2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship

For the women's tournament, see 2012 Women's European Water Polo Championship. International handball competition

2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Netherlands
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	16–29 January
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Serbia
Runner-up	Montenegro
Third place	Hungary
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	44
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The 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship took place at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, from 16 to 29 January 2012.

Road to the 2012 Olympics

The championships was part of the qualification procedure for the 2012 London Olympics that will take place in late July and early August of that year. There will be 12 men's teams in the Olympic competition.

By the time that these championships take place, four men's places have already been booked: the winner of the 2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League in Italy (Serbia), and the three top-placed teams in the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai that did not win the World League (Italy, Croatia, Hungary).

As Great Britain men's team has been entered into the Olympic competition, there was not a direct entry to the Olympic tournament from the European Championships. Five teams will be entered into a world-wide qualifying competition from 1–8 April 2012 for men in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and from 15 to 22 April for women in Italy. Four teams from this competition qualified for the Olympic tournament.

Qualification

Main article: 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifier

12 teams were allowed to the tournament. The qualification was as follows:

The host nation
The best 5 teams from the 2010 European Championships not already qualified as the host nation
6 teams from the Qualifiers

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	-	–	1	Netherlands
2010 European Championships	28 August–11 September 2010	Zagreb	5	Croatia Italy Serbia Hungary Montenegro
Qualifiers	1 October 2010 – 1 August 2011	Various	6	Germany Romania Spain Greece Turkey North Macedonia

Squads

Main article: 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship squads

Draw

The draw was held on 12 November 2011.

Groups

Group A	Group B
North Macedonia Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Turkey	Serbia Germany Croatia Romania Montenegro Spain

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	5	5	0	76	32	+44	15	Semifinals
2	Italy	5	4	1	71	37	+34	12	Quarterfinals
3	Greece	5	3	2	58	39	+19	9	Quarterfinals
4	Netherlands	5	2	3	46	62	−16	6	7th–10th places
5	North Macedonia	5	1	4	44	53	−9	3	7th–12th places
6	Turkey	5	0	5	22	94	−72	0	7th–12th places

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:

16 January 2012 13:00	Report	North Macedonia	16–4	Turkey	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 150 Referees: Golijanin (SRB), Teixido (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 2–0, 6–0, 5–3
		Ranđić, Letica 4	Goals	Hantal 2

16 January 2012 19:45	Report	Greece	14–12	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 800 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 5–3, 2–3, 3–3
		Miralis 4	Goals	Gottemaker 3

16 January 2012 21:15	Report	Hungary	12–8	Italy	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 750 Referees: Brguljan (MNE), Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 5–0, 4–3, 1–2
		four players 2	Goals	Figlioli, Aicardi 2

17 January 2012 13:00	Report	North Macedonia	6–10	Greece	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 250 Referees: Koryzna (POL), Teixidó (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–3, 1–1, 4–4
		Mišić 2	Goals	Miralis 4

17 January 2012 19:00	Report	Netherlands	6–19	Hungary	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 900 Referees: Grandin (FRA), Periš (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–4, 2–5, 1–8
		Kramer, Gottemaker 2	Goals	Kiss 5

17 January 2012 20:30	Report	Turkey	7–24	Italy	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 300 Referees: Golijanin (SRB), Levin (ISR)
		Score by quarters: 2–7, 1–4, 3–6, 1–7
		Okman 3	Goals	Aicardi 4

19 January 2012 13:00	Report	Hungary	14–9	North Macedonia	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 350 Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Brguljan (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 4–4, 2–1, 4–2
		Varga, Madaras 3	Goals	Kalinić 2

19 January 2012 14:30	Report	Greece	20–2	Turkey	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 250 Referees: Periš (CRO), Detko (GBR)
		Score by quarters: 1–0, 6–0, 4–2, 9–0
		Miralis 4	Goals	Çağatay 2

19 January 2012 19:00	Report	Italy	14–6	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 4–2, 5–1, 2–1
		Giorgetti 5	Goals	three players 2

