2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship

The 2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship was the 18th edition of the major European water polo tournament for national teams. It was held at the Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, from 12 to 25 January 2020.[2][3]

2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship
Tournament details
Host country Hungary
Dates12–25 January
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Spain (2nd title)
Runner-up Russia
Third place Hungary
Fourth place Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches44
Goals scored929 (21.11 per match)
Top scorer(s) Rita Keszthelyi
(28 goals)[1]
Best player Beatriz Ortiz
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Spain defeated Russia 13–12 in the final to win their second title.[4]

Host

LEN announced the choice of Budapest as host for the competition on 9 July 2016.[5] All the matches were played at the Danube Arena.

Budapest
2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship (Europe)
Danube Arena
Capacity: 5,000

Qualification
Main article: 2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers

Twelve teams were allowed to the tournament. The qualification was as follows:

Event Date Location Vacancies Qualified
Host nation 9 July 2016[5] – 1  Hungary
2018 European Championships 14–27 July 2018 Barcelona 5  Netherlands
 Greece
 Spain
 Russia
 Italy
Qualifiers 25 April–26 October 2019 Various 6  France
 Germany
 Serbia
 Israel
 Croatia
 Slovakia

Format

The twelve teams were split in two groups with six teams each. The first four teams of each group played each other in the quarterfinals in cross group format, the remaining teams played for places nine to twelve.[6]

Squads
Main article: 2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship squads

Draw

The draw of the preliminary round's pools took place in Budapest on 22 October 2019.[7]. The teams were drawn into two groups of six. The first batch included the best two teams of the previous edition; the teams ranked third and fourth were in the second batch, the fifth and the sixth in the third batch and the qualification winners in the fourth batch.[6][8]

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

 Netherlands
 Greece

 Spain
 Hungary

 Russia
 Italy

Play-offs winners

With the play-offs winners determined on 26 October, the draw resulted in the following groups:[9][8]

Group A Group B
 Croatia  France
 Greece  Germany
 Hungary  Israel
 Russia  Italy
 Serbia  Netherlands
 Slovakia  Spain

