23 1885 23 2360 23 2155 24 1935 24 1755 24 2210 25
 New Zealand 800 40 870 40 910 38 925 38 900 39 890 39 850 39 925 40
 Norway 2535 20 2265 21 2105 18 2935 15 2780 14 2735 12 2545 11 3305 11
 Poland 2550 19 2295 20 2085 21 2580 20 2395 20 2175 21 1940 22 2405 22
 Romania 1965 26 1845 26 1685 26 2135 26 1970 26 1770 27 1605 28 1945 28
 Russia 3480 6 3105 7 2905 5 3725 5 3535 5 3400 2 3200 1 3980 1
 Serbia 1685 29 1565 29 1420 29 1745 29 1555 30 1425 30 1365 32 1935 29
 Slovakia 3480 5 3235 3 2965 4 3685 6 3390 6 2955 8 2635 9 3405 8
 Slovenia 2595 16 2420 16 2295 16 2870 18 2640 18 2460 15 2190 17 2730 19
 South Africa 990 37 930 38 845 40 830 41 770 41 755 42 790 40 735 42
 Spain 1230 34 1170 34 1090 37 1040 37 1090 36 1120 36 1165 34 1790 30
 Sweden 3610 2 3400 2 3095 2 4095 1 3740 1 3400 3 3095 3 3845 3
 Switzerland 3135 9 2920 9 2715 8 3500 8 3250 8 3020 7 2725 7 3540 7
 Turkey 625 43 690 43 795 41 775 42 830 40 765 41 750 41 1265 35
 Ukraine 3010 11 2720 12 2490 11 3005 13 2740 15 2435 17 2135 19 2760 18
 United Arab Emirates — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 220 47
 United States 3330 7 3145 6 2865 6 3580 7 3375 7 3105 6 2915 5 3650 6

[edit] Women's rankings

The Women's 2011 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2011, 2009 and 2008 and at the 2010 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Vancouver, Canada.[3] For all years the points received is the shown at their full value. The "Total" column is the countries score after the previous years have been depreciated by their respected value. A dash in a tournament column indicates that the country did not participate.

Rank
 Team World Championship
division (as of 2011)		 WC 2011
(100%)		 OLY 2010
(75%)		 WC 2009
(50%)		 WC 2008
(25%)		 Total Change
+/−
1  United States Championship 1200 1160 1200 1200 2970 +1
2  Canada Championship 1160 1200 1160 1160 2930 –1
3  Finland Championship 1120 1120 1120 1120 2800 –
4  Sweden Championship 1060 1100 1100 1060 2700 –
5  Russia Championship 1100 1040 1060 1040 2670 +1
6  Switzerland Championship 1040 1060 1020 1100 2620 –1
7  Kazakhstan Championship 1000 960 1040 940 2475 +1
8  Slovakia Championship 1020 1000 940 920 2470 +2
9  China Division I 880 1020 980 1000 2385 –2
10  Germany Division I 960 920 920 980 2355 +1
11  Japan Division I 8601 940 1000 1020 2320 –2
12  Norway Division I 940 900 900 860 2280 –
13  Latvia Division I 920 840 820 840 2170 +2
14  Czech Republic Division II 840 880 860 900 2155 –1
15  Austria Division I 900 780 880 820 2130 +1
16  France Division II 820 860 840 880 2105 –2
17  Italy Division II 780 800 760 760 1950 –
18  Great Britain Division II 760 820 780 700 1940 –
19  Slovenia Division III 660 740 – 680 1385 –
20  Croatia Division III 640 760 – 660 1235 –
21  Denmark Division II 800 – 740 800 1370 +1
22  Netherlands Division III 720 – 720 740 1265 +1
23  Bulgaria Division V 460 720 – – 1000 +1
24  Australia Division III 700 – – 720 880 +1
25  Hungary Division III 680 – – 620 835 +2
26  Belgium Division III 620 – – 640 780 –
27  New Zealand Division IV 600 – – 560 740 +3
28  South Korea Division IV 580 – – 600 730 –
29  Iceland Division IV 560 – – 580 705 –
30  Romania Division IV 540 – – 540 675 +1
31  South Africa Division IV 520 – – 500 645 +1
32  North Korea Division II 0 – 800 780 595 –11
33  Turkey Division V 440 – – 480 360 +1
34  Poland Division V 500 – – – 500 new
35  Spain Division V 480 – – – 480 new
36  Ireland Division V 420 – – – 420 new
37  Estonia Division IV – – – 520 130 –4

1Japan withdrew from 2011 competition due to "force majeure," and was thus granted the points of last place in their division.

