IIHF World Ranking
The IIHF World Ranking (English IIHF World Ranking ) is a published by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF List of ice hockey teams, which on the results of the World Championships and Olympic Games to represent the rank of the national of any country in the world based. The world rankings are published for men and women since 2004 in May each year according to the respective World Championships and all four additional years in February after the end of the hockey tournament of the Olympic Winter Games.
Importance
Importance acquired the world rankings, especially for qualifying for the Olympic hockey tournaments of men and women. In the men qualify in addition to the organizers, the top eight nations in the world rankings after the 2012 World Cup directly for the Olympic tournament in 2014. During the qualifying for the other three spots will be set according to the world rankings, so, for example, the nations of the world rankings ranks 10 set to 18 for the last qualifiers, the nations in the squares 10 to 12 have the home advantage. In the women the best six nations in the rankings qualify after the World Cup 2012 for the 2014 Olympics, for the qualifiers the classification is also performed according to the world rankings in 2012.
In the Men's World Championship, the two preliminary round groups will also be occupied by the world rankings. In this case, the following key is used:
Since the Olympic Hockey Tournament is generally played with three preliminary groups, there comes the following keys are used:
Awarding points
In the world rankings a year go a the results of the last Olympic Eishockeytuniers and the last four World Ice Hockey Championships in the men's. Since the women in the Olympic year there is no World Championships event, the number of incoming in the rating world championships on three totals. Here are the points of the current year is full, the summary of the previous year take a year to 25 percentage points.
The world ranking points will be awarded according to the World Championship placement, where the world champion will receive 1200 points and there is a difference of 20 points is usually between placements. In A World Cup but there are more steps of 40 points between the first, second and third place as well as between the fourth and fifth place. In the men, there is another 40 -point step between the eighth and ninth place, to reward the play-off participants. In the women, there is also a 40 -point step between the eighth and ninth, so the participants of the A World Championship and the Division I. The teams in the World Cup Divisions I to III are then placed at the World Cup participants. In parallel discharged groups of a division the teams are, then, then placed only after rank in its group scored points by goal difference:
The currently last World Cup is a 100 per cent in the result, per year then decreases the effect by 25 percentage points. For Olympic Winter Games are not only the rankings of the nations participating in the Olympic ice hockey tournament, but also the non-qualified from the qualifying tournaments in the world ranking. Thus, the points made in the discharged during the 2008 /09 season qualifiers for the Olympic tournament in Vancouver included for the year 2010.
For the world rankings of 2013, which meant, for example, for the evaluation of the gold medal (1200 points):
In a tie, the score is one of the better results of the last World Cup. Before the World Championships, the IIHF always published a preliminary ranking, in which the tournaments in previous years have been scaled down and only the results of the current world championships missing.
World Ranking of Men
The world ranking of the men after the Olympic Winter Games 2014:
World ranking of women
The world ranking of women after the 2014 Winter Olympics: