2012 FINA Women's Water Polo World League

For the men's tournament, see 2012 FINA Men's Water Polo World League.
2012 FINA Women's Water Polo World League
LeagueFINA Water Polo World League
SportWater Polo
Duration2012
Super Final
FINA Women's Water Polo World League seasons

The 2012 FINA Women's Water Polo World League is played between February and June 2012 and open to all women's water polo national teams. After playing in groups within the same continent, eight teams qualify to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final in Changshu, China from 29 May - 3 June 2012.[1] The two teams that reach the final of the Super Final will be the first teams to quality for the water polo tournament of the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona.[2]

In the world league, there are specific rules that do not allow matches to end in a draw.[3] If teams are level at the end of the 4th quarter of any world league match, the match will be decided by a penalty shootout. Teams earn points in the standings in group matches as follows:

  • Match won in normal time - 3 points
  • Match won in shootout - 2 points
  • Match lost in shootout - 1 point
  • Match lost in normal time - 0 points

Draw

Americas

As there were only 3 entries, all teams in this region played in a single group.

Asia/Oceania

As there were only 4 entries, all teams in this region will play in a single group.

Europe

There were 8 entries into the league from Europe, and these were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were placed into groups based on their performance in the 2011 FINA Women's Water Polo World League.

Line Country 2011 FINA Women's Water Polo World League result Drawn into Group
1  Italy 2nd, Super Final A
1  Russia 5th, Super Final B
2  Greece 7th, Super Final B
2  Spain 8th, Super Final A
3  Hungary 3rd, Europe Group 1 (8 pts) A
3  Great Britain 4th, Europe Group 1 (3 pts) B
4  Germany 3rd, Europe Group 2 (0 pts) A
4  Netherlands Did not participate B

Americas League

All teams played the other teams twice. All matches were held in various locations in Orange County, California, United States from 20–22 February 2012. The top two teams advanced to the Super Final.

     Team advances to Super Final
Team G W SOW SOL L GF GA Diff Points
1.  United States 4 4 0 0 0 60 20 +40 12
2.  Canada 4 2 0 0 2 47 33 +14 6
3.  Brazil 4 0 0 0 4 11 65 -54 0
20 February 2012
10:30 PST (UTC-8) 		Scoresheet United States  19–1  Brazil Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California, United States
20 February 2012
19:00 PST (UTC-8) 		Scoresheet United States  13–11  Canada Commerce Aquatorium, Commerce, California, United States
21 February 2012
10:30 PST (UTC-8) 		Scoresheet Canada  16–1  Brazil Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California, United States
21 February 2012
19:00 PST (UTC-8) 		Scoresheet United States  17–1  Brazil Arnold O. Beckman High School, Irvine, California, United States
22 February 2012
10:30 PST (UTC-8) 		Scoresheet Canada  13–8  Brazil Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California, United States
22 February 2012
19:00 PST (UTC-8) 		Scoresheet United States  11–7  Canada Woollett Aquatics Center, Irvine, California, United States

Asia/Oceania League

All teams will play the other teams twice. The first round-robin will be held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai and the second round-robin will be held from 8–12 May 2012 at the Chiba International Swimming Complex in Narashino, Chiba, Japan. The winner will advance to the Super Final. As China has already qualified as the hosts, if they win the Asia/Oceania League, the second-placed team will advance.

     Team advances to Super Final
Team G W SOW SOL L GF GA Diff Points
1.  China 4 3 0 0 1 53 28 +25 9
2.  Australia 4 3 0 0 1 45 32 +13 9
3.  Japan 4 0 0 0 4 21 59 -38 0

Europe League

All teams will play the other teams in their group twice. All games in Group A will be played from 10–13 May 2012 in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, and all games in Group B will be played from 10–13 May 2012 in Volos, Greece. The top two teams in each group will advance to the Super Final.

     Team advances to Super Final

Group A

Team G W SOW SOL L GF GA Diff Points
1.  Germany 6 3 1 0 2 55 55 0 11
2.  Italy 6 3 0 1 2 55 43 +12 10
3.  Hungary 6 3 0 1 2 63 60 +3 0
4.  Spain 6 1 1 0 4 47 62 -15 5

Group B

Team G W SOW SOL L GF GA Diff Points
1.  Greece 6 6 0 0 0 55 38 +17 18
2.  Russia 6 4 0 0 2 57 51 +6 12
3.  Netherlands 6 2 0 0 4 41 49 -8 6
4.  Great Britain 6 0 0 0 6 39 54 -15 0
10 May 2012
18:30 EEST (UTC+3) 		Russia  9–8  Great Britain Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
10 May 2012
20:15 EEST (UTC+3) 		Greece  7–4  Netherlands Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
11 May 2012
10:30 EEST (UTC+3) 		Russia  13–9  Netherlands Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
11 May 2012
12:15 EEST (UTC+3) 		Greece  8–7  Great Britain Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
11 May 2012
18:30 EEST (UTC+3) 		Netherlands  8–7  Great Britain Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
11 May 2012
20:15 EEST (UTC+3) 		Greece  7–6  Russia Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
12 May 2012
10:30 EEST (UTC+3) 		Russia  11–7  Great Britain Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
12 May 2012
12:15 EEST (UTC+3) 		Greece  10–5  Netherlands Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
12 May 2012
18:30 EEST (UTC+3) 		Russia  8–7  Netherlands Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
12 May 2012
20:15 EEST (UTC+3) 		Greece  10–6  Great Britain Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
13 May 2012
10:30 EEST (UTC+3) 		Netherlands  8–4  Great Britain Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos
13 May 2012
12:15 EEST (UTC+3) 		Greece  13–10  Russia Vasilis Polymeros Pool, Nea Ionia, Volos

Super Final

Preliminary round: Group A

Team G W SOW SOL L GF GA Diff Points
1.  United States 3 3 0 0 0 35 13 +22 9
2.  China 3 2 0 0 1 33 23 +10 6
3.  Greece 3 1 0 0 2 29 31 -2 3
4.  Germany 3 0 0 0 3 18 48 -30 0

Preliminary round: Group B

Team G W SOW SOL L GF GA Diff Points
1.  Australia 3 2 1 0 0 38 12 +26 8
2.  Russia 3 2 0 1 0 32 16 +16 7
3.  Canada 3 1 0 0 2 20 34 +14 3
4.  Italy 3 0 0 0 3 9 37 -28 0

Final round

Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
         
A1  United States 11
B4  Italy 2
A1  United States 7
A3  Greece 6
A3  Greece 11
B2  Russia 9
A1  United States 6
B1  Australia 4
A2  China 13
B3  Canada 7
A2  China 7 Third place
B1  Australia 8
A4  Germany 0 A3  Greece 8
B1  Australia 18 A2  China 7

Bronze-medal match

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3 June 2012 China  7–8  Greece Changshu, China
Score by quarters: 1-2, 4-2, 1-2, 1-2

Final

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3 June 2012 Australia  4–6  United States Changshu, China
Score by quarters: 1-2, 3-1, 0-1, 0-2

Final ranking

References

  1. ^ a b "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 78. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ [1] Archived 2010-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2012-02-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ a b “USA claims seventh World League title” fina.org June 3, 2012.