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
 	19Fri	20Sat	21Sun	22Mon	23Tue	24Wed	25Thu	26Fri	27Sat	28Sun	29Mon	30Tue	31Wed	1Thu
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 	Men 	Women	Women	Total
points	Tournament qualified	Tournament qualified	Tournament qualified	Tournament qualified
Rank	Team 	2022	2023	2022 	2023 	Total
points	6x6 	6x6 	3x3 	3x3
Rank	Team 	2022	2023	2022 	2023 	Total
points	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
==References==
Category:2024 in ice hockey