IIHF World Ranking

Top 20 rankings as of May 2024

Men's Rank Change* Team Points 1 Steady Canada 4100 2 Increase 1 Russia 4065 3 Decrease 1 Finland 3955 4 Increase 4 Czech Republic 3945 5 Increase 2 Switzerland 3945 6 Decrease 2 United States 3945 7 Decrease 1 Sweden 3910 8 Decrease 3 Germany 3865 9 Steady Slovakia 3750 10 Steady Latvia 3660 11 Steady Denmark 3500 12 Steady Norway 3380 13 Increase 3 Austria 3340 14 Decrease 1 France 3325 15 Steady Kazakhstan 3305 16 Decrease 2 Belarus 3245 17 Increase 3 Great Britain 3095 18 Increase 1 Hungary 3090 19 Decrease 2 Slovenia 3090 20 Decrease 2 Italy 3025

Women's Rank Change* Team Points 1 Steady Canada 4270 2 Steady United States 4210 3 Increase 1 Finland 3975 4 Increase 1 Czech Republic 3965 5 Decrease 2 Switzerland 3960 6 Steady Russia 3880 7 Steady Japan 3775 8 Steady Sweden 3750 9 Steady Germany 3650 10 Steady Hungary 3520 11 Steady Denmark 3490 12 Increase 2 China 3425 13 Decrease 1 France 3415 14 Increase 1 Norway 3340 15 Decrease 2 Austria 3315 16 Steady Slovakia 3175 17 Steady Netherlands 3170 18 Increase 1 South Korea 3080 19 Decrease 1 Italy 3025 20 Steady Poland 2955

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 Canada in both men's and women's play.

Description

The system was approved at the IIHF congress of September 2003. 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". 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.

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 1600 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. Prior to 2023, the world champion received 1200 points, with other teams receiving the same point interval decreases.

Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	...
Points	1600	1560	1520	1500	1460	1440	1420	1400	1360	1340	1320	1300	1280	1260	1240	1220	1200	1180	1160	1140	...

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: 5600 points at the completion of an Olympic year, 5200 points at the completion of the following year, 4800 points the next year, and 4400 points in the year before the next Olympics. For example, if after the 2026 Championship a team had won the gold medal in the last four championships and the last Olympic tournament, their score would be 5600:

Competition	Valuation coefficient	Points
2026 IIHF World Championship	100%	1600
2026 Winter Olympics	100%	1600
2025 IIHF World Championship	75%	1200
2024 IIHF World Championship	50%	800
2023 IIHF World Championship	25%	400
2022 IIHF World Championship	0%	0
2022 Winter Olympics	0%	0
Counts Five Tournaments from Four Latest Years		5600

Men's rankings

See also: List of IIHF World Rankings

The Men's 2024 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021, 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. 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. 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. 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. The following table lists the full breakdown of ranking following the 2024 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships. 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.

