There is a FISU classification system related to the participation of countries in the team sports of the World University Games in which there is relegation and the permanence of the participating teams and it applies to both the Winter Games and the Summer Games.It is based on the performances of the previous edition, which in this case the winter one was in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in 2019. Thus, the last two placed in each of the team sports events would be relegated and their places would be filled by the next ones on the waiting list.These criteria will not be applied this time, due to the suspension of Russia and Belarus in the world sports system.
In the men's Ice Hockey tournament in 2019 Japan and Sweden would be relegated, which were in 11th and 12th position respectively.As Russia is banned and Switzerland withdrew, Sweden and Japan who were 11th and 12th remained and open spots went to Ukraine and South Korea.As this happened on Woman's Tournament as the same rules are
are being applied and China and Switzerland that participated in the tournament in 2019 were relegated, the next countries that were on the list were the United Kingdom and Slovakia and the point that was from Russia was left and went to the Czech Republic.This also happened on curling tournament.For men, the two last placed countries on last edition were relegated.They were China and Russia (this not changed) were relegated in 2019 and in their places Brazil and Japan entered,as they are next two countries on the FISU waiting list.In the women's tournament, the Czech Republic and Italy would be relegated in 2019. But with the non-participation of Russia, only Italy was relegated and the remaining places went to Australia and Spain.