IIHF world rankings

The IIHF World Ranking ( English IIHF World Ranking ) is one of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF published list of Hockey -Nationalmannschaften which on the results of based World Championships and Olympic Games the rank of the national team of each country to represent in the world. The world rankings for men and women have been published annually since 2004 in May after the respective world championships and every four years additionally in February after the end of the ice hockey tournament of the Olympic Winter Games .

meaning

The world rankings are particularly important for qualifying for the Olympic ice hockey tournaments for men and women . In the men's category, in addition to the host, the eight best nations in the world rankings will qualify for the 2014 Olympic tournament directly after the 2012 World Cup . The qualification for the other three places is based on the world rankings, for example the nations in the world rankings 10 to 18 are placed for the last qualifying tournaments, with the nations in places 10 to 12 having home rights. In the women's category, the six best nations in the ranking will qualify for the 2014 Olympics after the 2012 World Cup; for the qualifying tournaments, the classification is also based on the 2012 world ranking.

At the men's world championship, the two preliminary round groups are also filled according to the world rankings. The following key is used:

Group A	Group B
1	2
4th	3
5	6th
8th	7th
9	10
12	11
13	14th
16	15th

Since the Olympic ice hockey tournament is generally played with three preliminary round groups, the following key is used:

Group A	Group B	Group C
1	2	3
6th	5	4th
7th	8th	9
12	11	10

Award of points

The men's world rankings include the results of the last Olympic ice hockey tournament and the last four ice hockey world championships . Since there is no World Cup for women in the Olympic year, the number of World Championships included in the evaluation is three. The points of the current year count in full, the evaluation of the previous years decreases by 25 percentage points per year.

The world ranking list points are awarded according to the world championship placement, with the world champion receiving 1200 points and usually a difference of 20 points between the placements. In the A-World Cup, however, there are larger steps of 40 points between first, second and third place and between fourth and fifth place. For men, there is another 40-point step between eighth and ninth place, as a reward for the play-off participants. For women, there is also a 40-point step between eighth and ninth place, i.e. the participants in the A-World Cup and Division I. The teams in World Cup divisions I to III are then placed next to the World Cup participants. In the case of groups in a division that are played in parallel, the teams are first placed according to their rank in their group, then according to points scored, then according to goal difference:

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

1 For women: Winner of Division IA, 2 For men: Winner of Division IA

The current, last world championship is 100 percent included in the result, the influence then decreases by 25 percentage points per year. At the Olympic Winter Games, not only the placements of the nations participating in the Olympic ice hockey tournament, but also those that did not qualify from the qualifying tournaments are included in the world rankings. Thus, the points scored in the qualifying tournaments for the Olympic tournament in Vancouver held during the 2008/09 season counted for 2010.

For the world rankings of 2013, this meant, for example, for the gold medal (1200 points):

competition	year	Rating coefficient	Points
World Championship this year	2013	100%	1200
World Championship previous year	2012	75%	900
World Championship 2 years ago	2011	50%	600
World Championship 3 years ago	2010	25%	300
Olympic Games 3 years ago	2010	25%	300
World Championship 4 years ago	2009	0%	0

If there is a tie, the better result of the last World Cup counts. Before the World Championships, the IIHF publishes a preliminary ranking list in which the tournaments from previous years have already been downscaled and only the results of the current World Championships are missing.

World ranking of men

The world ranking of men after the 2020 World Championships :

