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2012 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

Field	Value
title	2012 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	2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League
prevseason_year	2011
nextseason_link	2013 FINA Men's Water Polo World League
nextseason_year	2013

The 2012 FINA Men's Water Polo World League is played between November 2011 and June 2012 and open to all men's water polo national teams. After playing in groups within the same continent, eight teams qualify to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 12–17 June 2012. The two teams that reach the final of the Super Final will be the first teams to quality for the water polo tournament of the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona.

In the world league, there are specific rules that do not allow matches to end in a draw. If teams are level at the end of the 4th quarter of any world league match, the match will be decided by a penalty shootout. Teams earn points in the standings in group matches as follows:

Match won in normal time - 3 points
Match won in shootout - 2 points
Match lost in shootout - 1 point
Match lost in normal time - 0 points

Draw

Americas

As there were only 4 entries, all teams in this region will play in a single group.

Asia/Oceania

As there were only 4 entries, all teams in this region will play in a single group.

Europe

There were 10 entries into the league from Europe, and these were drawn into two groups of three teams and one group of four teams. The teams were placed into groups based on their performance in the 2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League along with Great Britain, host of the 2012 Olympic tournament.

Pool	[2011 FINA Men's Water Polo World League](2011-fina-men-s-water-polo-world-league) result	Drawn into Group
1	2nd, Super Final	A
1	3rd, Super Final	B
1	2nd, Europe Group B (13 pts)	C
2	2nd, Europe Group A (11 pts)	C
2	3rd, Europe Group A (9 pts)	B
2	3rd, Europe Group B (6 pts, Diff -3)	A
3	3rd, Europe Group C (6 pts, Diff -7)	C
3	4th, Europe Group A (2 pts)	B
3	4th, Europe Group B (0 pts)	C
3	did not participate	A

Americas League

All teams played the other teams twice. All matches were held in Orange County, California from 10–13 May 2012. USA and Brazil, the top two teams, advanced to the Super Final.

Team	W	SOW	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	4	4	0	56	11	45
2.	4	2	2	24	39	-15
3.	4	0	4	19	49	-30

Asia/Oceania League

All teams will play the other teams twice. The first round-robin will be held from 1–5 May 2012 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai and the second round-robin will be held from 8–12 May 2012 at the Chiba International Swimming Complex in Narashino, Chiba, Japan. Two teams advance to the Super Final, one of which must be Kazakhstan as they are the host.

Team	W	SOW	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	6	6	0	80	25	+55
2.	6	3	3	40	55	-15
3.	6	3	3	49	53	-4
4.	6	0	6	28	64	-36

Europe League

All teams play the other teams in their group home-and-away. The winner of each group advances to the Super Final.

	Team advances to Super Final

Group A

Team	W	SOW	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	4	4	0	54	16	+38
2.	4	2	2	32	43	-11
3.	4	0	4	24	51	-27

Group B

Team	W	SOW	SOL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	4	3	1	0	0	48	33	+15
2.	4	1	0	2	1	41	45	-4
3.	4	0	1	0	3	30	41	-11

Group C

Team	W	SOW	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	6	4	2	60	40	+20
1.	6	4	2	65	46	+19
1.	6	4	2	55	40	+15
4.	6	0	6	27	81	-54

3 teams equal on points, therefore only the matches between each other are considered to break the tie - FINA By-Law 9.6.3

Team	W	SOW	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	4	2	2	34	32	+2
2.	4	2	2	32	32	0
3.	4	2	2	33	35	-2

Super Final

The Super Final was held on 12–17 June 2012 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Preliminary round: Group A

Team	W	SOW	SOL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	3	3	0	0	0	30	24	+6
2.	3	2	0	0	1	22	19	+3
3.	3	0	1	0	2	26	28	-2
4.	3	0	0	1	2	30	37	-7

June 12

****	11 – 8

June 13

****	13 – 10

June 14

****	13 – 12

Preliminary round: Group B

Team	W	SOW	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	3	3	0	41	20	+21
2.	3	2	1	22	17	+5
3.	3	1	2	33	28	+5
4.	3	0	3	12	43	-31

June 12

	3 – 8	****

June 13

	6 – 13	****

June 14

	7 – 8	****

Quarter-finals

June 15

	6 – 13	****

Medal round

|June 16 ||11||10 |June 16 ||7||9 |June 17 ||18||17 |June 17 ||7||6

5th–8th places

|June 16 ||7||6 |June 16 ||10||7 |June 17 ||7||5 |June 17 ||13||2

Final ranking

RANK	TEAM
[[Image:Med 1.png]]
[[Image:Med 2.png]]
[[Image:Med 3.png]]
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Awards

Top Scorer	Player of the Tournament	Goalkeeper of the Tournament
CRO Maro Jokovic	ESP Felipe Perrone	ITA Stefano Tempesti

References

{{Cite HistoFINA wp
link. (2010-06-18)
"Archived copy".
[http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2639:2012-mens-rankings&catid=228:rankings&Itemid=317 FINA] 2012 Men's Ranking. 6/5/2012.
"2012 Men's Results".

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