2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship

2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Serbia
Dates	January[1]
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches	44

The 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship will be held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Qualification

There were 12 teams in the 2014 championships. They qualified as follows:

• The host nation
• The best five teams from the 2014 European Championships not already qualified as the host nation
• six qualifiers

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	–	–	1	Serbia
2014 European Championships	14–27 July 2014	Budapest	5	Hungary  Italy  Montenegro  Croatia  Greece
Qualifiers		–	6

Championships

The structure of the championships is that there were two groups of six teams followed by a knockout phase. The first three teams in each group qualified to compete for the championship, with the first-place teams given a bye to the semifinals. The last three teams in each group played a classification tournament for 7th–12th place.

References

External links

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