World Ranking System
IIHF World Championships · Participants Regulations · Sport · Competition Seeding And World Ranking System
213.1The World Ranking System shall be based upon the final positions of the Participating Teams at the Championship and the final positions at Olympic Games (including the qualification tournaments).
213.2The World Ranking System shall be based on the overall points of a national team over a time span corresponding to the previous four (4) years, meaning the sum of the tournament points a team has earned during that time span, minus the decrease in points for the time period concerned.
213.3The team with the highest overall points leads the World Ranking System. The other competing nations follow by descending figures. In case two or more teams are tied with the same overall points, the most recent final ranking of teams in a category determines the ranking order.
213.4The IIHF World Ranking shall be released after the respective IIHF Championship Season is completed.
213.5Pre-Championship Report
213.5.1The IIHF shall release before each Championship a Pre-Championship Report in which the values of the previous seasons are already reduced according to the principles set out in Art. 214 of this Event Code and where only the points of the upcoming competition need to be added to get the World Ranking for the respective year.