# Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held between 20 June and 3 July 2022.

## Schedule

Two competitions were held.
All time are local (UTC+2).
| Date | Time | Round |
| 20 June 2022 | 18:00 | Preliminary round |
| 21 June 2022 | 18:00 | Preliminary round |
| 22 June 2022 | 18:00 | Preliminary round |
| 23 June 2022 | 18:00 | Preliminary round |
| 24 June 2022 | 18:00 | Preliminary round |
| 25 June 2022 | 18:00 | Preliminary round |
| 26 June 2022 | 09:00 | Play-offs/Placement matches |
| 27 June 2022 | 09:00 | Play-offs/Placement matches |
| 28 June 2022 | 14:00 | Quarterfinals/Placement matches |
| 29 June 2022 | 14:00 | Quarterfinals/Placement matches |
| 30 June 2022 | 09:00 | Semifinals/Placement matches |
| 1 July 2022 | 09:00 | Semifinals/Placement matches |
| 2 July 2022 | 13:00 | Women's finals |
| 3 July 2022 | 13:00 | Men's finals |

## Qualification

A total of 16 teams qualified for each tournament.

### Men

| Event | Dates | Hosts | Quota | Qualifier(s) |
| Host nation | — | — | 1 | Hungary |
| 2020 Summer Olympics | 25 July – 8 August 2021 | Tokyo | 4 | Serbia Greece Spain Croatia |
| 2020 FINA World League | 26 June – 1 July 2020 | Tbilisi | 2 | Montenegro United States |
| 2020 European Championship | 14–26 January 2020 | Budapest | 3 | Italy Russia Germany Georgia |
| 2022 Intercontinental Cup (Americas qualifier) | 7–13 March 2022 | Lima | 2 | Canada Brazil |
| 2018 Asian Games | 16 August – 1 September 2018 | Jakarta | 2 | Kazakhstan Japan |
| African Selection | — | — | 1 | South Africa |
| Oceanian Selection | — | — | 1 | Australia |
| Total | | | 16 | |
Russia was excluded due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

### Women

| Event | Dates | Hosts | Quota | Qualifier(s) |
| Host nation | — | — | 1 | Hungary |
| 2020 Summer Olympics | 24 July – 7 August 2021 | Tokyo | 4+1 | United States Spain Russia Australia Netherlands Canada |
| 2020 FINA World League | 14– 19 June 2020 | Athens | 0 | — |
| 2020 European Championship | 12–25 January 2020 | Budapest | 3 | Italy Greece France |
| 2022 Intercontinental Cup (Americas qualifier) | 7–13 March 2022 | Lima | 2 | Brazil Argentina |
| 2018 Asian Games | 16 August – 1 September 2018 | Jakarta | 2 | China Japan Kazakhstan Thailand |
| African Selection | — | — | 1 | South Africa |
| Oceanian Selection | — | — | 1 | New Zealand |
| Wild card | — | — | 1 | Colombia |
| Total | | | 16 | |
Russia was excluded due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. China and Japan withdrew before the tournament.
* ↑ With the World League finalists already qualified through the Olympic Rankings, those two spots were re-allocated to the Olympics

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (Hungary)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

### Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Spain Unai Aguirre Alberto Munarriz Álvaro Granados Bernat Sanahuja Miguel de Toro Marc Larumbe Martin Famera Sergi Cabanas Roger Tahull Felipe Perrone (c) Blai Mallarach Alejandro Bustos Eduardo Lorrio Head coach: David Lozano | Italy Marco Del Lungo (c) Francesco Di Fulvio Luca Damonte Matteo Iocchi Gratta Andrea Fondelli Giacomo Canella Luca Marziali Gonzalo Echenique Nicholas Presciutti Lorenzo Bruni Edoardo Di Somma Vincenzo Dolce Gianmarco Nicosia Head coach: Alessandro Campagna | Greece Manos Zerdevas Dinos Genidounias Dimitris Skoumpakis Stathis Kalogeropoulos Yiannis Fountoulis (c) Alexandros Papanastasiou Giorgos Dervisis Stelios Argyropoulos Costas Gouvis Costas Kakaris Dimitris Nikolaidis Angelos Vlachopoulos Panagiotis Tzortzatos Head coach: Thodoris Vlachos |
| Women details | United States Ashleigh Johnson Madeline Musselman Tara Prentice Rachel Fattal Ava Elizabeth Johnson Margaret Steffens Stephania Haralabidis Ryann Neushul Denise Mammolito Kaleigh Gilchrist Bayley Weber Jordan Raney Amanda Longann Head coach: Adam Krikorian | Hungary Edina Gangl Dorottya Szilágyi Vanda Vályi Gréta Gurisatti Zsuzsanna Máté Rebecca Parkes Geraldine Mahieu Rita Keszthelyi Dóra Leimeter Natasa Rybanska Kamilla Faragó Krisztina Garda Alda Magyari Head coach: Attila Biró | Netherlands Laura Aarts Iris Wolves Brigitte Sleeking Sabrina van der Sloot Lola Moolhuijzen Simone van de Kraats Rozanne Voorvelt Vivian Sevenich Kitty Joustra Ilse Koolhaas Maxine Schaap Nina ten Broek Sarah Buis Head coach: Evangelos Doudesis |