Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's qualification

Qualification for the men's tournament at the 2006 Winter Olympics was determined through the IIHF World Ranking following the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. The top eight teams in the World Ranking received automatic berths into the Olympics, Italy received a berth as the host, while all other teams had an opportunity to qualify for the remaining three spots in the Olympics through qualifying tournaments.

Qualified teams

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
2004 IIHF World Ranking[a]	26 March 2001 – 9 May 2004	Prague and Ostrava[b]	8	Canada  Sweden  Slovakia  Czech Republic  Finland  United States  Russia  Germany
Final qualification tournament	10–13 February 2005	Kloten	1	Switzerland
Final qualification tournament	10–13 February 2005	Riga	1	Latvia
Final qualification tournament	10–13 February 2005	Klagenfurt	1	Kazakhstan
Host			1	Italy
TOTAL			12

Notes

1. ^a 2004 IIHF World Ranking were comprising the following events: 2001 World Championship, 2002 Winter Olympic Games, 2002 World Championship, 2003 World Championship and 2004 World Championship
2. ^b Prague and Ostrava were the sites for 2004 IIHF World Championship; at the conclusion of the tournament the ranking were finalized with regards to the qualification slots.

Qualification seeding

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

Qualifying seed	Team	WC 2004 (100%)	WC 2003 (75%)	WC 2002 (50%)	OLY 2002 (50%)	WC 2001 (25%)	Total
1	Canada	1200	1200	1040	1200	1060	3485
2	Sweden	1160	1160	1120	1060	1120	3400
3	Slovakia	1100	1120	1200	880	1020	3235
4	Czech Republic	1060	1100	1060	1020	1200	3225
5	Finland	1040	1060	1100	1040	1160	3195
6	United States	1120	880	1020	1160	1100	3145
7	Russia	940	1020	1160	1120	1040	3105
8	Germany	960	1040	1000	1000	1000	2990
9	Switzerland	1000	1000	940	920	960	2920
10	Latvia	1020	960	920	960	880	2900
11	Austria	920	940	900	900	920	2755
12	Ukraine	860	900	960	940	940	2720
13	Belarus	780	860	800	1100	860	2590
14	Denmark	900	920	780	840	700	2575
15	Japan	840	820	820	740	820	2440
16	Slovenia	800	840	880	700	800	2420
17	Kazakhstan	880	800	720	780	720	2410
18	France	820	780	760	860	740	2400
Host	Italy	760	680	840	800	900	2315
19	Poland	720	760	860	760	780	2295
20	Norway	740	740	700	820	840	2265
21	Hungary	660	720	740	640	680	2060
22	Netherlands	700	660	660	660	640	2015
23	Estonia	680	700	560	720	600	1995
	Great Britain	640	640	680	680	760	1990
24	Romania	620	620	640	600	560	1845
25	Lithuania	560	580	540	620	580	1720
26	China	540	500	580	540	620	1630
27	Serbia and Montenegro	520	520	500	580	460	1565
	South Korea	600	560	600	0	540	1455
28	Croatia	500	600	620		660	1425
29	Bulgaria	420	460	440	560	440	1375
	Belgium	580	540	520		400	1345
	Spain	440	480	480		520	1170
	Australia	480	420	420		480	1125
	Israel	380	400	460		500	1035
	North Korea	460	440	320			950
	South Africa	340	380	400		420	930
	Iceland	320	360	380		380	875
	New Zealand	400	320	280		360	870
	Mexico	280	340	300		340	770
	Luxembourg	360	300	340			755
	Turkey	300	280	360			690
	Ireland	260					260
	Armenia	240					240

• Great Britain and South Korea chose not to participate in Olympic qualifying.

Olympic pre-qualification tournaments

Three round-robins were played from 11 to 14 November 2004. The teams seeded 18th, 19th, and 20th reserved the right to host these tournaments. The winners of each advanced to the final qualification tournaments.

Group D

Games were played in Briançon, France.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France (H)	3	3	0	0	30	0	+30	6	Final qualification tournament
2	Romania	3	2	0	1	10	12	−2	4
3	Estonia	3	1	0	2	14	12	+2	2
4	Bulgaria	3	0	0	3	2	32	−30	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Hosts

11 November 2004 16:30

Estonia

11–1 (3–0, 2–0, 6–1)