21 January 2012 14:30	Report	North Macedonia	5–15	Italy	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 950 Referees: Brguljan (MNE), Periš (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–2, 1–5, 1–5
		five players 1	Goals	Figlioli 4

21 January 2012 16:00	Report	Turkey	7–12	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Teixidó (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 3–6, 2–2, 0–1
		Hantal 3	Goals	Gerritse 4

21 January 2012 19:00	Report	Greece	7–9	Hungary	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Buch (ESP), Golijanin (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–4, 3–2, 1–1
		Theodoropoulos 3	Goals	Kiss, Biros 2

23 January 2012 14:30	Report	Turkey	2–22	Hungary	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 250 Referees: Mauss (GER), Detko (GBR)
		Score by quarters: 0–6, 1–6, 0–4, 1–6
		Hantal 2	Goals	Hárai 4

23 January 2012 19:00	Report	North Macedonia	8–10	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Buch (ESP), Vasileiou (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 0–2, 2–3, 2–3
		Kalinić 4	Goals	Gerritse 3

23 January 2012 20:30	Report	Italy	10–7	Greece	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Koryzna (POL), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 5–1, 1–2, 2–1
		Figlioli, Giorgetti 2	Goals	Miralis, Ntoskas 3

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia	5	4	0	1	57	45	+12	12	Semifinals
2	Montenegro	5	3	1	1	53	42	+11	10	Quarterfinals
3	Germany	5	3	0	2	55	54	+1	9	Quarterfinals
4	Croatia	5	3	0	2	52	50	+2	9	7th–10th places
5	Spain	5	1	1	3	47	55	−8	4	7th–12th places
6	Romania	5	0	0	5	39	57	−18	0	7th–12th places

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:

16 January 2012 14:30	Report	Croatia	10–7	Romania	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 250 Referees: Gomez (ITA), Taylan (TUR)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 3–2, 2–1, 3–3
		Bošković 3	Goals	Georgescu 2

16 January 2012 16:00	Report	Germany	7–13	Montenegro	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 350 Referees: Levin (ISR), Sadekov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 2–1, 2–3, 2–5
		Paul Schüler 3	Goals	Janović 5

16 January 2012 17:30	Report	Serbia	8–5	Spain	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 500 Referees: Koryzna (POL), Vasileiou (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 1–0, 2–3, 3–1, 2–1
		Udovičić 3	Goals	Perrone 2

17 January 2012 14:30	Report	Serbia	13–12	Germany	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 550 Referees: Koganov (AZE), Vogel (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 5–2, 4–4, 2–3
		Pijetlović 4	Goals	Politze 4

17 January 2012 16:00	Report	Spain	12–10	Romania	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 400 Referees: Bianchi (ITA), Bervoets (NED)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–3, 3–2, 2–1
		Mallarach 4	Goals	three players 2

17 January 2012 17:30	Report	Montenegro	8–10	Croatia	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 650 Referees: Vasileiou (GRE), Sadekov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 3–2, 3–3, 0–2
		three players 2	Goals	Dobud 3

19 January 2012 16:00	Report	Germany	16–10	Spain	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 650 Referees: Fekete (HUN), Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 5–4, 4–2, 3–2
		Politze, Kreuzmann 4	Goals	Perrone 3

Nikolaos Stavropoulos, Teixidó, Paul Schüler

19 January 2012 17:30	Report	Croatia	12–15	Serbia	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Bianchi (ITA), Levin (ISR)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–6, 3–3, 3–4
		Sukno 4	Goals	Udovičić 3

19 January 2012 20:30	Report	Romania	8–11	Montenegro	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 400 Referees: Taylan (TUR), Gomez (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 2–5, 2–3, 1–1, 3–2
		Ghiban 3	Goals	Janović 3

21 January 2012 13:00	Report	Serbia	14–5	Romania	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 700 Referees: Taylan (TUR), Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 3–0, 4–0, 3–1, 4–4
		Pijetlović 4	Goals	Diaconu, Iosep 2

