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 she appeared at the turn of 1870-1880. The first hockey teams in Russia started appearing soon after. They just started playing with a ball on the grass. Neo official birthday hockey in Russia is considered to date back to 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 reinvent 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 took place in many cities of the USSR.
1953 in history Russian hockey marked the entry of the Soviet team to the international level. And already next yearThere was a victory 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, however, there are those that undoubtedly stand out. Some 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. That's when the story beganUfaHC"Salavat Yulaev" . However, the name “Motor” was renamed only in 1960. Almost immediately after its creation, the young Russian hockey team was included in the national team Soviet Union, to the championship.
TO bast developed quickly and maintained its position amongothers hockey teams Russia.The first international match took place already in 1961, on December 30. The opponent of “Salavat Yulaev” was the German team.
U In 1989, a club of the same name was created.The club's most memorable scorer was V. Bykov, who scored 342 goals in fourteen seasons.
WITH Nowadays the hockey team “Salavat Yulaev” is not in the most confident position in the standings. However, there is great potential and every chance of success.
Hockey team CSKA
ABOUT bottom of the oldest teams -HCCSKA (Moscow). The beginning of your story hockey The team has been taking it 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 several times, but the essence never changed. M Oskovsky CSKA has always been one of the strongest and most successful teams.
By tradition, CSKA has its own symbols, like all Russian hockey teams. Traditionally The players have a red star on their chest as a tribute to the USSR. And the team's mascot is, significantly, a horse. For a long time, the horse was an unofficial companion to all the team’s games, and only recently was it given full mascot rights.
For today day, according to tournament tables, the CSKA (Moscow) hockey team is located in the most optimal positions. Taking into account all the nuances, subtleties and tricks, you can safely make forecasts and bet on the team’s success. CSKA has always been able to use its advantages.
Every year, after the World Cup, we publish the rankings of national hockey teams. This year will be no exception. We will also compare the progress of the teams compared to the last update. Team Canada, which lost the gold medals in 2019, remained at the top of the world rankings. She has 3705 points. The team at the World Championship held the maximum number of meetings (10), achieved 8 victories and lost twice. tournament regains second place in the world rankings. It should be noted that even in the event of a defeat in the match for third place, Russia would bypass the Swedes. The team has 3640 points, the gap from the leader is 65 points. The Russians have 9 wins and one loss. In 2017 they were second, in 2018 - third. When was the last time the team was in 1st place? In 2012, and the next World Championship in Switzerland, it is unlikely that it will return the world leadership, which has been held by the founders of hockey for 5 years. There is little joy in this. Very interesting championship, a very interesting movement in our table. Finland, having received, or rather won the cup, is compared with Sweden in the table of countries, both teams have 3615 points. Suomi is rising, and their neighbors are losing ground. The Finns, like the Canadians, won 8 matches and lost two. In 2017 they were 4th, then fifth, and now share 3rd-4th place with the Swedes. Sweden, having changed places with Russia in three years, returned to 3rd place. This team had 8 fights, 5 victories and 3 fiascoes at the world forum. The Czech Republic, after spending two years in 6th position, has finally moved up, it is fifth (3465 points). Out of ten games, the team from the capital Prague managed to win 7 times and lose three times. The US team lost two positions (3430 points), the gap from the leader is 275 points. Recent rankings of the United States: 5, 4, 6. The team played 8 matches, 3 losses and 5 wins. The German team moves up one step (3355). Two last year this team was in 8th place. The Germans, like the US team, were eliminated at the quarterfinal stage; they had 8 matches in the tournament (5 wins and 3 fiascoes). they have 4 losses and 3 celebrations. Norway is in 11th place; it dropped 2 places compared to the last update, and in 2017 it was on the 9th place. In 7 matches in the group, the Norwegians managed to lose 5 times and win twice. Denmark remained in 12th place, 10 points behind its nearest competitor. The team showed that it can win, having done it twice, and knows how to lose, it did it better (5 times). France, despite relegation from the elite, has not moved anywhere from 13th position; two years ago this team was right there. But now in the lower division she will receive much fewer points, this will affect her rapid decline. The team lost everything possible at the World Championships in Slovakia. The Belarusian national team, although it did not participate in last tournament, but has a good reserve in points, which allows her to stay in 14th place.
