Tournament details | |
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Host country | Netherlands |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Dates | 16–29 January |
Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Serbia |
Runner-up | Montenegro |
Third place | Hungary |
Fourth place | Italy |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 44 |
The 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship took place at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, from 16 to 29 January 2012.
The championships was part of the qualification procedure for the 2012 London Olympics that will take place in late July and early August of that year. There will be 12 men's teams in the Olympic competition.
By the time that these championships take place, four men's places have already been booked: the winner of the 2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League in Italy (Serbia), and the three top-placed teams in the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai that did not win the World League (Italy, Croatia, Hungary).
As Great Britain men's team has been entered into the Olympic competition, there was not a direct entry to the Olympic tournament from the European Championships. Five teams will be entered into a world-wide qualifying competition from 1–8 April 2012 for men in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and from 15 to 22 April for women in Italy. [1] Four teams from this competition qualified for the Olympic tournament. [2]
12 teams were allowed to the tournament. The qualification was as follows:
Event | Date | Location | Vacancies | Qualified |
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Host nation | - | – | 1 | Netherlands |
2010 European Championships | 28 August–11 September 2010 | Zagreb | 5 | Croatia Italy Serbia Hungary Montenegro |
Qualifiers | 1 October 2010 – 1 August 2011 | Various | 6 | Germany Romania Spain Greece Turkey North Macedonia |
The draw was held on 12 November 2011. [3]
Group A | Group B |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Hungary | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 32 | +44 | 15 | Semifinals |
2 | Italy | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 37 | +34 | 12 | Quarterfinals |
3 | Greece | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 58 | 39 | +19 | 9 | |
4 | Netherlands | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 46 | 62 | −16 | 6 | 7th–10th places |
5 | North Macedonia | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 44 | 53 | −9 | 3 | 7th–12th places |
6 | Turkey | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 94 | −72 | 0 |
16 January 2012 13:00 | Report [ dead link ] | North Macedonia | 16–4 | Turkey | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 150 Referees: Golijanin (SRB), Teixido (ESP) |
Score by quarters:3–1, 2–0, 6–0, 5–3 | |||||
Ranđić, Letica 4 | Goals | Hantal 2 |
16 January 2012 19:45 | Report [ dead link ] | Greece | 14–12 | Netherlands | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 800 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Alexandrescu (ROU) |
Score by quarters:4–3, 5–3, 2–3, 3–3 | |||||
Miralis 4 | Goals | Gottemaker 3 |
16 January 2012 21:15 | Report [ dead link ] | Hungary | 12–8 | Italy | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 750 Referees: Brguljan (MNE), Buch (ESP) |
Score by quarters: 2–3, 5–0, 4–3, 1–2 | |||||
four players 2 | Goals | Figlioli, Aicardi 2 |
17 January 2012 13:00 | Report [ dead link ] | North Macedonia | 6–10 | Greece | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 250 Referees: Koryzna (POL), Teixidó (ESP) |
Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–3, 1–1, 4–4 | |||||
Mišić 2 | Goals | Miralis 4 |
17 January 2012 19:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Netherlands | 6–19 | Hungary | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 900 Referees: Grandin (FRA), Periš (CRO) |
Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–4, 2–5, 1–8 | |||||
Kramer, Gottemaker 2 | Goals | Kiss 5 |
17 January 2012 20:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Turkey | 7–24 | Italy | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 300 Referees: Golijanin (SRB), Levin (ISR) |
