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

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

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Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
2008 IIHF World Ranking[a]	30 April 2005 – 18 May 2008	Quebec City and Halifax[b]	9	Canada[c]  Russia  Sweden[c]  Finland[c]  Czech Republic[c]  United States   Switzerland  Slovakia  Belarus
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	Hanover	1	Germany
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	Riga	1	Latvia
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	Oslo	1	Norway
TOTAL			12

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Notes

1. ^a 2008 IIHF World Ranking were comprising the following events: 2005 World Championships, 2006 Winter Olympic Games, 2006 World Championships, 2007 World Championships and 2008 World Championships.
2. ^b Quebec City and Halifax were sites for 2008 World Championship; at the conclusion of the tournament the ranking were finalized with regards to the qualification slots.
3. ^c Canada, Czech Republic, Finland and Sweden had been mathematically determined to qualify for the 2010 Olympics before the start of the 2008 World Championship.

IIHF World Rating

	Qualified directly to Olympic Tournament
	Final qualification
	Pre-qualification
	Preliminary qualification

More information Rank, Team ...

Rank	Team	WC 2008 (100%)	WC 2007 (75%)	WC 2006 (50%)	OLY 2006 (50%)	WC 2005 (25%)	Total
1	Canada	1160	1200	1100	1020	1160	3410
2	Russia	1200	1120	1060	1100	1120	3400
3	Sweden	1100	1100	1200	1200	1100	3400
4	Finland	1120	1160	1120	1160	1020	3385
5	Czech Republic	1060	1020	1160	1120	1200	3265
6	United States	1040	1060	1020	1000	1040	3105
7	Switzerland	1020	1000	960	1040	1000	3020
8	Slovakia	880	1040	1000	1060	1060	2955
9	Belarus	960	920	1040	880	940	2845
10	Germany	940	960	800	940	840	2740
11	Latvia	920	880	940	900	960	2740
12	Norway	1000	860	920	860	800	2735
13	Denmark	900	940	880	800	860	2660
14	Italy	820	900	860	920	780	2580
15	Slovenia	840	800	820	780	880	2460
16	Austria	800	840	780	840	820	2445
17	Ukraine	760	820	900	760	920	2435
18	France	860	780	740	820	740	2410
19	Kazakhstan	740	720	840	960	900	2405
20	Hungary	780	760	680	700	720	2220
21	Poland	700	740	720	740	760	2175
22	Japan	720	700	700	720	660	2120
23	Lithuania	660	620	760	620	620	1970
24	Netherlands	620	640	640	680	700	1935
25	Estonia	600	680	660	640	680	1930
26	Croatia	640	560	600	580	560	1790
27	Romania	560	600	560	660	600	1770
28	China	500	580	540	600	580	1650
29	Great Britain	680	660	620		640	1645
30	Serbia	480	440	440	540	500	1425
31	South Korea	580	540	520		480	1365
32	Bulgaria	380	380	500	560	440	1305
33	Australia	540	520	480		520	1300
34	Belgium	520	500	460		420	1230
35	Israel	420	460	580		540	1190
36	Spain	460	480	400		400	1120
37	Mexico	440	400	380		320	1010
38	Iceland	400	420	320		360	965
39	New Zealand	360	340	360		380	890
40	Ireland	340	320	260		260	775
41	Turkey	260	360	300		340	765
42	South Africa	300	280	340		300	755
43	Luxembourg	280	300	240		280	695
44	North Korea	320		420		460	645
45	Mongolia	220	260				415
46	Greece	240					240
47	Bosnia and Herzegovina	200					200
48	Armenia			280		240	200

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