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Hungary (H) 5 5 0 0 94 26 +68 15 Quarterfinals
2  Russia 5 4 0 1 112 21 +91 12
3  Greece 5 3 0 2 79 37 +42 9
4  Slovakia 5 2 0 3 21 78 −57 6
5  Croatia 5 1 0 4 26 94 −68 3 9th place match
6  Serbia 5 0 0 5 19 95 −76 0 11th place match
Source: WP2020Budapest
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host.
12 January 2020
11:30		 Report Slovakia  2–31  Russia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Diana Dutilh-Dumas (NED), Sébastien Dervieux (FRA)
Score by quarters: 0–9, 0–5, 1–8, 1–9
Kolářová 2 Goals Bersneva, Gorbunova 6
12 January 2020
13:00		 Report Greece  26–7  Serbia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Giuliana Nicolosi (ITA), Carlos Ortega (ESP)
Score by quarters: 9–1, 5–3, 5–2, 7–1
Myriokefalitaki 6 Goals Vuković 3
12 January 2020
19:00		 Report Hungary  25–6  Croatia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Erkan Turkkan (TUR), Marcela Mauss (GER)
Score by quarters: 5–1, 7–2, 7–1, 6–2
Keszthelyi 5 Goals D. Butić, Miljković 2
13 January 2020
13:00		 Report Croatia  3–18  Greece Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Gernot Häntschel (GER), Luis Santos (POR)
Score by quarters: 0–6, 2–4, 0–5, 1–3
three players 1 Goals three players 3
13 January 2020
14:30		 Report Russia  27–2  Serbia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Michiel Zwart (NED), Aurely Blanchard (FRA)
Score by quarters: 6–2, 8–0, 8–0, 5–0
Fedotova 7 Goals Mandić, Vuković 1
13 January 2020
19:00		 Report Slovakia  2–20  Hungary Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Radosław Koryzna (POL), Raffaele Colombo (ITA)
Score by quarters: 1–5, 0–5, 1–4, 0–6
Kátlovská, Stankovianska 1 Goals Keszthelyi 6
15 January 2020
14:30		 Report Greece  18–2  Slovakia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Aurely Blanchard (FRA), Marcela Mauss (GER)
Score by quarters: 4–0, 4–2, 6–0, 4–0
M. Plevritou 5 Goals Kolarova, Stankovianska 1
15 January 2020
16:00		 Report Serbia  8–9  Croatia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Diana Dutilh-Dumas (NED), Giuliana Nicolosi (ITA)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 3–2, 3–3, 1–2
Mandić, Milicević 2 Goals Butić, Miljković 2
15 January 2020
19:00		 Report Hungary  9–8  Russia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Sébastien Dervieux (FRA), Ursula Wengenroth (SUI)
Score by quarters: 4–3, 2–0, 2–3, 1–2
Keszthelyi 8 Goals Gorbunova 3
17 January 2020
14:30		 Report Russia  34–1  Croatia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Giuliana Nicolosi (ITA), Matan Schwartz (ISR)
Score by quarters: 9–0, 8–1, 7–0, 10–0
Karimova 6 Goals Lordan 1
17 January 2020
17:30		 Report Slovakia  6–2  Serbia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Aurely Blanchard (FRA), Marcela Mauss (GER)
Score by quarters: 1–0, 2–1, 1–0, 2–1
Kováčiková 3 Goals Ilić 2
17 January 2020
19:00		 Report Hungary  13–10  Greece Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Michiel Zwart (NED)
Score by quarters: 4–4, 4–2, 2–0, 3–4
Garda 4 Goals three players 2
19 January 2020
13:00		 Report Slovakia  9–7  Croatia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Sébastien Dervieux (FRA), Marcela Mauss (GER)
Score by quarters: 1–3, 3–1, 3–2, 2–1
Kátlovská, Stankovianska 2 Goals Carević 3
19 January 2020
17:30		 Report Greece  7–12  Russia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Raffaele Colombo (ITA)
Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–4, 0–3, 1–4
Tsoukala, Xenaki 2 Goals Gorbunova, Prokofyeva 3
19 January 2020
19:00		 Report Serbia  0–27  Hungary Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Aurely Blanchard (FRA), Giuliana Nicolosi (ITA)
Score by quarters: 0–5, 0–5, 0–9, 0–8
Goals Gurisatti 7