2024 Rank	2023 Rank	Team	WC division (as of 2024)	WC2024 (—) (100%)	WC2023 (100%) (75%)	WC2022 (75%) (50%)	OLY2022 (75%) (50%)	WC2021 (50%) (25%)	WC2020 (25%) (—)	2024 Total	+/−	2023 Total	+/−
1	1	Canada	Championship	1500	1600	1160	1040	1200	1200	4100	Steady	4150	Increase 1
2	3	Russia	Expelled	1520	1520	1120	1160	1060	1160	4065	Increase 1	4050	Steady
3	2	Finland	Championship	1400	1420	1200	1200	1160	1120	3955	Decrease 1	4080	Decrease 1
4	8	Czech Republic	Championship	1600	1400	1120	960	1020	1060	3945	Increase 4	3735	Decrease 2
5	7	Switzerland	Championship	1560	1460	1060	1000	1040	1000	3945	Increase 2	3775	Steady
6	4	United States	Championship	1460	1500	1100	1060	1120	1040	3945	Decrease 2	3940	Steady
7	6	Sweden	Championship	1520	1440	1040	1100	960	1100	3910	Decrease 1	3800	Decrease 1
8	5	Germany	Championship	1440	1560	1020	940	1100	1020	3865	Decrease 3	3835	Increase 4
9	9	Slovakia	Championship	1420	1360	1000	1120	1000	960	3750	Steady	3690	Decrease 1
10	10	Latvia	Championship	1360	1520	940	920	920	940	3660	Steady	3610	Increase 1
11	11	Denmark	Championship	1280	1340	960	1020	900	900	3500	Steady	3500	Decrease 1
12	12	Norway	Championship	1320	1280	880	880	880	920	3380	Steady	3270	Steady
13	16	Austria	Championship	1340	1260	920	800	780	780	3340	Increase 3	3135	Decrease 1
14	13	France	Championship	1260	1300	900	860	840	800	3325	Decrease 1	3240	Steady
15	15	Kazakhstan	Championship	1300	1320	860	700	940	840	3305	Steady	3170	Increase 1
16	14	Belarus	Expelled	1240	1260	860	840	840	880	3245	Decrease 2	3175	Steady
17	20	Great Britain	Championship	1240	1200	820	660	860	820	3095	Increase 3	2945	Decrease 2
18	19	Hungary	Division I A	1200	1240	780	780	720	720	3090	Increase 1	2950	Increase 1
19	17	Slovenia	Division I A	1180	1220	800	820	740	740	3090	Decrease 2	2990	Increase 2
20	18	Italy	Division I A	1160	1160	840	740	820	860	3025	Decrease 2	2970	Decrease 1
21	22	Poland	Championship	1220	1180	700	760	700	660	3010	Increase 1	2790	Steady
22	21	South Korea	Division I A	1100	1140	740	720	760	760	2875	Decrease 1	2805	Steady
23	23	Romania	Division I A	1140	1120	720	640	660	700	2825	Steady	2645	Increase 1
24	25	Japan	Division I A	1120	1080	680	680	640	640	2770	Increase 1	2580	Steady
25	24	Lithuania	Division I B	1060	1100	760	600	680	680	2735	Decrease 1	2630	Decrease 1
26	26	China	Division I B	1020	1040	600	900	500	480	2675	Steady	2535	Steady
27	27	Ukraine	Division I B	1080	1060	660	620	600	600	2665	Steady	2470	Steady
28	28	Estonia	Division I B	1040	1020	640	580	620	620	2570	Steady	2400	Steady