21 January 2012 17:30	Report	Spain	10–10	Montenegro	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,100 Referees: Koganov (AZE), Levin (ISR)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 4–3, 3–3, 2–2
		Español 4	Goals	Janović 4

21 January 2012 20:30	Report	Germany	10–9	Croatia	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 900 Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Vogel (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 4–2, 1–2, 2–4
		Stamm 4	Goals	Sukno 3

23 January 2012 13:00	Report	Croatia	11–10	Spain	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 450 Referees: Fekete (HUN), Taylan (TUR)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 5–1, 3–1, 2–5
		five players 2	Goals	Molina, Pérez 3

23 January 2012 16:00	Report	Serbia	7–11	Montenegro	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 750 Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Levin (ISR)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–3, 4–3, 0–2
		Gocić, Pijetlović 2	Goals	Janović, Ivović 3

23 January 2012 17:30	Report	Romania	9–10	Germany	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 800 Referees: Gomez (ITA), Bervoets (NED)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 3–2, 2–2, 2–2
		Diaconu 3	Goals	three players 2

7th–12th Classification

Bracket

7th–12th

7th–10th

7th–8th

Netherlands

Spain

Turkey

Spain

Romania

Croatia

12 (3)

North Macedonia

Romania

12 (4)

Romania

11th–12th

9th–10th

Turkey

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Croatia

7th–12th places

25 January 2012 14:00	Report	North Macedonia	10–12	Romania	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 200 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Vogel (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 3–4, 3–4, 3–3
		Ranđić 3	Goals	Diaconu, Kádár 3

25 January 2012 16:00	Report	Turkey	4–16	Spain	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 500 Referees: Bervoets (NED), Bianchi (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 0–5, 3–4, 0–3, 1–4
		four players 1	Goals	Perrone 4

7th–10th places

27 January 2012 14:00	Report	Romania	12 (4)–12 (3)	Croatia	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 500 Referees: Bervoets (NED), Stajković (MKD)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 3–2, 2–1, 1–5 OT: 2–2, 4–3 (PS)
		Radu 4	Goals	Sukno 6

27 January 2012 16:00	Report	Spain	14–9	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Bianchi (ITA), Vasileiou (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 6–3, 4–0, 2–4, 2–2
		García 5	Goals	Gottemaker 4

11th place

27 January 2012 12:00	Report	North Macedonia	9–7	Turkey	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 200 Referees: Dutilh (NED), Sadekov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 2–2, 2–1, 2–3
		Three players 2	Goals	Hantal, Okman 3

9th place

28 January 2012 09:00	Report	Croatia	16–4	Netherlands	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Taylan (TUR), Vogel (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 5–1, 4–2, 5–0
		Sukno 5	Goals	Gerritse 2

7th place

28 January 2012 10:30	Report	Romania	8–9	Spain	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 900 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Vasileiou (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–2, 3–1, 3–4
		Radu 3	Goals	Minguell 6

Final round

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal game

Hungary

Montenegro

Greece

Montenegro

Serbia

Italy

Italy

Germany

5th–6th

Bronze medal game

Greece

Hungary

Germany

Italy

Quarterfinals

25 January 2012 18:00	Report	Italy	9–4	Germany	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Levin (ISR), Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 3–2, 3–1, 1–0
		Presciutti 3	Goals	Oeler 3

25 January 2012 20:00	Report	Greece	9–11	Montenegro	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 750 Referees: Koryzna (POL), Teixidó (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–4, 2–4, 1–1
		Miralis, Ntoskas 2	Goals	Janović, Gojković 3

Semifinals

27 January 2012 18:00	Report	Italy	8–12	Serbia	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,800 Referees: Levin (ISR), Teixidó (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 5–4, 1–4, 1–3, 1–1
		Gallo 3	Goals	Filipović 3

27 January 2012 20:00	Report	Montenegro	14–13	Hungary	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,900 Referees: Spiegel (GER), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–3, 4–3, 2–4 OT: 2–1
		Janović 5	Goals	Kiss 4

