2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup
League	FINA Water Polo World Cup
Sport	Water polo
Duration	13 – 18 June
Super Final
Finals champions	Serbia and Montenegro
Runners-up	Hungary
FINA Water Polo World Cup seasons
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The 13th edition of the

Teams

The top eight teams from the previous World Aquatic Championship have qualified.

Teams	Qualified as
Hungary  Serbia and Montenegro  Greece  Croatia  Spain  Romania  Russia  Italy	Host (2nd 2005 World Championship) 1st 2005 World Championship 3rd 2005 World Championship 4th 2005 World Championship 5th 2005 World Championship 6th 2005 World Championship 7th 2005 World Championship 8th 2005 World Championship

Seeding

Following ranking of the 2005 World Championship

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Serbia and Montenegro (1)  Hungary (2) (H)	Greece (3)  Croatia (4)	Spain (5)  Romania (6)	Russia (7)  Italy (8)

Groups

GROUP A	GROUP B
Hungary (H)  Greece  Romania  Italy	Serbia and Montenegro  Croatia  Spain  Russia

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Pts	P	W	T	L	PF	PA	Qualification
1.	Hungary (H)	6	3	3	0	0	38	19	Semi-finals
2.	Italy	4	3	2	0	1	20	20	Quarter-finals
3.	Romania	2	3	1	0	2	19	28	Quarter-finals
4.	Greece	0	3	0	0	3	19	29

• Tuesday 2005-06-13

Greece	7 – 8	Romania	2-3 • 2-1 • 1-1 • 2-3
Italy	6 – 10	Hungary	2-2 • 1-2 • 1-3 • 2-3

• Wednesday 2005-06-14

Greece	4 – 14	Hungary	4-4 • 2-3 • 0-4 • 1-3
Italy	7 – 5	Romania	1-1 • 2-1 • 1-1 • 3-2

• Thursday 2005-06-15

Greece	5 – 7	Italy	1-1 • 3-1 • 1-4 • 0-1
Romania	6 – 14	Hungary	4-5 • 1-3 • 0-3 • 1-3

Group B

	Team	Pts	P	W	T	L	PF	PA	Qualification
1.	Serbia and Montenegro	6	3	3	0	0	29	21	Semi-finals
2.	Croatia	3	3	1	1	1	28	26	Quarter-finals
3.	Spain	3	3	1	1	1	24	21	Quarter-finals
4.	Russia	0	3	0	0	3	22	35

• Tuesday 2005-06-13

Croatia	12 – 9	Russia	4-3 • 1-3 • 4-2 • 3-1
Serbia and Montenegro	7 – 6	Spain	2-4 • 2-0 • 2-2 • 1-0

• Wednesday 2005-06-14

Croatia	8 – 8	Spain	2-3 • 2-1 • 3-2 • 1-2
Serbia and Montenegro	13 – 7	Russia	3-1 • 4-4 • 2-0 • 4-2

• Thursday 2005-06-15

Russia	6 – 10	Spain	1-3 • 2-2 • 1-2 • 2-3
Croatia	8 – 9	Serbia and Montenegro	1-3 • 2-0 • 2-4 • 3-2

• Olympic champions
  Serbia & Montenegro
  won their groups after three wins in a row and went straight to the semifinals on Saturday.

Quarter finals

• Friday 2005-06-16
  • First quarterfinal (17:30h)

Romania	7 – 10	Croatia	2-2 • 2-2 • 3-4 • 0-2

• • Second quarterfinal (19:00h)

Italy	3 – 9	Spain	0-1 • 0-4 • 3-1 • 0-3

Semi finals

• Saturday 2005-06-17
  • First semifinal (17:30h)

Hungary	10 – 6	Croatia	2-1 • 4-1 • 2-3 • 2-1

• • Second semifinal (19:00h)

Serbia and Montenegro	13 – 8	Spain	5-2 • 3-2 • 3-2 • 2-2

Finals

• Friday 2005-06-16
  • 7th/8th-place match (15:00h)

Greece	10 – 6	Russia	2-2 • 3-2 • 3-2 • 2-0

• Saturday 2005-06-17
  • 5th/6th-place match (15:00h)

Romania	4 – 7	Italy	2-0 • 1-4 • 1-1 • 0-2

• Sunday 2005-06-18
  • Bronze Medal Match (15:30h)

Croatia	10 – 13	Spain	2-3 • 2-3 • 2-5 • 4-2

• • Gold Medal Match (17:30h)

Hungary	9 – 10	Serbia and Montenegro	1-3 • 2-2 • 2-1 • 3-2 • 1-1 • 0-1

Final standings

Top scorers

RANK	2006 FINA MEN'S WATER POLO WORLD CUP	GOALS
1.	Aleksandar Šapić (SCG)	17
2.	Tamás Kásás (HUN)	13
	Felipe Perrone (ESP)
	Xavier García (ESP)
5.	Miho Bošković (CRO)	12
6.	Andrei Iosep (ROM)	11
7.	Péter Biros (HUN)	10
8.	Teo Đogaš (CRO)	9
9.	Gergely Kiss (HUN)	8
	Nikola Janović (SCG)

Squads

 Croatia

 Greece

 Hungary

 Italy

 Romania

 Russia

 Serbia and Montenegro

 Spain

References