2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup
LeagueFINA Water Polo World Cup
SportWater polo
Duration1 – 4 August
Super Final
FINA Water Polo World Cup seasons

The 14th edition of the Men's FINA Water Polo World Cup was held in Oradea, Romania from July 27 to August 1, 2010.[1]

Format

8 teams qualified for the 2010 FINA World Cup. They were split into two groups of 4 teams. After playing a Round-robin every team advanced to the quarterfinals. The best ranked team of Group A played against the fourth ranked team of Group B, the second ranked team of Group A against the third ranked team of Group B the third ranked team of Group A against the second ranked team of Group B and the fourth ranked team of Group A against the best ranked team of Group B. The winners of those quarterfinals advanced to the Semis and played out the champion while the losers of the quarterfinals competed in placement matches.

Teams

The top eight teams from the previous world championship are no longer qualified. Now only the top three teams from the previous world championship qualify, with one guest per continent (the highest-ranked team from the previous world championship).

Teams Qualified as

 Romania
 Serbia
 Spain
 Croatia
(European Host)
 United States
 Australia
 China
( South Africa)
 Iran

Host (7th 2009 World Championship)
1st 2009 World Championship
2nd 2009 World Championship
3rd 2009 World Championship
1st European team at 2009 World Championship
1st American team at 2009 World Championship
1st Oceanian team at 2009 World Championship
1st Asian team at 2009 World Championship
1st African team at 2009 World Championship
replace  South Africa withdrawn

Groups

Group A Group B

 Spain
 Romania (H)
 Australia
 Iran

 Serbia
 Croatia
 United States
 China

Preliminary round

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

Group A

Team G W D L GF GA Diff Points Qualification
1.  Spain 3 3 0 0 49 16 +33 6 Quarter-finals
2.  Romania (H) 3 2 0 1 45 24 +21 4 Quarter-finals
3.  Australia 3 1 0 2 42 24 +18 2 Quarter-finals
4.  Iran 3 0 0 3 6 78 −72 0 Quarter-finals
27 July 2010
17:00 		Report Iran  1–26  Romania
Referees:
Jianguo (CHN), Cabral (BRA)
Score by quarters: 0–8, 0–8, 0–6, 1–4
Jafari 1 Goals Georgescu 5
27 July 2010
20:00 		Report Australia  7–9  Spain
Referees:
Štampalija (CRO), Goldenberg (USA)
Score by quarters: 4–2, 1–3, 0–1, 2–3
McGregor 3 Goals Molina, Perrone 3
28 July 2010
17:00 		Report Australia  9–11  Romania
Referees:
Ćirić (SRB), Koganov (AZE)
Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–4, 1–2, 2–4
Miller 3 Goals Redu, Kádár 3
28 July 2010
20:00 		Report Iran  1–26  Spain
Referees:
Cabral (BRA), Štampalija (CRO)
Score by quarters: 0–6, 0–7, 1–5, 0–8
Jafari 1 Goals Garcia 5
29 July 2010
17:00 		Report Romania  8–14  Spain
Referees:
Ćirić (SRB), Koganov (AZE)
Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–4, 3–6, 2–3
Iosep, Georgescu 2 Goals Minguell, García 3
29 July 2010
20:00 		Report Iran  4–26  Australia
Score by quarters: 0-6, 1-3, 3-8, 0-9
Kouhi 2 Goals Campbell, Younger, Miller 4

Group B

Team G W D L GF GA Diff Points Qualification
1.  Croatia 3 3 0 0 33 19 +14 6 Quarter-finals
2.  Serbia 3 2 0 1 40 27 +13 4 Quarter-finals
3.  United States 3 1 0 2 26 32 −6 2 Quarter-finals
4.  China 3 0 0 3 18 39 −21 0 Quarter-finals
27 July 2010
15:00 		Report United States  10–6  China
Referees:
Alexandrescu (ROU), Hafezi (IRN)
Score by quarters: 1–0, 3–3, 3–1, 3–2
Sharf, Hopkins, Hutten 2 Goals Tan Feihu 2
27 July 2010
18:30 		Report Croatia  10–8  Serbia
Referees:
Shaydakov (RUS), Koganov (AZE)
Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–1, 3–2, 4–3
Sukno 4 Goals Udovičić, Filipović 2
28 July 2010
15:00 		Report Croatia  14–4  China
Referees:
Hart (AUS), Hafezi (IRN)
Score by quarters: 3–1, 4–1, 2–0, 5–2
Dobud 4 Goals Liang 3
28 July 2010
18:30 		Report United States  9–17  Serbia
Referees:
Moliner (ESP), Shaydakov (RUS)
Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–3, 1–4, 6–7
Sharf, Azevedo 2 Goals Udovičić 5
29 July 2010
15:00 		Report China  8–15  Serbia
Referees:
Moliner (ESP), Hart (AUS)
Score by quarters: 2–1, 0–4, 2–6, 4–4
Liang 2 Goals Udovičić, Vapenski, Nikić, Aleksić, Filipović, Mitrović 2
29 July 2010
18:30 		Report United States  7–9  Croatia
Referees:
Shaydakov (RUS), Alexandrescu (ROU)
Score by quarters: 1-2, 1-2, 1-3, 4-2
Hopkins, Bailey 2 Goals Joković, Sukno 3