In 2017 they were 10th, and in 2018, as now, they were 14th. Austria is 15th, the team was not saved from relegation, it has 2635 points. 7 fiascos out of 7 possible. Even despite this, the team moved up 2 places. Marvelous. Two years ago they held the 16th position, then dropped to 17th. Italy is a newcomer to the elite; next season it will move into the category of “experienced”. The team's progress was +3 places, this
best result . But two years ago they were guarding the 18th floor. The team defeated Austria, but lost the remaining matches. Great Britain, which also guaranteed itself a place in the elite for the next season, scored 2480 points and moved up 2 places (20th place). In 2017 it was 24th. Victory over France in overtime and 6 fiascoes. There are a total of 52 countries in the ranking, here
full list
, right down to newcomers from Kyrgyzstan and Thailand. You can explore their places yourself, and then like them for their work. There will also be 2 issues dedicated to hockey on “Sports”. The team openly dominated the international arena until 1954, until the moment when the Soviet Union team appeared on it. Nevertheless, even after this moment it remained one of the strongest, and after the collapse of the USSR it again took a dominant position. It was for her that famous hockey players Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky played. The first is a French Canadian who suffered from spinal diseases, but at the same time went on the ice and showed amazing results, the second is the best player of the National Hockey League of all time. The national team consists of the strongest hockey players in the world, which it successfully proved in recent meetings with the Russian team at the 2010 Olympics and the 2015 World Cup, ending the confrontation with a devastating score.
Russia
Our team takes second place in the ranking. The heir to the legendary “Red Car” still demonstrates good hockey. It would seem that every year the best hockey players on the planet perform in it, capable of showing breathtaking hockey, and victories at the world championships happen regularly - but the mechanism malfunctions no less regularly. At the same time, hockey players lose not only to eminent opponents, there are also very disappointing defeats - for example, at the 2014 championship, the team lost to the French on May 9. Despite all this, the Russian team is considered one of the strongest, and among best players There are also Russians in the NHL. Unfortunately, Russia, despite its high place in the ranking of countries in hockey, cannot boast of having Olympic medals of the highest standard.
Sweden
In third place is the Swedish team - another team that has long been in the lead. Tre-Krunur is one of the most stable teams, which regularly receives awards at various competitions. It is noteworthy that with stable high result, the team took prizes relatively rarely. The Swedes were twice Olympic champions. The symbolism in the form of three crowns is well known to all hockey fans; they also know the playing style of these athletic Scandinavians very well.
Finland
The team settled in fourth place in the rankings. While the first three representatives of the list have been among the strongest for quite a long time, the Finns have been outsiders for a long time. In the second half of the twentieth century, with great difficulty they managed to break into the middle peasants, but they were far from medals. At the moment, their team is a two-time world champion. They managed to win their first awards at the Olympic Games only in 1988 - in a very difficult struggle they beat almost all their opponents - they managed to beat everyone, including even the champions - the USSR. The point is that at that time there were still no playoffs, and Soviet hockey players, who won seven matches in a row and secured victory in the tournament, did not have much motivation, which led to defeat by the Finns. Since the 90s, a sharp rise began, and Finland quickly got into the top ten in the ranking of ice hockey countries. For this they should also thank the Soviet players - after the collapse of the Union, some of them went to train Finnish players. The Finns are still playing beautifully, competing with the leading teams in the world.
During these spring days, the most popular sport is undoubtedly hockey. The 2015 World Cup captured the attention of fans all over the planet.
At last year's World Championships, Latvians took 11th place. In 2015, the team managed to defeat the Swiss and Austrians, both times in overtime. The team is coached by Master of Sports of the USSR Alexander Belyavsky.
The team's best result was 6th place at the World Championships and 4th place at the Olympics. And last year, according to the results of the 2014 World Cup, the team took seventh place, reaching? finals.
Slovaks are world champions in 2002. In the homeland of this team, hockey is the most popular sport. 0.23% of the population of Slovakia are professional hockey players. At last year's World Cup the team took 9th place.
The top seven teams that form the ranking of world hockey teams open with the Swiss national team. The team regularly performs in the First and Upper Divisions of the World Cup. In 2014, the team did not even qualify from the group. At the same time, the Swiss have victories over the teams of the Czech Republic and Canada at the 2013 championship.
One of the most famous teams won the title of world champion 6 times and Olympic gold once. The team is part of the “big seven” together with the USA, Canada, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and Finland.
The team won the Olympic Games twice. Last year, the Americans came fourth at the Olympics, and even sixth at the World Championships. However, the team started the current tournament actively, winning against the Russians, Finns and Norwegians at the very beginning of the tournament.
