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2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

Field	Value
title	2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League
league	FINA Water Polo World League
sport	Water Polo
seasonslist	FINA Men's Water Polo World League
seasonslistnames	FINA Men's Water Polo World League
prevseason_link	2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World League
prevseason_year	2010
nextseason_link	2012 FINA Men's Water Polo World League
nextseason_year	2012

The 2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League was the tenth edition of the annual event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. After a preliminary round, the Super Final was held in Firenze, Italy from June 21–26, 2011. Serbia ended up being champions, defending the title acquired the previous year and was the first team to qualify for the 2012 Olympic men's water polo tournament.

Preliminary round

	Team qualified for [Super Final](2011-fina-men-s-water-polo-world-league-super-final)

Africa

The African tournament was supposed to be held in Algiers, Algeria from May 13–15, but was cancelled.

Americas

The American preliminary round was held in Costa Mesa, California, United States from May 13–15. United States advanced to the Super Final.

Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
	2	2	0	16	11	+5	6
	2	0	2	11	16	−5	0

Asia/Oceania

The Asia and Oceania region was feature a two-legged tournament, in Auckland, New Zealand (May 9–13) and Sydney, Australia (May 16–20). The four teams played a round robin in each location, with the results from both legs combined. Australia and China advanced to the Super Final.

G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
8	8	0	110	47	+63	24
8	6	2	72	65	+7	17
8	4	4	86	61	+25	12
8	2	6	76	81	−5	7
8	0	8	44	134	−90	0

Europe

Europe was divided into three groups of four teams, with qualifying spots for the winner of each group as well as Super Final host Italy. Rather than the condensed tournament style competition of the other continents, the European matches were played in a home-and-away format over five months.

Group A

G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
6	5	1	70	45	+25	14
6	3	3	60	60	0	11
6	3	3	58	63	−4	9
6	1	5	44	65	−21	2

Group B

G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
6	6	0	75	30	+45	17
6	4	2	54	48	+6	13
6	2	4	49	52	−3	6
6	0	6	20	68	−48	0

Group C

G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
6	6	0	68	41	+27	17
6	4	2	57	41	+16	13
6	2	4	42	49	−7	6
6	0	6	31	67	−36	0

Super Final

The Super Final was held in Firenze, Italy from June 21–26.

Group A

G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
3	3	0	37	19	+18	8
3	2	1	34	26	+8	7
3	1	2	22	27	−5	3
3	0	3	17	38	−21	0

June 21

****	10 – 4

June 22

****	13 – 12

June 23

	9 – 12	****

Group B

G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
3	3	0	36	19	+17	9
3	2	1	21	22	−1	5
3	1	2	24	28	−4	4
3	0	3	22	34	−12	0

June 21

	6 – 12	****

June 22

****	13 – 8

June 23

	8 – 13	****

Quarter-finals

June 24

	5 – 15	****

Medal round

|June 25 ||13||11 |June 25 ||5 ||8 |June 26 ||7||8 |June 26 ||11||5

5th–8th places

|June 25 ||14||4 |June 25 ||16||7 |June 26 ||7||8 |June 26 ||9||10

Final ranking

RANK	TEAM
[[Image:Med 1.png]]
[[Image:Med 2.png]]
[[Image:Med 3.png]]
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5.
6.
7.
8.

Awards

The awards were announced on 1 July 2011.

Top Scorer
SRB Filip Filipović
CRO Sandro Sukno

References

{{Cite HistoFINA wp
link. (2013-06-15 – FINA.)

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