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.

Teams

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

Squads

 Croatia

Goran Volarević Damir Burić Boris Pavlović Srđan Antonijević Tiho Vranješ

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

Aljosa Kunac Miho Bošković Miko Kačič Head Coach: Ratko Rudić

 Greece

Filippos Karambetsos Anastasios Schizas Dimitros Mazis Konstantinos Kokkinakis Christos Afroudakis

Argvrios Theodoropoulos Nikitas Kochilas 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

Berttini Nenciu Cosmin Radu Florin Musat Florin Bonca Andrei Iosep

Andrei Busila Gheorghe Dunca Ramiro Georgescu Alexandru Ghiban George Georgescu

Alexandru Matei Guiman Kalman Kadar Robert Dinu Head Coach: Vlad Hagiu

 Russia

Igor Shaltanov Yuri Yatsev Pavel Khalturin Roman Dokuchaev Roman Balashov

Anton Korotaev Revaz Chomahidze (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 Oscar Rey José Rodríguez Xavier Vallès Felipe Perrone

Iván Pérez (captain) Xavier García Angel Andreo Head Coach: Rafael Aguilar

Preliminary round

• Tuesday 2005-06-13

Croatia	12 – 9	Russia	4-3 • 1-3 • 4-2 • 3-1
Greece	7 – 8	Romania	2-3 • 2-1 • 1-1 • 2-3
Italy	6 – 10	Hungary	2-2 • 1-2 • 1-3 • 2-3
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
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

Russia	6 – 10	Spain	1-3 • 2-2 • 1-2 • 2-3
Greece	5 – 7	Italy	1-1 • 3-1 • 1-4 • 0-1
Romania	6 – 14	Hungary	4-5 • 1-3 • 0-3 • 1-3
Croatia	8 – 9	Serbia and Montenegro	1-3 • 2-0 • 2-4 • 3-2

Standings

GROUP A	Pts	P	W	T	L	PF	PA
Hungary	6	3	3	0	0	38	19
Italy	4	3	2	0	1	20	20
Romania	2	3	1	0	2	19	28
Greece	0	3	0	0	3	19	29

GROUP B	Pts	P	W	T	L	PF	PA
Serbia and Montenegro	6	3	3	0	0	29	21
Croatia	3	3	1	1	1	28	26
Spain	3	3	1	1	1	24	21
Russia	0	3	0	0	3	22	35

• 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 Quarter Final (17:30h)

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

• • Second Quarter Final (19:00h)

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

Semi finals

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

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

• • Second Semi Final (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

1.america 2.greece 3.finland

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)

References

• FINA