Bulgaria

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon Attendance: 1,052

Game reference
	Aleksei Terentjev Andrei Sestakov	Goalies	Ivaylo Asenov Konstantin Mihailov	Referee: Luca Cassol Linesmen: Matjaz Hribar Enis Beganovic
	Petrov – 03:56 1–0 Kaljuste (Tulzakov, Titarenko) (PP) – 07:29 2–0 Titarenko – 14:21 3–0 Konosev (Valk) – 23:10 4–0 Konosev (Valk, Palu) – 27:45 5–0 Makrov (Ossipenkov, Kolpakov) – 40:48 6–0 Palu (Konosev, Valk) – 41:31 7–0 Zorin (Potsinok, Ivanov) – 41:57 8–0 8–1 42:36 – Polizoev (Terziev) Kaljuste (Valk, Ossipenkov) – 52:59 9–1 Potsinok (Ivanov, Sauendi) (PP) – 55:08 10–1 Kozlov (Zorin, Potsinok) – 59:29 11–1
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	66	Shots	8

11 November 2004 20:30

Romania

0–8 (0–2, 0–2, 0–4)

France

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon Attendance: 2,007

Game reference
	Viorel Catrinoi	Goalies	Cristobal Huet	Referee: Christian Wohlgenannt Linesmen: Michele Gastaldelli Erich Maier
	0–1 06:40 – Meunier (Bess) 0–2 18:28 – Gras (Bonnard) 0–3 21:40 – F. Rozenthal (M. Rozenthal) 0–4 33:38 – Coqueux (Dostal, Daramy) 0–5 55:39 – Besse (Huet) 0–6 57:44 – Karrer (Bellemare, Bonnard) (PP) 0–7 59:13 – F. Rozenthal (M. Rozenthal, Zwikel) (PP) 0–8 59:41 – Dostal (Daramy, Coqueux)
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	19	Shots	47

13 November 2004 16:30

Estonia

3–4 (2–0, 0–4, 1–0)

Romania

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon Attendance: 884

Game reference
	59 min	Penalties	51 min
	39	Shots	29

13 November 2004 20:30

France

15–0 (5–0, 4–0, 6–0)

Bulgaria

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon Attendance: 1,916

Game reference
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	82	Shots	2

14 November 2004 15:30

Bulgaria

1–6 (0–3, 0–2, 1–1)

Romania

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon Attendance: 532

Game reference
	14 min	Penalties	18 min
	21	Shots	35

14 November 2004 19:30

France

7–0 (3–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Estonia

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon Attendance: 2,122

Game reference
	34 min	Penalties	59 min
	56	Shots	21

Group E

Games were played in Nowy Targ, Poland.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland (H)	3	3	0	0	18	1	+17	6	Final qualification tournament
2	Netherlands	3	2	0	1	13	9	+4	4
3	Lithuania	3	1	0	2	8	13	−5	2
4	Croatia	3	0	0	3	7	23	−16	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Hosts

11 November 2004 16:00

Netherlands

10–3 (3–0, 3–1, 4–2)

Croatia

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ Attendance: 400

Game reference
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	47	Shots	36

11 November 2004 19:30

Lithuania

1–6 (0–2, 1–2, 0–2)

Poland

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ Attendance: 4,000

Game reference
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	24	Shots	52

13 November 2004 16:00

Netherlands

3–1 (1–1, 2–0, 0–0)

Lithuania

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ

13 November 2004 19:30

Poland

7–0 (3–0, 3–0, 1–0)

Croatia

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ Attendance: 1,800

Game reference
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	66	Shots	16

14 November 2004 15:00

Poland

5–0 (2–0, 2–0, 1–0)

Netherlands

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ Attendance: 4,500

Game reference
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	45	Shots	28

14 November 2004 18:30

Croatia

4–6 (1–1, 2–2, 1–3)

Lithuania

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ

Game reference

Group F

Games were played in Stavanger, Norway.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway (H)	3	2	1	0	40	5	+35	5	Final qualification tournament
2	Hungary	3	2	1	0	20	6	+14	5
3	China	3	1	0	2	8	22	−14	2
4	Serbia and Montenegro	3	0	0	3	2	37	−35	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Hosts

11 November 2004 15:00

Hungary

13–0 (2–0, 7–0, 4–0)

Serbia and Montenegro

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger Attendance: 547

Game reference
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	68	Shots	8

11 November 2004 18:30

China

2–16 (2–1, 0–5, 0–10)

Norway

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger Attendance: 960

Game reference
	40 min	Penalties	14 min
	12	Shots	101

12 November 2004 15:00

Hungary

4–3 (2–1, 1–2, 1–0)

China

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger Attendance: 555

Game reference
	18 min	Penalties	16 min
	46	Shots	17

12 November 2004 18:30

Norway

21–0 (4–0, 7–0, 10–0)

Serbia and Montenegro

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger Attendance: 901

Game reference
	6 min	Penalties	12 min
	90	Shots	4

14 November 2004 13:00

Serbia and Montenegro

2–3 (1–1, 1–1, 0–1)

China

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger Attendance: 577

Game reference
	10 min	Penalties	14 min
	25	Shots	42

14 November 2004 17:00

Norway

3–3 (1–0, 1–2, 1–1)

Hungary

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger

Game reference
	8 min	Penalties	30 min
	39	Shots	14

Final qualification tournaments

Three round-robins were played from 10 to 13 February 2005. The teams seeded 9th, 10th and 11th reserved the right to host these tournaments. The three group winners qualified for the Olympic tournament.

