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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
  •  SpainHost 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
  Switzerland 3 3 0 0 29 22 +7 9
 Czech Republic 3 2 0 1 28 24 +4 6
 Austria 3 1 0 2 34 27 +7 3
 Bulgaria 3 0 0 3 20 38 –18 0
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
 Ukraine 3 3 0 0 39 22 +17 9
 Portugal 3 2 0 1 43 27 +16 6
 Lithuania 3 1 0 2 27 42 –15 3
 Czech Republic 3 0 0 3 22 40 –18 0
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
 Belarus 3 3 0 0 32 14 +18 9
 Israel 3 2 0 1 22 19 +3 6
 Poland 3 0 1 2 19 24 –5 1
  Switzerland 3 0 1 2 15 31 –16 1
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 determined the matches of the following round (play-off format with home and away games) held in 2018. These eight teams faced the teams classified 9 to 16 in the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship.

Seeded Unseeded
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.Tooltip Aggregate score 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". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-25.