Nations qualified teams by earning qualification points from performances at the 2016 and 2017 World Curling Championships.
[1] The qualification points are allotted based on the nations' final rankings at the World Championships.
The points are distributed as follows: Note: Scotland, England and Wales all compete separately in international curling.
By an agreement between the curling federations of those three home nations, only Scotland can score Olympic qualification points on behalf of Great Britain.
The qualification event was open to any nations that earned qualification points at the 2016 or 2017 World Curling Championships (as listed above) or participated at the 2014 or 2015 World Curling Championships (the Czech men's team, the Norway and the Latvia women's team).