The 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship was held in Belgrade, Serbia.LEN Calendar "Catching Up with Darko Udovicic about Serbian Water Polo" Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-30.

Serbia won their seventh, and third straight, title by defeating the Montenegro 10–8 in the final. Hungary captured the bronze medal after a 13–10 win over Greece.

Qualification

For the first time, the tournament will be contested by 16 countries (12 previously). The 16 teams qualified as follows: The host nation The best seven teams from the 2014 European Championships not already qualified as the host nation eight qualifiers

EventDateLocationVacanciesQualifiedHost nation – –12014 European Championships14–27 July 2014 Budapest7Qualifiers –8

Format The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams. All teams advance to the knockout stage, from which on a knockout-system will be used to determine the final positions.

Squads

Draw The draw was held on 4 October 2015.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Preliminary round All times are local (UTC+1).Schedule

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

5th place bracket

9th place bracket

13th place bracket

Round of 16

9–16th place quarterfinals

Quarterfinals

13–16th place semifinals

9–12th place semifinals

5–8th place semifinals

Semifinals

15th place game

13th place game

Eleventh place game

Ninth place game

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Final ranking Qualified for the Summer Olympics Already qualified for the Summer Olympics Qualified for the Summer Olympics final qualification tournament RankTeam 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Top goalscorers +RankNameGoalsShots 1 Steven Camilleri 21 55 38 2 Dénes Varga 19 39 49 3 Andrija Prlainović 18 37 494 Ioannis Fountoulis17 42 41 Tiberiu Negrean 43 40 6 Aleksandar Radović 16 30 537 Sandro Sukno15 39 39 Cosmin Radu 25 609 Ugo Crousillat14 34 41 Mehdi Marzouki 37 38 Martin Faměra 45 31 Albert Español 38 37 Guillermo Molina Rios 36 39 Source: wpbelgrade2016.microplustiming.com

Awards Top GoalscorerPlayer of the TournamentGoalkeeper of the Tournament Steven Camilleri Andrija Prlainović Viktor Nagy

References

External links Official website