29	29	Netherlands	Division I B	980	1000	580	560	580	560	2445	Steady	2285	Steady
30	32	Spain	Division I B	1000	960	540	520	520	500	2380	Increase 2	2140	Steady
31	30	Serbia	Division II A	940	980	620	500	560	580	2375	Decrease 1	2245	Steady
32	31	Croatia	Division II A	960	940	560	540	540	540	2350	Decrease 1	2170	Steady
33	33	Israel	Division II A	900	900	520	420	460	460	2160	Steady	1950	Steady
34	34	Iceland	Division II A	860	880	480	480	440	420	2110	Steady	1925	Steady
35	35	Australia	Division II A	880	920	560	—	480	520	1970	Steady	1710	Increase 1
36	39	United Arab Emirates	Division II A	920	840	360	320	200	220	1940	Increase 3	1505	Increase 4
37	36	Bulgaria	Division II B	780	800	420	380	340	340	1865	Decrease 1	1655	Increase 1
38	38	Turkey	Division II B	740	760	340	460	300	300	1785	Steady	1585	Steady
39	40	Belgium	Division II B	840	820	440	—	420	440	1780	Increase 1	1470	Steady
40	41	Chinese Taipei	Division II B	760	720	300	440	240	240	1730	Increase 1	1455	Decrease 2
41	42	New Zealand	Division II B	820	780	440	—	360	400	1715	Increase 1	1390	Steady
42	37	Mexico	Division III A	620	740	400	360	400	360	1655	Decrease 5	1600	Decrease 2
43	44	Thailand	Division III A	720	660	220	340	140	160	1530	Increase 1	1190	Increase 2
44	43	Luxembourg	Division III A	680	640	280	300	280	260	1520	Decrease 1	1280	Increase 1
45	46	Kyrgyzstan	Division III A	700	600	160	400	100	100	1455	Increase 1	1095	Increase 3
46	45	Turkmenistan	Division III A	660	700	320	—	260	280	1410	Decrease 1	1140	Increase 3
47	49	South Africa	Division III A	640	680	240	—	220	200	1325	Increase 2	1020	Increase 2
48	48	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Division III B	600	580	200	260	160	140	1305	Steady	1040	Increase 2
49	47	Hong Kong	Division III B	560	560	220	280	180	180	1275	Decrease 2	1070	Steady
50	53	Georgia	Division II B	800	0	460	—	380	380	1125	Increase 3	630	Decrease 12
51	51	Singapore	Division III B	520	540	120	—	40	—	995	Steady	650	Increase 4
52	50	Kuwait	Division IV	460	440	80	240	120	120	980	Decrease 2	770	Increase 2
53	55	Philippines	Division III B	540	480	100	—	60	60	965	Increase 2	600	Decrease 1
54	54	Iran	Division III B	500	520	140	—	—	—	960	Steady	625	Increase 2
55	52	Malaysia	Division IV	420	500	100	—	80	80	865	Decrease 3	635	Increase 1
56	56	North Korea	Division III B	580	—	360	—	320	320	840	Steady	510	Decrease 11
57	57	Mongolia	Division IV	480	460	—	—	—	—	825	Steady	460	new
58	58	Indonesia	Division IV	440	420	—	—	—	—	755	Steady	420	new

