Olympic Winter Games 2022 / Ice Hockey (Men)

sport	ice Hockey
discipline	competition
gender	Men
Attendees	300 athletes in 12 teams
Competition location	Beijing National Indoor Stadium (18,000 seats) Cadillac Arena (18,000 seats)
Competition phase	4-20 February 2022
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Ice hockey tournaments at the Olympic Games 2022
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The men's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is scheduled to take place from February 4th to 20th - just like the Games in Pyeongchang - with twelve national teams. The games are in the 18,000-seater National Indoor Stadium Beijing ( Chinese  北京國家體育館  /  北京国家体育馆 , Pinyin Běijīng Guojia Tǐyùguǎn , English Beijing National Indoor Stadium ) discharged. Games are also played in the Cadillac Arena ( Chinese  五棵松 體育館 ), which also holds 18,000 spectators. Both stadiums were already in use during the 2008 Summer Olympics .

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qualification

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The first eight nations in the IIHF world rankings qualified for the tournament after the 2019 World Cup , the People's Republic of China as hosts and three other participants who will be played in qualifying tournaments. Qualification begins in November 2019 and ends in August 2021.

As a host, the following is automatically eligible to participate:

•  People's Republic of China

The following qualified eight teams in the IIHF World Ranking List 2019:

•  Canada
•  Russia
•  Finland
•  Sweden
•  Czech Republic
•  United States
•  Germany
•  Switzerland

Three other teams qualify through the eight qualifying tournaments.

mode

Olympic ice hockey tournament 2022
Number of nations	12
Olympic champion
silver
bronze
Venue (s)	Beijing , People's Republic of China
opening	February 14, 2022
Endgame	February 25, 2022

The twelve teams of the Olympic ice hockey tournament are divided into three groups of four teams each in the preliminary round. The three groups are composed according to the positions of the national teams in the IIHF world rankings after the 2020 World Cup according to the following key:

Group A	Group B	Group C
A1 (1)	B1 (2)	C1 (3)
A2 (6)	B2 (5)	C2 (4)
A3 (7)	B3 (8)	C3 (9)
A4 (12)	B4 (11)	C4 (10)

The first three teams in the world rankings form the group heads. Behind them are the teams in ranks 4 to 6 in second position as well as 7 and 8 and the best-placed qualifier in the 2020 world rankings in third. The three remaining places determine the two remaining qualifiers and hosts, the People's Republic of China. The second best placed qualifier in the 2020 world rankings was placed in Group C, the third best in Group B and the People's Republic of China as the worst placed participating team in Group A. This results in the following groupings:

Group A	Group B	Group C
Canada (1)	Russia (2)	Finland (3)
USA (6)	Czech Republic (5)	Sweden (4)
Germany (7)	Switzerland (8)	Qualifier 1 (-)
People's Republic of China (32)	Qualifier 3 (-)	Qualifier 2 (-)

Within the groups, the teams initially play according to the everyone-against-everyone mode , so that each team initially plays three games. According to their results in the preliminary round - first according to the placement within the group, then according to points, goal difference, goals scored and finally according to the world ranking - the teams are then assigned to positions 1 to 12 of a newly determined seeding list. The top three of the group and the best of the three runners-up automatically qualify for the quarter-finals. The remaining eight teams play the remaining four places in the quarter-finals in a quarter-final qualification. The team in fifth place on the seeding list meets the twelfth place, the sixth place against the eleventh, the seventh placed on the tenth place and the eighth placed on the ninth place. The winning playoff qualifiers then play in the quarter-finals against one of the four automatically qualified teams. The winners will meet in the semifinals, with the winners playing the final for the gold medal and the losers the game for the bronze medal.

Venues

Beijing , People's Republic of China
Beijing National Indoor Stadium Chinese  北京 國家 體育館  / 北京 国家 体育馆 Capacity: 18,000	Olympic site Venue of the tournament	Cadillac Arena Chinese  五棵松 體育館 Capacity: 18,000

Preliminary round

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3.	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	00: 00	0
4th	People's Republic of China	0	0	0	0	0	00: 00	0

Abbreviations: Pl. = Place, Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime or penalty shoot-out , OTN = defeats after extra time or penalty shoot-out, N = defeats
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4th	Qualifier 3	0	0	0	0	0	00: 00	0

Abbreviations: Pl. = Place, Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime or penalty shoot-out , OTN = defeats after extra time or penalty shoot-out, N = defeats
Explanations: direct qualification for the quarter-finals

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3.	Qualifier 1	0	0	0	0	0	00: 00	0
4th	Qualifier 2	0	0	0	0	0	00: 00	0

Abbreviations: Pl. = Place, Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime or penalty shoot-out , OTN = defeats after extra time or penalty shoot-out, N = defeats
Explanations: direct qualification for the quarter-finals

Seeding list after the group stage

The following seedings decide the pairings for the playoffs for the quarter-finals as well as the quarter-finals even in the table only the necessary for differentiation criteria (placement in the group; points) are. Listed, while the other, do not need criteria section mode to can be found.

rank		group	space	Points
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2			1
3			1
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6th			2
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8th			3
9			3
10			4th
11			4th
12			4th

Explanations: direct qualification for the quarter-finals

Final round

	Quarter-final qualification					Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
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Final placements

The placements are based on the following criteria:

• Places 1 to 4: Results in the final and in the game for 3rd place
• Places 5 to 8 (losers in the quarter-finals): according to placement - then points, then goal difference in the preliminary round
• Places 9 to 12 (losers of the quarter-finals qualifying games): according to placement - then points, then goal difference in the preliminary round
• Places 13 to 21 (qualifying round): according to placement - then points, then goal difference
• Places 22 to 30 (pre-qualification round 3): according to placement - then points, then goal difference
• Places 31 to 39 (pre-qualification round 2): according to placement - then points, then goal difference
• Places 40 to 45 (pre-qualification round 1): according to placement - then points, then goal difference

rank nation 01   02   03   04th   05   06th   07th   08th   09   10   11   12

rank nation 13   14th   15th   16   17th   18th   19th   20th   21st

rank nation 22nd  Kazakhstan 23  Japan 24  Great Britain 25th  Romania 26th  Ukraine 27  Lithuania 28  Estonia 29  Netherlands 30th  Croatia

rank nation 31  Spain 32  Serbia 33  Iceland 34  Turkey 35  Republic of China (Taiwan) 36  Israel 37  Kyrgyzstan 38  Bulgaria 39  Mexico

rank nation 40  Thailand 41  United Arab Emirates 42  Luxembourg 43  Hong Kong 44  Bosnia and Herzegovina 45  Kuwait

Web links

• Men's Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament , 2018 Olympic Games website
• Official website of the IIHF for the Olympic ice hockey tournament (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adam Steiss: Olympic qualification format set. 2015 Worlds to determine men's seeding. International Ice Hockey Federation , March 10, 2015, accessed January 28, 2018 .