2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

The 13th edition of the FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was held in the Alfréd Hajós Swimming Pool on Margitsziget (Margaret Island) in Budapest, Hungary, from 13 to 18 June 2006.^[1]

2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup
League	FINA Water Polo World Cup
Sport	Water polo
Duration	13 – 18 June
Super Final
Finals champions	Serbia and Montenegro
Runners-up	Hungary

Teams

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

Teams	Qualified as
Hungary  Serbia and Montenegro  Greece  Croatia  Spain  Romania  Russia  Italy	Host (2nd 2005 World Championship) 1st 2005 World Championship 3rd 2005 World Championship 4th 2005 World Championship 5th 2005 World Championship 6th 2005 World Championship 7th 2005 World Championship 8th 2005 World Championship

Seeding

Following ranking of the 2005 World Championship

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Serbia and Montenegro (1)  Hungary (2) (H)	Greece (3)  Croatia (4)	Spain (5)  Romania (6)	Russia (7)  Italy (8)

Groups

GROUP A	GROUP B
Hungary (H)  Greece  Romania  Italy	Serbia and Montenegro  Croatia  Spain  Russia

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Pts	P	W	T	L	PF	PA	Qualification
1.	Hungary (H)	6	3	3	0	0	38	19	Semi-finals
2.	Italy	4	3	2	0	1	20	20	Quarter-finals
3.	Romania	2	3	1	0	2	19	28	Quarter-finals
4.	Greece	0	3	0	0	3	19	29

• Tuesday 2005-06-13

Greece	7 – 8	Romania	2-3 • 2-1 • 1-1 • 2-3
Italy	6 – 10	Hungary	2-2 • 1-2 • 1-3 • 2-3

• Wednesday 2005-06-14

Greece	4 – 14	Hungary	4-4 • 2-3 • 0-4 • 1-3
Italy	7 – 5	Romania	1-1 • 2-1 • 1-1 • 3-2

• Thursday 2005-06-15

Greece	5 – 7	Italy	1-1 • 3-1 • 1-4 • 0-1
Romania	6 – 14	Hungary	4-5 • 1-3 • 0-3 • 1-3

Group B

	Team	Pts	P	W	T	L	PF	PA	Qualification
1.	Serbia and Montenegro	6	3	3	0	0	29	21	Semi-finals
2.	Croatia	3	3	1	1	1	28	26	Quarter-finals
3.	Spain	3	3	1	1	1	24	21	Quarter-finals
4.	Russia	0	3	0	0	3	22	35

• Tuesday 2005-06-13

Croatia	12 – 9	Russia	4-3 • 1-3 • 4-2 • 3-1
Serbia and Montenegro	7 – 6	Spain	2-4 • 2-0 • 2-2 • 1-0

• Wednesday 2005-06-14

Croatia	8 – 8	Spain	2-3 • 2-1 • 3-2 • 1-2
Serbia and Montenegro	13 – 7	Russia	3-1 • 4-4 • 2-0 • 4-2

• Thursday 2005-06-15

Russia	6 – 10	Spain	1-3 • 2-2 • 1-2 • 2-3
Croatia	8 – 9	Serbia and Montenegro	1-3 • 2-0 • 2-4 • 3-2

• Olympic champions Hungary and reigning world champion Serbia & Montenegro won their groups after three wins in a row and went straight to the semifinals on Saturday.

Quarter finals

• Friday 2005-06-16
  • First quarterfinal (17:30h)

Romania	7 – 10	Croatia	2-2 • 2-2 • 3-4 • 0-2

• • Second quarterfinal (19:00h)

Italy	3 – 9	Spain	0-1 • 0-4 • 3-1 • 0-3

Semi finals

• Saturday 2005-06-17
  • First semifinal (17:30h)

Hungary	10 – 6	Croatia	2-1 • 4-1 • 2-3 • 2-1

• • Second semifinal (19:00h)

Serbia and Montenegro	13 – 8	Spain	5-2 • 3-2 • 3-2 • 2-2

Finals

• Friday 2005-06-16
  • 7th/8th-place match (15:00h)

