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Top 20 rankings as of September 2022[1]
Men's
Rank Change* Team Points
1 Steady  Finland 4130
2 Steady  Canada 3990
3 Steady  Russia 3935
4 Steady  United States 3775
5 Steady  Sweden 3675
6 Increase 1  Czech Republic 3650
7 Decrease 1   Switzerland 3590
8 Steady  Slovakia 3590
9 Steady  Germany 3555
10 Steady  Denmark 3335
11 Steady  Latvia 3255
12 Steady  Norway 3105
13 Steady  France 3000
14 Steady  Belarus 2965
15 Increase 2  Austria 2900
16 Decrease 1  Kazakhstan 2885
17 Decrease 1  Italy 2840
18 Steady  Great Britain 2755
19 Steady  Slovenia 2730
20 Increase 1  Hungary 2640
Women's
Rank Change* Team Points
1 Steady  Canada 4160
2 Steady  United States 4090
3 Steady  Finland 3850
4 Steady   Switzerland 3820
5 Steady  Russia 3780
6 Increase 1  Czech Republic 3675
7 Decrease 1  Japan 3650
8 Steady  Sweden 3440
9 Increase 2  Hungary 3340
10 Decrease 1  Germany 3325
11 Decrease 1  Denmark 3290
12 Steady  France 3185
13 Increase 1  Norway 3060
14 Decrease 1  Austria 3050
15 Steady  Slovakia 2960
16 Increase 1  China 2890
17 Decrease 1  Italy 2800
18 Increase 1  Netherlands 2775
19 Decrease 1  South Korea 2705
20 Steady  Poland 2700

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 2023 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020, 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 2022 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships,[9] and the calculations of the rankings following the 2023 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.

