2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship

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.^[1] Four teams from this competition qualified for the Olympic tournament.^[2]

Qualification

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

Draw

The draw was held on 12 November 2011.^[3]

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: ^{[citation needed]}

16 January 2012 13:00	Report^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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: ^{[citation needed]}

16 January 2012 14:30	Report^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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

A4

Netherlands

9

B5

Spain

16

B5

Spain

14

A6

Turkey

4

B5

Spain

9

B6

Romania

8

B4

Croatia

12 (3)

A5

North Macedonia

10

B6

Romania

12 (4)

B6

Romania

12

11th–12th

9th–10th

A6

Turkey

7

A4

Netherlands

4

A5

North Macedonia

9

B4

Croatia

16

7th–12th places

25 January 2012 14:00	Report^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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

A1

Hungary

13

B2

Montenegro

11

B2

Montenegro

14

A3

Greece

9

B2

Montenegro

8

B1

Serbia

9

B1

Serbia

12

A2

Italy

9

A2

Italy

8

B3

Germany

4

5th–6th

Bronze medal game

A3

Greece

6

A1

Hungary

12

B3

Germany

9

A2

Italy

9

Quarterfinals

25 January 2012 18:00	Report^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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^{[dead link‍]}	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

[1] "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.

[2] 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.

[3] "Draw – European Water Polo Championships – Eindhoven 2012". len.eu. 12 November 2011. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.

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