[edit] 2003–2010

Team P-2003
 R-2003
 P-2004
 R-2004
 P-2005
 R-2005
 P-2006
 R-2006
 P-2007
 R-2007
 P-2008
 R-2008
 P-2009
 R-2009
 P-2010
 R-2010
 Australia 530 22 1270 21 1375 22 850 23 1205 23 1405 22 890 23 535 25
 Austria — — 700 26 1285 25 920 21 1315 20 1580 19 1875 17 2040 16
 Belgium 535 21 1175 22 1335 23 830 24 1160 24 1305 24 810 24 485 26
 Bulgaria — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 720 24
 Canada 1800 1 3000 1 2960 1 2970 1 2980 1 2950 1 2930 2 2950 1
 China 1545 7 2565 7 2575 7 2485 7 2520 8 2510 8 2485 7 2515 7
 Croatia — — — — — — — — 580 31 1095 30 785 25 1235 20
 Czech Republic 670 11 1590 11 1840 11 2010 12 2195 13 2205 12 2180 12 2190 13
 Denmark 635 16 1455 16 1700 14 1070 17 1485 17 1650 18 1760 19 1165 22
 Estonia — — — — — — — — 520 32 910 32 650 32 390 33
 Finland 1655 3 2775 3 2765 3 2760 4 2755 4 2770 3 2785 3 2795 3
 France 660 12 1540 13 1780 12 1995 14 2230 12 2220 11 2170 13 2155 14
 Germany 1565 6 2605 6 2625 5 2635 5 2585 5 2525 7 2420 10 2350 11
 Great Britain 560 20 1280 20 1425 20 885 22 1210 22 1385 23 1645 20 1925 18
 Hungary 505 24 1165 23 1320 24 825 25 1135 25 1265 25 785 26 470 27
 Iceland — — — — 540 30 405 30 770 30 1090 31 685 29 415 29
 Italy 585 18 1385 17 1610 17 2015 11 2160 14 2065 15 1980 16 1950 17
 Japan 1425 10 2405 10 2380 10 2350 10 2345 10 2420 9 2465 9 2435 9
 Kazakhstan 1490 8 2430 9 2475 8 2445 9 2445 9 2410 10 2475 8 2455 8
 North Korea 650 13 1490 15 1635 16 1005 18 1380 19 1560 20 1775 18 1185 21
 South Korea — — 600 27 1050 27 750 26 1070 26 1215 26 760 27 455 28
 Latvia 645 15 1545 12 1750 13 1995 13 2250 11 2195 13 2135 14 2105 15
 Netherlands 570 19 1330 19 1505 19 935 20 1300 21 1480 21 1645 21 1095 23
 New Zealand — — — — 580 29 435 29 830 29 1110 27 690 28 415 30
 Norway 650 14 1510 14 1695 15 1900 15 2145 15 2150 14 2195 11 2225 12
 Romania 320 25 940 25 1185 26 730 27 995 27 1100 29 685 30 410 31
 Russia 1620 5 2680 5 2605 6 2585 6 2565 6 2575 6 2610 6 2610 6
 Slovakia 595 17 1375 18 1585 18 990 19 1415 18 1735 17 2040 15 2370 10
 Slovenia 310 26 990 24 1385 21 1700 16 1865 16 1810 16 1075 22 1260 19
 South Africa 505 23 505 28 790 28 465 28 910 28 1105 28 675 31 400 32
 Sweden 1625 4 2725 4 2760 4 2830 3 2825 3 2760 4 2745 4 2735 4
 Switzerland 1435 9 2435 8 2430 9 2480 8 2555 7 2645 5 2630 5 2640 5
 Turkey — — — — — — — — 480 33 840 33 600 33 360 34
 United States 1740 2 2900 2 2940 2 2890 2 2890 2 2930 2 2960 1 2950 2

[edit] References

General
Specific
  1. ^ The Associated Press (2003-09-20). "Canadiens lose Koivu, Michaud to injury in 4-3 loss to Senators". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/hockey/nhl/09/20/saturday_roundup.ap/. Retrieved 2009-05-12. 
  2. ^ Edvinsson, Jan-Ake, ed. (November 2003). "News release–Hockey fans are the best in the world" (PDF). Ice Times (International Ice Hockey Federation) 7 (5): p. 7. http://www.iihf.com/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/The_IIHF/IIHF_Vol7No5.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-12. 
  3. ^ a b c d "World Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/championships/world-ranking.html. Retrieved 2010-06-11. 
  4. ^ "Men's tournament programme & schedules". International Ice Hockey Federation. http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/championships/olympics/olympics-men.html. Retrieved 2009-05-12. 
  5. ^ "Germany, Norway round out 2010 Olympic men's hockey". TSN. 2009-02-08. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=266366. Retrieved 2009-05-12. 
  6. ^ "Women's Tournament Program". International Ice Hockey Federation. http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/championships/olympics/olympics-women/tournament-program.html. Retrieved 2009-05-12. 

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