2017 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

2017 FINA Men's Water Polo World League
League	FINA Water Polo World League
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	15 November 2016 to ; 25 June 2017
Super Final
Finals champions	Serbia (11th title)
Runners-up	Italy
FINA Men's Water Polo World League seasons
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Last updated June 22, 2019

The 2017 FINA Men's Water Polo World League is the 16th edition of the annual men's international water polo tournament. It was played between November 2016 and June 2017 and opened to all men's water polo national teams. After participating in a preliminary round, eight teams qualify to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final from 20–25 June 2017.

The FINA Water Polo World League is an international water polo league organized by FINA, which plays annually, typically from winter through to June. League play features continental tournaments for men and women, from which the top teams emerge to play in the championship tournament where the league champion team is crowned. Men's league play began in 2002, to capitalize on increased worldwide popularity of water polo created by the 2000 Olympic Games, especially in Europe, North America and Australia. The women’s league was added in 2004, based on growing interest in women's play.

Europe

Preliminary round

The European preliminary round consisted of two groups of four teams and a third group of three teams. The winner of each group after the home and away series of games qualified for the Super Final.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia	6	5	1	0	0	85	37	+48	17	Super Final	—	11–2	19–8	20–3
2	Slovakia	6	2	0	2	2	44	51	−7	8		11–11^{(6–7 PSO)}	—	6–5	10–7
3	Romania	6	2	0	1	3	48	61	−13	7		4–9	12–10	—	9–7
4	Germany	6	0	2	0	4	41	69	−28	4		9–15	5–5^{(4–3 PSO)}	10–10^{(4–3 PSO)}	—

Source: FINA

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	6	5	1	84	45	+39	15	Super Final	—	11–6	17–7	16–6
2	Greece	6	5	1	61	42	+19	15		10–8	—	9–8	16–7
3	Netherlands	6	2	4	44	70	−26	6		7–18	4–10	—	11–10
4	France	6	0	6	42	74	−32	0		9–14	4–10	6–7	—

Source: FINA

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	4	4	0	49	33	+16	12	Super Final	—	12–9	14–5
2	Russia	4	2	2	49	43	+6	6	Host Super Final	7–10	—	19–8
3	Georgia	4	0	4	38	60	−22	0		12–13	13–14	—

Source: FINA

Intercontinental Water Polo Tournament

April 25–30, 2017 Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

The Gold Coast Aquatic Centre is a public swimming pool complex located in the Southport Broadwater Parklands on the Gold Coast, Queensland. It was the swimming and diving facility for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland, approximately 66 kilometres (41 mi) south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane and immediately north of the border with New South Wales. With a census-estimated 2016 population of 569,997, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, making it the largest non-capital city, and Queensland's second-largest city.

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Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia (H)	5	4	1	0	0	62	26	+36	14	Super Final	—	12–8	9–9^{(4–2 PSO)}	10–3	13–3	18–3
2	United States	5	4	0	0	1	71	42	+29	12		—	—	—	15–10	18–6	—
3	Japan	5	3	0	1	1	69	37	+32	10		—	8–10	—	—	20–6	—
4	Kazakhstan	5	2	0	0	3	41	53	−12	6		—	—	6–14	—	—	15–8
5	China	5	1	0	0	4	30	65	−35	3		—	—	—	6–7	—	9–7
6	New Zealand	5	0	0	0	5	30	80	−50	0		—	6–20	6–18	—	—	—

Source: FINA
(H) Host.

Final stage

5th Place

30 April 2017 9:20	China	4–5	New Zealand	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Referees: Daniel Flahive (AUS), Yusuke Kajiwara (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 0–1, 1–1, 2–1, 1–2
	four players 1	Goals	five players 1

3rd Place

30 April 2017 10:40	Japan	12–7	Kazakhstan	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Referees: Michael Brook (NZL), Haziel Ortega (USA)
	Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–0, 4–2, 7–3
	five players 2	Goals	Medvedev, Pilipenko 2

Final

30 April 2017 12:10	Australia	8–6	United States	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Referees: Dragan Stampalija (CRO), Vojin Putnikovic (SRB)
	Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–2, 1–1, 2–1
	three players 2	Goals	Hooper 2

Super Final

June 20–25, 2017 Ruza, Ruzsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
In the Super Final the eight qualifying teams are split into two groups of four teams with all teams progressing to the knock-out stage.

Ruza is a town and the administrative center of Ruzsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Ruza River 100 kilometers (62 mi) west of Moscow. Population: 13,495 (2010 Census); 13,516 (2002 Census); 14,643 (1989 Census).

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is by a considerable margin the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 146.79 million people as of 2019, including Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is one of the largest cities in the world and the second largest city in Europe; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia.