2020 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament

The 2020 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament will take place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The top three teams will advance to the Olympics.[1]

2020 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament
Tournament details
Host country Netherlands
Dates21–28 February 2021
Teams12 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)

The tournament was scheduled to take place in March and then from 31 May to 7 June 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] It will take place from 21 to 28 February 2021.[3]

Participants
Means of qualificationDateVenueBerthsQualified
Host nation——1 Netherlands
2019 Pan American Games4–10 August 2019 Peru3 Canada
 Brazil
 Argentina
2020 European Championship14–26 January 2020 Hungary9 Montenegro
 Croatia
 Greece
 Russia
 Germany
 Georgia
 Romania[4]
 Turkey
 France
Total12

Draw

The draw took place on 11 February 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland.[5]

Group A Group B
 Georgia
 Turkey
 Canada
 Brazil
 Montenegro
 Greece		  Croatia
 Netherlands
 France
 Russia
 Germany
 Romania1

1 Argentina withdrew from the tournament in mid-February. FINA replaced the South-American team with Romania[4]

Preliminary round

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Quarterfinals
2  Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Georgia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Greece 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5  Montenegro 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6  Turkey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 21 February 2021. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Croatia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Quarterfinals
2  Netherlands (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  France 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5  Germany 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6  Romania 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 21 February 2021. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host.

See also

References
  1. "Water polo players play the Olympic qualifying tournament in Rotterdam". tellerreport.com. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  2. "PR 16 – First meeting of FINA COVID-19 taskforce". fina.org. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. "Olympic water polo qualification will take place in February 2021". News24. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  4. Ivan Curcic (14 February 2020). "Asian Federation decides: Kazakhstan and China go to Tokyo". total-waterpolo.com. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  5. "Draw for the 2020 WP Olympic qualification tournaments". fina.org. FINA. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
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