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

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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

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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

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Group A

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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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "EWPC 2018, Qualification". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-25.