The draws for the 2024 LEN European
Water Polo Championships Qualifiers and 2023 age-group European Championships
will be conducted in Sabadell on Saturday, prior to the final matches of the
Champions League Women Final Four tournament. At the age-group championships, a
brand-new playing format shall be applied and the draws will reflect on this.
The men’s qualification tournaments
for the 2024 Europeans will feature a barely seen participant – the Olympic
title-holder Serbian team, failing to reach the best eight in Split in 2022,
have to play for a championship berth in June. Seven spots are to be filled as
host Israel have been added to the eight already qualified sides (teams
finished 1-8th last September). It means that the four group-winners and the three
best second-ranked teams will advance to the final tournament (based on the
points gained, and in case of equality, the goal-difference will determine who
can play in Israel in 2024).
As for the women’s competition,
Israel managed to make the top eight, so here eight berths are available – as
for the first time ever, 16 teams will play for the women’s title.
There is a major change for the
age-group championships – all four events (U17 men and women, U15 men and
women) shall be played with a new playing format. In line with World Aquatics
and their junior Worlds, the preliminaries of the respective European
Championships will be divided between the higher seeded teams and those coming
from the qualifications.
The eight top-ranked sides at each
championship will be drawn into two groups of four (A and B), so these stronger
teams will already play a series of highlighted matches in the prelims. The top
two ranked teams from both groups shall advance directly to the quarter-finals.
At the same time, the qualified teams
will also be sorted to two groups of four (C and D) and will play a round-robin
tournament as well. At the end, the top ranked teams will play crossover
matches with the 4th placed sides from Group A and B, while the second ranked
ones from C and D will clash with the third ranked ones from Group A and B. The
winners of these crossover matches will reach the quarter-finals – from that
stage the competition will continue as usual. (The boys’ U15 championship will
be an exception as all 26 entered teams will play, so here, besides the top
eight, the remaining teams will be drawn into groups C, D, E and F).
LEN will offer free live streaming of
the draws – the marathon kicks off at 12.00 CET and all six draws will be
conducted in succession till 13.30.
Draws – batches
2024 European Water Polo
Championships
Qualification Tournaments (22-25 June
2023)
Men
Already qualified
CRO, HUN, ESP, ITA, GRE, FRA, MNE,
GEO + ISR (Organiser)
Batches for the qualifications
1st Batch: SRB, ROU, NED, GER
2nd Batch: MLT, SVK, SLO, LTU
3rd Batch: SUI, TUR, UKR, POL
4th Batch: BUL, FIN, GBR, POR
Organisers: MLT, NED, TUR, SLO
Women
Already qualified
ESP, GRE, ITA, NED, HUN, ISR, FRA,
CRO
Batches for the qualifications
1st Batch: SRB, GER, ROU, SVK
2nd Batch: SUI, POR, TUR, MLT, UKR
3rd Batch: BUL, CZE, FIN, GBR, SWE
Organisers: ROU, SRB, POR, BUL
European U17 Water Polo Championships
Men (9-15 August, Manisa, TUR)
1st Batch: SRB, GRE, HUN, ESP
2nd Batch: MNE, CRO, NED, ITA
3rd Batch: GEO, FRA, ROU, MLT
4th Batch: TUR, GER, UKR, POL
Women (29 July–5 August, Manisa, TUR)
1st Batch: GRE, HUN, ITA, NED
2nd Batch: ESP, CRO, ISR, FRA
3rd Batch: SRB, SVK, UKR, MLT
4th Batch: GBR, ROU, TUR, IRL, SUI
European U15 Water Polo Championships
Men (8-16 July, Podgorica, MNE)
1st Batch: HUN, ESP, GRE, CRO
2nd Batch: ITA, SRB, TUR, MNE
3rd Batch: ROU, POL, MLT, FRA, GEO
4th Batch: BIH, BUL, CZE, GER, IRL,
ISR, LTU, MDA, NED, SVK, SLO, SUI, UKR
Women (24-30 June, Zagreb, CRO)
1st Batch: HUN, ESP, GRE, ITA
2nd Batch: CRO, NED, ISR, SRB
3rd Batch: CZE, GER, IRL, ROU, SVK, TUR, UKR
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