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Women’s Water Polo returns in Sibenik this weekend

August 19, 2021

Photo from @hvs.hr Facebook

An action-packed summer of water polo continues this weekend as Europe’s most promising young female players head to Croatia’s Adriatic Coast for the Women’s European Junior Water Polo Championships. Making their debut hosting a women’s European Championship, the Croatian Water Polo Federation welcomes nineteen European nations to the beautiful city of Sibenik and the Crnica complex – which has previously hosted Champions League and Euro Cup fixtures, as well as prominent FINA World Cup and FINA World League competitions.

The eight-day competition begins on Saturday 21st at 9:00 am with a strong looking Israel taking on Great Britain, and finishes on Sunday 29th with the gold medal match at 21:00 pm.

Despite the senior women missing out on a medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Russia’s U17s are the most successful European nation at the Junior Championships and will be looking to add a fifth title to their trophy cabinet. They’ll want revenge against fierce rivals, Spain, who beat them in the final at Volos in 2019 by a single goal.

Speaking of the Olympic games and Spain, we can expect to see their teenage sensation, Elena Ruiz, sporting her nation’s colours in Sibenik. After netting eleven goals in Tokyo, you wouldn’t bet against her being at the top of the goal-scoring charts at this competition.

Hungary will hope that their senior women’s team first Olympic medal just over ten days ago will inspire their U17 side to victory for the first time in over two decades. They are under the stewardship of Marton Benczur and have spent their last days of preparations in Szentes – where the U15 women’s European Championships were held a few weeks ago.

However, they are not the only team to have spent time in the town in South Hungary. Szentes is clearly the destination of choice for many of the teams in the build-up to Sibenik – with Serbia, France, Romania, Slovakia and Israel all having spent time playing matches there against each other. This is a rare exception to a situation where most teams know very little about each other.

The reigning champions Spain will most likely top group A and will be looking to secure their third straight title against Serbia at 21:00 on Friday, whilst Russia are expected to win Group C with comfort with Germany and Romania competing for second place there.

Group B certainly looks interesting as Greece and the Netherlands, both of whom are three-time winners, will meet on Sunday at 10:30 in the group stages. Group D also contains two former champions in the shape of Hungary and Italy, who face off later that day at 16:30.

Whilst only the top team in each group will secure an automatic place in the quarter-finals, a second-place finish at the group stages would also provide a route into the final eight, albeit with those teams needing to win an additional fixture.

Tournament Format

Sibenik (Croatia, August 21 – August 29)

Group A – Czech Republic, Spain, Great Britain, Israel & Serbia

Group B – France, Greece, Netherlands, Turkey, Ukraine

Group C – Croatia, Germany, Malta, Romania, Russia

Group D – Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia

The nineteen teams are divided into three groups of five and one group of four. The teams that top the group directly enter into the quarter-finals to be played on August 27. The second and third in each group will compete against each other to determine the second set of quarter-finalists. The team that finishes fourth in each group will compete for the positions from twelfth to sixteenth and the fifth for those from seventeenth to nineteenth.

The full schedule of games is available here.

Previous Stats

Last five winners:

2011 – Madrid (ESP): 1st Greece, 2nd Hungary, 3rd Spain

2013 – Instanbul (TUR): 1st Greece, 2nd Spain, 3rd Netherlands

2015 – Baku (AZE): 1st Russia, 2nd Spain, 3rd Greece

2017 – Novi Sad (SRB)): 1st Spain, 2nd Netherlands, 3rd Hungary

2019 – Volos (GRE): 1st Spain, 2nd Russia, 3rd Italy

All-time winners (since 1994):

4 – Russia –  2000, 2006, 2010, 2015

3 – Netherlands – 1994, 1996, 2004

3 – Greece –  2002, 2011, 2013

2 – Spain – 2017, 2019

1 – Hungary -1998

1 – Italy,  2008

Win percentage (since 2011):

1. Spain, 89%, 2. Hungary, 78%, 3. Italy, 78%, 4. Greece, 75%, 5. Netherlands, 68%, 6. Russia, 65%, 7. Germany, 46%, 8. Slovakia, 45%, 9. Serbia, 43%, 10. Great Britain, 40%

Most Goals scored (since 2011):

1. Russia, 426, 2. Netherlands, 340, 3. Greece 308, 4. Spain, 306, 5. Italy, 268, 6. Hungary, 266, 7. Serbia, 231, 8. Slovakia, 194, 9. Great Britain, 188, 10. France, 119.

James Spencer-Boyce
James Spencer-Boyce

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