The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has been compiling the world ranking of national ice hockey teams (IIHF World Ranking) since 2003. Places in the ranking are calculated based on the results of the performances of the teams at the last four World Championships and the last Winter Olympics.

IIHF World Ranking

in brackets the number of points and the last change in position (May 2019, after the World Cup)

1. Canada (3705)

2. Russia (3640, +1)

3. Finland (3615, +2)

4. Sweden (3615, -2)

5. Czech Republic (3465, +1)

6. USA (3430, -2)

7. Germany (3355, +1)

8. Switzerland (3325, -1)

9. Slovakia (3040. +1)

10. Latvia (3025, +1)

11. Norway (3005, -2)

12. Denmark (2925)

13. France (2840)

14. Belarus (2735)

15. Austria (2635, +2)

16. Italy (2620, +3)

17. South Korea (2620, -1)

18. Slovenia (2620, -3)

19. Kazakhstan (2570, -1)

20. UK (2480, +2)

21. Hungary (2370, -1)

22. Poland (2300, -1)

23. Japan (2180)

24. Lithuania (2110, +1)

25. Ukraine (2095, -1)

26. Estonia (2010)

27. Romania (1990, +2)

28. Netherlands (1910)

29. Croatia (1895, -2)

30. Serbia (1740)

31. Spain (1585)

32. China (1520, +1)

33. Iceland (1485, -1)

34. Israel (1385)

35. Australia (1305, +1)

36. Mexico (1290, -1)

37. Belgium (1200)

38. Bulgaria (1095)

39. Georgia (1060, +1)

40. New Zealand (1020, -1)

41. North Korea (905)

42. Türkiye (760, +1)

43. Luxembourg (745, -1)

44. South Africa (595)

45. Chinese Taipei (545, +1)

46. ​​Hong Kong (535, -1)

47. Turkmenistan (430, +2)

48. UAE (420, -1)

49. Bosnia and Herzegovina (340, -1)

50. Kuwait (225)

51. Thailand (160, new)

52. Kyrgyzstan (100, new)

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Canada is rightfully considered. However, despite the fact that in Russia this species sports game appeared relatively recently, domestic teams today occupy enviable places.

in Russia

In the world of hockey appeared at the turn of 1870-1880. The first hockey teams in Russia started showing up soon after. They just started playing with the ball on the grass. Neo official birthday hockey in Russia is considered to be 1899. On this day, the first match for the Russian ice hockey team took place in St. Petersburg. The match took place between the Russian "Sport" and England. ended game with a score of 4:4 - the opponents played in a draw.

P They tried to revive hockey in Russia since 1911, but for a long time this game did not take root in the vastness of the country and in the minds of citizens. The official birthday of hockey in Russia is December 22, 1946. Then open games were held in many cities of the USSR.

1953 in history Russian hockey was marked by the release of the Soviet team to the international level. And next yearvictory over the Canadian team. With a score of 7:2, the USSR national team achieved the title of world leader in hockey.

Today, Russia holds a leading position and is among the top five worldwide. There are more than a hundred strong hockey clubs, but there are some that definitely stand out. One of the oldest and most confident are HC "Salavat Yulaev" and CSKA (Moscow).

Hockey team "Salavat Yulaev"

IN In 1959, the Motor team gathered in Bashkiria. Then the story beganUfaHC"Salavat Yulaev" . However, they renamed "Motor" only in 1960. Almost immediately after the creation of the young Russian hockey team was included in the national team soviet Union, in the championship.

TO Lub developed rapidly and held its position amongother hockey teams Russia.The first international match took place already in 1961, on December 30. The opponent of “Salavat Yulaev” was the German team.

At in 1989, the club of the same name was created.The club's most memorable scorer was V. Bykov, who scored 342 goals in fourteen seasons.

WITH Now the hockey team "Salavat Yulaev" is not in the most confident positions in the standings. However, there is great potential and every chance of success.

CSKA hockey team

ABOUT bottom of the oldest commands -HCCSKA (Moscow). The beginning of your story hockey the team has been taking since 1926, December 22. On that day, the players of this particular team opened the games throughout the Union.

TO team, like the club, a bunch of renamed once, but the essence has never changed. M Moscow CSKA has always been one of the strongest and most successful teams.