2023
Rank 		2022
Rank 		Team WC division
(as of 2023) 		WC2023
(—)
(100%) 		WC2022
(100%)
(75%) 		OLY2022
(100%)
(75%) 		WC2021
(75%)
(50%) 		WC2020
(50%)
(25%) 		WC2019
(25%)
(0%) 		2023
Total 		+/− 2022
Total 		+/-
1 1  Finland Championship 1000 1200 1200 1160 1120 1200 3660 Steady 4130 Steady
2 2  Canada Championship 1000 1160 1040 1200 1200 1160 3550 Steady 3990 Steady
3 4  United States Championship 1060 1100 1060 1120 1040 1020 3500 Increase 1 3775 Steady
4 5  Sweden Championship 1020 1040 1100 960 1100 1060 3380 Increase 1 3675 Steady
5 3  Russia Expelled 820 1120 1160 1060 1160 1120 3350 Decrease 2 3935 Steady
6 7   Switzerland Championship 1040 1060 1000 1040 1000 1000 3355 Increase 1 3590 Decrease 1
7 6  Czech Republic Championship 1000 1120 960 1020 1060 1100 3335 Decrease 1 3650 Increase 1
8 8  Slovakia Championship 960 1000 1120 1000 960 960 3290 Steady 3590 Steady
9 9  Germany Championship 1100 1020 940 1100 1020 1040 3375 Steady 3555 Steady
10 10  Denmark Championship 940 960 1020 900 900 920 3100 Steady 3335 Steady
11 11  Latvia Championship 1000 940 920 920 940 940 3090 Steady 3255 Steady
12 12  Norway Championship 880 880 880 880 920 900 2870 Steady 3105 Steady
13 13  France Championship 900 900 860 840 800 840 2840 Steady 3000 Steady
14 16  Kazakhstan Championship 920 860 700 940 840 800 2770 Increase 2 2885 Decrease 1
15 14  Belarus Expelled 820 860 840 840 880 780 2735 Decrease 1 2965 Steady
16 15  Austria Championship 860 920 800 780 780 820 2735 Decrease 1 2900 Increase 2
17 19  Slovenia Championship 820 800 820 740 740 740 2590 Increase 2 2730 Steady
18 17  Italy Division I A 760 840 740 820 860 860 2570 Decrease 1 2840 Decrease 1
19 20  Hungary Championship 840 780 780 720 720 720 2550 Increase 1 2640 Increase 1
20 18  Great Britain Division I A 800 820 660 860 820 880 2545 Decrease 2 2755 Steady
21 21  South Korea Division I A 740 740 720 760 760 760 2405 Steady 2600 Decrease 1
22 22  Poland Division I A 780 700 760 700 660 660 2390 Steady 2480 Steady
23 24  Romania Division I A 720 720 640 660 700 680 2245 Increase 1 2375 Decrease 1
24 23  Lithuania Division I A 700 760 600 680 680 700 2230 Decrease 1 2385 Increase 1
25 25  Japan Division I B 680 680 680 640 640 640 2180 Steady 2320 Steady
26 26  China Division I B 640 600 900 500 480 480 2135 Steady 2235 Increase 1
27 27  Ukraine Division I B 660 660 620 600 600 600 2070 Steady 2180 Increase 1
28 28  Estonia Division I B 620 640 580 620 620 620 2000 Steady 2150 Decrease 2
29 29  Netherlands Division I B 600 580 560 580 560 580 1885 Steady 2000 Steady
30 30  Serbia Division I B 580 620 500 560 580 560 1845 Steady 1970 Steady
31 31  Croatia Division II A 520 560 540 540 540 540 1750 Steady 1910 Steady
32 32  Spain Division II A 560 540 520 520 500 500 1740 Steady 1825 Steady
33 33  Israel Division II A 480 520 420 460 460 440 1530 Steady 1625 Increase 1
34 34  Iceland Division II A 460 480 480 440 420 420 1505 Steady 1605 Decrease 1
35 36  Australia Division II A 500 560 — 480 520 520 1290 Increase 1 1310 Steady
36 37  Bulgaria Division II B 400 420 380 340 340 320 1255 Increase 1 1305 Steady
37 35  Mexico Division II B 340 400 360 400 360 360 1200 Decrease 2 1330 Steady
38 38  Turkey Division II B 360 340 460 300 300 300 1185 Steady 1250 Steady
39 41  Georgia Division II A 540 460 — 380 380 380 1170 Increase 2 1030 Increase 2
40 43  United Arab Emirates Division II B 440 360 320 200 220 200 1105 Increase 3 990 Increase 1
41 40  Belgium Division II B 420 440 — 420 440 460 1070 Decrease 1 1090 Decrease 1
42 39  Chinese Taipei Division III A 320 300 440 240 240 240 1055 Decrease 3 1100 Increase 1
43 42  New Zealand Division II B 380 440 — 360 400 400 990 Decrease 1 1010 Steady
44 44  Luxembourg Division III A 240 280 300 280 260 260 880 Steady 985 Decrease 3
45 46  Thailand Division III A 260 220 340 140 160 160 790 Increase 1 785 Increase 1
46 48  Turkmenistan Division III A 300 320 — 260 280 280 740 Increase 2 725 Steady
47 49  Kyrgyzstan Division III B 200 160 400 100 100 100 695 Increase 2 710 Increase 1
48 47  Hong Kong Division III B 160 220 280 180 180 180 670 Steady 770 Decrease 1
49 50  Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III B 180 200 260 160 140 140 640 Increase 1 685 Decrease 1
50 51  South Africa Division III A 280 240 — 220 200 220 620 Increase 1 560 Increase 1
51 45  North Korea Division III A 0 360 — 320 320 340 510 Decrease 6 845 Steady
52 52  Kuwait Division IV 40 80 240 120 120 120 370 Steady 500 Decrease 1
53 55  Singapore Division III B 140 120 — 40 — — 250 Increase 2 150 Steady
54 53  Malaysia Division III B 100 100 — 80 80 — 235 Decrease 1 200 Steady
55 56  Iran Division III B 120 140 — — — — 225 Increase 1 140 new
56 54  Philippines Division IV 80 100 — 60 60 — 200 Decrease 2 175 Steady
57 59  Mongolia Division IV 60 — — — — — 60 Increase 2
58 —  Indonesia Division IV 20 — — — — — 20 new

Women's rankings

See also: List of IIHF World Rankings

The Women's 2023 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020, and at the Olympic Ice Hockey tournament of 2022.

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.

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.

