2026 World Championship Qualifier Men

2026 World Championship Qualifier Men
Host city	Aberdeen, Scotland
Dates	November 8–13
Qualifiers	TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
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The 2026 World Championship Qualifier Men is a new curling event introduced by World Curling as part of major structural changes implemented for the 2026–2030 Olympic cycle. Six teams from this event will qualify for the 2027 World Men's Curling Championship, they will join the twelve teams that already qualified from the 2026 World Men's Curling Championship to create the newly expanded eighteen team field. This event wil be held in Aberdeen, Scotland on November 8 to 13.

The sixteen teams that qualified for this event through their placements at 2026 World Men's Curling Championship, 2025 Pan Continental Curling Championships, 2025 European Curling Championships, World Ranking, or 2026 World Championship Pre-Qualifier. They are competing to be one of six teams to join Sweden, Canada, Scotland, United States, Switzerland, Italy, China, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Czech Republic and Poland at the 2027 World Men's Curling Championship. Four teams will be relegated to the 2027 World Championship Pre-Qualifier.

Qualification

Sixteen curling federations qualified to participate in the first ever World Championship Qualifier Men.

Means of Qualification	Vacancies	Qualified
2026 World Men's Curling Championship	1	Norway
2025 Pan Continental Curling Championships	3	Philippines New Zealand Australia
2025 European Curling Championships	2	Denmark Austria
2025 Pan Continental Curling Championships B Division	2	Hong Kong Kazakhstan
2025 European Curling Championships B Division	2	Belgium Spain
World Rankings	2	Netherlands Turkey
2026 World Championship Pre-Qualifier Pan Continental	2	Mexico India
2026 World Championship Pre-Qualifier Europe	2	Slovenia Latvia
TOTAL	16

Teams

The teams were as follows:

Australia	Austria	Belgium	Denmark
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Hong Kong	India	Kazakhstan	Latvia
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Mexico	Netherlands	New Zealand	Norway
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Philippines	Slovenia	Spain	Turkey
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Round robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs & Qualified for the 2027 World Men's Curling Championship
	Teams to Qualification Playoffs
	Teams Relegated to the 2027 World Championship Pre-Qualifier

Group A Skip W L W–L DSC Austria 0 0 – 0.000 Denmark 0 0 – 0.000 Hong Kong 0 0 – 0.000 Kazakhstan 0 0 – 0.000 Mexico 0 0 – 0.000 Norway 0 0 – 0.000 Spain 0 0 – 0.000 Turkey 0 0 – 0.000

Group B Skip W L W–L DSC Australia 0 0 – 0.000 Belgium 0 0 – 0.000 India 0 0 – 0.000 Latvia 0 0 – 0.000 Netherlands 0 0 – 0.000 New Zealand 0 0 – 0.000 Philippines 0 0 – 0.000 Slovenia 0 0 – 0.000

Group A Round Robin Summary Table

Pos.	Country									Record
1	Austria	—	D5	D1	D3	D2	D6	D4	D7	0–0
1	Denmark	D5	—	D4	D1	D3	D7	D2	D6	0–0
1	Hong Kong	D1	D4	—	D7	D6	D2	D5	D3	0–0
1	Kazakhstan	D3	D1	D7	—	D5	D4	D6	D2	0–0
1	Mexico	D2	D3	D6	D5	—	D1	D7	D4	0–0
1	Norway	D6	D7	D2	D4	D1	—	D3	D5	0–0
1	Spain	D4	D2	D5	D6	D7	D3	—	D1	0–0
1	Turkey	D7	D6	D3	D2	D4	D5	D1	—	0–0

Group B Round Robin Summary Table

Pos.	Country									Record
1	Australia	—	D5	D4	D1	D3	D2	D6	D7	0–0
1	Belgium	D5	—	D2	D4	D1	D3	D7	D6	0–0
1	India	D4	D2	—	D5	D6	D7	D3	D1	0–0
1	Latvia	D1	D4	D5	—	D7	D6	D2	D3	0–0
1	Netherlands	D3	D1	D6	D7	—	D5	D4	D2	0–0
1	New Zealand	D2	D3	D7	D6	D5	—	D1	D4	0–0
1	Philippines	D6	D7	D3	D2	D4	D1	—	D5	0–0
1	Slovenia	D7	D6	D1	D3	D2	D4	D5	—	0–0

Playoffs

Playoffs

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	A1
	B2
	B1
	A2					Bronze medal game

Qualification Playoffs

Qualification Round 1

Qualification Round 2

Qualified

A3

B3

A4

B4

Final standings

Key
	Teams Qualified for the 2027 World Men's Curling Championship
	Teams Relegated to the 2027 World Championship Pre-Qualifier

Place	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16