Placement of the ten best nations since 2003

rank	country	World Cup 2020 (100%)	World Cup 2019 (75%)	World Cup 2018 (50%)	OS 2018 (50%)	World Cup 2017 (25%)	total	change
1	Canada	1200	1160	1100	1120	1160	3470	± 0
2	Russia	1160	1120	1040	1200	1120	3400	± 0
3	Finland	1120	1200	1060	1040	1100	3345	± 0
4th	Sweden	1100	1060	1200	1060	1200	3325	± 0
5	Czech Republic	1060	1100	1020	1100	1020	3200	± 0
6th	United States	1040	1020	1120	1020	1060	3140	± 0
7th	Germany	1020	1040	920	1160	1000	3090	± 0
8th	Switzerland	1000	1000	1160	940	1040	3060	± 0
9	Slovakia	960	960	960	920	860	2835	± 0
10	Latvia	940	940	1000	860	940	2810	± 0
11	Norway	920	900	880	1000	920	2765	± 0
12	Denmark	900	920	940	800	900	2685	± 0
13	Belarus	880	780	840	880	880	2545	+1
14th	France	800	840	900	840	960	2540	−1
15th	Italy	860	860	780	760	820	2480	+1
16	Kazakhstan	840	800	760	820	760	2420	+3
17th	Austria	780	820	860	780	800	2415	−2
18th	South Korea	760	760	820	900	780	2385	−1
19th	Great Britain	820	880	800	660	680	2380	+1
20th	Slovenia	740	740	720	960	840	2345	−2
21st	Hungary	720	720	740	700	720	2160	± 0
22nd	Poland	660	660	700	740	740	2060	± 0
23	Lithuania	680	700	680	560	640	1985	+1
24	Japan	640	640	660	720	660	1975	−1
25th	Romania	700	680	600	580	560	1940	+2
26th	Ukraine	600	600	620	680	700	1875	−1
27	Estonia	620	620	640	600	620	1860	−1
28	Netherlands	560	580	560	640	580	1740	± 0
29	Croatia	540	540	580	620	600	1695	± 0
30th	Serbia	580	560	520	540	520	1660	± 0
31	Spain	500	500	440	520	460	1470	± 0
32	People's Republic of China	480	480	500	440	440	1420	± 0
33	Iceland	420	420	460	480	480	1325	± 0
34	Israel	460	440	400	460	400	1320	± 0
35	Australia	520	520	540	0	540	1315	± 0
36	Belgium	440	460	480	0	500	1150	+1
37	Mexico	360	360	360	500	360	1150	−1
38	Georgia	380	380	320	400	280	1095	+1
39	New Zealand	400	400	420	0	420	1015	+1
40	Bulgaria	340	320	300	420	300	1015	−2
41	North Korea	320	340	380	0	380	860	± 0
42	Turkey	300	300	280	0	340	750	± 0
43	Luxembourg	260	260	340	0	320	705	± 0
44	Republic of China (Taiwan)	240	240	260	0	220	605	+1
45	Turkmenistan	280	280	200	0	0	590	+2
46	South Africa	200	220	240	0	240	545	−2
47	United Arab Emirates	220	200	160	0	200	500	+1
48	Hong Kong	180	180	220	0	260	490	−2
49	Bosnia and Herzegovina	140	140	180	0	0	335	± 0
50	Thailand	160	160	0	0	0	280	+1
51	Kuwait	120	120	140	0	0	280	−1
52	Kyrgyzstan	100	100	0	0	0	175	± 0
53	Malaysia	80	0	0	0	0	80	New
54	Philippines	60	0	0	0	0	60	New

World ranking of women

The world ranking of women after the 2020 World Championships :

Placement of the ten best nations since 2003

rank	country	World Cup 2020 (100%)	World Cup 2019 (75%)	World Cup 2018 (50%)	OS 2018 (50%)	World Cup 2017 (25%)	total	change
1	United States	1200	1200	1200	1200	1200	3600	± 0
2	Canada	1160	1120	1160	1160	1160	3450	± 0
3	Finland	1120	1160	1120	1120	1120	3390	± 0
4th	Russia	1100	1100	1100	1100	1060	3290	± 0
5	Switzerland	1060	1060	1060	1060	1020	3170	± 0
6th	Japan	1040	1000	1040	1040	960	3070	± 0
7th	Czech Republic	1020	1040	1000	960	1000	3030	+1
8th	Germany	1000	1020	980	940	1100	3000	+1
9	Sweden	920	960	1020	1020	1040	2920	−2
10	France	900	940	960	920	860	2760	± 0
11	Denmark	960	900	900	880	900	2750	± 0
12	Hungary	940	920	920	820	880	2720	+2
13	Norway	880	880	880	900	920	2660	± 0
14th	Austria	860	860	940	860	940	2640	−2
15th	Slovakia	840	840	860	800	840	2510	± 0
16	South Korea	780	780	820	1000	720	2455	± 0
17th	Italy	800	820	840	840	760	2445	± 0
18th	Netherlands	820	800	720	720	700	2315	+3
19th	People's Republic of China	740	740	760	760	780	2250	+1
20th	Poland	760	760	740	700	740	2235	+2
21st	Kazakhstan	720	720	780	740	820	2225	−2
22nd	Latvia	680	700	800	780	800	2195	−4
23	Great Britain	660	660	700	660	680	2005	± 0
24	Slovenia	700	680	640	620	640	2000	± 0
25th	Spain	640	640	600	680	580	1905	± 0
26th	Mexico	620	620	620	640	600	1865	± 0
27	Turkey	500	500	520	600	520	1565	± 0
28	North Korea	600	600	680	0	660	1555	± 0
29	Australia	560	580	660	0	620	1480	± 0
30th	Republic of China (Taiwan)	580	560	580	0	480	1410	+3
31	Iceland	540	520	560	0	540	1345	+1
32	New Zealand	520	540	540	0	560	1335	−1
33	Hong Kong	340	380	420	580	400	1225	−3
34	Romania	400	460	500	0	500	1120	± 0
35	Croatia	480	480	480	0	0	1080	+1
36	Belgium	420	420	460	0	460	1080	+1
37	South Africa	440	400	440	0	440	1070	−2
38	Bulgaria	380	360	400	0	420	955	± 0
39	Ukraine	460	440	0	0	0	790	± 0
40	Lithuania	360	0	0	0	0	360	New

Web links

• IIHF World Ranking on iihf.com

This version was added to the selection of informative lists and portals on July 6, 2008 .