| 2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup | |
|---|---|
| League | FINA Water Polo World Cup |
| Sport | Water polo |
| Duration | 1 – 4 August |
| Super Final | |
The 14th edition of the Men's FINA Water Polo World Cup was held in Oradea, Romania from July 27 to August 1, 2010. [1]
8 teams qualified for the 2010 FINA World Cup. They were split into two groups of 4 teams. After playing a Round-robin every team advanced to the quarterfinals. The best ranked team of Group A played against the fourth ranked team of Group B, the second ranked team of Group A against the third ranked team of Group B the third ranked team of Group A against the second ranked team of Group B and the fourth ranked team of Group A against the best ranked team of Group B. The winners of those quarterfinals advanced to the Semis and played out the champion while the losers of the quarterfinals competed in placement matches.
The top eight teams from the previous world championship are no longer qualified. Now only the top three teams from the previous world championship qualify, with one guest per continent (the highest-ranked team from the previous world championship).
| Teams | Qualified as |
|---|---|
| Host (7th 2009 World Championship) |
| Group A | Group B |
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| Team | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | Diff | Points | Qualification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 16 | +33 | 6 | Quarter-finals |
| 2. |  Romania (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 24 | +21 | 4 | Quarter-finals |
| 3. |  Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 42 | 24 | +18 | 2 | Quarter-finals |
| 4. |  Iran | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 78 | −72 | 0 | Quarter-finals |
| 27 July 2010 17:00 | Report | Iran | 1–26 | Romania | Referees: Jianguo (CHN), Cabral (BRA) |
| Score by quarters: 0–8, 0–8, 0–6, 1–4 | |||||
| Jafari 1 | Goals | Georgescu 5 | |||
| 27 July 2010 20:00 | Report | Australia | 7–9 | Spain | Referees: Štampalija (CRO), Goldenberg (USA) |
| Score by quarters:4–2, 1–3, 0–1, 2–3 | |||||
| McGregor 3 | Goals | Molina, Perrone 3 | |||
| 28 July 2010 17:00 | Report | Australia | 9–11 | Romania | Referees: Ćirić (SRB), Koganov (AZE) |
| Score by quarters:3–1, 3–4, 1–2, 2–4 | |||||
| Miller 3 | Goals | Redu, Kádár 3 | |||
| 28 July 2010 20:00 | Report | Iran | 1–26 | Spain | Referees: Cabral (BRA), Štampalija (CRO) |
| Score by quarters: 0–6, 0–7, 1–5, 0–8 | |||||
| Jafari 1 | Goals | Garcia 5 | |||
| 29 July 2010 17:00 | Report | Romania | 8–14 | Spain | Referees: Ćirić (SRB), Koganov (AZE) |
| Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–4, 3–6, 2–3 | |||||
| Iosep, Georgescu 2 | Goals | Minguell, García 3 | |||
| 29 July 2010 20:00 | Report | Iran | 4–26 | Australia | |
| Score by quarters: 0-6, 1-3, 3-8, 0-9 | |||||
| Kouhi 2 | Goals | Campbell, Younger, Miller 4 | |||
| Team | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | Diff | Points | Qualification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Croatia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 19 | +14 | 6 | Quarter-finals |
| 2. |  Serbia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 27 | +13 | 4 | Quarter-finals |
| 3. |  United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 32 | −6 | 2 | Quarter-finals |
| 4. |  China | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 39 | −21 | 0 | Quarter-finals |
| 27 July 2010 15:00 | Report | United States | 10–6 | China | Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Hafezi (IRN) |
| Score by quarters:1–0, 3–3, 3–1, 3–2 | |||||
| Sharf, Hopkins, Hutten 2 | Goals | Tan Feihu 2 | |||
| 27 July 2010 18:30 | Report | Croatia | 10–8 | Serbia | Referees: Shaydakov (RUS), Koganov (AZE) |
| Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–1, 3–2, 4–3 | |||||
| Sukno 4 | Goals | Udovičić, Filipović 2 | |||
| 28 July 2010 15:00 | Report | Croatia | 14–4 | China | Referees: Hart (AUS), Hafezi (IRN) |
| Score by quarters:3–1, 4–1, 2–0, 5–2 | |||||
| Dobud 4 | Goals | Liang 3 | |||
| 28 July 2010 18:30 | Report | United States | 9–17 | Serbia | Referees: Moliner (ESP), Shaydakov (RUS) |
| Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–3, 1–4, 6–7 | |||||
