IIHF World Ranking

Ranking of national ice hockey teams

Top 20 rankings as of May 2025[1] | Men's

Rank | Change* | Team | Points
NR |  1 |  Russia | 4030
1 |  4 |  United States | 3985
2 |  2 |   Switzerland | 3975
3 |  3 |  Canada | 3935
4 |  2 |  Sweden | 3915
5 |  2 |  Czech Republic | 3860
6 |  4 |  Finland | 3780
7 |  |  Germany | 3710
8 |  2 |  Denmark | 3625
9 |  1 |  Slovakia | 3595
10 |  1 |  Latvia | 3585
11 |  1 |  Austria | 3465
12 |  1 |  Norway | 3370
13 |  1 |  Kazakhstan | 3265
14 |  1 |  France | 3255
NR |  |  Belarus | 3205
15 |  2 |  Slovenia | 3180
16 |  |  Hungary | 3170
17 |  2 |  Great Britain | 3100
18 |  |  Italy | 3025
| Women's

Rank | Change* | Team | Points
1 |  1 |  United States | 4150
2 |  1 |  Canada | 4140
3 |  |  Finland | 3930
4 |  |  Czech Republic | 3920
5 |  |   Switzerland | 3855
NR |  |  Russia | 3790
6 |  1 |  Sweden | 3730
7 |  1 |  Japan | 3705
8 |  |  Germany | 3635
9 |  |  Hungary | 3475
10 |  |  Denmark | 3425
11 |  2 |  Norway | 3405
12 |  1 |  China | 3365
13 |  1 |  Austria | 3345
14 |  2 |  France | 3340
15 |  |  Slovakia | 3215
16 |  |  Netherlands | 3175
17 |  1 |  Italy | 3045
18 |  1 |  South Korea | 3015
19 |  1 |  Great Britain | 2930

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 United States is currently ranked first in both men’s and women’s play, despite Russia having more points overall in the men’s rankings but being excluded from the list due to its ongoing suspension from IIHF competition.

## Description

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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

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

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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[a], 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:[b]

Competition  | Valuation
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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

1. ^ From April 2014 to August 2022, Women's rankings counted Olympics points twice, to be on same formula as Men's rankings, as no Women's top division World Championship was held in Olympic years. This changed with the Women's top division starting to be held in Olympic years in 2022.
2. ^ Due to the point value change from 2023, tournaments from 2020-2022 will still use the 1200 point values in the formula.

## Men's rankings

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See also: List of IIHF World Rankings

The Men's 2025 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022, 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 all World Championships since 2022 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 2024 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships[9] and the calculations of the rankings during the 2025 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.