Score by quarters: 2–7, 1–4, 3–6, 1–7 | |||||
Okman 3 | Goals | Aicardi 4 |
19 January 2012 13:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Hungary | 14–9 | North Macedonia | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 350 Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Brguljan (MNE) |
Score by quarters:4–2, 4–4, 2–1, 4–2 | |||||
Varga, Madaras 3 | Goals | Kalinić 2 |
19 January 2012 14:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Greece | 20–2 | Turkey | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 250 Referees: Periš (CRO), Detko (GBR) |
Score by quarters:1–0, 6–0, 4–2, 9–0 | |||||
Miralis 4 | Goals | Çağatay 2 |
19 January 2012 19:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Italy | 14–6 | Netherlands | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Buch (ESP) |
Score by quarters:3–2, 4–2, 5–1, 2–1 | |||||
Giorgetti 5 | Goals | three players 2 |
21 January 2012 14:30 | Report [ dead link ] | North Macedonia | 5–15 | Italy | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 950 Referees: Brguljan (MNE), Periš (CRO) |
Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–2, 1–5, 1–5 | |||||
five players 1 | Goals | Figlioli 4 |
21 January 2012 16:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Turkey | 7–12 | Netherlands | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Teixidó (ESP) |
Score by quarters: 2–3, 3–6, 2–2, 0–1 | |||||
Hantal 3 | Goals | Gerritse 4 |
21 January 2012 19:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Greece | 7–9 | Hungary | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Buch (ESP), Golijanin (SRB) |
Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–4, 3–2, 1–1 | |||||
Theodoropoulos 3 | Goals | Kiss, Biros 2 |
23 January 2012 14:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Turkey | 2–22 | Hungary | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 250 Referees: Mauss (GER), Detko (GBR) |
Score by quarters: 0–6, 1–6, 0–4, 1–6 | |||||
Hantal 2 | Goals | Hárai 4 |
23 January 2012 19:00 | Report [ dead link ] | North Macedonia | 8–10 | Netherlands | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Buch (ESP), Vasileiou (GRE) |
Score by quarters:4–2, 0–2, 2–3, 2–3 | |||||
Kalinić 4 | Goals | Gerritse 3 |
23 January 2012 20:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Italy | 10–7 | Greece | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Koryzna (POL), Koganov (AZE) |
Score by quarters: 2–3, 5–1, 1–2, 2–1 | |||||
Figlioli, Giorgetti 2 | Goals | Miralis, Ntoskas 3 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Serbia | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 45 | +12 | 12 | Semifinals |
2 | Montenegro | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 42 | +11 | 10 | Quarterfinals |
3 | Germany | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 54 | +1 | 9 | |
4 | Croatia | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 52 | 50 | +2 | 9 | 7th–10th places |
5 | Spain | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 47 | 55 | −8 | 4 | 7th–12th places |
6 | Romania | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 39 | 57 | −18 | 0 |
16 January 2012 14:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Croatia | 10–7 | Romania | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 250 Referees: Gomez (ITA), Taylan (TUR) |
Score by quarters:2–1, 3–2, 2–1, 3–3 | |||||
Bošković 3 | Goals | Georgescu 2 |
16 January 2012 16:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Germany | 7–13 | Montenegro | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 350 Referees: Levin (ISR), Sadekov (RUS) |
Score by quarters: 1–4, 2–1, 2–3, 2–5 | |||||
Paul Schüler 3 | Goals | Janović 5 |
16 January 2012 17:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Serbia | 8–5 | Spain | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 500 Referees: Koryzna (POL), Vasileiou (GRE) |
Score by quarters:1–0, 2–3, 3–1, 2–1 | |||||
Udovičić 3 | Goals | Perrone 2 |
17 January 2012 14:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Serbia | 13–12 | Germany | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 550 Referees: Koganov (AZE), Vogel (HUN) |
Score by quarters: 2–3, 5–2, 4–4, 2–3 | |||||
