IIHF World Ranking

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The IIHF World Ranking is a ranking of the national teams of member countries of the International Ice Hockey Federation.

1 Ranking system
2 Men's 2006 final ranking
3 Women's 2006 ranking
4 See also
5 External links/Sources

[edit] Ranking system

The ranking is based on the standings of the last Winter Olympics and the last four IIHF World Championships. The results of more recent tournaments have a higher weight in the ranking. 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. The first ranking was released in 2003, based on the results of 2002 Olympics and World Championships from 2000 to 2003.

[edit] Men's 2006 final ranking

Change is from 2005

Rank	Team	Points	Change
1	Sweden	4095	+1
2	Czech Republic	3985	+1
3	Canada	3890	-2
4	Finland	3830	+3
5	Russia	3725	-
6	Slovakia	3685	-2
7	United States	3580	-1
8	Switzerland	3500	-
9	Latvia	3310	-
10	Belarus	3230	+2
11	Kazakhstan	3115	+4
12	Germany	3110	-2
13	Ukraine	3005	-2
14	Denmark	3005	-
15	Norway	2935	+3
16	Austria	2930	-3
17	Italy	2915	+2
18	Slovenia	2870	-2
19	France	2720	-2
20	Poland	2580	+1
21	Japan	2540	-1
22	Hungary	2430	-
23	The Netherlands	2360	-
24	Estonia	2325	-
25	Lithuania	2270	+2
26	Romania	2135	-
27	Croatia	2000	+3
28	China	1970	-
29	Serbia and Montenegro	1745	-
30	Bulgaria	1715	+3
31	Great Britain	1580	-6
32	Korea	1320	-1
33	Israel	1275	+2
34	Australia	1215	-
35	Belgium	1200	-3
36	DPR Korea	1105	-
37	Spain	1040	-
38	New Zealand	925	-
39	Mexico	845	+4
40	Iceland	840	-1
41	South Africa	830	-1
42	Turkey	775	-1
43	Luxembourg	705	-1
44	Ireland	585	-
45	Armenia	580	-