2025
Rank  | 2024
Rank  | Team  | WC division
(as of 2025) | WC2025
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(75%)  | WC2023
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(50%)  | WC2022
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(25%)  | OLY2022
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(25%)  | WC2021
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1 | 2 |  Russia | Expelled | 1560 | 1520 | 1520 | 1120 | 1160 | 1060 | 4030 |  1 | 4065 |  1
2 | 6 |  United States | Championship | 1600 | 1460 | 1500 | 1100 | 1060 | 1120 | 3985 |  4 | 3945 |  2
3 | 5 |   Switzerland | Championship | 1560 | 1560 | 1460 | 1060 | 1000 | 1040 | 3975 |  2 | 3945 |  2
4 | 1 |  Canada | Championship | 1460 | 1500 | 1600 | 1160 | 1040 | 1200 | 3935 |  3 | 4100 |
5 | 7 |  Sweden | Championship | 1520 | 1520 | 1440 | 1040 | 1100 | 960 | 3915 |  2 | 3910 |  1
6 | 4 |  Czech Republic | Championship | 1440 | 1600 | 1400 | 1120 | 960 | 1020 | 3860 |  2 | 3945 |  4
7 | 3 |  Finland | Championship | 1420 | 1400 | 1420 | 1200 | 1200 | 1160 | 3780 |  4 | 3955 |  1
8 | 8 |  Germany | Championship | 1360 | 1440 | 1560 | 1020 | 940 | 1100 | 3710 |  | 3865 |  3
9 | 11 |  Denmark | Championship | 1500 | 1280 | 1340 | 960 | 1020 | 900 | 3625 |  2 | 3500 |
10 | 9 |  Slovakia | Championship | 1320 | 1420 | 1360 | 1000 | 1120 | 1000 | 3595 |  1 | 3750 |
11 | 10 |  Latvia | Championship | 1340 | 1360 | 1520 | 940 | 920 | 920 | 3585 |  1 | 3660 |
12 | 13 |  Austria | Championship | 1400 | 1340 | 1260 | 920 | 800 | 780 | 3465 |  1 | 3340 |  3
13 | 12 |  Norway | Championship | 1300 | 1320 | 1280 | 880 | 880 | 880 | 3370 |  1 | 3380 |
14 | 15 |  Kazakhstan | Championship | 1240 | 1300 | 1320 | 860 | 700 | 940 | 3265 |  1 | 3305 |
15 | 14 |  France | Championship | 1220 | 1260 | 1300 | 900 | 860 | 840 | 3255 |  1 | 3325 |  1
16 | 16 |  Belarus | Expelled | 1220 | 1240 | 1260 | 860 | 840 | 840 | 3205 |  | 3245 |  2
17 | 19 |  Slovenia | Championship | 1280 | 1180 | 1220 | 800 | 820 | 740 | 3180 |  2 | 3090 |  2
18 | 18 |  Hungary | Championship | 1260 | 1200 | 1240 | 780 | 780 | 720 | 3170 |  | 3090 |  1
19 | 17 |  Great Britain | Division I A | 1200 | 1240 | 1200 | 820 | 660 | 860 | 3100 |  2 | 3095 |  3
20 | 20 |  Italy | Division I A | 1180 | 1160 | 1160 | 840 | 740 | 820 | 3025 |  | 3025 |  2
21 | 21 |  Poland | Division I A | 1120 | 1220 | 1180 | 700 | 760 | 700 | 2990 |  | 3010 |  1
22 | 24 |  Japan | Division I A | 1140 | 1120 | 1080 | 680 | 680 | 640 | 2860 |  2 | 2770 |  1
23 | 23 |  Romania | Division I A | 1100 | 1140 | 1120 | 720 | 640 | 660 | 2855 |  | 2825 |
24 | 27 |  Ukraine | Division I A | 1160 | 1080 | 1060 | 660 | 620 | 600 | 2820 |  3 | 2665 |
25 | 22 |  South Korea | Division I B | 1060 | 1100 | 1140 | 740 | 720 | 760 | 2820 |  3 | 2875 |  1
26 | 25 |  Lithuania | Division I B | 1080 | 1060 | 1100 | 760 | 600 | 680 | 2765 |  1 | 2735 |  1
27 | 26 |  China | Division I B | 1020 | 1020 | 1040 | 600 | 900 | 500 | 2680 |  1 | 2675 |
28 | 28 |  Estonia | Division I B | 1040 | 1040 | 1020 | 640 | 580 | 620 | 2635 |  | 2570 |
