Ice Hockey Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

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Edited January 20, 2025 by Sindo

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Some news about the ice hockey qualification for mens. The first round will be between November 7th and 12th this year at Al Ain, United Arabs Emirates. The team are UAE, Kyrgyzstan, Hong Kong, Kuwait and Georgia.

 

https://www.icehockeyhongkong.org/2023/08/09/2026-mens-olympic-winter-games-qualification-round-1-group-n/

 

This is for Groupe N. I don't know if there is a Group O like at the previous qualification.

Edited August 13, 2023 by freds77

[hckošice 16,605]

6 hours ago, freds77 said:

Some news about the ice hockey qualification for mens. The first round will be between November 7th and 12th this year at Al Ain, United Arabs Emirates. The team are UAE, Kyrgyzstan, Hong Kong, Kuwait and Georgia.

 

https://www.icehockeyhongkong.org/2023/08/09/2026-mens-olympic-winter-games-qualification-round-1-group-n/

 

This is for Groupe N. I don't know if there is a Group O like at the previous qualification.

The final list of the first/second round groups shoud be official and announced by end of September, Until then there still chance for teams announcing for different reasons eventual withdrawals and thus another countries being eventually invited for replacement (I do not think it is likely personally). So still hard to say how many groups we will have, but I think "N" is the last one.

 

Probably it will be like this

 

WOG:  A, B, C

FOQT: D, E, F

3rd round: G, H, I

2nd round: J, K, L

1st round: M, N

 

but we will see in September I guess.

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On 8/13/2023 at 3:48 PM, freds77 said:

Some news about the ice hockey qualification for mens. The first round will be between November 7th and 12th this year at Al Ain, United Arabs Emirates. The team are UAE, Kyrgyzstan, Hong Kong, Kuwait and Georgia.

 

https://www.icehockeyhongkong.org/2023/08/09/2026-mens-olympic-winter-games-qualification-round-1-group-n/

 

This is for Groupe N. I don't know if there is a Group O like at the previous qualification.

There is a group o includes Thailand. Chinese Taipia, Bosnia, South Africa, and Iran.  South Africa and Irsn are first timers

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On 8/13/2023 at 10:29 PM, hckošice said:

The final list of the first/second round groups shoud be official and announced by end of September, Until then there still chance for teams announcing for different reasons eventual withdrawals and thus another countries being eventually invited for replacement (I do not think it is likely personally). So still hard to say how many groups we will have, but I think "N" is the last one.

 

Probably it will be like this

 

WOG:  A, B, C

FOQT: D, E, F

3rd round: G, H, I

2nd round: J, K, L

1st round: M, N

 

but we will see in September I guess.

There is a group o. Thailand, Chinese Taipei, Bosnia, South Africa, and Iran

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Interesting change to 1st round Ice Hockey qualification. Both group N (uae, Kyrgyzstan, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Georgia) and Group O ( Thailand, Chinese Taipei, Bosnia, South Africa, Iran) . THREE Teams will qualify for next round ( Bth group winners plus the best second place team.. Never recall ever seeing a 2nd place team advancing in Olympic Ice Hockey qualifications

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Should add to the above post about 3 teams moving on to the 2nd round from the 2 groups. I saw that posted on another site then contacted one of the 10 teams to ask about it.  That team responded in minutes saying indeed the IIHF advised them that 3 of 10 would be advancing.  Only thing they were not advised of was how the best of the 2nd placers will determined at this time.    

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2nd qualifying round groups have been added here: https://www.iihf.com/en/tournaments?tournamentSubcategory=OGQ&selectedSeason=2024&tournamentCategory=olympics

 

Does that mean 1st round is cancelled? I see and are already in the 2nd round and they were supposed to play in the 1st round.

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17 minutes ago, Sindo said:

2nd qualifying round groups have been added here: https://www.iihf.com/en/tournaments?tournamentSubcategory=OGQ&selectedSeason=2024&tournamentCategory=olympics

 

Does that mean 1st round is cancelled? I see and are already in the 2nd round and they were supposed to play in the 1st round.

Right now, It´s a complete mess.

 

I mean, at one point it start to be completely ridiculous, Different National federations complain about lack of information from IIHF (and if there sometimes, they are always brief, often contradictory) , like seriously, we reach a point when literally no one knows if he have to play, if he will play at all, when he will play... and it will be like this until March, until the IIHF definitively resolves the issue of Russia and Belarus.

 

Last info (IIHF again did Not explain anything, just posted this on its official Events Calendar document https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/IIHF_Calendar_of_Events.pdf), that the 1st round was apparently cancelled just like that.. no idea why. Complete mess

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by hckošice

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I just sent a message to the team that told me about the First Round Group O tournament,  Asked them if it was cancelled.  Will post their response when i receive it.