By tradition, CSKA has its own symbols, like all hockey teams in Russia. Traditionally on the chest of the players is a red star, as a tribute to the USSR. The team's mascot is a horse. For a long time, the horse was an unofficial companion of all the team's games, and only recently he was given full-fledged talisman rights.

For today day, according to the standings, the hockey team CSKA (Moscow) is located on the most optimal positions. Considering all the nuances, subtleties and tricks, you can safely make forecasts and bet on the success of the team. CSKA has always been able to use its advantages.

The well-known hockey portal HockeyArchives has compiled an annual rating of the best clubs in Europe. In the first place, as in the previous year, is SKA, ahead of the Swedish "Vekshe" and CSKA. The top 20 includes four more KHL clubs: Ak Bars, Jokerit, Traktor and Lokomotiv.

The top 20 looks like this:

1. SKA (KHL) - 62.99 points

2. "Vekshe" (Sweden) - 62.25

3.CSKA (KHL) - 58.52

4. Ak Bars (KHL) - 54.07

5. "Kerpet" (Finland) - 50.26

6. Comet (Czech Republic) - 48.21

7. Djurgården (Sweden) - 47.73

8. "Bern" (Switzerland) - 47.68

9. "Munich" (Germany) - 46.69

10. Tappara (Finland) - 45.92

11. Jokerit (KHL) - 45.80

12. "Pilsen" (Czech Republic) - 45.58

13. "Trshinec" (Czech Republic) - 45.33

14. Skellefteo (Sweden) - 44.73

15. "Tractor" (KHL) - 44.14

16. "Lugano" (Switzerland) - 44.10

17. "Hradec Kralove" (Czech Republic) - 43.97

18. Frelunda (Sweden) - 43.65

19. Lokomotiv (KHL) - 43.30

20. "Zurich" (Switzerland) - 43.14.

So, SKA is the strongest club in Europe. This is what an authoritative French hockey site thinks. Surely many thousands of fans of the Neva team all over the world agree with this thesis.

But it all looks like an axiom. Why? Because…

I would like some proof. And not just words that the KHL is the strongest league in the Old World. Okay, let's skip such trifles that last season the Gagarin Cup was won by Ak Bars, beating CSKA in the final. And the St. Petersburg team limited themselves to the semi-finals of the playoffs ...

But where is direct evidence that the KHL is stronger than, for example, the Swedish “elite series” or the Swiss “national league”? If you have, show them!

Why isn't the Finnish UP Jyväskylä, which won the Champions League last year, the top club in Europe? He is not in the top twenty at all. Or not the Swedish "Vekshe", who played in the final?

Okay, the poll is unofficial - and this is the taste of French journalists.

But isn't it time for Russian clubs to officially prove that they really reign in the Old World?

We reproach NHLers that they don't want to play with the clubs of the Continental League - for fear of losing and tarnishing the reputation of the strongest league in the world.

But we answer the Europeans in the same way. In the sense: "We are the best, and so everything is clear." To whom and what is clear is not clear.

We complain that we can’t fit another tournament into . Answer from the evil one! It would be a wish!

On Eurotours there are "windows" every season. Yes, it's the national team! But the clubs will also represent the interests of the whole country in the international arena.

Moreover, the organizers of the Champions League were ready to adapt to us and allow KHL clubs, for example, immediately to the playoff stage. But here we shake our heads.

It's no secret that the ratings of broadcasts of KHL regular season matches and even the playoffs in Russia are, to put it mildly, low. One might even say low. The conditional confrontation between Ak Bars and Magnitogorsk arouses enthusiasm only among the fans of these teams.

"Sell" at the moment can only be a confrontation between SKA and CSKA - clubs where there are stars. But there are few such matches during the season.

In the upcoming championship, the army team, for example, will meet each other only four times. And it's not a fact that "army wars" will continue in the Gagarin Cup. And what else can lure the viewer to KHL games?

But in Ledovoy there are always full houses, when the St. Petersburg hockey players are confronted by their neighbors from Finland - Jokerit. After all, it is clear that there are also the best clubs in Russia and Finland, albeit reinforced by foreign players.

There is no doubt that if SKA compete somewhere in the semi-final of the Champions League with another club from Helsinki - HIFK - the whole country will root for the players from St. Petersburg. And a simple layman will remember about hockey not only during the World Championships and the Olympic Games.

And there are Swedes, Swiss, Germans, Czechs - in these countries they are sure that they are no weaker than the KHL. But we do not know and do not have an exact idea of ​​what level of hockey is in these countries? Maybe, Continental League and stronger, but did not bother to prove it on the ice.