29 | 30 |  Spain | Division I B | 1000 | 1000 | 960 | 540 | 520 | 520 | 2495 |  1 | 2380 |  2
30 | 29 |  Netherlands | Division II A | 960 | 980 | 1000 | 580 | 560 | 580 | 2480 |  1 | 2445 |
31 | 32 |  Croatia | Division I B | 980 | 960 | 940 | 560 | 540 | 540 | 2445 |  1 | 2350 |  1
32 | 31 |  Serbia | Division II A | 940 | 940 | 980 | 620 | 500 | 560 | 2415 |  1 | 2375 |  1
33 | 33 |  Israel | Division II A | 860 | 900 | 900 | 520 | 420 | 460 | 2220 |  | 2160 |
34 | 36 |  United Arab Emirates | Division II A | 920 | 920 | 840 | 360 | 320 | 200 | 2200 |  2 | 1940 |  3
35 | 34 |  Iceland | Division II B | 820 | 860 | 880 | 480 | 480 | 440 | 2145 |  1 | 2110 |
36 | 35 |  Australia | Division II A | 880 | 880 | 920 | 560 | — | 480 | 2140 |  1 | 1970 |
37 | 39 |  Belgium | Division II A | 900 | 840 | 820 | 440 | — | 420 | 2050 |  2 | 1780 |  1
38 | 37 |  Bulgaria | Division II B | 780 | 780 | 800 | 420 | 380 | 340 | 1965 |  1 | 1865 |  1
39 | 41 |  New Zealand | Division II B | 800 | 820 | 780 | 440 | — | 360 | 1915 |  2 | 1715 |  1
40 | 40 |  Chinese Taipei | Division II B | 760 | 760 | 720 | 300 | 440 | 240 | 1875 |  | 1730 |  1
41 | 38 |  Turkey | Division III A | 680 | 740 | 760 | 340 | 460 | 300 | 1815 |  3 | 1785 |
42 | 43 |  Thailand | Division II B | 740 | 720 | 660 | 220 | 340 | 140 | 1750 |  1 | 1530 |  1
43 | 45 |  Kyrgyzstan | Division III A | 720 | 700 | 600 | 160 | 400 | 100 | 1685 |  2 | 1455 |  1
44 | 46 |  Turkmenistan | Division III A | 700 | 660 | 700 | 320 | — | 260 | 1625 |  2 | 1410 |  1
45 | 42 |  Mexico | Division III B | 600 | 620 | 740 | 400 | 360 | 400 | 1625 |  3 | 1655 |  5
46 | 44 |  Luxembourg | Division III A | 620 | 680 | 640 | 280 | 300 | 280 | 1595 |  2 | 1520 |  1
47 | 50 |  Georgia | Division II B | 840 | 800 | 0[a] | 460 | — | 380 | 1555 |  3 | 1125 |  3
48 | 47 |  South Africa | Division III A | 660 | 640 | 680 | 240 | — | 220 | 1540 |  1 | 1325 |  2
49 | 48 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | Division III A | 640 | 600 | 580 | 200 | 260 | 160 | 1495 |  1 | 1305 |
50 | 49 |  Hong Kong | Division III B | 560 | 560 | 560 | 220 | 280 | 180 | 1385 |  1 | 1275 |  2
52 | 53 |  Philippines | Division III B | 520 | 540 | 480 | 100 | — | 60 | 1190 |  2 | 965 |  2
51 | 51 |  Singapore | Division III B | 500 | 520 | 540 | 120 | — | 40 | 1190 |  1 | 995 |
53 | 57 |  Mongolia | Division III B | 540 | 480 | 460 | — | — | — | 1130 |  4 | 825 |
54 | 56 |  North Korea | Division III B | 580 | 580 | — | 360 | — | 320 | 1105 |  2 | 840 |
55 | 52 |  Kuwait | Division IV | 440 | 460 | 440 | 80 | 240 | 120 | 1085 |  3 | 980 |  2
56 | 54 |  Iran | Division IV | 400 | 500 | 520 | 140 | — | — | 1070 |  2 | 960 |
57 | 55 |  Malaysia | Division IV | 380 | 420 | 500 | 100 | — | 80 | 970 |  2 | 865 |  3
58 | 58 |  Indonesia | Division IV | 420 | 440 | 420 | — | — | — | 960 |  | 755 |
59 | — |  Uzbekistan | Division IV | 480 | — | — | — | — | — | 480 | new | — | —
60 | — |  Armenia | Division IV | 460 | — | — | — | — | — | 460 |  | 0 |

