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

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
2008 IIHF World Ranking	30 April 2005 – 18 May 2008	Quebec City and Halifax	9
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	Hanover	1
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	Riga	1
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	Oslo	1
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

Rank	width=165	Team	WC 2008 (100%)	WC 2007 (75%)	WC 2006 (50%)	OLY 2006 (50%)	WC 2005 (25%)	Total
1		1160	1200	1100	1020	1160	3410
2		1200	1120	1060	1100	1120	3400
3		1100	1100	1200	1200	1100	3400
4		1120	1160	1120	1160	1020	3385
5		1060	1020	1160	1120	1200	3265
6		1040	1060	1020	1000	1040	3105
7		1020	1000	960	1040	1000	3020
8		880	1040	1000	1060	1060	2955
9		960	920	1040	880	940	2845
10		940	960	800	940	840	2740
11		920	880	940	900	960	2740
12		1000	860	920	860	800	2735
13		900	940	880	800	860	2660
14		820	900	860	920	780	2580
15		840	800	820	780	880	2460
16		800	840	780	840	820	2445
17		760	820	900	760	920	2435
18		860	780	740	820	740	2410
19		740	720	840	960	900	2405
20		780	760	680	700	720	2220
21		700	740	720	740	760	2175
22		720	700	700	720	660	2120
23		660	620	760	620	620	1970
24		620	640	640	680	700	1935
25		600	680	660	640	680	1930
26		640	560	600	580	560	1790
27		560	600	560	660	600	1770
28		500	580	540	600	580	1650
29		680	660	620		640	1645
30		480	440	440	540	500	1425
31		580	540	520		480	1365
32		380	380	500	560	440	1305
33		540	520	480		520	1300
34		520	500	460		420	1230
35		420	460	580		540	1190
36		460	480	400		400	1120
37		440	400	380		320	1010
38		400	420	320		360	965
39		360	340	360		380	890
40		340	320	260		260	775
41		260	360	300		340	765
42		300	280	340		300	755
43		280	300	240		280	695
44		320		420		460	645
45		220	260				415
46		240					240
47		200					200
48				280		240	200

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

• IIHF World Ranking

External links

• Qualification results

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 .