2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Ice hockey at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics comprised four events contested at the Gangneung Hockey Centre in Gangneung, South Korea from 20 to 31 January 2024.

Two tournaments were held: a traditional six-team tournament and a 3-on-3 tournament. Each tournament had both a men's and a women's event. A NOC that qualified for the traditional tournament was permitted a team of eighteen players and a NOC that qualified for the 3-on-3 tournament was permitted a team of thirteen athletes. As the host, South Korea was allowed to participate in both tournaments, but with teams of alternate genders.

Schedule

GS

Group stage

SF

Semi-finals

F

Final

	19 Fri	20 Sat	21 Sun	22 Mon	23 Tue	24 Wed	25 Thu	26 Fri	27 Sat	28 Sun	29 Mon	30 Tue	31 Wed	1 Thu
3x3		GS	GS	GS	GS	SF	F
6x6									GS	GS	GS	SF	F

Events

• 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Men's tournament
• 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Men's 3x3 tournament
• 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Women's tournament
• 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Women's 3x3 tournament

Qualification

IIHF Youth Ranking

The top eleven NOCs ranked in the combined rankings from the 2022 and 2023 editions of the IIHF World U18 Championships and IIHF Women's World U18 Championships, and host South Korea, were allowed to enter either a boys' team or a girls' team for the traditional tournament (also called the 6-team tournament or 6-on-6 tournament). Starting with the highest-ranked country and descending by order of rank, each country selected in which gender's tournament it would compete until all tournament quota were filled. Each country was permitted one team totaling eighteen players, of which fifteen were skaters and three were goaltenders.

For the 3-on-3 tournament, countries ranked 12th to 27th, including host South Korea, fielded one team of thirteen players (eleven skaters and two goaltenders). Starting with the highest-ranked country and descending by order of rank, each country selected in which gender's tournament it would compete until all tournament quota were filled. Estonia was the only qualifying nation to decline its quota.

As the host country, South Korea was granted one team per tournament. The South Korean team playing in the 3-on-3 tournament was required to be the opposite gender of the South Korean team participating in the traditional tournament.

Ranking

Rank	Team	Men		Women		Total points	Tournament qualified
		2022	2023	2022	2023		6x6		3x3
							Men	Women	Men	Women
1	United States	44	45	44	43	176	Yes
2	Sweden	45	44	42	44	175		Yes
3	Canada	41	43	45	45	174	Yes
4	Finland	43	41	43	42	169	Yes
5	Czech Republic	42	39	41	41	163	Yes
6	Slovakia	37	42	40	40	159	Yes
7	Switzerland	40	40	39	39	158		Yes
8	Germany	38	36	38	37	149		Yes
9	Japan	32	33	37	38	140		Yes
10	Norway	36	37	33	32	138		Yes
11	France	35	30	36	35	136		Yes
12	Hungary	30	32	34	34	130				Yes
13	Italy	29	27	35	36	127				Yes
14	Denmark	33	34	28	31	126			Yes
15	Latvia	39	38	22	24	123			Yes
16	Austria	27	29	32	33	121			Yes
17	Poland	26	24	31	30	111			Yes
18	South Korea	25	26	29	28	108	Yes			Yes
19	Kazakhstan	34	35	19	19	107			Yes
20	Great Britain	23	21	25	22	91			Yes
21	Spain	18	18	26	29	91			Yes
22	Chinese Taipei	13	15	30	27	85			Yes
23	Netherlands	17	17	23	23	80				Yes
24	Australia	15	13	24	25	77				Yes
25	China	15	16	27	26	64				Yes
26	Estonia	24	25	0	14	63
27	Turkey	8	9	21	21	59				Yes
28	Mexico	9	8	20	20	57				Yes