2002 Winter Olympics – Men's qualification

Fourteen nations would qualify for the Olympic tournament, eight to the preliminary round, and six to the first round. The IIHF used the standings of the 1999 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships to determine qualification. First, the top six nations from Pool A would go directly to the first round. The preliminary round was made up of the nations ranked seventh and eighth, along with six others from a series of qualification tournaments. The nations ranked nine through twelve went straight to the final qualification round, with all other participants playing through pre-qualification tournaments.

Regional Qualification

Two Regional qualifiers were used to thin the field for Pre-Qualification to sixteen nations.

Far East

Played September 3–5, 1999 in Aomori, Japan.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Japan	2	2	0	0	14	0	4			5 - 0	9 - 0
China	2	1	1	0	4	7	2		0 - 5		4 - 2
South Korea	2	0	2	0	2	13	0		0 - 9	2 - 4

European

Played December 11–12, 1999 in Sofia Bulgaria. Croatia should have played as well, but the proper application was accidentally not sent to the IIHF.

• December 11 Yugoslavia 7 - 6 Bulgaria
• December 12 Yugoslavia 7 - 4 Bulgaria

Olympic Pre-Qualification

Four tournaments were played February 10–13, 2000, with the winner of each advancing to the final qualification round.

Group 1

Played in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Germany	3	3	0	0	21	3	6			2 - 1	5 - 2	14 - 0
Italy	3	2	1	0	21	2	4		1 - 2		7 - 0	13 - 0
Slovenia	3	1	2	0	13	12	2		2 - 5	0 - 7		11 - 0
Yugoslavia	3	0	3	0	0	38	0		0 - 14	0 - 13	0 - 11

Group 2

Played in Tallinn, Estonia

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Ukraine	3	2	1	0	11	6	4			3 - 5	5 - 0	3 - 1
Kazakhstan	3	2	1	0	20	9	4		5 - 3		2 - 4	13 - 2
Estonia	3	2	1	0	13	9	4		0 - 5	4 - 2		9 - 2
Lithuania	3	0	3	0	5	25	0		1 - 3	2 - 13	2 - 9

Group 3

Played in Gdańsk, Poland

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
France	3	3	0	0	19	7	6			5 - 2	5 - 4	9 - 1
Poland	3	2	1	0	17	9	4		2 - 5		4 - 2	11 - 2
Great Britain	3	1	2	0	10	9	2		4 - 5	2 - 4		4 - 0
Romania	3	0	3	0	3	24	0		1 - 9	2 - 11	0 - 4

Group 4

Played in Copenhagen, Denmark

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Denmark	3	3	0	0	16	7	6			7 - 3	3 - 1	6 - 3
Japan	3	2	1	0	15	11	4		3 - 7		5 - 3	7 - 1
Netherlands	3	1	2	0	9	9	2		1 - 3	3 - 5		5 - 1
Hungary	3	0	3	0	5	18	0		3 - 6	1 - 7	1 - 5

Final Olympic Qualification

Two tournaments were played February 8–11, 2001, with 6 of the remaining 8 nations qualifying for the Olympics.

Group A

Played in Oslo, Norway

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Germany	3	2	0	1	10	6	5			1 - 1	3 - 1	6 - 4
Belarus	3	1	0	2	10	6	4		1 - 1		2 - 2	7 - 3
Ukraine	3	1	1	1	8	6	3		1 - 3	2 - 2		5 - 1
Norway	3	0	3	0	8	18	0		4 - 6	3 - 7	1 - 5

Group B

Played in Klagenfurt, Austria

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Latvia	3	2	0	1	9	6	5			1 - 1	4 - 3	4 - 2
France	3	1	0	2	6	5	4		1 - 1		3 - 3	2 - 1
Austria	3	1	1	1	12	9	3		3 - 4	3 - 3		6 - 2
Denmark	3	0	3	0	5	12	0		2 - 4	1 - 2	2 - 6

External links

• Far East Qualifier results
• European, Pre-Qualifying, and Final Qualifying results
• Group A official results
• Group B official results

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