Water Polo - Men's European Championships - Statistics

• Summary by team since 1926

  Team	Victories	First Victory	Last Victory
  Hungary	13	1926	2020
  Serbia	5	2006	2018
  U.S.S.R.	5	1966	1987
  Italy	3	1947	1995
  Croatia	2	2010	2022
  Yugoslavia	2	1991	2001
  West Germany	2	1981	1989
  Spain	1	2024	2024
  Netherlands	1	1950	1950
  Montenegro	1	2008	2008
  Serbia And Montenegro	1	2003	2003

• Winners and finalists since 1926

  Team	Winners	Finalists
  Hungary	13	7
  U.S.S.R.	5	3
  Serbia	5	1
  Italy	3	2
  Yugoslavia	2	7
  Croatia	2	3
  West Germany	2	0
  Spain	1	3
  Montenegro	1	2
  Netherlands	1	0
  Serbia And Montenegro	1	0
  Germany		3
  Sweden		3
  France		1
  East Germany		1
  Belgium
  Russia
  Austria

• Various statistics since 1926
  
  

  Number of appearances

  1	Hungary 2	35
  2	Italy 2	34
  3	Netherlands 2	30
  4	Spain 2	30
  5	Romania 2	26
  6	Germany 2	21
  7	Greece 2	20
  8	Yugoslavia 2	20
  9	France 2	19
  10	Croatia 2	16

  Number of matches

  1	Hungary 2	223
  2	Italy 2	217
  3	Spain 2	198
  4	Netherlands 2	178
  5	Romania 2	165
  6	Greece 2	136
  7	Yugoslavia 2	129
  8	Germany 2	123
  9	Croatia 2	108
  10	France 2	106

  Games per appearance

  1	North Macedonia 2	7.3
  2	Russia 2	7.3
  3	West Germany 2	7.1
  4	U.S.S.R. 2	7
  5	Ukraine 2	7
  6	Croatia 2	6.8
  7	Greece 2	6.8
  8	Spain 2	6.6
  9	Ireland 2	6.5
  10	Yugoslavia 2	6.5

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  Wins

  1	Hungary 2	170
  2	Italy 2	125
  3	Spain 2	99
  4	Yugoslavia 2	83
  5	Croatia 2	65
  6	U.S.S.R. 2	62
  7	Serbia 2	59
  8	Netherlands 2	58
  9	Germany 2	56
  10	Greece 2	55

  Number of wins in games played

  1	Serbia 2	84 %
  2	Hungary 2	76 %
  3	U.S.S.R. 2	68 %
  4	Montenegro 2	64 %
  5	Yugoslavia 2	64 %
  6	Croatia 2	60 %
  7	Italy 2	58 %
  8	East Germany 2	50 %
  9	Spain 2	50 %
  10	West Germany 2	48 %

  Drawn matches

  1	Netherlands 2	19
  2	Yugoslavia 2	19
  3	Italy 2	18
  4	Hungary 2	17
  5	Romania 2	17
  6	Spain 2	17
  7	U.S.S.R. 2	17
  8	Greece 2	13
  9	Croatia 2	12
  10	France 2	11

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  Losses

  1	Netherlands 2	101
  2	Romania 2	94
  3	Spain 2	82
  4	Italy 2	74
  5	Greece 2	68
  6	France 2	64
  7	Germany 2	58
  8	Slovakia 2	52
  9	Russia 2	47
  10	Turkey 2	40

  Number of losses in games played

  1	Denmark 2	100 %
  2	Switzerland 2	100 %
  3	Slovenia 2	92 %
  4	Malta 2	91 %
  5	Turkey 2	91 %
  6	Ireland 2	85 %
  7	Austria 2	83 %
  8	Israel 2	83 %
  9	Great Britain 2	81 %
  10	Georgia 2	78 %

  Number of ties in games played

  1	U.S.S.R. 2	19 %
  2	Belgium 2	17 %
  3	East Germany 2	17 %
  4	Finland 2	17 %
  5	Ireland 2	15 %
  6	Yugoslavia 2	15 %
  7	Sweden 2	14 %
  8	West Germany 2	12 %
  9	Croatia 2	11 %
  10	Netherlands 2	11 %

• All time table since 1926

  (Based on W=2 pts, D=1 pts and L=0 pts)

  	Team	S	Firs	Best	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
  1	Hungary	35	1926	1st	357	223	170	17	36	2076	1275	+801
  2	Italy	34	1927	1st	268	217	125	18	74	1761	1375	+386
  3	Spain	30	1927	1st	215	198	99	17	82	1651	1433	+218
  4	Yugoslavia	20	1927	1st	185	129	83	19	27	885	641	+244
  5	Croatia	16	1993	1st	142	108	65	12	31	1081	811	+270
  6	U.S.S.R.	13	1954	1st	141	91	62	17	12	724	493	+231
  7	Netherlands	30	1927	1st	135	178	58	19	101	1220	1341	-121
  8	Romania	26	1954	4th	125	165	54	17	94	1243	1381	-138
  9	Greece	20	1970	4th	123	136	55	13	68	1161	1114	+47
  10	Germany	21	1926	2nd	121	123	56	9	58	903	990	-87
  11	Serbia	11	2003	1st	120	70	59	2	9	824	492	+332
  12	West Germany	12	1954	1st	92	85	41	10	34	600	528	+72
  13	Russia	13	1993	3rd	92	95	44	4	47	842	862	-20
  14	Montenegro	9	2008	2nd	77	56	36	5	15	609	440	+169
  15	France	19	1927	2nd	73	106	31	11	64	581	788	-207
  16	Sweden	10	1926	2nd	51	50	22	7	21	191	193	-2
  17	Belgium	11	1926	3rd	39	54	15	9	30	167	234	-67
  18	Slovakia	12	1993	1st	38	73	17	4	52	530	763	-233
  19	Bulgaria	7	1958	8th	24	45	10	4	31	253	388	-135
  20	Czechoslovakia	7	1927	5th	23	36	11	1	24	200	237	-37
  21	East Germany	3	1958	2nd	21	18	9	3	6	62	49	+13
  22	Georgia	6	2014	-	14	32	7	0	25	266	398	-132
  23	North Macedonia	3	2008	1st	13	22	6	1	15	167	226	-59
  24	Great Britain	9	1938	7th	13	42	5	3	34	151	310	-159
  25	Austria	9	1927	3rd	12	36	6	0	30	99	320	-221
  26	Poland	4	1958	-	10	19	4	2	13	116	156	-40
  27	Ukraine	3	1993	-	8	21	3	2	16	126	200	-74
  28	Turkey	7	1966	-	7	44	3	1	40	239	675	-436
  29	Slovenia	5	1999	2nd	4	24	2	0	22	159	299	-140
  30	Malta	5	2016	-	4	22	2	0	20	150	360	-210
  31	Finland	1	1970	-	3	6	1	1	4	19	51	-32
  32	Israel	2	2022	-	2	6	1	0	5	42	96	-54
  33	Ireland	2	1966	-	2	13	0	2	11	35	104	-69
  34	England	1	1927	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
  35	Denmark	1	1991	-	0	5	0	0	5	34	84	-50
  36	Switzerland	1	1950	7th	0	6	0	0	6	17	77	-60

General Informations

• First edition : 1926
• Editions : 36 (including 2024)
• Official name : European Water Polo Championship
• Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Water_Polo_Championship
• First winner : Hungary
• Most wins : Hungary (13)
• Most recent winner : Spain