Pijetlović 4 | Goals | Politze 4 |
17 January 2012 16:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Spain | 12–10 | Romania | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 400 Referees: Bianchi (ITA), Bervoets (NED) |
Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–3, 3–2, 2–1 | |||||
Mallarach 4 | Goals | three players 2 |
17 January 2012 17:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Montenegro | 8–10 | Croatia | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 650 Referees: Vasileiou (GRE), Sadekov (RUS) |
Score by quarters: 2–3, 3–2, 3–3, 0–2 | |||||
three players 2 | Goals | Dobud 3 |
19 January 2012 16:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Germany | 16–10 | Spain | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 650 Referees: Fekete (HUN), Koryzna (POL) |
Score by quarters:4–2, 5–4, 4–2, 3–2 | |||||
Politze, Kreuzmann 4 | Goals | Perrone 3 |
Nikolaos Stavropoulos, Teixidó, Paul Schüler
19 January 2012 17:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Croatia | 12–15 | Serbia | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Bianchi (ITA), Levin (ISR) |
Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–6, 3–3, 3–4 | |||||
Sukno 4 | Goals | Udovičić 3 |
19 January 2012 20:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Romania | 8–11 | Montenegro | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 400 Referees: Taylan (TUR), Gomez (ITA) |
Score by quarters: 2–5, 2–3, 1–1, 3–2 | |||||
Ghiban 3 | Goals | Janović 3 |
21 January 2012 13:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Serbia | 14–5 | Romania | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 700 Referees: Taylan (TUR), Koryzna (POL) |
Score by quarters:3–0, 4–0, 3–1, 4–4 | |||||
Pijetlović 4 | Goals | Diaconu, Iosep 2 |
21 January 2012 17:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Spain | 10–10 | Montenegro | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,100 Referees: Koganov (AZE), Levin (ISR) |
Score by quarters: 1–2, 4–3, 3–3, 2–2 | |||||
Español 4 | Goals | Janović 4 |
21 January 2012 20:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Germany | 10–9 | Croatia | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 900 Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Vogel (HUN) |
Score by quarters:3–1, 4–2, 1–2, 2–4 | |||||
Stamm 4 | Goals | Sukno 3 |
23 January 2012 13:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Croatia | 11–10 | Spain | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 450 Referees: Fekete (HUN), Taylan (TUR) |
Score by quarters: 1–3, 5–1, 3–1, 2–5 | |||||
five players 2 | Goals | Molina, Pérez 3 |
23 January 2012 16:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Serbia | 7–11 | Montenegro | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 750 Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Levin (ISR) |
Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–3, 4–3, 0–2 | |||||
Gocić, Pijetlović 2 | Goals | Janović, Ivović 3 |
23 January 2012 17:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Romania | 9–10 | Germany | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 800 Referees: Gomez (ITA), Bervoets (NED) |
Score by quarters: 2–4, 3–2, 2–2, 2–2 | |||||
Diaconu 3 | Goals | three players 2 |
7th–12th | 7th–10th | 7th–8th | |||||||||||
A4 | Netherlands | 9 | |||||||||||
B5 | Spain | 16 | B5 | Spain | 14 | ||||||||
A6 | Turkey | 4 | B5 | Spain | 9 | ||||||||
B6 | Romania | 8 | |||||||||||
B4 | Croatia | 12 (3) | |||||||||||
A5 | North Macedonia | 10 | B6 | Romania | 12 (4) | ||||||||
B6 | Romania | 12 | |||||||||||
11th–12th | 9th–10th | ||||||||||||
A6 | Turkey | 7 | A4 | Netherlands | 4 | ||||||||
A5 | North Macedonia | 9 | B4 | Croatia | 16 | ||||||||
25 January 2012 14:00 | Report [ dead link ] | North Macedonia | 10–12 | Romania | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 200 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Vogel (HUN) |
Score by quarters: 1–1, 3–4, 3–4, 3–3 | |||||
Ranđić 3 | Goals | Diaconu, Kádár 3 |
25 January 2012 16:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Turkey | 4–16 | Spain | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 500 Referees: Bervoets (NED), Bianchi (ITA) |