5th place

28 January 2012 12:00	Report	Germany	9–6	Greece	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Fekete (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–1, 3–2, 3–1
		Roeßing 3	Goals	6 players 1

3rd place

29 January 2012 13:30	Report	Italy	9–12	Hungary	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 2000 Referees: Periš (CRO), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 3–4, 4–1, 1–6
		Giorgetti, Gallo, Presciutti 2	Goals	Biros 6

Final

29 January 2012 15:30	Report	Serbia	9–8	Montenegro	Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 2300 Referees: Gomez (ITA), Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–3, 3–1, 3–3
		Mitrović, Udovičić 2	Goals	Radović 3

Final ranking

RANK	TEAM
	Serbia
	Montenegro
	Hungary
4.	Italy
5.	Germany
6.	Greece
7.	Spain
8.	Romania
9.	Croatia
10.	Netherlands
11.	North Macedonia
12.	Turkey

2012 Men's European champion
Serbia Fifth title

Team roster: Slobodan Soro, Aleksa Šaponjić, Živko Gocić, Vanja Udovičić, Miloš Ćuk, Duško Pijetlović, Slobodan Nikić, Milan Aleksić, Nikola Rađen, Filip Filipović, Andrija Prlainović, Stefan Mitrović, and Branislav Mitrović

Head coach: Dejan Udovičić

Awards

Top Scorer	Player of the Tournament
Sandro Sukno	Mlađan Janović

References

"FINA Selects Catania, Casablanca as Future Host Cities; Creates Open Water "School for Officials"". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
Qualification system Archived 1 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine; no entries were submitted from Africa, hence one extra place became available for this competition.
"Draw – European Water Polo Championships – Eindhoven 2012". len.eu. 12 November 2011. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.

External links

European Water Polo Championship

Men's

Tournaments	Budapest 1926 Bologna 1927 Paris 1931 Magdeburg 1934 London 1938 Monte Carlo 1947 Vienna 1950 Turin 1954 Budapest 1958 Leipzig 1962 Utrecht 1966 Barcelona 1970 Vienna 1974 Jönköping 1977 Split 1981 Rome 1983 Sofia 1985 Strasbourg 1987 Bonn 1989 Athens 1991 Sheffield 1993 Vienna 1995 Seville 1997 Florence 1999 Budapest 2001 Kranj 2003 Belgrade 2006 Málaga 2008 Zagreb 2010 Eindhoven 2012 Budapest 2014 Belgrade 2016 Barcelona 2018 Budapest 2020 Split 2022 Dubrovnik / Zagreb 2024 Belgrade 2026
Level II (Defunct)	1974 1977 1981 1983 1985 1987 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2007 2009
Qualification	1989 1991 1993 1999 2001 2003 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024
Squads	1926 1927 1931 1934 1938 1947 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1977 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024

Women's

Tournaments	Oslo 1985 Strasbourg 1987 Bonn 1989 Athens 1991 Leeds 1993 Vienna 1995 Sevilla 1997 Prato 1999 Budapest 2001 Ljubljana 2003 Belgrade 2006 Málaga 2008 Zagreb 2010 Eindhoven 2012 Budapest 2014 Belgrade 2016 Barcelona 2018 Budapest 2020 Split 2022 Eindhoven 2024 Belgrade 2026
Level II (Defunct)	2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009
Qualification	1999 2001 2003 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024
Squads	1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024

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October	Pan American Games (men) MEX Pan American Games (women) MEX Men's European Championship Qualifiers: Playoffs Women's European Championship Qualifiers: Matchday 6
November	Men's World League: Europe Matchday 1
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April	Olympic Games Qualification Tournament (men) CAN Olympic Games Qualification Tournament (women) ITA
May	Water Polo Olympic Test Event (women) GBR Men's World League: Americas USA Men's World League: Asia/Oceania CHN JPN Women's World League: Asia/Oceania CHN JPN Women's World League: Europe GRE ITA Men's World League: Asia/Oceania CHN JPN Women's World League: Super Final CHN
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