2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers

2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are series of qualification tournaments to decide the participants of the 2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship.[1]

Qualified teams

Teams directly qualified to the 2018 European Water Polo Championship:

  •  Serbia – winners of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Montenegro – runners-up of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Hungary – 3rd place of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Greece – 4th place of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Spain – Host nation and 5th place of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Italy – 6th place of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Croatia – 7th place of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Russia – 8th place of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship

Qualifying round 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Switzerland33002922+79
 Czech Republic32012824+46
 Austria31023427+73
 Bulgaria30032038–180
17 March 2017
19:15		 Bulgaria  7–16  Austria Prague
17 March 2017
21:00		 Czech Republic  7–8   Switzerland Prague
18 March 2017
18:00		 Switzerland   12–7  Bulgaria Prague
18 March 2017
20:00		 Czech Republic  11–10  Austria Prague
19 March 2017
09:30		 Switzerland   9–8  Austria Prague
19 March 2017
11:30		 Czech Republic  10–6  Bulgaria Prague

Qualifying round 2

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Ukraine33003922+179
 Portugal32014327+166
 Lithuania31022742–153
 Czech Republic30032240–180
6 October 2017
16:30		 Ukraine  18–7  Lithuania Rio Maior
6 October 2017
18:30		 Portugal  17–9  Czech Republic Rio Maior
7 October 2017
16:00		 Lithuania  13–8  Czech Republic Rio Maior
7 October 2017
18:00		 Portugal  10–11  Ukraine Rio Maior
8 October 2017
09:30		 Czech Republic  5–10  Ukraine Rio Maior
8 October 2017
11:30		 Portugal  16–7  Lithuania Rio Maior

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Belarus33003214+189
 Israel32012219+36
 Poland30121924–51
  Switzerland30121531–161
6 October 2017
17:00		 Belarus  14–5   Switzerland Gorzów Wielkopolski
6 October 2017
18:30		 Poland  7–8  Israel Gorzów Wielkopolski
7 October 2017
17:00		 Belarus  9–4  Israel Gorzów Wielkopolski
7 October 2017
18:30		 Poland  7–7   Switzerland Gorzów Wielkopolski
8 October 2017
08:30		 Poland  5–9  Belarus Gorzów Wielkopolski
8 October 2017
10:00		 Switzerland   3–10  Israel Gorzów Wielkopolski

Qualifying round 3

No teams were eliminated in round 2, but their results will determine the matches of the following round (play-off format with home and away games) held in 2018. These eight teams will face the teams classified 9 to 16 in the latest edition of the tournament, the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship.

SeededUnseeded
From the 2016 European Championship
 France Slovakia
 Romania Georgia
 Germany Malta
 Netherlands Turkey
From the Qualifying round 2
 Ukraine Lithuania
 Belarus Poland
 Portugal Czech Republic
 Israel  Switzerland

Playoffs

  • 1st leg: 24 February 2018
  • 2nd leg: 3 March 2018
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
France  30–6   Switzerland 18–1 12–5
Romania  37–11  Czech Republic 20–5 17–6
Poland  8–44  Germany 2–21 6–23
Netherlands  42–13  Lithuania 28–7 14–6
Portugal  6–25  Slovakia 4–16 2–9
Georgia  23–11  Israel 12–1 11–10
Belarus  17–23  Malta 8–7 9–16
Ukraine  15–18  Turkey 8–8 7–10

References

  1. ↑ EWPC 2018, Qualification
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