Score by quarters: 0–5, 3–4, 0–3, 1–4 | |||||
four players 1 | Goals | Perrone 4 |
27 January 2012 14:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Romania | 12 (4)–12 (3) | Croatia | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 500 Referees: Bervoets (NED), Stajković (MKD) |
Score by quarters:4–2, 3–2, 2–1, 1–5 OT: 2–2, 4–3 (PS) | |||||
Radu 4 | Goals | Sukno 6 |
27 January 2012 16:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Spain | 14–9 | Netherlands | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Bianchi (ITA), Vasileiou (GRE) |
Score by quarters:6–3, 4–0, 2–4, 2–2 | |||||
García 5 | Goals | Gottemaker 4 |
27 January 2012 12:00 | Report [ dead link ] | North Macedonia | 9–7 | Turkey | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 200 Referees: Dutilh (NED), Sadekov (RUS) |
Score by quarters:3–1, 2–2, 2–1, 2–3 | |||||
Three players 2 | Goals | Hantal, Okman 3 |
28 January 2012 09:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Croatia | 16–4 | Netherlands | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Taylan (TUR), Vogel (HUN) |
Score by quarters:2–1, 5–1, 4–2, 5–0 | |||||
Sukno 5 | Goals | Gerritse 2 |
28 January 2012 10:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Romania | 8–9 | Spain | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 900 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Vasileiou (GRE) |
Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–2, 3–1, 3–4 | |||||
Radu 3 | Goals | Minguell 6 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Gold medal game | |||||||||||
A1 | Hungary | 13 | |||||||||||
B2 | Montenegro | 11 | B2 | Montenegro | 14 | ||||||||
A3 | Greece | 9 | B2 | Montenegro | 8 | ||||||||
B1 | Serbia | 9 | |||||||||||
B1 | Serbia | 12 | |||||||||||
A2 | Italy | 9 | A2 | Italy | 8 | ||||||||
B3 | Germany | 4 | |||||||||||
5th–6th | Bronze medal game | ||||||||||||
A3 | Greece | 6 | A1 | Hungary | 12 | ||||||||
B3 | Germany | 9 | A2 | Italy | 9 | ||||||||
25 January 2012 18:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Italy | 9–4 | Germany | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Levin (ISR), Stavridis (GRE) |
Score by quarters:2–1, 3–2, 3–1, 1–0 | |||||
Presciutti 3 | Goals | Oeler 3 |
25 January 2012 20:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Greece | 9–11 | Montenegro | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 750 Referees: Koryzna (POL), Teixidó (ESP) |
Score by quarters:4–2, 2–4, 2–4, 1–1 | |||||
Miralis, Ntoskas 2 | Goals | Janović, Gojković 3 |
27 January 2012 18:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Italy | 8–12 | Serbia | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,800 Referees: Levin (ISR), Teixidó (ESP) |
Score by quarters:5–4, 1–4, 1–3, 1–1 | |||||
Gallo 3 | Goals | Filipović 3 |
27 January 2012 20:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Montenegro | 14–13 | Hungary | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,900 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Koganov (AZE) |
Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–3, 4–3, 2–4 OT:2–1 | |||||
Janović 5 | Goals | Kiss 4 |
28 January 2012 12:00 | Report [ dead link ] | Germany | 9–6 | Greece | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Fekete (HUN) |
Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–1, 3–2, 3–1 | |||||
Roeßing 3 | Goals | 6 players 1 |
29 January 2012 13:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Italy | 9–12 | Hungary | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 2000 Referees: Periš (CRO), Alexandrescu (ROU) |
Score by quarters: 1–1, 3–4, 4–1, 1–6 | |||||
Giorgetti, Gallo, Presciutti 2 | Goals | Biros 6 |
29 January 2012 15:30 | Report [ dead link ] | Serbia | 9–8 | Montenegro | Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 2300 Referees: Gomez (ITA), Stavridis (GRE) |
Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–3, 3–1, 3–3 | |||||
Mitrović, Udovičić 2 | Goals | Radović 3 |
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Top Scorer | Player of the Tournament |
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Sandro Sukno | Mlađan Janović |
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