2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers

2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are series of qualification tournaments to decide the participants of the 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship.

Qualified teams

Teams directly qualified to the 2018 European Water Polo Championship:

  •  Hungary – winners of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Netherlands – runners-up of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Italy – 3rd place of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Spain – 4th place of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Greece – 5th place of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship
  •  Russia – 6th place of the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship

Qualifying round 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Slovakia 6 5 1 0 69 34 +35 16
 Czech Republic 6 5 1 0 72 44 +28 16
 Israel 6 4 0 2 66 37 +29 12
 Ukraine 6 3 0 3 44 35 +9 9
 Romania 6 2 0 4 34 53 –19 6
  Switzerland 6 1 0 5 34 54 -20 3
 Malta 6 0 0 6 21 83 -62 0
4 October 2017
17:00 		Malta  6–19  Israel Kyiv
4 October 2017
18:30 		Romania  5–4   Switzerland Kyiv
4 October 2017
20:00 		Ukraine  5–9  Slovakia Kyiv
5 October 2017
9:00 		Romania  6–12  Czech Republic Kyiv
5 October 2017
10:30 		Slovakia  13–3   Switzerland Kyiv
5 October 2017
12:00 		Ukraine  6–8  Israel Kyiv
5 October 2017
17:00 		Czech Republic  14–10   Switzerland Kyiv
5 October 2017
18:30 		Malta  5–16  Slovakia Kyiv
5 October 2017
20:00 		Romania  2–10  Ukraine Kyiv
6 October 2017
17:00 		Switzerland  6–9  Ukraine Kyiv
6 October 2017
18:30 		Israel  13–4  Romania Kyiv
6 October 2017
20:00 		Czech Republic  18–5  Malta Kyiv
7 October 2017
9:00 		Slovakia  13–4  Romania Kyiv
7 October 2017
10:30 		Israel  8–10  Czech Republic Kyiv
7 October 2017
12:00 		Switzerland  8–2  Malta Kyiv
7 October 2017
17:00 		Israel  7–8  Slovakia Kyiv
7 October 2017
18:30 		Malta  1–13  Romania Kyiv
7 October 2017
20:00 		Czech Republic  8–5  Ukraine Kyiv
8 October 2017
9:00 		Switzerland  3–11  Israel Kyiv
8 October 2017
10:30 		Slovakia  10–10  Czech Republic Kyiv
8 October 2017
12:00 		Ukraine  9–2  Malta Kyiv

Playoffs

From the qualification rond, six of the seven teams advance to the playoffs. These six teams will face the teams classified 7 to 12 in the latest edition of the tournament, the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship

Seeded Unseeded
From the 2016 European Championship
 France  Portugal
 Germany  Croatia
 Serbia  Turkey
From the qualifying round 1
 Slovakia  Ukraine
 Czech Republic  Romania
 Israel   Switzerland

Playoffs

  • 1st leg: 17 and 24 February 2018
  • 2nd leg: 3 March 2018
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Slovakia  20–21  Turkey 11–11 9–10
Czech Republic  15–23  Croatia 6–9 9–14
Israel  25–19  Portugal 14–10 11–9
Serbia  16–9  Ukraine 10–8 6–1
Germany  28–23  Romania 22–14 6–9
France  35–4   Switzerland 19–1 16–3

References