Group A

Games were played in Kloten, Switzerland.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland (H)	3	3	0	0	12	4	+8	6	2006 Winter Olympics
2	Norway	3	2	0	1	9	6	+3	4
3	Denmark	3	1	0	2	7	10	−3	2
4	Japan	3	0	0	3	6	14	−8	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Hosts

10 February 2005 16:15

Denmark

0–4 (0–3, 0–1, 0–0)

Norway

Schlüfweg, Kloten Attendance: 503

Game reference
	Peter Hirsch	Goalies	Pål Grotnes	Referee: Nicolas Dutil Linesmen: Stanislav Barvir Paul Rebillard
	0–1 05:21 – Vikingstad (Trygg) (SH) 0–2 07:47 – Skrøder (Myrvold) (PP) 0–3 17:05 – Bastiansen (Trygg, Knold) (PP) 0–4 34:32 – Myrvold (Ask, Jakobsen) (PP)
	20 min	Penalties	24 min
	28	Shots	24

10 February 2005 20:15

Japan

1–5 (0–2, 0–2, 1–1)

Switzerland

Schlüfweg, Kloten Attendance: 2,269

Game reference
	Masahito Haruna	Goalies	Martin Gerber	Referee: Wilhelm Schimm Linesmen: Pavel Makarov Stefan Zantop
	0–1 00:33 – Jenni (Conne, Streit) 0–2 09:00 – Ambühl (Reichert) 0–3 38:13 – Forster (Conne, Jenni) (SH) 0–4 39:09 – Ziegler (Rüthemann) Suzuki (Ito, Haruna) (PP) – 50:38 1–4 1–5 51:53 – Vauclair (Jenni, Conne)
	16 min	Penalties	16 min
	10	Shots	54

12 February 2005 12:00

Denmark

5–2 (2–1, 1–0, 2–1)

Japan

Schlüfweg, Kloten Attendance: 551

Game reference
	Michael Madsen	Goalies	Masahito Haruna
	F. Nielsen (Hansen) – 00:25 1–0 Andreasen (F. Nielsen, D. Nielsen) (PP) – 12:41 2–0 2–1 14:27 – Fujita (SH) Damgaard (F. Nielsen) (PP) – 37:40 3–1 3–2 43:54 – Yule (Fujita) Regin (F. Nielsen) – 55:15 4–2 True (ENG) – 59:46 5–2
	16 min	Penalties	14 min
	37	Shots	33

12 February 2005 15:45

Switzerland

3–1 (1–1, 1–0, 1–0)

Norway

Schlüfweg, Kloten Attendance: 4,051

Game reference
	Martin Gerber	Goalies	Pål Grotnes	Referee: Alexander Poliakov Linesmen: Stanislav Barvir Milan Masik
	Forster (Jeannin) – 01:41 1–0 1–1 08:10 – Trygg (Vikingstad) Zieglar (Reichert, Blindenbacher) – 38:53 2–1 Lemm – 43:05 3–1
	28 min	Penalties	20 min
	32	Shots	20

13 February 2005 12:00

Norway

4–3 (0–2, 2–0, 2–1)

Japan

Schlüfweg, Kloten Attendance: 431

Game reference
	Pål Grotnes	Goalies	Naoya Kikuchi	Referee: Alexander Poliakov Linesmen: Milan Masik Paul Rebillard
	0–1 03:18 – Yule (Fujita, Keller) 0–2 07:29 – Kon (Suzuki, Ito) (PP) Olsen (Vikingstad, Thoresen) (PP) – 21:12 1–2 Marthinsen (Hallem, Nagel) – 22:13 2–2 Skrøder (Ask) – 42:44 3–2 3–3 49:38 – Uchiyama (Keller, Okuyama) Skrøder (Myrvold, Jakobsen) (PP) – 51:57 4–3
	16 min	Penalties	18 min
	42	Shots	26

13 February 2005 15:45

Switzerland

4–2 (1–0, 2–2, 1–0)