Knockout round

Championship

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
July 30 – Oradea
 
 
 Spain11
 
July 31 – Oradea
 
 China5
 
 Spain10
 
July 30 – Oradea
 
 Serbia12
 
 Australia9
 
August 1 – Oradea
 
 Serbia12
 
 Serbia13
 
July 30 – Oradea
 
 Croatia7
 
 Iran2
 
July 31 – Oradea
 
 Croatia23
 
 Croatia11
 
July 30 – Oradea
 
 United States9 Third place
 
 Romania12
 
August 1 – Oradea
 
 United States14
 
 Spain12
 
 
 United States8
 

Quarterfinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

30 July 2010
15:30 		Report Australia  9–12  Serbia
Referees:
Alexandrescu (ROU), Cabral (BRA)
Score by quarters: 2–3, 2–4, 2–3, 3–2
Younger, Howden 2 Goals Aleksić 3
30 July 2010
17:00 		Report Romania  12–14  United States
Referees:
Moliner (ESP), Shaydakov (RUS)
Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–4, 4–4, 3–5
Negrean 4 Goals Azevedo, Bailey, Hutten 3
30 July 2010
18:30 		Report Spain  11–5  China
Referees:
Hafezi (IRI), Hart (AUS)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 5–1, 2–0, 3–2
Molina, Español, Vallès, García 2 Goals Tan, Liang, Pan, Wang, Han 1
30 July 2010
20:00 		Report Iran  2–23  Croatia
Referees:
Jianguo (CHN), Koganov (AZE)
Score by quarters: 0–6, 1–8, 0–5, 1–4
Mirmehdi, Soltani 1 Goals Bošković, Sukno 4

Semifinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

31 July 2010
18:30 		Report United States  9–11  Croatia
Referees:
Alexandrescu (ROU), Hart (AUS)
Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–3, 4–2, 2–3
Azevedo, Bailey 3 Goals Bošković 4
31 July 2010
20:00 		Report Serbia  12–10  Spain
Referees:
Koganov (AZE), Cabral (BRA)
Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–3, 4–3, 1–0
Prlainović 4 Goals García 3

Bronze medal match

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010
16:00 		Report United States  8–12  Spain
Referees:
Hart (AUS), Alexandrescu (ROU)
Score by quarters: 1–3, 3–3, 1–2, 3–4
Powers 2 Goals García 4

Final

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010
17:30 		Report Croatia  7–13  Serbia
Referees:
Goldenberg (USA), Koganov (AZE)
Score by quarters: 0–4, 3–2, 3–5, 1–2
Sukno 3 Goals Gocić, Udovičić, Filipović 3

5th–8th playoffs

 
Semi-finalsFifth place
 
      
 
July 31 – Oradea
 
 
 China6
 
August 1 – Oradea
 
 Australia10
 
 Australia5
 
July 31 – Oradea
 
 Romania9
 
 Iran6
 
 
 Romania24
 
Seventh place
 
 
August 1 – Oradea
 
 
 China20
 
 
 Iran5

5th–8th semifinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

31 July 2010
15:30 		Report Australia  10–6  China
Referees:
Goldenberg (USA), Hafezi (IRI)
Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–2, 1–2, 3–1
Campbell, Younger, McGregor 2 Goals Pan 2
31 July 2010
17:00 		Report Romania  24–6  Iran
Referees:
Štampalija (CRO), Ćirić (SRB)
Score by quarters: 4–1, 8–3, 9–1, 3–1
Negrean 6 Goals Mardani, Mirmehdi, Jafari 2

7th place playoff

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010
10:00 		Report China  20–5  Iran
Referees:
Cabral (BRA), Ćirić (SRB)
Score by quarters: 5–0, 6–2, 4–1, 5–2
Junliang 4 Goals Karami, Pirouzkhah 2

5th place playoff

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010
11:30 		Report Australia  5–9  Romania
Referees:
Moliner (ESP), Štampalija (CRO)
Score by quarters: 1–1, 1–3, 2–2, 1–3
McGregor 3 Goals Iosep 3

Final standings

Individual awards

References

  1. ^ a b c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.