World Curling Rankings

On December 6, 2006, the World Curling Federation (WCF) created a World Ranking system for curling countries, much like FIFA's World ranking. The WCF created it in an effort to keep track and list success' accomplished by the 45 members of the association, at the various major events which are held throughout the curling season, events which include the Winter Olympics, World Curling Championships, and Pacific Curling Championships. Points are assigned to the Top placed participants at each event. The rankings were designed by former 1988 Winter Olympian Patrick Hürlimann.

Men's rankings

Final rankings for the 2012–13 season
Current rank	Country	Points	2011–12 final	Change
1	Canada	932	1	0
2	Scotland United Kingdom	740	2	0
3	Sweden	674	4	1
4	Norway	660	3	1
5	Switzerland	469	5	0
6	Denmark	418	10	4
7	China	396	9	2
8	United States	366	7	1
9	France	331	8	1
10	Germany	331	6	4
11	Czech Republic	228	11	0
12	Russia	151	17	5
13	New Zealand	149	12	1
14	Italy	126	13	1
15	Finland	123	15	0
16	Japan	119	20	4
17	Korea	114	14	3
18	Australia	112	16	2
19	Latvia	109	19	1
20	Hungary	97	20	0
21	Netherlands	92	22	1
22	England	86	23	1
23	Ireland	82	18	5
24	Belgium	70	26	2
25	Spain	70	25	1
26	Estonia	68	28	2
27	Austria	63	27	0
28	Wales	55	24	4
29	Poland	51	30	1
30	Slovakia	50	29	1
31	Croatia	49	32	1
32	Chinese Taipei	48	31	1
33	Lithuania	33	33	0
34	Belarus	25	34	0
35	Turkey	22	39	4
36	Iceland	18	36	0
37	Greece	14	35	2
38	Bulgaria	10	37	1
39	Serbia	9	38	1
40	Luxembourg	9	40	1
41	Kazakhstan	8	43	2
	Slovenia	8	43	2
43	Romania	6	42	1
44	Brazil	4	41	3
45	Andorra	1	43	2
46	Armenia	0	46	0
	Kosovo	0	–	–
	Liechtenstein	0	46	0
	Mongolia	0	46	0
	United States Virgin Islands	0	46	0

Women's rankings

Final rankings for the 2012–13 season
Current rank	Country	Points	2011–12 final	Change
1	Sweden	838	1	0
2	Canada	769	2	0
3	Switzerland	604	3	0
4	Scotland United Kingdom	577	7	3
5	China	532	4	1
6	Denmark	470	5	1
7	United States	454	8	1
8	Germany	427	6	2
9	Russia	388	9	0
10	Japan	280	10	0
11	Korea	237	11	0
12	Italy	189	13	1
13	Norway	162	12	1
14	Czech Republic	143	14	0
15	Latvia	138	15	0
16	Finland	120	16	0
17	Hungary	111	17	0
18	Austria	102	18	0
19	England	94	19	0
20	New Zealand	90	20	0
21	Estonia	86	22	1
22	Poland	75	24	2
23	Slovakia	72	23	0
24	Spain	70	25	1
25	Netherlands	69	21	4
26	Australia	61	27	1
27	Turkey	50	31	4
28	Croatia	44	28	0
29	Wales	37	26	3
30	Ireland	31	29	1
31	Belarus	28	33	2
32	France	25	30	2
33	Romania	19	35	2
34	Slovenia	18	34	0
35	Kazakhstan	13	39	4
	Serbia	13	32	3
37	Belgium	6	37	0
38	Lithuania	4	35	3
39	Andorra	0	39	0
	Brazil	0	39	0
	Chinese Taipei	0	38	1
	Armenia	0	39	0
	Bulgaria	0	39	0
	Greece	0	39	0
	Iceland	0	39	0
	Kosovo	0	39	0
	Liechtenstein	0	39	0
	Luxembourg	0	39	0
	Mongolia	0	39	0
	United States Virgin Islands	0	39	0

Notes

1. ^ Armenia and Bulgaria are currently suspended members of the World Curling Federation.

External links

• World Curling Federation – Rankings