Qualification for the women's tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics was determined by the IIHF World Ranking following the 2020 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships. The host along with the top six teams in the world ranking received automatic berths into the Olympics, while all other teams had an opportunity to qualify for the remaining three spots in the Olympics.
Qualified teams {| class="wikitable" !Event !Date !Location !Vacancies !Qualified |- |Hosts |17 May 2018 | Copenhagen |align=center|1
|2020 IIHF World Ranking |12 December 2016 – 10 April 2020 | |align=center|6 | ROC |- |rowspan=3|Final qualification tournament |rowspan=3|11–14 November 2021 | Chomutov |align=center|1
| Füssen |align=center|1
| Luleå |align=center|1
! Total !! colspan=2| !! 10 !!
Notes
Qualification seeding To qualify directly, a nation had to be ranked in the top six following the 2020 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships. Using the IIHF World Ranking points system, the current year received full value, and each preceding year was worth 25% less. The following is a ranking based on points that were accumulated toward Olympic qualification.
Note: Several WC 2020 tournaments were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic so points for that year were earned based on overall finish in 2019.
Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ... Points 1200 1160 1120 1100 1060 1040 1020 1000 960 940 920 900 880 860 840 820 800 780 760 740 ...
Qualified directly to Olympic Tournament Enter qualifying in the final round Enter qualifying in the pre-qualification round 2 Enter qualifying in the pre-qualification round 1 (cancelled)
Seeding TeamWC 2020 WC 2019 WC 2018 OLY 2018 WC 2017 Total 1 1200 900 600 600 300 3600 2 1160 840 580 580 290 3450 3 1120 870 560 560 280 3390 4 1100 825 550 550 265 3290 5 1060 795 530 530 255 3170 6 1040 750 520 520 240 3070 7 1020 780 500 480 250 3030 8 1000 765 490 470 275 3000 9 920 720 510 510 260 2920 10 900 705 480 460 215 2760 11 960 675 450 440 225 2750 12 940 690 460 410 220 2720 13 880 660 440 450 230 2660 14 860 645 470 430 235 2640 15 840 630 430 400 210 2510 16 780 585 410 500 180 2455 17 800 615 420 420 190 2445 18 820 600 360 360 175 2315 Hosts 740 555 380 380 195 2250 19 760 570 370 350 185 2235 20 720 540 390 370 205 2225 680 525 400 390 200 2195 21 660 495 350 330 170 2005 22 700 510 320 310 160 2000 23 640 480 300 340 145 1905 24 620 465 310 320 150 1865 25 500 375 260 300 130 1565 600 450 340 0 165 1555 560 435 330 0 155 1480 26 580 420 290 0 120 1410 27 540 390 280 0 135 1345 520 405 270 0 140 1335 28 340 285 210 290 100 1225 400 345 250 0 125 1120 480 360 240 0 0 1080 420 315 230 0 115 1080 440 300 220 0 110 1070 29 380 270 200 0 105 955 460 330 0 0 0 790 30 360 0 0 0 0 360
Solid shading indicate the nation is assured of being in that round. If a nation does not register for olympic qualification those ranked lower move up.
Pre-qualification Round 1 Teams ranked 27th and lower would have played off to advance to the next round. The tournament was scheduled to take place from 17 to 19 December 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until 26 to 29 August 2021.
The tournament was supposed to be held in Reykjavík, Iceland and feature Iceland, Hong Kong, Bulgaria and Lithuania. However, it was cancelled on 9 August 2021 after Bulgaria withdrew and the other teams raised concerns because of the pandemic. As a result Iceland, the highest seeded team, automatically advanced to the next round.
Pre-qualification Round 2 Teams ranked 16th to 26th, plus one qualifier from Round 1 played in three tournaments to determine qualifiers for the next round. Each tournament winner was ranked by their qualification seeding and entered the next round as qualifier four, five or six. These tournaments were scheduled to take place from 11 to 14 February 2021, but were postponed to 7 to 10 October 2021.
Group F The tournament was scheduled to be held in Gangneung, South Korea. On 3 September 2021, the IIHF announced that it had moved the tournament to Nottingham, Great Britain due to COVID-19 restrictions in South Korea.
All times are local (UTC+1).
Group G The tournament was held in Torre Pellice, Italy.
All times are local (UTC+2).
Group H The tournament was held in Bytom, Poland.
All times are local (UTC+2).
Final qualification Teams ranked 7th to 15th, plus three qualifiers played in three tournaments to determine qualifiers for the Olympic tournament. Each tournament winner was ranked by their qualification seeding and played in Group B as qualifier one, two, or three. These tournaments were scheduled to take place from 26 to 29 August 2021, but were postponed until 11 to 14 November 2021.
Group C The tournament was held in Chomutov, Czech Republic.
All times are local (UTC+1).
Group D The tournament was held in Füssen, Germany.
All times are local (UTC+1).
Group E The tournament was held at the Coop Norrbotten Arena in Luleå, Sweden.
All times are local (UTC+1).
References
External links Official IOC/IIHF 2022 qualification document