Women's rankings

See also: List of IIHF World Rankings

The Women's 2024 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021, and at the Olympic Ice Hockey tournament of 2022. Most of the tournaments in 2020 and 2021 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 previous year's 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 in 2020. 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. 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. The following table lists the ranking following the 2024 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships. 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.

2024 Rank	2023 Rank	Team	WC division (as of 2023)	WC2024 (—) (100%)	WC2023 (100%) (75%)	WC2022 (75%) (50%)	OLY2022 (75%) (50%)	WC2021 (50%) (25%)	WC2020 (25%) (0%)	2024 Total	+/−	2023 Total	+/−
1	1	Canada	Championship	1600	1560	1200	1200	1200	1160	4270	Steady	4250	Steady
2	2	United States	Championship	1560	1600	1160	1160	1160	1200	4210	Steady	4220	Steady
3	4	Finland	Championship	1520	1460	1040	1120	1120	1120	3975	Increase 1	3920	Decrease 1
4	5	Czech Republic	Championship	1500	1520	1120	1020	1020	1020	3965	Increase 1	3890	Increase 1
5	3	Switzerland	Championship	1460	1500	1100	1100	1100	1060	3960	Decrease 2	3965	Increase 1
6	6	Russia	Expelled	1440	1460	1100	1060	1060	1100	3880	Steady	3885	Decrease 1
7	7	Japan	Championship	1400	1420	1060	1040	1040	1040	3775	Steady	3775	Steady
8	8	Sweden	Championship	1420	1440	1020	1000	960	920	3750	Steady	3665	Steady
9	9	Germany	Championship	1440	1400	960	860	1000	1000	3650	Steady	3515	Increase 1
10	10	Hungary	Division I A	1300	1360	1000	920	960	940	3520	Steady	3515	Decrease 1
11	11	Denmark	Championship	1340	1300	940	940	940	960	3490	Steady	3420	Steady
12	14	China	Championship	1360	1320	820	960	740	740	3425	Increase 2	3210	Increase 2
13	12	France	Division I A	1280	1340	920	880	920	900	3415	Decrease 1	3375	Steady
14	15	Norway	Division I A	1320	1240	900	840	880	880	3340	Increase 1	3205	Decrease 2
15	13	Austria	Division I A	1260	1280	860	900	860	860	3315	Decrease 2	3245	Increase 1
16	16	Slovakia	Division I B	1200	1220	880	820	840	840	3175	Steady	3125	Decrease 1
17	17	Netherlands	Division I A	1240	1260	840	740	780	820	3170	Steady	3040	Increase 1
18	19	South Korea	Division I A	1220	1200	740	780	800	780	3080	Increase 1	2935	Steady
19	18	Italy	Division I B	1160	1160	780	800	820	800	3025	Decrease 1	2955	Decrease 1
20	20	Poland	Division I B	1100	1180	800	760	760	760	2955	Steady	2920	Steady
21	23	Great Britain	Division I B	1140	1120	700	720	660	660	2855	Increase 2	2680	Steady
22	21	Slovenia	Division I B	1120	1140	720	680	680	700	2845	Decrease 1	2705	Increase 1
23	22	Kazakhstan	Division II A	1080	1100	760	660	720	720	2795	Decrease 1	2705	Decrease 1
24	24	Spain	Division II A	1060	1060	660	700	640	640	2695	Steady	2560	Steady
25	25	Mexico	Division II A	1040	1040	620	640	620	620	2605	Steady	2450	Steady
26	26	Chinese Taipei	Division II A	1020	1020	640	620	540	580	2550	Steady	2380	Steady
27	29	Latvia	Division I B	1180	1080	680	—	700	680	2505	Increase 2	2110	Steady
28	27	Iceland	Division II A	1000	1000	580	600	520	540	2470	Decrease 1	2280	Steady
29	28	Turkey	Division II B	880	860	540	580	580	500	2275	Decrease 1	2115	Steady
30	30	Hong Kong	Division II B	920	840	380	560	460	340	2135	Steady	1860	Steady
31	31	Australia	Division II B	940	940	560	—	560	560	2065	Steady	1780	Increase 2
32	36	Belgium	Division II A	980	960	460	—	400	420	2030	Increase 4	1610	Increase 3
33	34	New Zealand	Division II B	900	920	540	—	500	520	1985	Increase 1	1705	Increase 1
34	32	Lithuania	Division III A	800	800	440	520	340	360	1965	Decrease 2	1780	Increase 2
35	37	South Africa	Division II B	860	900	520	—	420	440	1900	Increase 2	1610	Steady
36	33	Bulgaria	Division III A	740	760	420	540	360	380	1880	Decrease 3	1755	Decrease 1
37	35	Croatia	Division III A	760	880	500	—	480	480	1790	Decrease 2	1615	Increase 1
38	38	Ukraine	Division III A	840	820	460	—	380	460	1780	Steady	1470	Steady
39	39	Romania	Division III A	820	780	420	—	440	400	1725	Steady	1415	Increase 1
40	41	Estonia	Division III B	700	740	340	—	320	—	1505	Increase 1	1155	Steady
41	43	Serbia	Division III A	780	720	320	—	—	—	1480	Increase 2	960	Steady
42	40	North Korea	Division II B	960	—	620	—	600	600	1420	Decrease 2	1315	Decrease 9
43	42	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Division III B	640	680	300	—	300	—	1375	Decrease 1	1055	Steady
44	44	Israel	Division III B	680	700	280	—	—	—	1345	Steady	910	Steady
45	—	Thailand	Division III B	720	—	—	—	—	—	720	new	—	—
46	—	Singapore	Division III B	660	—	—	—	—	—	660	new	—	—

See also

• List of IIHF World Rankings

External links

• World Ranking for the current year at IIHF.com
• World Rankings from 2007 to 2018 at IIHF.com