FINA Women’s Water Polo World Cup: Difference between revisions

International women’s water polo tournament

FINA Women’s Water Polo World Cup

Sport	Water polo
Founded	1979
Continent	all (International)
Most recent champion	Greece (1st title)
Most titles	Netherlands (8 titles)

The FINA Women’s Water Polo World Cup is an international water polo competition contested by women’s national water polo teams of the members of FINA, the aquatic sports’ global governing body. The tournament was established in 1979 with an erratic schedule, was contested every two years from 1989 – 1999, and has been contested every four years since 2002.^[1]

From 2023 on, the tournament replaced the FINA Water Polo World League and changed format.^[2][3]

#	Year[1]	Host	Winner	Runner-up	Third place
1	1979	Merced, United States	United States	Netherlands	Australia
2	1980	Breda, Netherlands	Netherlands	United States	Canada
3	1981	Brisbane, Australia	Canada	Netherlands	Australia
4	1983	Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada	Netherlands	United States	Australia
5	1984	Irvine, United States	Australia	United States	Netherlands
6	1988	Christchurch, New Zealand	Netherlands	Hungary	Canada
7	1989	Eindhoven, Netherlands	Netherlands	United States	Hungary
8	1991	Long Beach, United States	Netherlands	Australia	United States
9	1993	Catania, Italy	Netherlands	Italy	Hungary
10	1995	Sydney, Australia	Australia	Netherlands	Hungary
11	1997	Nancy, France	Netherlands	Russia	Australia
12	1999	Winnipeg, Canada	Netherlands	Australia	Italy
13	2002	Perth, Australia	Hungary	United States	Canada
14	2006	Tianjin, PR China	Australia	Italy	Russia
15	2010	Christchurch, New Zealand	United States	Australia	China
16	2014	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	United States	Australia	Spain
17	2018	Surgut, Russia	United States	Russia	Australia
New Format (Division 1 + Division 2)
18	2023	Long Beach, United States	United States	Netherlands	Spain
19	2025	Chengdu, China	Greece	Hungary	Netherlands
20	2026	Sydney, Australia

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