1. ^ Georgia's result in 2023 was invalidated by the IIHF.

## Women's rankings

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See also: List of IIHF World Rankings

The Women's 2025 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022, 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.[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 2024 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships.[9] and the calculations of the rankings following the 2025 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.

2025
Rank  | 2024
Rank  | Team  | WC division
(as of 2025) | WC2025
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(100%)  | WC2024
(100%)
(75%)  | WC2023
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(50%)  | WC2022
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(25%)  | OLY2022
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(25%)  | WC2021
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Total  | +/−  | 2024
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1  | 2 |  United States | Championship | 1600 | 1560 | 1600 | 1160 | 1160 | 1160 | 4150 |  1 | 4210 |
2  | 1 |  Canada | Championship | 1560 | 1600 | 1560 | 1200 | 1200 | 1200 | 4140 |  1 | 4270 |
3  | 3 |  Finland | Championship | 1520 | 1520 | 1460 | 1040 | 1120 | 1120 | 3930 |  | 3975 |  1
4  | 4 |  Czech Republic | Championship | 1500 | 1500 | 1520 | 1120 | 1020 | 1020 | 3920 |  | 3965 |  1
5  | 5 |   Switzerland | Championship | 1460 | 1460 | 1500 | 1100 | 1100 | 1100 | 3855 |  | 3960 |  2
6  | 6 |  Russia | Expelled | 1440 | 1440 | 1460 | 1100 | 1060 | 1060 | 3790 |  | 3880 |
7  | 8 |  Sweden | Championship | 1440 | 1420 | 1440 | 1020 | 1000 | 960 | 3730 |  1 | 3750 |
8  | 7 |  Japan | Championship | 1420 | 1400 | 1420 | 1060 | 1040 | 1040 | 3705 |  1 | 3775 |
9  | 9 |  Germany | Championship | 1400 | 1440 | 1400 | 960 | 860 | 1000 | 3635 |  | 3650 |
10  | 10 |  Hungary | Championship | 1340 | 1300 | 1360 | 1000 | 920 | 960 | 3475 |  | 3520 |
11  | 11 |  Denmark | Division I A | 1300 | 1340 | 1300 | 940 | 940 | 940 | 3425 |  | 3490 |
12  | 14 |  Norway | Championship | 1360 | 1320 | 1240 | 900 | 840 | 880 | 3405 |  2 | 3340 |  1
13  | 12 |  China | Division I A | 1240 | 1360 | 1320 | 820 | 960 | 740 | 3365 |  1 | 3425 |  2
14  | 15 |  Austria | Division I A | 1320 | 1260 | 1280 | 860 | 900 | 860 | 3345 |  1 | 3315 |  2
15  | 13 |  France | Division I A | 1260 | 1280 | 1340 | 920 | 880 | 920 | 3340 |  2 | 3415 |  1
16  | 16 |  Slovakia | Division I A | 1280 | 1200 | 1220 | 880 | 820 | 840 | 3215 |  | 3175 |
17  | 17 |  Netherlands | Division I A | 1220 | 1240 | 1260 | 840 | 740 | 780 | 3175 |  | 3170 |
18  | 19 |  Italy | Division I B | 1200 | 1160 | 1160 | 780 | 800 | 820 | 3045 |  1 | 3025 |  1
19  | 18 |  South Korea | Division I B | 1120 | 1220 | 1200 | 740 | 780 | 800 | 3015 |  1 | 3080 |  1
20  | 21 |  Great Britain | Division I B | 1160 | 1140 | 1120 | 700 | 720 | 660 | 2930 |  1 | 2855 |  2
21  | 20 |  Poland | Division II A | 1060 | 1100 | 1180 | 800 | 760 | 760 | 2865 |  1 | 2955 |
22  | 22 |  Slovenia | Division I B | 1100 | 1120 | 1140 | 720 | 680 | 680 | 2860 |  | 2845 |  1
23  | 23 |  Kazakhstan | Division I B | 1140 | 1080 | 1100 | 760 | 660 | 720 | 2855 |  | 2795 |  1
24  | 27 |  Latvia | Division I B | 1180 | 1180 | 1080 | 680 | — | 700 | 2775 |  3 | 2505 |  2
25  | 24 |  Spain | Division II A | 1080 | 1060 | 1060 | 660 | 700 | 640 | 2745 |  1 | 2695 |
26  | 26 |  Chinese Taipei | Division II A | 1020 | 1020 | 1020 | 640 | 620 | 540 | 2610 |  | 2550 |
27  | 25 |  Mexico | Division II A | 980 | 1040 | 1040 | 620 | 640 | 620 | 2595 |  2 | 2605 |
28  | 28 |  Iceland | Division II A | 1040 | 1000 | 1000 | 580 | 600 | 520 | 2585 |  | 2470 |  1
29  | 31 |  Australia | Division II B | 960 | 940 | 940 | 560 | — | 560 | 2275 |  2 | 2065 |
30  | 29 |  Turkey | Division II B | 860 | 880 | 860 | 540 | 580 | 580 | 2260 |  1 | 2275 |  1
31  | 32 |  Belgium | Division II B | 900 | 980 | 960 | 460 | — | 400 | 2230 |  1 | 2030 |  4
32  | 30 |  Hong Kong | Division II B | 880 | 920 | 840 | 380 | 560 | 460 | 2225 |  2 | 2135 |
33  | 33 |  New Zealand | Division II B | 940 | 900 | 920 | 540 | — | 500 | 2210 |  | 1985 |  1
34  | 34 |  Lithuania | Division III A | 840 | 800 | 800 | 440 | 520 | 340 | 2080 |  | 1965 |  2
35  | 38 |  Ukraine | Division II B | 920 | 840 | 820 | 460 | — | 380 | 2075 |  3 | 1780 |
36  | 35 |  South Africa | Division III A | 740 | 860 | 900 | 520 | — | 420 | 1965 |  1 | 1900 |  2
37  | 37 |  Croatia | Division III A | 760 | 760 | 880 | 500 | — | 480 | 1895 |  | 1790 |  2
38  | 36 |  Bulgaria | Division III B | 720 | 740 | 760 | 420 | 540 | 360 | 1895 |  2 | 1880 |  3
39  | 39 |  Romania | Division III A | 780 | 820 | 780 | 420 | — | 440 | 1890 |  | 1725 |
40  | 42 |  North Korea | Division II A | 1000 | 960 | — | 620 | — | 600 | 1875 |  2 | 1420 |  2
41  | 41 |  Serbia | Division III A | 800 | 780 | 720 | 320 | — | — | 1825 |  | 1480 |  2
42  | 40 |  Estonia | Division III B | 680 | 700 | 740 | 340 | — | 320 | 1660 |  2 | 1505 |  1
43  | 44 |  Israel | Division III B | 700 | 680 | 700 | 280 | — | — | 1630 |  1 | 1345 |
44  | 43 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | Division III B | 660 | 660[1] | 680 | 300 | — | 300 | 1570 |  1 | 1395 |  1
45  | 45 |  Thailand | Division III A | 820 | 720 | — | — | — | — | 1360 |  | 720 | new
46  | 46 |  Singapore | Division III B | 640 | 660 | — | — | — | — | 1135 |  | 660 | new