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Netherlands 5 5 0 0 83 17 +66 15 Quarterfinals
2  Spain 5 4 0 1 74 32 +42 12
3  Italy 5 3 0 2 62 37 +25 9
4  France 5 2 0 3 40 62 −22 6
5  Israel 5 1 0 4 22 70 −48 3 9th place match
6  Germany 5 0 0 5 19 82 −63 0 11th place match
Source: WP2020Budapest
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
12 January 2020
14:30		 Report France  6–15  Spain Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Ursula Wengenroth (SUI), Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN)
Score by quarters: 1–3, 0–3, 1–4, 4–5
Daule 3 Goals A. Espar 4
12 January 2020
16:00		 Report Germany  4–13  Italy Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Luis Santos (POR), Svetlana Dreval (RUS)
Score by quarters: 2–4, 2–5, 0–2, 0–2
Eggert 2 Goals Garibotti 3
12 January 2020
17:30		 Report Netherlands  22–3  Israel Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Peter Balzan (MLT), Levan Berishvili (GEO)
Score by quarters: 4–0, 5–1, 7–1, 6–1
Megens 5 Goals Bogachenko 2
13 January 2020
11:30		 Report Germany  3–23  Netherlands Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Róbert Horváth (SVK), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
Score by quarters: 1–6, 0–5, 0–5, 2–7
Pannasch 2 Goals Van de Kraats, Sevenich 4
13 January 2020
16:00		 Report Israel  6–10  France Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
György Kun (HUN), Robert Tiozzo (CRO)
Score by quarters: 2–3, 0–4, 1–1, 3–2
Bogachenko 3 Goals Millot 4
13 January 2020
17:30		 Report Italy  10–16  Spain Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Ivan Raković (SRB)
Score by quarters: 2–5, 2–4, 3–3, 3–4
Bianconi, Garibotti 3 Goals Tarragó 7
15 January 2020
11:30		 Report France  17–5  Germany Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Peter Balzan (MLT), Erkan Turkkan (TUR)
Score by quarters: 7–1, 3–1, 3–1, 4–2
three players 3 Goals Deike 2
15 January 2020
13:00		 Report Spain  18–2  Israel Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN), Svetlana Dreval (RUS)
Score by quarters: 3–0, 4–1, 7–1, 4–0
Ortiz 5 Goals Bogachenko 2
15 January 2020
17:30		 Report Netherlands  10–4  Italy Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Radosław Koryzna (POL), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–2, 3–0, 1–0
Megens 5 Goals Bianconi 3
17 January 2020
11:30		 Report Germany  4–19  Spain Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Sergey Naumov (RUS), György Kun (HUN)
Score by quarters: 2–4, 0–5, 1–5, 1–5
four players 1 Goals Crespí 4
17 January 2020
13:00		 Report Netherlands  18–1  France Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Svetlana Dreval (RUS), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
Score by quarters: 4–1, 6–0, 4–0, 4–0
Keuning 4 Goals Daule 1
17 January 2020
16:00		 Report Italy  17–1  Israel Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Róbert Horváth (SVK), Ursula Wengenroth (SUI)
Score by quarters: 3–0, 5–0, 4–1, 5–0
Emmolo 4 Goals Strugo 1
19 January 2020
11:30		 Report France  6–18  Italy Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Erkan Turkkan (TUR), Ursula Wengenroth (SUI)
Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–5, 2–6, 1–4
six players 1 Goals Bianconi 5
19 January 2020
14:30		 Report Germany  3–10  Israel Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Peter Balzan (MLT), Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN)
Score by quarters: 1–3, 0–4, 0–3, 2–0
three players 1 Goals Strugo 4
19 January 2020
16:00		 Report Spain  6–10  Netherlands Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Sergey Naumov (RUS)
Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–4, 2–2, 3–2
García Godoy 2 Goals Megens 3

Knockout stage

Bracket
 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
21 January
 
 
 Hungary16
 
23 January
 
 France3
 
 Hungary10
 
21 January
 
 Spain11
 
 Greece9
 
25 January
 
 Spain12
 
 Spain13
 
21 January
 
 Russia12
 
 Russia13
 
23 January
 
 Italy7
 
 Russia (PSO)11
 
21 January
 
 Netherlands10 Third place
 
 Slovakia2
 
25 January
 
 Netherlands22
 
 Hungary10
 
 
 Netherlands8
 

5th place bracket

 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place
 
      
 
23 January
 
 
 France3
 
25 January
 
 Greece13
 
 Greece5
 
23 January
 
 Italy7
 
 Italy16
 
 
 Slovakia4
 
Seventh place
 
 
25 January
 
 
 France17
 
 
 Slovakia8

Quarterfinals
21 January 2020
14:30		 Report Slovakia  2–22  Netherlands Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN), Ivan Raković (SRB)
Score by quarters: 0–6, 0–3, 1–7, 1–6
Junasová, Stankovianska 1 Goals Megens 5
21 January 2020
16:00		 Report Russia  13–7  Italy Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
Score by quarters: 3–2, 3–3, 4–1, 3–1
three players 3 Goals three players 2
21 January 2020
17:30		 Report Greece  9–12  Spain Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Boris Margeta (SLO), Matan Schwartz (ISR)
Score by quarters: 3–4, 2–2, 1–3, 3–3
M. Plevritou 4 Goals Ortiz 4
21 January 2020
19:00		 Report Hungary  16–3  France Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Svetlana Dreval (RUS), Giuliana Nicolosi (ITA)
Score by quarters: 5–2, 3–1, 5–0, 3–0
Keszthelyi 4 Goals Guillet 2

