The World Championships in Singapore will begin in a few days, and almost all rosters have been finalized.
Some notable water polo stars will miss the tournament due to various reasons, including injuries, surgeries, and planned breaks. However, nearly all of the top players in the world will be competing for medals.
Let’s take a look at which clubs have a lot of their players participating in the men’s tournament.
Remarkably, some clubs have more water polo stars on their rosters than certain countries that are considered among the top seven or eight national teams in the world.
Since the transfer window hasn’t closed yet, there might be some arrivals and departures after the Worlds, but almost all of the best European clubs have already composed their rosters for the 2025/26 season.
Ferencvaros (12)
At the top of the list is Ferencvaros, the reigning European champion.
The club will be represented in Singapore by nearly its entire team, with twelve players competing.
The number of the 2025 Champions League gold medalists at the Singapore tournament could have been even higher if it weren’t for the injury of the best Hungarian goalkeeper, Soma Vogel.
All twelve members, who represent five national teams, played for Ferencvaros last season.
Hungary: Marton Vamos, Krisztian Manhercz, Erik Molnar, Gergo Fekete, Vendel Vigvari, Szilard Jansik, Zsombor Vismeg, Akos Nagy.
Serbia: Dusan Mandic
Spain: Miguel De Toro
Greece: Stylianos Argyropoulos
Italy: Edoardo Di Somma
Pro Recco (11)
After a season of consolidation following a financial crisis last summer, Pro Recco has been very active in the 2025 transfer market.
This summer, six players who will participate in the World Championships joined the club: Granados, Buric, Irving, Pavillard, Nicosia, and Cassia. Besides them, five experienced Recco’s players are in Singapore.
Italy: Francesco Di Fulvio, Giacomo Canella, Nicholas Presciutti, Matteo Iocchi Gratta, Francesco Condemi, Gianmarco Nicosia, Francesco Cassia.
Spain: Alvaro Granados
Croatia: Rino Buric
USA: Max Irving
Australia: Luke Pavillard.
Barceloneta (10)
As usual, the Spanish national team is composed mostly of Barceloneta’s players. Seven players who will wear Barceloneta’s cap in the next season traveled to Singapore.
Felipe Perrone, who will compete in his 13th World Championships, is not among those seven, as he will retire after the Singapore tournament.
Spain: Unai Aguirre, Unai Biel, Alejandros Bustos, Biel Gomila, Alberto Munarriz, Bernat Sanahuja, Roger Tahull
Hungary: Gergelyi Burian, Vince Vigvari
Italy: Alessandro Velloto.
Olympiacos (9)
Similar to Spain and Barcelona, most members of the Greek national team are from Olympiacos. Eight Greek players, along with Hungarian Daniel Angyal, will be competing in Singapore.
The number of Olympiacos players at the World Championships would likely have been higher if Alexandros Papanastasiou hadn’t been sidelined due to injury and if Hungarian Gergo Zalanki hadn’t chosen to take a break from national team competitions this summer.
Greece: Panagiotis Tzortzatos, Konstaninos Genidounias, Nikolaos Gkillas, Ioannis Alafragkis, Konstantinos Kakaris, Dimitrios Nikolaidis, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Evangelos Pouros.
Hungary: Daniel Angyal
Radnicki (8)
The Serbian and the Regional League champion Radnicki will enter the next season with eight members of the Serbian national team, and six of them won the Olympic gold last summer (Vapenski and Murisic are exceptions). Besides eight players, head coach Uros Stevanovic represents Radnicki in Singapore. He has been leading the national team since 2022.
Greek ace Angelos Vlachopoulos signed for Radnicki recently, but he won’t be playing for the national team this summer (like Zalanki, he is taking a break and competing in the Maltese Summer League).
Serbia: Radoslav Filipovic, Strahinja Rasovic, Sava Randjelovic Nikola Jaksic, Boris Vapenski, Petar Jaksic, Viktor Rasovic, Nikola Murisic.
Jadran Herceg Novi (8)
Players of three national teams will be on Jadran’s roster next year, including a newcomer to the Montenegrin national team, Dmitrii Kholod, and two Jadran’s latest reinforcements, goalkeeper Lazar Andric and Fran Valera.
Montenegro: Lazar Andric, Vasilije Radovic, Jovan Vujovic, Dimitrije Obradovic, Strahinja Gojkovic, Dmitrii Kholod.
Serbia: Djordje Lazic
Spain: Francesco Valera
Mladost Zagreb (7)
The players of Mladost Zagreb, which did not win any trophies in 2024, make up almost half of the Croatian national team. This group includes Luka Loncar, who has returned to the club. Among them, six players earned gold medals at the 2024 World Championships, while Luka Bukic missed the tournament in Doha due to surgery.
Six of the seven Mladost players on Croatia’s roster for Singapore won the Olympic silver medal (only Lazic didn’t play in Paris).
However, none of the seven aces played for Mladost in the 2023/24 season. They all returned to the club after the Paris Olympics.
Croatia: Luka Loncar, Josip Vrlic, Matias Biljaka, Luka Bukic, Franko Lazic, Konstantin Kharkov, Ante Vukicevic.
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