Cika wannan jumla:
1999 IIHF Women's World Championship cancantar tsari ya kasance tsakanin ƙungiyoyi 10 da ke fafatawa don wurare uku na ƙarshe a gasar zakarun. Sauran ƙungiyoyi bakwai za su shiga Japan (ƙungiyar 6th Place daga wasannin Olympics na 1998), a cikin sabon rukunin B.