5–8th place semifinals
23 January 2020
14:30		 Report France  3–13  Greece Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Marcela Mauss (GER), Diana Dutulh-Dumas (NED)
Score by quarters: 1–2, 0–2, 1–6, 1–3
Vernoux 2 Goals E. Plevritou, Xenaki 3
23 January 2020
16:00		 Report Italy  16–4  Slovakia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN), Ursula Wengenroth (SUI)
Score by quarters: 2–1, 5–1, 6–0, 3–2
three players 3 Goals four players 1

Semifinals
23 January 2020
17:30		 Report Russia  11–10  Netherlands Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Giuliana Nicolosi (ITA)
Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–2, 1–2, 2–1  PSO: 4–3
Gorbunova 4 Goals Megens, Van der Sloot 2
23 January 2020
19:00		 Report Hungary  10–11  Spain Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Sébastien Dervieux (FRA), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
Score by quarters: 3–3, 1–2, 3–2, 3–4
Keszthelyi, Leimeter 3 Goals A. Espar, Tarragó 3

Finals

Eleventh place game
21 January 2020
11:30		 Report Serbia  13–15  Germany Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
György Kun (HUN), Aurely Blanchard (FRA)
Score by quarters: 2–4, 2–1, 6–2, 1–4  PSO: 2–4
Milicevic 3 Goals Deike 3

Ninth place game
21 January 2020
13:00		 Report Croatia  7–11  Israel Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Diana Dutilh-Dumas (NED), Peter Balzan (MLT)
Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–6, 2–2, 2–2
Lordan 2 Goals Bogachenko, Hochberg 3

Seventh place game
25 January 2020
14:30		 Report France  17–8  Slovakia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Diana Dutilh-Dumas (NED), Ivan Raković (SRB)
Score by quarters: 5–2, 4–2, 5–1, 3–3
Bachelier 5 Goals Junasová 2

Fifth place game
25 January 2020
16:00		 Report Greece  5–7  Italy Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Svetlana Dreval (RUS), Gernot Häntschel (GER)
Score by quarters: 3–3, 1–2, 0–1, 1–1
five players 1 Goals Garibotti 2

Bronze medal game
25 January 2020
17:30		 Report Hungary  10–8  Netherlands Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Giuliana Nicolosi (ITA), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
Score by quarters: 3–5, 2–2, 4–1, 1–0
four players 2 Goals Megens 2

Gold medal game
25 January 2020
19:00		 Report Spain  13–12  Russia Danube Arena, Budapest
Referees:
Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
Score by quarters: 3–4, 5–4, 2–2, 3–2
García Godoy 4 Goals Prokofyeva 4

Final standing
Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics
Rank Team
 Spain1
 Russia
 Hungary
4  Netherlands
5  Italy
6  Greece
7  France
8  Slovakia
9  Israel
10  Croatia
11  Germany
12  Serbia

1 Spain qualified for the Olympics by finishing second in the 2019 World Championships.

Statistics and awards

Awards

The awards were announced on 26 January 2020.[10]

AwardPlayer
Most Valuable Player Beatriz Ortiz (ESP)
Best Goalkeeper Anna Karnaukh (RUS)
Topscorer Rita Keszthelyi (HUN) (28 goals)
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References
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  4. "If it's Budapest, then it's Spain!". wp2020budapest.com. 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  5. "Budapest to host all 2020 Europeans". len.eu. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  6. "Rules and regulations: European Water Polo Championships" (PDF). len.eu. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  7. "2020 European Water Polo Championships, Qualifications – Summary". len.eu. 13 October 2019. Archived from the original on 20 October 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  8. Ivan Curcic (22 October 2019). "Draw for 34th European Championships: Two "groups of death"". total-waterpolo.com. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
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  10. "Individual awards – women". wp2020budapest.com. 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
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