2016 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

The 2016 FINA Men's Water Polo World League will be played between October 2015 and June 2016 and open to all men's water polo national teams. After participating in a preliminary round, eight teams qualify to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final in an undecided location from 21–26 June 2015.

In the world league, there are specific rules that do not allow matches to end in a draw. 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

Europe

Preliminary round

The European preliminary round consisted of three group of four teams. The winner of each group after the home and away series of games qualified for the Super Final.

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Greece	3	3	0	47	21	+26	9
Hungary	3	2	1	41	30	+21	6
Romania	3	1	2	24	44	-20	3
Georgia	3	0	3	31	48	-17	0

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Serbia	3	3	0	37	31	+6	9
Montenegro	2	1	1	21	18	+3	3
Spain	3	1	2	36	34	+2	3
France	2	0	2	19	30	-11	0

Group C

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	3	0	39	23	+16	9
Croatia	3	2	1	44	24	+20	6
Russia	3	1	2	33	42	-9	3
Turkey	3	0	3	19	46	-27	0

References

FINA Water Polo World League

Men's tournament	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 finals squads 2016

Women's tournament	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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