Denmark

Schlüfweg, Kloten Attendance: 3,371

Game reference
	Martin Gerber	Goalies	Peter Hirsch	Referee: Nicolas Dutil Linesmen: Pavel Makarov Stefan Zantop
	Fischer (Blindenbacher, Wichser) (PP) – 07:34 1–0 1–1 20:30 – F. Nielsen (Regin) Rüthemann (Streit, Gerber) (PP) – 33:06 2–1 2–2 33:20 – Damgaard Streit (Ruthemann) (PP2) – 38:07 3–2 Della Rossa (Seger) – 49:01 4–2
	14 min	Penalties	20 min
	49	Shots	22

Group B

Games were played in Riga, Latvia.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Latvia (H)	3	3	0	0	10	6	+4	6	2006 Winter Olympics
2	Belarus	3	2	0	1	14	9	+5	4
3	Slovenia	3	1	0	2	7	12	−5	2
4	Poland	3	0	0	3	6	10	−4	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Hosts

10 February 2005 15:30

Belarus

3–2 (2–0, 0–1, 1–1)

Poland

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga Attendance: 1,000

Game reference
	Sergei Shabanov	Goalies	Tomasz Jaworski	Referee: Christer Larking Linesmen: Ansis Eglitis Oleksangr Govorun
	Mialeshka (Chuprys) – 05:21 1–0 Salei (Antonenko, Kalyuzhny) (PP2) – 14:30 2–0 2–1 20:49 – Czerkawski (Szczepaniec) 2–2 52:21 – Garbocz (Czerkawski) (PP) Antonenko (Kalyuzhny) – 54:10 3–2
	12 min	Penalties	12 min
	44	Shots	19

10 February 2005 19:00

Slovenia

1–2 (1–0, 0–2, 0–0)

Latvia

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga Attendance: 4,900

Game reference
	Robert Kristan	Goalies	Sergejs Naumovs	Referee: Frank Awizus Linesmen: Konstantin Gordenko Ronni Jakobsen
	Goličič – 15:33 1–0 1–1 20:14 – Skrastiņš (Tambijevs) (PP) 1–2 26:18 – Sprukts (Sējējs, Cipulis)
	10 min	Penalties	10 min
	34	Shots	33

11 February 2005 15:30

Belarus

7–2 (0–1, 4–1, 3–0)

Slovenia

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga Attendance: 1,952

Game reference
	Sergei Shabanov	Goalies	Robert Kristan	Referee: Christer Larking Linesmen: Ansis Elitis Ronni Jakobsen
	0–1 01:38 – Jan (Kontrec, Kopitar) Grabovski (PP) – 21:56 1–1 Antonenko (Grabovski, Galchenyuk) – 24:25 2–1 2–2 26:50 – Jan (Dervarič) (PP) Bashko – 29:05 3–2 Grabovski (Kostyuchenok) – 39:45 4–2 Grabovski (Kostyuchenok) – 48:28 5–2 Krutsikau (Khyml, Stas) – 48:58 6–2 Krutsikau (Chuprys) – 54:23 7–2
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	31	Shots	23

11 February 2005 19:00

Latvia

3–1 (0–0, 1–1, 2–0)

Poland

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga Attendance: 4,700

Game reference
	Edgars Masaļskis	Goalies	Tomasz Jaworski	Referee: Timo Favorin Linesmen: Oleksangr Seppo Lindroos
	0–1 38:36 – Czerkawski (Zamojski) Panteļejevs (Ņiživijs) – 38:52 1–1 Semjonovs (Nizivijs, Ankipāns) – 51:50 2–1 Cipulis – 58:22 3–1
	6 min	Penalties	20 min
	37	Shots	37

13 February 2005 13:00

Poland

3–4 (0–1, 1–1, 2–2)

Slovenia

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga Attendance: 970

Game reference
	Tomasz Jaworski	Goalies	Gaber Glavič	Referee: Timo Favorin Linesmen: Ansis Eglitis Seppo Lindroos
	0–1 01:17 – Avgustinčič (Kontrec) 0–2 22:02 – Goličič (Rožič) Dulęba (Parzyszek) (PP) 1–2 1–3 42:10 – Goličič (Vidmar) 1–4 50:54 – Kopitar (M. Rodman) (PP) 55:56 – Szczepaniec (Zamojski, Płachta) (PP) 2–4 56:41 – Płachta (Szczepaniec) 3–4
	22 min	Penalties	12 min
	41	Shots	38

13 February 2005 17:00

Latvia

5–4 (1–2, 1–1, 3–1)

