2016 FINA Women's Water Polo World League

The 2016 FINA Women's Water Polo World League is played between November 2015 and June 2016 and open to all women'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 Shanghai, China from 07–12 June 2015.^[1]

In the world league, there are specific rules that do not allow matches to end in a draw.^[1] 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 two group of four teams. The winner of each group after the home and away series of games qualifies for the Super Final. A third place is taken by the best scoring second-placed team.

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	3	3	0	33	24	+9	9
Hungary	3	2	1	42	34	+8	5
Italy	3	1	2	40	33	+7	4
France	3	0	3	12	45	-33	0

27 Okt 2015 18:45	Netherlands	12–7	France	Amersfoort, Netherlands
	Score by quarters: 2-3, 4-1, 3-2, 3-1

27 Okt 2015 20:00	Hungary	17–15	Italy	Budapest, Hungary
	Score by quarters: 6-3, 2-1, 2-5, 3-4 OT: 4-2

24 Nov 2015 18:00	Hungary	7–10	Netherlands	Budapest, Hungary
	Score by quarters: 2-2, 2-1, 1-3, 2-4

24 Nov 2015 20:30	Italy	15–5	France	Avezzano, Italy
	Score by quarters: 3-0, 6-2, 2-1, 4-2

22 Okt 2015 20:15	Netherlands	11–10	Italy	Nijverdal, Netherlands
	Score by quarters: 1-2, 4-3, 2-4, 4-1

8 Dec 2015 20:30	France	9–18	Hungary	Troyes, France
	Score by quarters: 4-7, 3-5, 0-2, 2-4

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	3	0	53	33	+20	8
Russia	3	2	1	40	30	+10	6
Greece	3	1	2	43	30	+13	4
Germany	3	0	3	17	60	-43	0

27 Okt 2015 20:00	Russia	19–8	Germany	Moscow, Russia
	Score by quarters: 7-1, 5-4, 3-2, 4-1

27 Okt 2015 19:00	Greece	16–17	Spain	Athens, Greece
	Score by quarters: 1-1, 4-4, 2-2, 3-3 OT: 6-7

24 Nov 2015 19:45	Russia	12–7	Greece	Moscow, Russia
	Score by quarters: 4-0, 3-2, 1-2, 4-2

24 Nov 2015 18:00	Germany	8–20	Spain	Stuttgart, Germany
	Score by quarters: 2-9, 4-3, 1-4, 1-4

8 Dec 2015 19:00	Greece	21–1	Germany	Athens, Greece
	Score by quarters: 5-0, 5-1, 6-0, 5-0

8 Dec 2015 19:45	Spain	16–9	Russia	Barcelona, Spain
	Score by quarters: 4-1, 4-4, 5-2, 3-2

References

1 2 "FINA Water Polo World League 2016 Rules & Regulations for National Federations" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 16 December 2015.

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