2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers

2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are series of qualification tournaments to decide the participants of the 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship.

Qualified teams edit

Teams directly qualified to the 2018 European Water Polo Championship:

  •   Hungary – winners of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •   Netherlands – runners-up of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •   Italy – 3rd place of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •   Spain – 4th place of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •   Greece – 5th place of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •   Russia – 6th place of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship

Qualifying round 1 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Slovakia 6 5 1 0 69 34 +35 16
  Czech Republic 6 5 1 0 72 44 +28 16
  Israel 6 4 0 2 66 37 +29 12
  Ukraine 6 3 0 3 44 35 +9 9
  Romania 6 2 0 4 34 53 –19 6
   Switzerland 6 1 0 5 34 54 -20 3
  Malta 6 0 0 6 21 83 -62 0
4 October 2017
17:00
Malta   6–19   Israel Kyiv
4 October 2017
18:30
Romania   5–4    Switzerland Kyiv
4 October 2017
20:00
Ukraine   5–9   Slovakia Kyiv

5 October 2017
9:00
Romania   6–12   Czech Republic Kyiv
5 October 2017
10:30
Slovakia   13–3    Switzerland Kyiv
5 October 2017
12:00
Ukraine   6–8   Israel Kyiv
5 October 2017
17:00
Czech Republic   14–10    Switzerland Kyiv
5 October 2017
18:30
Malta   5–16   Slovakia Kyiv
5 October 2017
20:00
Romania   2–10   Ukraine Kyiv

6 October 2017
17:00
Switzerland   6–9   Ukraine Kyiv
6 October 2017
18:30
Israel   13–4   Romania Kyiv
6 October 2017
20:00
Czech Republic   18–5   Malta Kyiv

7 October 2017
9:00
Slovakia   13–4   Romania Kyiv
7 October 2017
10:30
Israel   8–10   Czech Republic Kyiv
7 October 2017
12:00
Switzerland   8–2   Malta Kyiv
7 October 2017
17:00
Israel   7–8   Slovakia Kyiv
7 October 2017
18:30
Malta   1–13   Romania Kyiv
7 October 2017
20:00
Czech Republic   8–5   Ukraine Kyiv

8 October 2017
9:00
Switzerland   3–11   Israel Kyiv
8 October 2017
10:30
Slovakia   10–10   Czech Republic Kyiv
8 October 2017
12:00
Ukraine   9–2   Malta Kyiv

Playoffs edit

From the qualification rond, six of the seven teams advance to the playoffs. These six teams will face the teams classified 7 to 12 in the latest edition of the tournament, the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship

Seeded Unseeded
From the 2016 European Championship
  France   Portugal
  Germany   Croatia
  Serbia   Turkey
From the qualifying round 1
  Slovakia   Ukraine
  Czech Republic   Romania
  Israel    Switzerland

Playoffs edit

  • 1st leg: 17 and 24 February 2018
  • 2nd leg: 3 March 2018
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Slovakia   20–21   Turkey 11–11 9–10
Czech Republic   15–23   Croatia 6–9 9–14
Israel   25–19   Portugal 14–10 11–9
Serbia   16–9   Ukraine 10–8 6–1
Germany   28–23   Romania 22–14 6–9
France   35–4    Switzerland 19–1 16–3

References edit