Belarus

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga Attendance: 4,700

Game reference
	Edgars Masaļskis Sergejs Naumovs	Goalies	Sergei Shabanov	Referee: Frank Awizus Linesmen: Ronni Jakobsen Konstantin Gordenko
	0–1 05:16 – Bashko (Antonenko) (PP) 0–2 12:06 – Mikulchik (Grabovski) (PP) Sprukts (Sējējs) (PP) – 18:33 1–2 1–3 21:49 – Grabovski (Savin, Koltsov) Panteļejevs (Ozoliņš) – 22:07 2–3 2–4 49:11 – Koltsov (Grabovski) (PP) Bērziņš (Sprukts) (PP, EA) – 55:11 3–4 Sprukts – 56:58 4–4 Semjonovs (Ņiživijs) – 57:31 5–4
	14 min	Penalties	45 min
	40	Shots	24

Group C

Games were played in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kazakhstan	3	2	0	1	3	5	−2	4	2006 Winter Olympics
2	Austria (H)	3	1	1	1	8	5	+3	3
3	France	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	3
4	Ukraine	3	1	0	2	8	9	−1	2

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Hosts

10 February 2005 15:30

Ukraine

3–4 (0–1, 2–0, 1–3)

France

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt

Game reference
	Oleksandr Fedorov	Goalies	Cristobal Huet	Referee: Rudolf Lauff Linesmen: Jaromir Blaha Milan Novak
	0–1 05:53 – Meunier (Bordeleau, Favarin) (PP) Tsyrul (Shyriaiev) – 29:46 1–1 Gnidenko (Pastukh, Kasianchuk) – 33:29 2–1 2–2 41:45 – Bordeleau (Besse, Meunier) (PP) 2–3 45:28 – Coqueux (Bordeleau) Salnikov (Tsyrul, Zavalnyuk) (PP) – 49:07 3–3 3–4 52:34 – F. Rozenthal (Favarin)
	20 min	Penalties	26 min
	26	Shots	34

10 February 2005 19:30

Kazakhstan

0–4 (0–0, 0–1, 0–3)

Austria

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt Attendance: 2,500

Game reference
	Vitali Kolesnik	Goalies	Claus Dalpiaz	Referee: Brent Reiber Linesmen: Peter Kung Daniel Wirth
	0–1 24:12 – Peintner (Ressmann) 0–2 40:43 – Koch (Setzinger, Divis) (PP) 0–3 42:34 – Koch (Ressman, Peintner) 0–4 50:48 – Setzinger (Harand) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	4 min
	22	Shots	34

11 February 2005 15:30

Ukraine

1–2 (1–1, 0–1, 0–0)

Kazakhstan

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt

Game reference
	Yevgen Brul	Goalies	Vitali Kolesnik	Referee: Vladimir Sindler Linesmen: Matthias Langle Daniel Wirth
	0–1 01:44 – Rozhnev (Kravets) Timchenko – 19:30 1–1 1–2 39:01 – Komissarov (Kovalenko)
	20 min	Penalties	10 min
	18	Shots	34

11 February 2005 19:30

Austria

1–1 (0–1, 0–0, 1–0)

France

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt Attendance: 3,300

Game reference
	Claus Dalpiaz	Goalies	Cristobal Huet	Referee: Rudolf Lauff Linesmen: Milan Novak Peter Kung
	0–1 08:59 – Bordeleau (M. Rozenthal) Vanek (Pöck) (PP) – 45:35 1–1
	6 min	Penalties	16 min
	33	Shots	16

13 February 2005 15:00

Austria

3–4 (1–2, 1–1, 1–1)

Ukraine

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt Attendance: 2,200

Game reference
	Claus Dalpiaz	Goalies	Oleksandr Fedorov	Referee: Brent Reiber Linesmen: Milan Novak Daniel Wirth
	0–1 12:52 – Isayenko (Zavalnyuk, Pastukh) (PP) Ulrich (Peintner, Divis) (PP) – 15:27 1–1 1–2 17:34 – Bobrovnikov (Zavalnyuk) (PP) Koch (Ulrich) (PP) – 28:00 2–2 2–3 36:59 – Gnidenko (Lytvynenko, Salnikov) (PP) Kalt (Peintner) – 44:12 3–3 3–4 53:13 – Tsyrul (Semenchenko, Shafarenko)
	37 min	Penalties	14 min
	35	Shots	21

13 February 2005 19:00

France

0–1 (0–1, 0–0, 0–0)

Kazakhstan

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt

Game reference
	Cristobal Huet	Goalies	Vitali Kolesnik	Referee: Vladimir Sindler Linesmen: Peter Kung Jaromir Blaha
	0–1 17:57 – Samokhvalov (Polichshuk)
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	26	Shots	18