2026 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers

The 2026 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers were organised by European Aquatics and held between 8 and 11 June 2025 in four different centralised locations. The qualifiers determined the eight men's water polo national teams that would join the eight automatically qualified teams, including hosts, Serbia, at the final tournament.

Qualified teams {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !rowspan=2|Team !rowspan=2|Qualification method !rowspan=2|Date of qualification !colspan=4 data-sort-type="number"|Appearance(s) !rowspan=2|Previous best performance !rowspan=2| |- ! ! ! !

| align="center"| | align="center"| 1926 | align="center"|30 | | align="center"|3

| align="center"| | rowspan=2 align="center"| 1927 | align="center"|34 | | align="center"|4

| align="center"| | align="center"| 1954 | align="center"|14 | | align="center"|9

| align="center"| | align="center"| 2022 | align="center"|3 | | align="center"|17

| align="center"| | align="center"| 1999 | align="center"|3 | | align="center"|16

| align="center"| | align="center"| 2016 | align="center"|6 | | align="center"|13

| align="center" |Top two in Group B | align="center"| | align="center"| | align="center"| 2016 | align="center"| 2020 | align="center"|1 | | align="center"|14 |} a

Format The 18 teams were split into four groups of four or five teams. The tournament was played at a single venue with the group winners and the second-ranked teams qualified for the final tournament.

Draw The draw took place on 3 March 2025 in Zagreb.

Seeding Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 (H) (H) (H) (H)

Pot 1 with teams ranked from 9th to 12th at 2024 Men's European Water Polo Championship Pot 2 with teams ranked from 13th to 16th at 2024 Men's European Water Polo Championship Pot 3 with teams eliminated in 2024 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers Pot 4 with teams did not participated to 2024 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers

Draw results Bold text indicates who qualified. + Group ATeam + Group BTeam + Group CTeam + Group DTeam

Referees Thirteen referees were selected to officiate at the Qualifiers.

+Group AReferees Levan Berishvili Tal Shildan Risto Damchevski Fredrik Månsson Ruben Garcia

+Group B Referees Karel Dvořáček Aurely Blanchard Massimo Angileri Eurico Silva George Makharadze

+Group C Referees Jarkko Virtanen Ralf Müller Peter Radič Akif Uz

+Group D Referees Maxim Gerasimov Rik Evers Lukasz Król Tomaž Kavčič

Summary

Group A Group B Group C Group D colspan="2"

Groups All times are local.

Group A 8–11 June, Kranj, Slovenia.

Group B 8–11 June, Istanbul, Turkey.

Group C 9–11 June, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Group D 9–11 June, Gzira, Malta.

Notes

References

External links Official website

2026 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers

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