The World Aquatics Women's Water Polo World Cup is an international water polo competition contested by women's national water polo teams that are members of the World Aquatics, the aquatic sports' global governing body. The tournament was established in 1979 with an erratic schedule, was contested every two years from 1989 to 1999, and has been contested every four years since 2002.
Format change From 2023 on, the tournament replaced the FINA Water Polo World League and changed format.
Editions #YearHostChampionRunner-up Third place1 1979Merced, United States2 1980Breda, Netherlands3 1981Brisbane, Australia4 1983Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada5 1984Irvine, United States6 1988Christchurch, New Zealand7 1989Eindhoven, Netherlands8 1991Long Beach, United States9 1993Catania, Italy10 1995Sydney, Australia11 1997Nancy, France12 1999Winnipeg, Canada13 2002Perth, Australia14 2006Tianjin, PR China15 2010Christchurch, New Zealand16 2014Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia17 2018Surgut, RussiaNew Format (Division 1 + Division 2)18 2023Long Beach, United States19 2025Chengdu, China20 2026 Sydney, Australia20 2027 Athens, Greece
Medal table
Participation details Legend
– Champions – Runners-up – Third place – Fourth place – Hosts Q – Qualified for forthcoming tournament † – Defunct team
Africa – CANA (1 team) Team 1979 1980 1981 1983 1984 1988 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2023 2025 2026 2027 Years 7th 8th 2 Americas – ASUA (4 teams) 8th 1 4th 3rd 1st 4th 3rd 4th 4th 6th 5th 5th 3rd 7th 5th 6th 14 7th 1 1st 2nd 4th 2nd 2nd 4th 2nd 3rd 5th 6th 7th 6th 2nd 4th 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 19 Asia – AASF (4 teams) 8th 3rd 4th 5th 8th 8th 6 6th 7th 7th 3 8th 8th 2 7th 1 Europe – LEN (9 teams) 7th 7th 8th 3 † 6th 1 6th 8th 7th 6th 7th 5th 1st Q 8 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 4th 1st 5th 6th 5th 4th 2nd 7th 12 7th 1 8th 5th 2nd 5th 4th 3rd 5th 2nd 6th 6th 6th 11 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 3rd 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 1st 1st 2nd 3rd 5th 15 4th 2nd 7th 4th 3rd 4th 6th 2nd 4th 9 3rd 4th 3rd 4th 2nd 5 Oceania – OSA (2 teams) 3rd 4th 3rd 3rd 1st 5th 5th 2nd 4th 1st 3rd 2nd 6th 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 5th 3rd 19 5th 4th 6th 7th 8th 8th 7th 8th 8 Total teams 5 4 4 4 4 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
See also FINA Water Polo World Cup List of water polo world medalists Major achievements in water polo by nation
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