1995 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

The 1995 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was the ninth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in Atlanta, United States as test event for the 1996 Summer Olympics.^[1] Eight teams participated to decide the winner of what would be a bi-annual event until 1999.

1995 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup
League	FINA Water Polo World Cup
Sport	Water polo
Super Final

Teams

The top eight teams from the previous World Aquatic Championship have qualified.

Teams	Qualified as
United States  Italy  Spain  Russia  Italy  Hungary  Greece  Netherlands	Host (6th 1994 World Championship) 1st 1994 World Championship 2nd 1994 World Championship 3rd 1994 World Championship 4th 1994 World Championship 5th 1994 World Championship 7th 1994 World Championship 8th 1994 World Championship

Seeding

Following ranking of the 1994 World Championship

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Italy (1)  Spain (2)	Russia (3)  Croatia (4)	Hungary (5)  United States (6) (H)	Greece (7)  Netherlands (8)

Groups

Group A	Group B
Italy  Croatia  United States (H)  Greece	Spain  Russia  Hungary  Netherlands

Preliminary round

GROUP A

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Qualification
1.	Italy	4	3	2	0	1	24	19	+5	Semi-finals
2.	United States	4	3	2	0	1	20	12	–1	Semi-finals
3.	Croatia	2	3	1	0	2	14	17	–3	5th–8th place
4.	Greece	2	3	1	0	2	16	17	–1	5th–8th place

Italy	6 – 7	Greece
Croatia	5 – 6	United States

Italy	11 – 8	United States
Croatia	5 – 4	Greece

Italy	7 – 4	Croatia
United States	6 – 5	Greece

GROUP B

	Team	Points	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Qualification
1.	Hungary	5	3	2	1	0	29	18	+11	Semi-finals
2.	Russia	4	3	2	0	1	22	22	0	Semi-finals
3.	Spain	3	3	1	1	1	22	21	+1	5th–8th place
4.	Netherlands	0	3	0	0	3	22	34	–12	5th–8th place

Spain	11 – 9	Netherlands
Russia	6 – 10	Hungary

Spain	7 – 7	Hungary
Russia	11 – 8	Netherlands

Spain	4 – 5	Russia
Hungary	12 – 5	Netherlands

5th–8th place semifinals

• Saturday 16 September 1995

Croatia	9 – 7	Netherlands
Spain	5 – 3	Greece

Semi-finals

• Saturday 16 September 1995

Italy	6 – 5	Russia
Hungary	11 – 6	United States

Seventh place

• Sunday 17 september 1995

Netherlands	13 – 8	Greece

Fifth place

• Sunday 17 september 1995

Croatia	2 – 7	Spain

Third place

• Sunday 17 september 1995

Russia	10 – 8	United States

FINAL

• Sunday 17 september 1995

Italy	10 – 11	Hungary

Final ranking

RANK[1] TEAM  Hungary  Italy  Russia 4.  United States 5.  Spain 6.  Croatia 7.  Netherlands 8.  Greece

1995 Men's FINA World Cup winners  Hungary Second title