Greece	10 – 6	Russia	2-2 • 3-2 • 3-2 • 2-0

• Saturday 2005-06-17
  • 5th/6th-place match (15:00h)

Romania	4 – 7	Italy	2-0 • 1-4 • 1-1 • 0-2

• Sunday 2005-06-18
  • Bronze Medal Match (15:30h)

Croatia	10 – 13	Spain	2-3 • 2-3 • 2-5 • 4-2

• • Gold Medal Match (17:30h)

Hungary	9 – 10	Serbia and Montenegro	1-3 • 2-2 • 2-1 • 3-2 • 1-1 • 0-1

Final standings

RANK[1] TEAM  Serbia  Hungary  Spain 4.  Croatia 5.  Italy 6.  Romania 7.  Greece 8.  Russia

2006 Men's FINA Water Polo World Cup  Serbia First title

Top scorers

RANK	2006 FINA MEN'S WATER POLO WORLD CUP	GOALS
1.	Aleksandar Šapić (SCG)	17
2.	Tamás Kásás (HUN)	13
	Felipe Perrone (ESP)
	Xavier García (ESP)
5.	Miho Bošković (CRO)	12
6.	Andrei Iosep (ROM)	11
7.	Péter Biros (HUN)	10
8.	Teo Đogaš (CRO)	9
9.	Gergely Kiss (HUN)	8
	Nikola Janović (SCG)

Squads

 Croatia

Goran Volarević Damir Burić Boris Pavlović Srđan Antonijević Tihomil Vranješ

Ratko Štritof (captain) Andrija Komadina Teo Đogaš Andro Bušlje Nikša Dobud

Aljosa Kunac Miho Bošković Miro Kačić Head coach: Ratko Rudić

 Greece

Filippos Karampetsos Anastasios Schizas Dimitrios Mazis Konstantinos Kokkinakis Christos Afroudakis

Argyris Theodoropoulos Nikitas Kocheilas Georgios Ntoskas Georgios Afroudakis (captain) Andreas Miralis

Konstantinos Dimou Manolis Mylonakis Georgios Reppas Head coach: Alessandro Campagna

 Hungary

Zoltán Szécsi Dániel Varga Norbert Madaras Ádám Steinmetz Tamás Kásás (captain)

Márton Szivós Gergely Kiss Csaba Kiss Rajmund Fodor Péter Biros

Gábor Kiss Tamás Molnár Gábor Jászberényi Head coach: Dénes Kemény

 Italy

Stefano Tempesti Massimo Giacoppo Valerio Rizzo Fabrizio Buonocore Andrea Scotti Galletta

Maurizio Felugo Federico Mistrangelo Fabio Bencivenga Arnaldo Deserti Alessandro Calcaterra (captain)

Luigi Di Costanzo Goran Fiorentini Fabio Violetti Head coach: Paolo Malara

 Romania

Nenciu Berttini Cosmin Radu Florin Muşat Florin Bonca Andrei Iosep

Andrei Bușilă Gheorghe Dunca Ramiro Georgescu Alexandru Ghiban George Georgescu

Alexandru Matei Guiman Kálmán Kádár Robert Dinu Head coach: Vlad Hagiu

 Russia

Igor Shaltanov Yuri Yatsev Pavel Khalturin Roman Dokuchaev Roman Balashov

Anton Korotaev Revaz Chomakhidze (captain) Dmitri Stratan Aleksey Agarkov Marat Zakirov

Viktor Vishnyakov Andrei Reketchinski Yegor Rastorguev Head coach: Aleksandr Kabanov

 Serbia and Montenegro

Denis Šefik Živko Gocić Nikola Janović Filip Filipović Dejan Savić (captain) Danilo Ikodinović

Slobodan Nikić Vladimir Gojković Aleksandar Ćirić Aleksandar Šapić Duško Pijetlović Predrag Jokić

Zdravko Radić Head coaches: Nenad Manojlović Petar Porobić Nebojša Novoselac

 Spain

Inaki Aguilar Mario García David Martín Ricardo Perrone Guillermo Molina

Sergi Mora Óscar Rey José Rodríguez Xavier Vallès Felipe Perrone

Iván Pérez (captain) Xavier García Ángel Andreo Head coach: Rafael Aguilar