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