IIHF World Ranking

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. 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 men's play and the United States in women's play.

Description

The system was approved at the IIHF congress of September 2003. According to 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 2014 Winter Olympics, the first nine 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 2014 Winter Olympics was structured around the 2012 ranking. Twelve spots were made available for teams. The top nine teams in the World Ranking after the 2012 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 29th played a preliminary qualification in September 2012. The winner of the preliminary and teams ranked 19–29th were divided in three groups to play in the pre-qualification round in November 2012. The winner of each pre-qualification group and teams ranked 10–18 were divided in three groups to play in the final qualification in February 2013. The winner of each group then joined the nine top-ranked teams in the Olympics in 2014.
The women's tournament uses a similar qualification format. The top six teams in the IIHF Women's World Ranking after the 2012 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 19th and below were divided into two groups where they played in a preliminary qualification round in the autumn of 2012. The two winners and teams ranked 13–18 were divided into two groups where they played in the pre-qualification round in November 2012. The two group winners from the round advanced to the final qualification round, where the teams ranked seventh through twelfth 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 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.

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 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:

Men's rankings

The Men's 2020 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017, and at the 2018 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
For the 2018 Winter Olympics, Russia's Olympic Committee and many of its athletes were banned for illegal doping. The IIHF opposed an outright ban on all Russian players, concerned that the KHL would disallow its players from participating in the tournament, as the NHL had done. The ice hockey team from the Russian hockey federation played under the banner of the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic Athletes from Russia", along with other Russian athletes not banned for doping.
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.
The following table lists the full breakdown of ranking following the 2019 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, and the ranking for the 2020 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.

2020 Rank	2019 Rank	Team	WC division	WC2020	WC2019	WC2018	OLY2018	WC2017	WC2016	2020 Total	+/−	2019 Total	+/−
1	1			1200	1160	1100	1120	1160	1200	3470		3705
2	2			1160	1120	1040	1200	1120	1120	3400		3640
3	3			1120	1200	1060	1040	1100	1160	3345		3615
4	4			1100	1060	1200	1060	1200	1040	3325		3615
5	5			1060	1100	1020	1100	1020	1060	3200		3465
6	6			1040	1020	1120	1020	1060	1100	3140		3430
7	7			1020	1040	920	1160	1000	1020	3090		3355
8	8			1000	1000	1160	940	1040	920	3060		3325
9	9			960	960	960	920	860	960	2835		3040
10	10			940	940	1000	860	940	880	2810		3025
11	11			920	900	880	1000	920	940	2765		3005
12	12			900	920	940	800	900	1000	2685		2925
13	14			880	780	840	880	880	900	2545		2735
14	13			800	840	900	840	960	860	2540		2840
15	16			860	860	780	760	820	780	2480		2620
16	19			840	800	760	820	760	820	2420		2570
17	15			780	820	860	780	800	740	2415		2635
18	17			760	760	820	900	780	720	2385		2620
19	20			820	880	800	660	680	660	2380		2480
20	18			740	740	720	960	840	800	2345		2620
21	21			720	720	740	700	720	840	2160		2370
22	22			660	660	700	740	740	760	2060		2300
23	24			680	700	680	560	640	640	1985		2110
24	23			640	640	660	720	660	700	1975		2180
25	27			700	680	600	580	560	580	1940		1990
26	25			600	600	620	680	700	680	1875		2095
27	26			620	620	640	600	620	600	1860		2010
28	28			560	580	560	640	580	560	1740		1910
29	29			540	540	580	620	600	620	1695		1895
30	30			580	560	520	540	520	500	1660		1740
31	31			500	500	440	520	460	540	1470		1585
32	32			480	480	500	440	440	460	1420		1520
33	33			420	420	460	480	480	480	1325		1485
34	34			460	440	400	460	400	400	1320		1385
35	35			520	520	540	—	540	440	1315		1305
36	37			440	460	480	—	500	520	1150		1200
37	36			360	360	360	500	360	420	1150		1290
38	39			380	380	320	400	280	0	1095		1060
39	40			400	400	420	—	420	380	1015		1020
40	38			340	320	300	420	300	340	1015		1095
41	41			320	340	380	—	380	360	860		905
42	42			300	300	280	—	340	320	750		760
43	43			260	260	340	—	320	280	705		745
44	45			240	240	260	—	220	—	605		545
45	47			280	280	200	—	—	—	590		430
46	44			200	220	240	—	240	300	545		595
47	48			220	200	160	—	200	—	500		420
48	46			180	180	220	—	260	240	490		535
49	49			140	140	180	—	0	260	335		340
50	51			160	160	—	—	—	—	280		160
51	50			120	120	140	—	—	—	280		225
52	52			100	100	—	—	—	—	175		100
53				80	—	—	—	—	—	80		—	'
54				60	—	—	—	—	—	60		—	'

Women's rankings

The Women's 2019 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016, and at the 2018 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
For the 2018 Winter Olympics, Russia's Olympic Committee and many of its athletes were banned due to systemic illegal doping. The IIHF opposed an outright ban on all Russian players and the ice hockey team from the Russian hockey federation played under the banner of the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic Athletes from Russia", along with other Russian athletes not banned for doping.
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.
The following table lists the ranking following the 2019 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships and the ranking for the 2020 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.

2020 Rank	2019 Rank	Team	WC division	WC2020	WC2019	WC2018	OLY2018	WC2017	WC2016	2020 Total	+/−	2019 Total	+/−
1	1			1200	1200	1200	1200	1200	1200	3600		3900
2	2			1160	1120	1160	1160	1160	1160	3450		3730
3	3			1120	1160	1120	1120	1120	1100	3390		3675
4	4			1100	1100	1100	1100	1060	1120	3290		3560
5	5			1060	1060	1060	1060	1020	1020	3170		3415
6	6			1040	1000	1040	1040	960	1000	3070		3290
7	8			1020	1040	1000	960	1000	1040	3030		3270
8	9			1000	1020	980	940	1100	960	3000		3250
9	7			920	960	1020	1020	1040	1060	2920		3275
10	10			900	940	960	920	860	940	2760		3015
11	11			960	900	900	880	900	900	2750		2910
12	14			940	920	920	820	880	840	2720		2875
13	13			880	880	880	900	920	880	2660		2895
14	12			860	860	940	860	940	920	2640		2910
15	15			840	840	860	800	840	860	2510		2720
16	16			780	780	820	1000	720	700	2455		2680
17	17			800	820	840	840	760	780	2445		2655
18	21			820	800	720	720	700	740	2315		2415
19	20			740	740	760	760	780	760	2250		2460
20	22			760	760	740	700	740	720	2235		2390
21	19			720	720	780	740	820	800	2225		2470
22	18			680	700	800	780	800	820	2195		2490
23	23			660	660	700	660	680	680	2005		2190
24	24			700	680	640	620	640	640	2000		2105
25	25			640	640	600	680	580	580	1905		2035
26	26			620	620	620	640	600	540	1865		2000
27	27			500	500	520	600	520	500	1565		1725
28	28			600	600	680		660	660	1555		1605
29	29			560	580	660		620	600	1480		1535
30	33			580	560	580		480		1410		1235
31	32			540	520	560		540	560	1345		1350
32	31			520	540	540		560	520	1335		1355
33	30			340	380	420	580	400	460	1225		1445
34	34			400	460	500		500	480	1120		1205
35	36			480	480	480			620	1080		995
36	37			420	420	460		460		1080		995
37	35			440	400	440		440	440	1070		1060
38	38			380	360	400		420	420	955		975
39	39			460	440					790		440
40				360						360		—

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