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Greece - Athens - April 1997 - 30 May 1997

Winner : United States

 

Final standings

1	United States
2	Greece
3	Hungary
4	Russia
5	Italy
6	Spain
7	Yugoslavia
8	Croatia

 

Group A (Greece - 27/04/1997 - 29/04/1997)

Classification

	Team	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
1	Hungary	5	3	2	1	0	24	14	+10
2	Russia	3	3	1	1	1	20	17	+3
3	Yugoslavia	2	3	1	0	2	17	22	-5
4	Croatia	2	3	1	0	2	16	24	-8

Last matches

27 May 1997
	Yugoslavia	9 - 7	Russia
	Hungary	11 - 6	Croatia
28 May 1997
	Hungary	10 - 5	Yugoslavia
	Russia	10 - 5	Croatia
29 May 1997
	Hungary	3 - 3	Russia
	Croatia	5 - 3	Yugoslavia

Detail of the results

Group B (Greece - 27/04/1997 - 29/04/1997)

Standing

	Team	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
1	United States	5	3	2	1	0	25	21	+4
2	Greece	5	3	2	1	0	21	18	+3
3	Italy	1	3	0	1	2	18	21	-3
4	Spain	1	3	0	1	2	21	25	-4

Last matches

27 May 1997
	Greece	6 - 4	Italy
	United States	10 - 7	Spain
28 May 1997
	United States	7 - 6	Italy
	Greece	7 - 6	Spain
29 May 1997
	United States	8 - 8	Greece
	Italy	8 - 8	Spain

Detail of the results

Final Round (Greece - 00/04/1997 - 30/05/1997)

Places 5-8

31 May 1997
	Italy	10 - 9	Yugoslavia
	Spain	10 - 9	Croatia

Semi-Finals

31 May 1997
	Greece	8 - 4	Hungary
	United States	9 - 8 ot	Russia

Place 7

1 June 1997
	Yugoslavia	6 - 5 ot	Croatia

Place 5

1 June 1997
	Italy	9 - 5	Spain

Third Place Match

1 June 1997
	Hungary	10 - 7	Russia

Final

1 May 1997
	United States	8 - 5	Greece

Detail of the results

Statistics

• General statistics
  • Number of events : 3
  • Number of rounds : 8
  • Matches : 20
  • Home victories : 17 (85 %)
  • Away victories : 0 (0 %)
  • Drawn matches : 3 (15 %)

  • Best round in points : 1st (162 points)
  • Average points per match : 14.2
  • Average points scored at home : 8.2
  • Scoring average: away games : 6
  • Total number of points : 284
  • Average points per round : 35.5
• Various statistics
  
  

  Wins

  1	United States	4
  2	Greece	3
  3	Hungary	3
  4	Italy	2
  5	Yugoslavia	2
  6	Croatia	1

  Drawn matches

  1	Greece	1
  2	Hungary	1
  3	Italy	1
  4	Russia	1
  5	Spain	1
  6	United States	1

  Losses

  1	Croatia	4
  2	Russia	3
  3	Spain	3
  4	Yugoslavia	3
  5	Italy	2
  6	Greece	1

Men's World Cup 1997 - Participating teams

Croatia

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Russia

Spain

United States

Yugoslavia

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