SKA is quite capable of reigning in hockey Europe, like Real Madrid in football. But for now, we can only assign ourselves the unofficial titles of continental "kings."

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Jyväskylä is not among the richest teams in its league (the UP budget is about 7 million euros) and is a typical coaching team, and its coach, Jyrki Aho, is considered one of the most promising in the country. In charge of the attack in Jyväskylä are Eric Perren and Ramzi Abid, whom we know, which only emphasizes the meaning of the word “coaching”, as well as Rich Peverly from Boston, who decided to wait out the lockout in Finland. It is worth mentioning the presence of Tuomas Tarkka, Petr Gubachek and Yurka Vyalivaara, well-known to Russian fans. In general, this Finnish club is in many ways similar to Bryunes, about which a little later.

11. , AHL

Inclusion in the Oklahoma rankings is more of an advance than a reflection of the real picture. After all, the season in the AHL has just begun. But it would be blasphemy not to include the Barons here, given the presence of the youth super trio Taylor Hall - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Jordan Eberle, as well as Magnus Päjärvi, Teemu Hartikainen and Justin Schulz, who started well, for whom Edmonton had to fight literally with the entire league . Last season, Oklahoma reached the conference finals, but this season, if the lockout drags on, it may well aim at the Calder Cup.

Current Championship Place: 9th in Conference

10. , NLA (Switzerland)

The oldest and, by the way, not the richest NLA club (the budget is about 12 million euros), which almost flew out to the B League last season, started the season victoriously and unconditionally leads the championship, which sheltered the vast majority of North American NHL players during the lockout. Geneva itself limited itself to inviting Yannick Weber (Montreal) and Logan Couture (San Jose), and these moves have so far fully justified themselves.

It is worth noting that Servette has enough players who are known, so to speak, in narrow circles. Here are Brian Pottier, and naturalized Dan Fritsch, and Rico Fata, and Alexander Picard, as well as Tobias Stefan, who is spending just an enchanting season. If Stefan continues in the same spirit, Chris McSorley, who has been working with the team for 12 years, is in danger of reaching the final with it for the third time.

Current Championship Place: 1st

9. , Elitserien (Sweden)

Bryunäs goalkeeper Johan Holmqvist. Photo: brynas.se

The reigning champion and part-time one of the poorest (budget - about 7 million euros) Elitserien teams are second in the standings, despite the departure top scorer the team of Jakob Silfverberg and the promising Johan Larsson, Sebastian Vennstrom and Matthias Ekholm, who went overseas, as well as Niklas Andersen, who moved to Severstal.

But the squad did not seem to notice the losses, which must first of all be associated with the figure of Tommy Jonsson, one of the most promising coaches in Sweden, the best coach of the Elitserien last season, which was his debut as a head coach. You can, of course, recall some strengthening in the offseason (hello to our old friend Johan Harju and Cody Franson from Toronto), note Johan Holmqvist having a great season, Zetterberg’s “heir” Kalle Jernkrok and rising superstar Elias Linholm, who has already scored at the age of 17 10 (4 + 6) points in 14 matches, but the main creator of the success of Brunäs is Jonsson. This team plays in such a way that, according to impressions, the conditional “Detroit” would have problems with them.

Current Championship Place: 2nd

8. , KHL

The finalist of the Gagarin Cup-2012 in the off-season lost Raimo Summanen, who could start the team with just the sight of a planchette, and the "hawks" somehow got lost right away. But lately they have picked up a good pace, showing a quite digestible game and good results.

While Tomasz Zaborski is getting accustomed, and Nikita Nikitin does not spoil the mass, the leadership of Avangard made a knight's move, inviting Sergey Kostitsyn for the duration of the lockout, with whom, by the way, the team's recent successes can be quite associated. However, even without him, Avangard remains a serious force in European hockey.

Current Championship Place: 5th in Conference

7. , AHL

As you know, in the off-season, Tampa exchanged farm clubs with Anaheim, so the Norfolk team, which had a record streak of 28 wins in the 2011/12 AHL regular season and eventually won the Calder Cup, almost completely moved to Syracuse, including coach John Cooper, who won cup championships with every club he worked for. One must think that in Syracuse he will also pass this trick, since the wards with a pretty and extremely effective game system are mostly familiar.