2023
Rank 		2022
Rank 		Team WC division
(as of 2023) 		WC2023
(—)
(100%) 		WC2022
(100%)
(75%) 		OLY2022
(100%)
(75%) 		WC2021
(75%)
(50%) 		WC2020
(50%)
(25%) 		WC2019
(25%)
(0%) 		2023
Total 		+/− 2022
Total 		+/-
1 1  Canada Championship 1160 1200 1200 1200 1160 1120 3850 Steady 4160 Steady
2 2  United States Championship 1200 1160 1160 1160 1200 1200 3820 Steady 4090 Steady
3 4   Switzerland Championship 1100 1100 1100 1100 1060 1060 3565 Increase 1 3820 Steady
4 3  Finland Championship 1060 1040 1120 1120 1120 1160 3520 Decrease 1 3850 Steady
5 6  Czech Republic Championship 1120 1120 1020 1020 1020 1040 3490 Increase 1 3675 Increase 1
6 7  Japan Championship 1020 1060 1040 1040 1040 1000 3375 Increase 1 3650 Decrease 1
7 5  Russia Expelled 940 1100 1060 1060 1100 1100 3365 Decrease 2 3780 Steady
8 8  Sweden Championship 1040 1020 1000 960 920 960 3265 Steady 3440 Steady
9 10  Germany Championship 1000 960 860 1000 1000 1020 3115 Increase 1 3325 Decrease 1
10 9  Hungary Championship 960 1000 920 960 940 920 3115 Decrease 1 3340 Increase 2
11 12  France Championship 940 920 880 920 900 940 2975 Increase 1 3175 Steady
12 11  Denmark Division I A 820 940 940 940 960 900 2940 Decrease 1 3290 Decrease 1
13 13  Norway Division I A 820 900 840 880 880 880 2785 Steady 3060 Increase 1
13 14  Austria Division I A 820 860 900 860 860 860 2785 Steady 3050 Decrease 1
15 15  Slovakia Division I A 820 880 820 840 840 840 2725 Steady 2960 Steady
16 16  China Division I A 820 820 960 740 740 740 2710 Steady 2890 Increase 1
17 18  Netherlands Division I A 820 840 740 780 820 800 2600 Increase 1 2775 Increase 1
18 17  Italy Division I B 760 780 800 820 800 820 2555 Decrease 1 2800 Decrease 1
19 19  South Korea Division I B 800 740 780 800 780 780 2535 Steady 2705 Decrease 1
20 20  Poland Division I B 780 800 760 760 760 760 2520 Steady 2700 Steady
21 22  Slovenia Division I B 740 720 680 680 700 680 2305 Increase 1 2430 Steady
22 21  Kazakhstan Division I B 700 760 660 720 720 720 2305 Decrease 1 2500 Steady
23 23  Great Britain Division I B 720 700 720 660 660 660 2280 Steady 2410 Steady
24 24  Spain Division II A 660 660 700 640 640 640 2160 Steady 2320 Steady
25 25  Mexico Division II A 640 620 640 620 620 620 2050 Steady 2190 Steady
26 26  Chinese Taipei Division II A 620 640 620 540 580 560 1980 Steady 2095 Steady
27 27  Iceland Division II A 600 580 600 520 540 520 1880 Steady 1970 Steady
28 28  Turkey Division II B 460 540 580 580 500 500 1715 Steady 1930 Steady
29 29  Latvia Division II A 680 680 — 700 680 700 1710 Steady 1720 Steady
30 30  Hong Kong Division III A 440 360 560 460 340 380 1445 Steady 1530 Steady
31 33  Australia Division II B 540 560 — 560 560 580 1380 Increase 2 1405 Steady
32 34  Lithuania Division III A 400 440 520 340 360 — 1380 Increase 2 1395 Increase 2
33 32  Bulgaria Division III A 360 420 540 360 380 360 1355 Decrease 1 1510 Steady
34 35  New Zealand Division II B 520 540 — 500 520 540 1305 Increase 1 1310 Decrease 1
35 36  Croatia Division II B 480 500 — 480 480 480 1215 Increase 1 1220 Decrease 1
36 39  Belgium Division II B 560 460 — 400 420 420 1210 Increase 3 1075 Steady
37 37  South Africa Division II B 500 520 — 420 440 400 1210 Steady 1155 Increase 1
38 38  Ukraine Division III A 420 460 — 380 460 440 1070 Steady 1085 Increase 2
39 40  Romania Division III A 380 420 — 440 400 460 1015 Increase 1 1065 Decrease 3
40 31  North Korea Division II A — 620 — 600 600 600 915 Decrease 9 1520 Steady
41 41  Estonia Division III A 340 340 — 320 — — 755 Steady 580 Steady
42 42  Bosnia and Herzegovina Division III B 280 300 — 300 — — 655 Steady 525 Steady
43 43  Serbia Division III B 320 320 — — — — 560 Steady 320 new
44 44  Israel Division III B 300 280 — — — — 510 Steady 280 new

See also

References

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