World Curling Team Rankings

Following a request from the Member Associations and Athlete Commission, World Curling have taken on the role of producing the World Team Ranking Lists.

These rankings include the results from events from across the world including World and National Championships, Grand Slams, World Curling Tour events and other registered international and national events.

If you are an event organiser and you want your event to be included, you must meet the following conditions required for a proper audit of results:

Tour Cashspiel and Playdown Rules

Events must post results, which includes full team rosters, draw schedule and full line scores on their own private website or through the results service
Events must have a minimum of eight teams competing
Acceptable formats: round robin, pools, single/double/triple knockout
The Free Guard Zone rule must be used for all events
Events must use International or National Federation rules as part of any event. Rules can be adapted with approval from WCTRS Committee and can be contacted by emailing Rob Gordon ([email protected])
All games must be eight or ten ends in length. Tie-breaker games can be six ends.

If you want your event to be included please submit details to Gerry Geurts by 15 October in the season in which the event is being played.

If you are already registered on the World Curling Tour, they will automatically register you on the World Team Ranking List, you do not need to register twice.

The World Team Ranking List is managed on behalf of World Curling by CurlingZone

As an optional extra, basic event live scoring and team registration services are available to events via CurlingZone as part of the World Team Ranking list inclusion at no extra cost.

This list is different to the World Curling Tour’s Ranking List as that only includes World Curling Tour events. The World Curling World Team Ranking List includes a much wider range of events.

To be included on the World Curling Tour, an event needs to meet their conditions. If you are interested in your event being on the World Curling Tour, please contact them directly here.

Team Registration

All teams are registered automatically for the World Team Ranking when they compete in an eligible event. However, to ensure that your correct line-up is registered, please register your team through the centralised system created by CurlingZone.

Teams will receive points in sanctioned events as follows:

This point value will then be subject to the Strength of Field Multiplier (SFM). The SFM will be assigned to each event based on the quality of the participating teams. The SFM will be calculated using the World Team Ranking the week of the event. This ranking will be final as of Monday following the event.
All events using the World Team Ranking to qualify or seed teams shall consider the rankings as of midnight on the final day of competition during the week as official.
Due Diligence: Organisers register their events for sanctioning in good faith with the World Team Ranking List. Should an event not deliver the minimum criteria required, the event will be removed from the list and the points earned from the event will be deducted (teams will be advised when this occurs).
In order to balance competitive opportunities, women’s teams are eligible to play in men’s events. However, these events can be no more than 25% of those entered in order to maintain status. If there are enough teams to run full women’s sections, a dedicated women’s event should be considered instead.
Challenges for registered teams or point allocations must be made within seven days of the event and submitted to the following email address: Rob Gordon ([email protected])

Tie-breakers within the rankings

Note that there is no ties or effective ties.

If teams are tied at any point in the rankings, ties will be broken as follows:

If one team has a lower number of counting events than the team they are tied with, the team with less events will be ranked higher.
- Example – Team A has 140 points in seven events and Team B has 140 points in eight events; Team A is ranked higher than Team B.
If a tie cannot be determined by point one, each team will remove their lowest counting point total and totals will be recalculated until the tie is broken:
- Example – Team A has 140 points in eight events with their lowest counting event being a “10”. Team B has 140 points in eight events with their lowest counting event being a “5”.
- Team A removes their “10” and now has 130 points in seven events. Team B removes their “5” and now has 135 points in seven events. Team B is now ranked higher than Team A.

Team Eligibility – Four player

For a four player team to count WCTRS points toward their yearly total, they must have at least three of four registered players on the ice at all times during the event.
For a five player team to count WCTRS points toward their yearly total, they cannot use any other replacement players outside of the five registered team members.
- This means during every end of every game
- The duty rests on the team to indicate when they are not eligible
- Teams found in violation will lose all points for the event in question and be subject to a penalty of two times the scaled SFM value (i.e. if the scaled SFM value was 3.5 the penalty would be 7.0 points)
- Teams may apply for an exemption to these rules for medical or Maternity/Paternity leave exemptions, which should be requested prior to any competition where a change will be needed. To request an exemption, email [email protected]
- If player(s) are selected to represent their Member Association at a World Curling sanctioned championship, the team will be eligible for special exemption to replace the player(s) without penalty.
At the start of the 2025–2026 season the following rules will be applied to line up changes:
- A team that retains three of four players will carry, at minimum, 100% of its points to next season. This way every team can change one player without penalty regardless if the new player has played in mixed doubles, four-player team, come from Juniors, was an alternate only or has not played at all the previous season. It keeps it simple and solves the concerns of players taking a year off for injury, pregnancy, or any other reason. Teams can always make one free change for the following season. Should the new player bring more points than the player they’re replacing, the difference will be included in the ranking.
- A team who retains less than three players would be considered a new team. Each player of a new team would contribute 25% each to the newly formed four-player team. If the newly formed team is a five-player team, each player would contribute 20% to its new team
- Teams who register a five-player team for 2025-2026. See here for full details.

Team Eligibility – Mixed doubles

For Mixed Doubles teams to collect Ranking Points, both team members must play in every end of every game at the event to remain eligible. Should a team require an alternate during an event they will have two options:

Option 1: Forfeit the game and remain eligible to collect ranking points
Option 2: Use a replacement player, the team is ineligible to receive points for that event

World Curling Team Rankings

Tour Cashspiel and Playdown Rules

Team Registration

Tie-breakers within the rankings

Team Eligibility – Four player

Team Eligibility – Mixed doubles

Calculations

Ranking Lists

Event Lists

Starting Points

Event Champions

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