European water polo championship 2012

The 2012 European Water Polo Championships were held from January 16 to January 29 in Eindhoven , the Netherlands . Twelve teams played for the men and eight teams for the European championship title. Serbia was the winner in the men's tournament and the Italian selection in the women's tournament .

Tournament participants men

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

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1	Hungary	5	5	0	0	76:32	+44	15th
2	Italy	5	4th	0	1	71:37	+34	12
3	Greece	5	3	0	2	58:39	+19	9
4th	Netherlands	5	2	0	3	46:62	−16	6th
5	Macedonia	5	1	0	4th	44:53	−9	3
6th	Turkey	5	0	0	5	22:94	−72	0

January 16	Macedonia	-	Turkey	16: 4
	Greece	-	Netherlands	14:12
	Hungary	-	Italy	12: 8
January 17th	Macedonia	-	Greece	6:10
	Netherlands	-	Hungary	6:19
	Turkey	-	Italy	7:24
January 19th	Hungary	-	Macedonia	14: 9
	Greece	-	Turkey	20: 2
	Italy	-	Netherlands	14: 6
21th January	Macedonia	-	Italy	5:15
	Turkey	-	Netherlands	7:12
	Greece	-	Hungary	7: 9
January 23	Turkey	-	Hungary	2:22
	Macedonia	-	Netherlands	8:10
	Italy	-	Greece	10: 7

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1	Serbia	5	4th	0	1	57:45	+12	12
2	Montenegro	5	3	1	1	53:42	+11	10
3	Germany	5	3	0	2	55:54	+1	9
4th	Croatia	5	3	0	2	52:50	+2	9
5	Spain	5	1	1	3	47:55	−8	4th
6th	Romania	5	0	0	5	39:57	−18	0

January 16	Croatia	-	Romania	10: 7
	Germany	-	Montenegro	7:13
	Serbia	-	Spain	8: 5
January 17th	Serbia	-	Germany	13:12
	Spain	-	Romania	12:10
	Montenegro	-	Croatia	8:10
January 19th	Germany	-	Spain	16:10
	Croatia	-	Serbia	12:15
	Romania	-	Montenegro	8:11
21th January	Serbia	-	Romania	14: 5
	Spain	-	Montenegro	10:10
	Germany	-	Croatia	10: 9
January 23	Croatia	-	Spain	11:10
	Serbia	-	Montenegro	7:11
	Romania	-	Germany	9:10

Placement games for places 7 to 12

The last two of the two groups played here.

Foreplay

Before the placement games, the matches were played. Then the winners played crosswise against the third from bottom of the other group in the placement games for place 7-10, and losers against losers for place 11.

Foreplay
January 25th	Macedonia	-	Romania	10:12
	Turkey	-	Spain	4:16

Game for 11th place

Game for 11th place
January 27th	Macedonia	-	Turkey	9: 7

Placement games for 7-10th place

The encounters between the two winners from placement games 7–12 against the third from last of the two groups. The winners played for 7th place, the losers for 9th place.

Preludes for places 7-10
January 27th	Romania	-	Croatia	4: 3 n.p.
	Spain	-	Netherlands	14: 9

Play for 9th place

Play for 9th place
January 28th	Croatia	-	Netherlands	16: 4

Game for 7th place

Game for 7th place
January 28th	Romania	-	Spain	8: 9

Quarter finals

The quarter-finals were played by the runners-up and thirds in the group. The first in the group qualified directly for the semi-finals.

Quarter finals
January 25th	Italy	-	Germany	9: 4
	Greece	-	Montenegro	9:11

The winners of the matches qualified for the semifinals. The losers played for fifth place.

Game for fifth place

Play for 5th place
January 28th	Germany	-	Greece	9: 6

Semifinals

This was carried out by the winners of the quarter-finals as well as by the two group winners.

Semifinals
January 27th	Italy	-	Serbia	8:12
	Montenegro	-	Hungary	14:13 a.d.

Game for third place

3rd place match
January 29th	Italy	-	Hungary	9:12

final

final
January 29th	Serbia	-	Montenegro	9: 8

List of goalscorers

space	Surname	country	Gates
1.	Andreas Miralis	Greece	19th
2.	Mlađan Janović	Montenegro	15th
3.	Duško Pijetlović	Serbia	14th
	Felipe Perrone	Spain	14th
	Marc Politze	Germany	14th
6th	Sandro Sukno	Croatia	13
7th	Matteo Aicardi	Italy	12
	Pietro Figlioli	Italy	12
	Guillermo Molina	Spain	12
8th.	Alex Giorgetti	Italy	11
	Vanja Udovičić	Serbia	11
	Moritz Oeler	Germany	11
	Christian Presciutti	Italy	11
	Miroslav Randžić	Macedonia	11
9.	Balázs Hárai	Hungary	10
	Gergely Kiss	Hungary	10
	Cosmin Radu	Romania	10

Bottom line

space	country	flag	code
1.	Serbia		SRB
2.	Montenegro		MNE
3.	Hungary		HUN
4th	Italy		ITA
5.	Germany		GER
6th	Greece		GRE
7th	Spain		ESP
8th.	Romania		ROME
9.	Croatia		CRO
10.	Netherlands		NED
11.	Macedonia		MKD
12.	Turkey		DOOR

Tournament participants women

Group A	Group B
Netherlands	Greece
Great Britain	Spain
Hungary	Germany
Russia	Italy

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1	Russia	3	3	0	0	38:29	+9	9
2	Hungary	3	2	0	1	37:29	+8	6th
3	Netherlands	3	1	0	2	30:26	+4	3
4th	Great Britain	3	0	0	3	25:46	−21	0

January 18th	Great Britain	-	Hungary	9:19
	Netherlands	-	Russia	10:11
January 20th	Russia	-	Great Britain	15:10
	Hungary	-	Netherlands	9: 8
22nd of January	Netherlands	-	Great Britain	12: 6
	Hungary	-	Russia	9:12

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1	Greece	3	3	0	0	30:21	+9	9
2	Italy	3	2	0	1	42:33	+11	6th
3	Spain	3	1	0	2	39:35	+4	3
4th	Germany	3	0	0	3	30:52	−22	0

January 18th	Spain	-	Germany	22:12
	Greece	-	Italy	10: 9
January 20th	Germany	-	Greece	6:12
	Italy	-	Spain	15:11
22nd of January	Germany	-	Italy	12:18
	Greece	-	Spain	8: 6

Game for 7th place

The last of the two groups played here.

Game for 7th place
January 24th	Great Britain	-	Germany	13:11

Quarter finals

This was carried out by the runners-up and thirds in the group. The first in the group qualified directly for the semi-finals.

Quarter finals
January 24th	Hungary	-	Spain	11: 9
	Italy	-	Netherlands	15:13

The winners of the matches qualified for the semifinals. The losers played for fifth place.

Game for fifth place

Game for fifth place
January 26th	Spain	-	Netherlands	11:10

Semifinals

This was carried out by the winners of the quarter-finals as well as by the two group winners.

Semifinals
January 26th	Hungary	-	Greece	12:14
	Italy	-	Russia	13:12

Game for third place

Game for third place
January 28th	Hungary	-	Russia	9: 8

final

final
January 28th	Greece	-	Italy	10:13

Bottom line

space	country	flag	code
1.	Italy		ITA
2.	Greece		GRE
3.	Hungary		HUN
4th	Russia		RUS
5.	Spain		ESP
6th	Netherlands		NED
7th	Great Britain		GBR
8th.	Germany		GER

Web links

• Official website of the event
• The results of the European Water Polo Championship on the Ligue Européenne de Natation website