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	36
  2	Italy	35
  3	Netherlands	31
  4	Spain	31
  5	Romania	27
  6	Germany	21
  7	Greece	21
  8	France	20
  9	Yugoslavia	20
  10	Croatia	17

  Number of matches

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

  Games per appearance

  1	North Macedonia	7.3
  2	Russia	7.3
  3	West Germany	7.1
  4	U.S.S.R.	7
  5	Ukraine	7
  6	Greece	6.5
  7	Ireland	6.5
  8	Yugoslavia	6.5
  9	Bulgaria	6.4
  10	Croatia	6.4

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  Wins

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

  Number of wins in games played

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

  Drawn matches

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

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  Losses

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

  Number of losses in games played

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

  Number of ties in games played

  1	U.S.S.R.	19 %
  2	Belgium	17 %
  3	East Germany	17 %
  4	Finland	17 %
  5	Ireland	15 %
  6	Yugoslavia	15 %
  7	Sweden	14 %
  8	West Germany	12 %
  9	Croatia	11 %
  10	Netherlands	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	36	1926	1st	357	223	170	17	36	2076	1275	+801
  2	Italy	35	1927	1st	268	217	125	18	74	1761	1375	+386
  3	Spain	31	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	17	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	31	1927	1st	135	178	58	19	101	1220	1341	-121
  8	Romania	27	1954	4th	125	165	54	17	94	1243	1381	-138
  9	Greece	21	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	12	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	10	2008	2nd	77	56	36	5	15	609	440	+169
  15	France	20	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	13	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	7	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	8	1966	-	7	44	3	1	40	239	675	-436
  29	Slovenia	6	1999	2nd	4	24	2	0	22	159	299	-140
  30	Malta	6	2016	-	4	22	2	0	20	150	360	-210
  31	Finland	1	1970	-	3	6	1	1	4	19	51	-32
  32	Israel	3	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