Canada remains first in World Ranking
by Martin Merk|04 SEP 2022
Canada remains ahead of the United States in the IIHF Women’s World Ranking.
photo: Andrea Cardin / HHOF-IIHF Images
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Canada stays Number 1 in the 2022 IIHF Women’s World Ranking after winning gold at the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship in Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark.

Thanks to their title defence the Canadians increased their gap in points in the ranking, which takes into account the results in Olympics and Women’s World of the past four years, compared to second-placed USA.

Despite a record-low sixth-place finish at the Women’s Worlds, Finland remains in third position but the margin to fourth ranked Switzerland decreased. Russia stays in fifth place while bronze medallist Czechia improved from seventh to sixth place at the expense of Japan. Sweden stays eighth.

From the top-division countries Hungary made the biggest move from 11th to 9th while Germany and Denmark lost a place.

The 2022 IIHF Women’s World Ranking includes a record number of 44 member national associations that participate in the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship program with the recent return of Estonia and the first-time participation of Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Israel with a women’s national team.

Groups for 2023

The 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship will take place next spring in Canada. More information about the venues, dates and schedule will become known in the upcoming months.

The groups for the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship are based on the final ranking of the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship and will be as follows:
 
Group A Group B
Canada (1) Finland (6)
USA (2) Sweden (7)
Czechia (3) Hungary (8)
Switzerland (4) Germany (9)
Japan (5) France (10)

The tournament will be played with the same ten-team format in two tiered groups with the top-five seeded teams in Group A and the teams seeded below in Group B. The five Group A teams and the top-three Group B teams will advance to the quarter-finals. France, the winner of the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Division I Group A, replaces the relegated team, Denmark.

2022 IIHF Women's World Ranking (as of 4 Sep. 2022)

Rank Country Points Change
1 Canada 4160 0
2 United States 4090 0
3 Finland 3850 0
4 Switzerland 3820 0
5 Russia 3780 0
6 Czechia 3675 1
7 Japan 3650 -1
8 Sweden 3440 0
9 Hungary 3340 2
10 Germany 3325 -1
11 Denmark 3290 -1
12 France 3175 0
13 Norway 3060 1
14 Austria 3050 -1
15 Slovakia 2960 0
16 China 2890 1
17 Italy 2800 -1
18 Netherlands 2775 1
19 Korea 2705 -1
20 Poland 2700 0
21 Kazakhstan 2500 0
22 Slovenia 2430 0
23 Great Britain 2410 0
24 Spain 2320 0
25 Mexico 2190 0
26 Chinese Taipei 2095 0
27 Iceland 1970 0
28 Türkiye 1930 0
29 Latvia 1720 0
30 Hong Kong, China 1550 0
31 DPR Korea 1520 0
32 Bulgaria 1510 0
33 Australia 1405 0
34 Lithuania 1395 2
35 New Zealand 1310 -1
36 Croatia 1220 -1
37 South Africa 1155 1
38 Ukraine 1085 2
39 Belgium 1075 0
40 Romania 1065 -3
41 Estonia 580 0
42 Bosnia & Herzegovina 525 0
43 Serbia 320 NEW
44 Israel 280 NEW