## See also

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* List of IIHF World Rankings

## Notes

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^  Bosnia and Herzegovina seems to have been given an incorrect score in 2024. They were shown to have 1395 points in the 2024 World Ranking list[10] which calculates to earning 660 points that year instead of the 640 points they should have earned for 46th place. Singapore was also awarded 660 points.

## References

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1. ^ a b "IIHF – World Ranking". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
2. ^ Hockey Canada (30 September 2003). "IIHF Introduces World Ranking and Ranks Canada First in Men's and Women's Hockey". Retrieved 27 May 2019.
3. ^ Edvinsson, Jan-Ake, ed. (November 2003). "News release–Hockey fans are the best in the world" (PDF). Ice Times. 7 (5). International Ice Hockey Federation: 7. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
4. ^ "Olympic Winter Games". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
5. ^ "IIHF – Groups for 2022". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
6. ^ a b Ruiz, Rebecca R.; Panja, Tariq (5 December 2017). "Russia Banned From Winter Olympics by I.O.C." The New York Times.
7. ^ a b "Olympics: Russia to compete under ROC acronym in Tokyo as part of doping sanctions". Reuters. 19 February 2021. Archived from the original on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
8. ^ "Finland Stays #1 in World Ranking". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
9. ^ a b "IIHF - World Ranking". IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
10. ^ "IIHF – World Ranking (2024 Archive)". iihf.com. IIHF. Archived from the original on 17 January 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

## External links

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

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* Paul Loicq Award
* Torriani Award
* Centennial All-Star Team
* All-Time Teams
* Player of the Year (Female, Male)
* Johan Bollue Award
* Media Award
* Milestone Award

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* World Ranking
* Past
* Members
* Teams
* Triple Gold Club
* International Ice Hockey Association

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