The World Aquatics Men's Water Polo World Cup is an annual international water polo competition contested by men's national water polo teams that are members of the World Aquatics, the aquatic sports' global governing body.Water Polo World Cup page of the FINA website; retrieved 8 March 2012. It was established in 1979, initially taking place on odd years. From 2002 to 2018 it was held every four years, in the even-year between Olympics.
Format change From 2023 on, the tournament replacing the FINA Water Polo World League and changed format.
Editions #YearHostChampionRunner-up Third place1 1979 Belgrade & Rijeka, Yugoslavia 2 1981 Long Beach, USA 3 1983 Malibu, USA 4 1985 Duisburg, West Germany 5 1987 Thessaloniki, Greece 6 1989 West Berlin, West Germany 7 1991 Barcelona, Spain 8 1993 Athens, Greece 9 1995 Atlanta, USA 10 1997 Athens, Greece 11 1999 Sydney, Australia 12 2002 Belgrade, Yugoslavia 13 2006 Budapest, Hungary 14 2010 Oradea, Romania 15 2014 Almaty, Kazakhstan 16 2018 Berlin, GermanyNew Format (Division 1 + Division 2)17 2023 Los Angeles, USA 18 2025 Podgorica, Montenegro 19 2026 Sydney, Australia 20 2027 Athens, Greece
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Participation details Legend
– Champions – Runners-up – Third place – Fourth place – Disqualified – Hosts = – More than one team tied for that rank Q – Qualified for forthcoming tournament † – Defunct team
Africa – CANA (1 team) Team 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2023 2025 2026 2027 Years 8th 8th 2 Americas – ASUA (2 teams) 3rd 8th 7th 8th 4 2nd 4th 4th 2nd 4th 8th 1st 4th 4th 1st 6th 7th 4th 4th 6th 3rd 16 7th 1 8th 1 7th 8th 2 Part of Soviet Union 6th 1 Europe – LEN (15 teams) 8th 8th 2 Part of Yugoslavia 8th 8th 8th 4th 2nd 3rd 5th 4th 7th 9 8th 1 † 5th 2nd 1st 3rd 5th 8th 6th 4th 8th 7th 10 8th 8th 7th 6th 2nd 7th 5th 7th 5th 2nd 1st Q 12 1st 6th 7th 3rd 4th 2nd 1st 3rd 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 4th 3rd 2nd 16 6th 3rd 5th 5th 2nd 1st 2nd 5th 2nd 4th 5th 2nd 3rd 13 Part of Yugoslavia Part of / 7th 5th 6th 3 6th 6th 7th 6th 4 7th 6th 6th 5th 6th 5 Part of Soviet Union 5th 3rd 4th 4th 1st 8th 6 Part of Yugoslavia Part of / 1st 1st 3rd 7th 4 †† Part of Yugoslavia 7th 5th 3rd 1st Defunct 4 †4th 1st 1st 2nd 6th 5th Defunct 6 5th 5th 3rd 6th 4th 3rd 5th 6th 3rd 6th 3rd 3rd 1st 1st 5th 15 † 3rd 2nd 4th 1st 1st 2nd Defunct 6 Oceania – OSA (1 team) 7th 7th 7th 7th 3rd 8th 6th 5th 2nd 4th 10 Total teams 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
See also FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup List of water polo world medalists Major achievements in water polo by nation
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