Of the truly significant losses, it is worth noting that Trevor Smith, who moved to the Pittsburgh farm club, Alexander Picard, who signed a contract with Geneva, and Yaroslav Janusz, who now plays in the KHL for Slovan. However, the replenishment is also not bad: the best goalkeeper of the SM-league Riku Helenius, selected in the first round Vladislav Namestnikov, well-known to us Dmitry Korobov. Plus Brett Connolly, all last season spent in the NHL, J.T. Wyman, also registered in the Bolts, and a recent student J.T. Brown, who even managed to drive to the 2012 World Cup as part of the US team.

6. , KHL

The two-time KHL champion has a chic squad and could well lead the standings, but, in his usual manner, is in no hurry to score points. However, there is no doubt that this is one of the strongest clubs in Europe. Even with one hostage of the lockout, who spent only 3 matches, and a new coach, who, in general, is not entirely new.

Current Championship Place: 4th in Conference

5. , KHL

In the ranking of the best teams in the world, there simply cannot be a team that has the objectively best player in the world, even if he is not yet in optimal shape. But it's clearly getting closer. I remember that at the World Championships no one could find justice for Evgeni Malkin, they are unlikely to find it in the KHL either. Nikolai Kulemin and Sergey Gonchar, who also joined Magnitogorsk during the lockout, came in handy in an already very serious team, and Paul Maurice, apparently, is one of those coaches who draw conclusions from local and not very failures.

4. , KHL

Despite the lack of teamwork among hockey players, the revived team started the season quite cheerfully. Yes, and replenishment in the person of Semyon Varlamov, Dmitry Kulikov, Artem Anisimov only added touches to the game picture of Yaroslavl. European championships subject to competent coaching, which so far seems to be just that.

Current place in the championship: 2nd in the conference.

3. , KHL

The semi-finalist of the Gagarin Cup-2012 managed to do without serious personnel losses in the off-season, and in September he signed a full-fledged contract with Andrey Kostitsyn, who has an ambiguous reputation, but certainly strengthened the attack of the Chelyabinsk team. Plus, Evgeny Kuznetsov is getting closer to his design capacity, and Valery Belousov, whose rollback is still in vogue and very effective, is not particularly something to be sad about.

Current Championship Place: 1st in Conference

2. , KHL

The current holder of the Gagarin Cup at least did not lose in quality in the new season and, in addition, strengthened during the lockout by Alexander Ovechkin, who will soon be joined by one of the best center forwards in the world, Niklas Backstrom, who is perfectly able to find Ovi with passes. Well, Oleg Znark's game system, which is not conducive to entertainment, has long proved its worth at the KHL level, where Dynamo is now in first place in terms of points.

Current Championship Place: 1st in Conference

1. , KHL

The leader of our rating concurrently is the leader standings KHL regular season by lost points. Ilya Kovalchuk, Vladimir Tarasenko and Sergei Bobrovsky, plus Viktor Tikhonov in Once again returned to Russia, and the main, according to many, favorite of the 2012/13 season looks like the main favorite should look like, easily cracking down on most opponents due to the class of players alone.

Current Championship Place: 3rd in Conference

The overall score consisted of two components: "popularity rating", which accounted for 40% of the total score, and "site quality rating" - 60%.

Monthly site traffic. Site traffic was estimated for November 2016 using the SimilarWeb program.

1) Site attributes:

• Convenience/Navigation
• Content
• Design
• Sports/tournament component

Categories were evaluated subjectively by specialists from the sports and digital industries. It was also taken into account that in the context of different leagues in the total mass, the sites have a completely different overall level, so the ratings were set taking into account which league the club is in. That is, if one site of the RFPL club and one site of the PFL club were separately compared, then the differences in the estimates would be more significant.

2) Additional functionality:

• Online ticket sales
• Online store
• CRM ( Personal Area Online). Only a separate registration on the main page of the site was taken into account.
• Mobile app

"Site attributes" were evaluated on a scale from 1 to 5. The categories of "Additional functionality" received 2 points in the presence of this functionality, in the absence of - 0 points. Thus, the club could score 28 points.

In each of the "rankings", the clubs were sorted in order from the highest result (number of audience, score) to the lowest, and they were assigned points relative to their position. Further, the scores from the two "ratings" were combined, and the final "Rating of the presence of clubs in the digital space" was obtained.

• >20 - A
• >10 - B
• <= 10 - C