Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's qualification explained

Qualification for the men's tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Qualification

Twelve teams qualified for the ice hockey event. The top nine teams in the IIHF World Ranking after the 2008 Men's World Ice Hockey Championship received automatic berths into the ice hockey event. All remaining member federations could attempt to qualify for the remaining three spots in the Olympics. The four lowest entrants (32nd ranked Bulgaria, 36th ranked Spain, 37th ranked Mexico, and 41st ranked Turkey) played off for a spot in the first round. Teams then ranked 19th through 30th (except China who declined) played in a first qualification round in November 2008, where the top three teams from the round advanced to the second qualification round. Teams ranked 10th through 18th joined the three top teams from the first qualifying round to play in a second qualification round. The top three teams from the second qualifying round advanced to the Olympic ice hockey tournament.[1]

Qualified teams

EventDateLocationVacanciesQualified
2008 IIHF World Ranking30 April 2005 – 18 May 2008 Quebec City and
Halifax
9







Final qualification tournament5–8 February 2009 Hanover1
Final qualification tournament5–8 February 2009 Riga1
Final qualification tournament5–8 February 2009 Oslo1
TOTAL 12
Notes

IIHF World Rating

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"Qualified directly to Olympic Tournament
width=10px bgcolor="#ccccff"Final qualification
width=10px bgcolor="#fffacd"Pre-qualification
width=10px bgcolor="#ffcccc"Preliminary qualification
Rankwidth=165TeamWC 2008
(100%)
WC 2007
(75%)
WC 2006
(50%)
OLY 2006
(50%)
WC 2005
(25%)
Total
1 116012001100102011603410
2 120011201060110011203400
3 110011001200120011003400
4 112011601120116010203385
5 106010201160112012003265
6 104010601020100010403105
7 10201000960104010003020
8 88010401000106010602955
9 96092010408809402845
10 9409608009408402740
11 9208809409009602740
12 10008609208608002735
13 9009408808008602660
14 8209008609207802580
15 8408008207808802460
16 8008407808408202445
17 7608209007609202435
18 8607807408207402410
19 7407208409609002405
20 7807606807007202220
21 7007407207407602175
22 7207007007206602120
23 6606207606206201970
24 6206406406807001935
25 6006806606406801930
26 6405606005805601790
27 5606005606606001770
28 5005805406005801650
29 6806606206401645
30 4804404405405001425
31 5805405204801365
32 3803805005604401305
33 5405204805201300
34 5205004604201230
35 4204605805401190
36 4604804004001120
37 4404003803201010
38 400420320360965
39 360340360380890
40 340320260260775
41 260360300340765
42 300280340300755
43 280300240280695
44 320420460645
45 220260415
46 240240
47 200200
48 280240200

Qualification tournament

Olympic preliminary qualification

Group A

All times are local (UTC+2).

Olympic pre-qualification

Group B

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group C

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group D

All times are local (UTC+1).

Final Olympic qualification

Group E

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group F

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group G

All times are local (UTC+1).

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men's Tournament Programme & Schedules. International Ice Hockey Federation website. https://web.archive.org/web/20080101113156/http://www.iihf.com:80/home-of-hockey/championships/olympics/olympics-men.html . 2008-01-01 .