Water polo at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc Piscines Bernat Picornell (final)
Dates	1–9 August 1992
Competitors	152 from 12 nations
Medalists
Italy  Spain  Unified Team
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The men's water polo tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 10 August 1992, in Barcelona, Spain. Reigning world champion Yugoslavia had qualified for the tournament, but as it had formally dissolved in the interim, it did not participate. The successor countries did not participate for several reasons. The position of Yugoslavia was replaced by Czechoslovakia.^[1][2]

Qualification

Qualification	Date	Host	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	17 October 1986	Lausanne	1	Spain
1991 World Championships	5-13 January 1991	Perth	6 5	Yugoslavia
				Hungary
				United States
				Germany
				Italy
				Unified Team
Intercontinental qualification	3-10 May 1992	Calgary	5	Cuba  Australia  Greece  France  Netherlands
Reallocation			1	Czechoslovakia
Total			12

Teams

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Unified Team	5	5	0	0	50	32	+18	10
2	United States	5	4	0	1	40	24	+16	8
3	Australia	5	2	1	2	44	41	+3	5
4	Germany	5	1	2	2	38	41	−3	4
5	France	5	1	1	3	38	42	−4	3
6	Czechoslovakia	5	0	0	5	33	63	−30	0

• 1 August 1992

Czechoslovakia	6 – 10	Unified Team
Australia	4 – 8	United States
Germany	7 – 7	France

• 2 August 1992

Czechoslovakia	3 – 9	United States
France	5 – 9	Australia
Germany	7 – 11	Unified Team

• 3 August 1992

United States	11 – 7	France
Germany	15 – 9	Czechoslovakia
Australia	9 – 12	Unified Team

• 5 August 1992

Czechoslovakia	6 – 14	France
United States	5 – 8	Unified Team
Germany	7 – 7	Australia

• 6 August 1992

Australia	15 – 9	Czechoslovakia
United States	7 – 2	Germany
France	5 – 9	Unified Team

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Spain	5	4	1	0	52	36	+16	9
2	Italy	5	3	2	0	41	34	+7	8
3	Hungary	5	2	2	1	49	46	+3	6
4	Cuba	5	2	0	3	50	53	−3	4
5	Netherlands	5	0	2	3	36	46	−10	2
6	Greece	5	0	1	4	32	45	−13	1

• 1 August 1992

Hungary	7 – 7	Italy
Greece	9 – 10	Cuba
Spain	12 – 6	Netherlands

• 2 August 1992

Netherlands	4 – 6	Italy
Cuba	11 – 12	Hungary
Spain	11 – 6	Greece

• 3 August 1992

Italy	11 – 8	Cuba
Greece	4 – 4	Netherlands
Hungary	5 – 8	Spain

• 5 August 1992

Netherlands	9 – 11	Cuba
Greece	7 – 12	Hungary
Spain	9 – 9	Italy

• 6 August 1992

Hungary	13 – 13	Netherlands
Italy	8 – 6	Greece
Spain	12 – 10	Cuba

Final round

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
5	Australia	3	2	1	0	23	20	+3	5
6	Hungary	3	2	0	1	28	27	+1	4
7	Germany	3	1	1	1	24	21	+3	3
8	Cuba	3	0	0	3	22	29	−7	0

• 8 August 1992

Australia	7 – 5	Cuba
Germany	7 – 8	Hungary

• 9 August 1992

Germany	10 – 6	Cuba
Australia	9 – 8	Hungary

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
9	Netherlands	3	2	1	0	28	20	+8	5
10	Greece	3	2	1	0	24	18	+6	5
11	France	3	1	0	2	28	31	−3	2
12	Czechoslovakia	3	0	0	3	22	33	−11	0

• 8 August 1992

France	6 – 10	Greece
Czechoslovakia	8 – 9	Netherlands

• 9 August 1992

Czechoslovakia	8 – 10	Greece
France	8 – 15	Netherlands

Semi finals

• 8 August 1992

Italy	9 – 8	Unified Team
United States	4 – 6	Spain

Bronze medal match

• 9 August 1992

United States	4 – 8	Unified Team

Gold medal match

• 9 August 1992

Spain	8 – 9	Italy

Final ranking

	Italy[1]
	Spain
	Unified Team
4	United States
5	Australia
6	Hungary
7	Germany
8	Cuba
9	Netherlands
10	Greece
11	France
12	Czechoslovakia

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Italy[1] Francesco Attolico Alessandro Bovo Alessandro Campagna Paolo Caldarella Massimiliano Ferretti Giuseppe Porzio Marco D'Altrui Mario Fiorillo Ferdinando Gandolfi Amedeo Pomilio Francesco Porzio Carlo Silipo Gianni Averaimo Head Coach: Ratko Rudić	Spain Daniel Ballart Jesús Rollán Jordi Sans Josep Picó Manuel Estiarte Manuel Silvestre Marco Antonio González Miguel Ángel Oca Pedro Francisco García Ricardo Sánchez Rubén Michavila Salvador Gómez Sergi Pedrerol Head Coach: Dragan Matutinović	Unified Team Sergey Naumov Alexandre Ogorodnikov Aleksandr Chigir Dmitri Apanassenko Andrei Belofastov Evgueni Charonov Dmitry Gorshkov Vladimir Karabutov Aleksandr Kolotov Andriy Kovalenko Nikolay Kozlov Serghei Marcoci Alexei Vdovine Head Coach: Boris Popov