| Sharf, Azevedo 2 | Goals | Udovičić 5 | |||
| 29 July 2010 15:00 | Report | China | 8–15 | Serbia | Referees: Moliner (ESP), Hart (AUS) |
| Score by quarters:2–1, 0–4, 2–6, 4–4 | |||||
| Liang 2 | Goals | Udovičić, Vapenski, Nikić, Aleksić, Filipović, Mitrović 2 | |||
| 29 July 2010 18:30 | Report | United States | 7–9 | Croatia | Referees: Shaydakov (RUS), Alexandrescu (ROU) |
| Score by quarters: 1-2, 1-2, 1-3, 4-2 | |||||
| Hopkins, Bailey 2 | Goals | Joković, Sukno 3 | |||
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| July 30 – Oradea | ||||||||||
| Spain | 11 | |||||||||
| July 31 – Oradea | ||||||||||
| China | 5 | |||||||||
| Spain | 10 | |||||||||
| July 30 – Oradea | ||||||||||
| Serbia | 12 | |||||||||
| Australia | 9 | |||||||||
| August 1 – Oradea | ||||||||||
| Serbia | 12 | |||||||||
| Serbia | 13 | |||||||||
| July 30 – Oradea | ||||||||||
| Croatia | 7 | |||||||||
| Iran | 2 | |||||||||
| July 31 – Oradea | ||||||||||
| Croatia | 23 | |||||||||
| Croatia | 11 | |||||||||
| July 30 – Oradea | ||||||||||
| United States | 9 | Third place | ||||||||
| Romania | 12 | |||||||||
| August 1 – Oradea | ||||||||||
| United States | 14 | |||||||||
| Spain | 12 | |||||||||
| United States | 8 | |||||||||
| 30 July 2010 15:30 | Report | Australia | 9–12 | Serbia | Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Cabral (BRA) |
| Score by quarters: 2–3, 2–4, 2–3, 3–2 | |||||
| Younger, Howden 2 | Goals | Aleksić 3 | |||
| 30 July 2010 17:00 | Report | Romania | 12–14 | United States | Referees: Moliner (ESP), Shaydakov (RUS) |
| Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–4, 4–4, 3–5 | |||||
| Negrean 4 | Goals | Azevedo, Bailey, Hutten 3 | |||
| 30 July 2010 18:30 | Report | Spain | 11–5 | China | Referees: Hafezi (IRI), Hart (AUS) |
| Score by quarters: 1–2, 5–1, 2–0, 3–2 | |||||
| Molina, Español, Vallès, García 2 | Goals | Tan, Liang, Pan, Wang, Han 1 | |||
| 30 July 2010 20:00 | Report | Iran | 2–23 | Croatia | Referees: Jianguo (CHN), Koganov (AZE) |
| Score by quarters: 0–6, 1–8, 0–5, 1–4 | |||||
| Mirmehdi, Soltani 1 | Goals | Bošković, Sukno 4 | |||
| 31 July 2010 18:30 | Report | United States | 9–11 | Croatia | Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Hart (AUS) |
| Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–3, 4–2, 2–3 | |||||
| Azevedo, Bailey 3 | Goals | Bošković 4 | |||
| 31 July 2010 20:00 | Report | Serbia | 12–10 | Spain | Referees: Koganov (AZE), Cabral (BRA) |
| Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–3, 4–3, 1–0 | |||||
| Prlainović 4 | Goals | García 3 | |||
| 1 August 2010 16:00 | Report | United States | 8–12 | Spain | Referees: Hart (AUS), Alexandrescu (ROU) |
| Score by quarters: 1–3, 3–3, 1–2, 3–4 | |||||
| Powers 2 | Goals | García 4 | |||
| 1 August 2010 17:30 | Report | Croatia | 7–13 | Serbia | Referees: Goldenberg (USA), Koganov (AZE) |
| Score by quarters: 0–4, 3–2, 3–5, 1–2 | |||||
| Sukno 3 | Goals | Gocić, Udovičić, Filipović 3 | |||
| Semi-finals | Fifth place | |||||
| July 31 – Oradea | ||||||
| China | 6 | |||||
| August 1 – Oradea | ||||||
| Australia | 10 | |||||
| Australia | 5 | |||||
| July 31 – Oradea | ||||||
| Romania | 9 | |||||
| Iran | 6 | |||||
| Romania | 24 | |||||
| Seventh place | ||||||
| August 1 – Oradea | ||||||
| China | 20 | |||||
| Iran | 5 | |||||
| 31 July 2010 15:30 | Report | Australia | 10–6 | China | Referees: Goldenberg (USA), Hafezi (IRI) |
| Score by quarters:4–1, 2–2, 1–2, 3–1 | |||||
| Campbell, Younger, McGregor 2 | Goals | Pan 2 | |||
| 31 July 2010 17:00 | Report | Romania | 24–6 | Iran | Referees: Štampalija (CRO), Ćirić (SRB) |
| Score by quarters:4–1, 8–3, 9–1, 3–1 | |||||
| Negrean 6 | Goals | Mardani, Mirmehdi, Jafari 2 | |||
| 1 August 2010 10:00 | Report | China | 20–5 | Iran | Referees: Cabral (BRA), Ćirić (SRB) |
| Score by quarters:5–0, 6–2, 4–1, 5–2 | |||||
| Junliang 4 | Goals | Karami, Pirouzkhah 2 | |||
| 1 August 2010 11:30 | Report | Australia | 5–9 | Romania | Referees: Moliner (ESP), Štampalija (CRO) |
| Score by quarters: 1–1, 1–3, 2–2, 1–3 | |||||
| McGregor 3 | Goals | Iosep 3 | |||
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Vanja Udovičić (SRB) Slobodan Soro (SRB) Sandro Sukno (CRO)— 17 goals
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