Team – two-time champion world and one of the strongest hockey teams on the planet. So, last year the Finns took silver from the championship, and they also received bronze at the Olympics in Sochi. At the current World Cup, the team has lost only to the Americans.
The Swedes are nine-time world champions and two-time Olympic champions. At last year's championship, the team won bronze, beating the Czechs in the semifinals.
The current world champion is the heir to the strongest USSR national team. The Russians have become world champions 5 times in their short history - the national team has existed since 1992.
The Canadian team, which was created in 1920, tops the IIHF world ranking of hockey teams. The national team is considered the founder of hockey. Canadians have won 24 times at the World Championships and three times at the Olympics.
Complete list of IIHF ice hockey teams
| Place | Hockey Team | Division | Rating 2014 | Rating 2015 | Bottom line | Change |
| 1 | World Cup | 1200 | 1060 | 3690 | +3 | |
| 2 | World Cup | 1120 | 1020 | 3675 | +1 | |
| 3 | World Cup | 1160 | 1040 | 3630 | -2 | |
| 4 | World Cup | 1020 | 1000 | 3575 | -2 | |
| 5 | World Cup | 1040 | 1000 | 3540 | +1 | |
| 6 | World Cup | 1060 | 1000 | 3495 | -1 | |
| 7 | World Cup | 1020 | 1000 | 3235 | ||
| 8 | World Cup | 960 | 960 | 3160 | ||
| 9 | World Cup | 1100 | 1000 | 3075 | +2 | |
| 10 | World Cup | 1000 | 1000 | 3015 | -1 | |
| 11 | Norway | World Cup | 900 | 900 | 2990 | -1 |
| 12 | France | World Cup | 940 | 940 | 3015 | - |
| 13 | Germany | World Cup | 880 | 880 | 2920 | - |
| 14 | Slovenia | I A | 860 | 860 | 2795 | - |
| 15 | Denmark | World Cup | 840 | 840 | 2775 | - |
| 16 | Austria | I A | 820 | 820 | 2745 | - |
| 17 | Kazakhstan | World Cup | 800 | 800 | 2680 | - |
| 18 | Italy | I A | 780 | 780 | 2565 | - |
| 19 | Hungary | World Cup | 760 | 760 | 2415 | - |
| 20 | Japan | I A | 740 | 740 | 2345 | +1 |
| 21 | Ukraine | I B | 720 | 720 | 2310 | -1 |
| 22 | Poland | I A | 700 | 700 | 2275 | +2 |
| 23 | The Republic of Korea | I A | 680 | 680 | 2230 | - |
| 24 | Great Britain | I B | 660 | 660 | 2225 | -2 |
| 25 | Netherlands | II A | 640 | 640 | 2065 | - |
| 26 | Lithuania | I B | 620 | 620 | 2035 | - |
| 27 | Croatia | I B | 600 | 600 | 1930 | +1 |
| 28 | Romania | I B | 580 | 580 | 1895 | -1 |
| 29 | Estonia | I B | 560 | 560 | 1870 | - |
| 30 | Spain | II A | 520 | 540 | 1665 | +1 |
| 31 | Serbia | II A | 500 | 520 | 1605 | -1 |
| 32 | Mexico | II B | 500 | 480 | 1400 | +1 |
| 33 | Israel | II B | 480 | 480 | 1375 | -1 |
| 34 | Iceland | II A | 460 | 460 | 1290 | +1 |
| 35 | Belgium | II A | 440 | 440 | 1280 | +1 |
| 36 | Australia | II B | 420 | 420 | 1230 | -2 |
| 37 | New Zealand | II B | 400 | 400 | 1045 | - |
| 38 | China | II A | 380 | 380 | 1020 | - |
| 39 | Bulgaria | II B | 360 | 360 | 890 | - |
| 40 | South Africa | III | 340 | 340 | 855 | - |
| 41 | Türkiye | III | 320 | 320 | 815 | - |
| 42 | DPRK | II B | 300 | 300 | 770 | +1 |
| 43 | Luxembourg | III | 280 | 280 | 700 | +1 |
| 44 | UAE | III | 260 | 260 | 510 | +1 |
| 45 | Georgia | III | 240 | 240 | 495 | +2 |
| 46 | Hong Kong | III | 220 | 220 | 455 | +2 |
| 47 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | III | - | 200 | 200 | new |
| 48 | Ireland | - | - | - | 195 | -4 |
| 49 | Greece | - | - | - | 180 | -3 |
| 50 | Mongolia | - | - | - | 155 | -1 |
Final standings of teams for 2015 (IIHF)