Men S Ice Hockey Olympic Qualification

Each of the continental champions from five confederations received an automatic berth.

Men s ice hockey olympic qualification. Patrick hager 50 of germany attempts a shot against vasili koshechkin 83 and bogdan kiselevich 55 of the olympic athlete from russia in the third period during the ice hockey men s gold medal game on day 16 of the pyeongchang 2018 winter olympic games at gangneung hockey centre on february 25 2018 in gangneung republic of korea. In addition the remaining six nations were determined by an olympic qualification event. Ice hockey men s olympic qualification 2019 2020 home. As hosts japan also won the asian games title a seventh quota place was added to the olympic qualification event.

Twelve teams qualified for the men s field hockey at the 2020 summer olympics. After five consecutive olympic tournaments in which the national hockey league allowed its players t. Qualification for the men s tournament at the 2018 winter olympics was determined by the iihf world ranking following the 2015 men s world ice hockey championships. Ice hockey at the 2022 winter olympics men s qualification.

The host along with the top eight teams in the world ranking received automatic berths into the olympics while all other teams had an opportunity to qualify for the remaining three spots in the olympics. Groups qualification men for the 2022 olympic men s ice hockey tournament the top 8 nations of the 2019 iihf men s world ranking will be automatically qualified and together with host china and the three qualifiers be seeded according to the 2020 iihf men s world ranking. The top nine teams in the world ranking received automatic berths into the olympics while all other teams had an opportunity to qualify for the remaining three spots in the olympics. The venue change has been approved today by all participating teams and the international ice hockey federation iihf.

Group o of the men s olympic pre qualification round 1 will take place in sanya on the chinese island of hainan. As with canada in 2010 the iihf made no mention of direct qualification for the host. Twelve countries qualified for the tournament. Ice hockey men s olympic qualification olympic pre qualification round 1 group o 2019 2020 detailed results choice of a season.

The host along with the top eight teams in the world ranking received automatic berths into the olympics while all other teams have an opportunity to qualify for the remaining three spots in the olympics. This was the fourth time world rankings were used but the first time that the championships three years prior was used as the fina. The men s tournament in ice hockey at the 2018 winter olympics was held in gangneung south korea between 14 and 25 february 2018. 2019 2020 2019 2020 2016 2017 2015 2016 2013 2012 2009 2008 2005 2004.

Choice of a season. Eight of them did so automatically by virtue of their ranking by the international ice hockey federation one south korea automatically qualified as hosts while the three others took part in a qualification tournament.