2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League explained
| 2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League |
| League: | FINA Water Polo World League |
| Sport: | Water Polo |
| Duration: | 21 November 2017 to
2 June 2018 |
| Playoffs: | Super Final |
| Finals Champ: | (12th title) |
| Finals Mvp: | Sabrina van der Sloot |
| Seasonslist: | FINA Women's Water Polo World League |
| Seasonslistnames: | FINA Women's Water Polo World League |
| Prevseason Link: | 2017 FINA Women's Water Polo World League |
| Prevseason Year: | 2017 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2019 FINA Women's Water Polo World League |
| Nextseason Year: | 2019 |
The 2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League was the 15th edition of the annual women's international water polo tournament. It was played between November 2017 and June 2018 and open to all women's water polo national teams. After participating in a preliminary round, eight teams qualified to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final from 28 May to 2 June 2018.[1] [2]
In the world league, there are specific rules that do not allow matches to end in a draw. If teams are level at the end of the 4th quarter of any world league match, the match will be decided by a penalty shootout. Teams earn points in the standings in group matches as follows:
- Match won in normal time - 3 points
- Match won in shootout - 2 points
- Match lost in shootout - 1 point
- Match lost in normal time - 0 points
Europe
- November 21, 2017 – May 1, 2018
Inter-Continental Cup
Group B
- 5th–8th place bracket
- Championship bracket
Final ranking
| width=10px bgcolor=#bbf3bb | | width=150px | Qualified to Super Final | |
Super Final
May 28 – June 2, 2018, Kunshan, China
In the Super Final the eight qualifying teams are split into two groups of four teams with all teams progressing to the knock-out stage.[3]
Qualified teams
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Seeding
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(2nd ICC)
(1st Europe)
(4th ICC) (Host)
(3rd Europe) | (1st ICC)
(2nd Europe)
(3rd ICC)
(5th ICC) | |
Preliminary round
Group A
All times are CST (UTC+8)
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Group B
All times are CST (UTC+8)
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Final round
- 5th–8th place bracket
5th–8th place classification
All times are CST (UTC+8)
7th place match
All times are CST (UTC+8)
5th place match
All times are CST (UTC+8)
- Championship bracket
Quarterfinals
[4]
All times are CST (UTC+8)
Semifinals
[5]
All times are CST (UTC+8)
Bronze medal match
[6]
All times are CST (UTC+8)
Gold medal match
[6]
All times are CST (UTC+8)
Final ranking
[6]
- Team RosterAshleigh Johnson, Brigitta Games, Melissa Seidemann, Rachel Fattal, Paige Hauschild, Maggie Steffens (C), Kaleigh Gilchrist, Kiley Neushul, Aria Fischer, Jamie Neushul, Stephania Haralabidis, Alys Williams, Gabby Stone. Head coach: Adam Krikorian.
Individual awards
[6]
- Most Valuable Player
- Best Goalkeeper
- Top Scorer
- - 15 goals
Notes
- wwl . dmy .
- http://www.fina.org/event/fina-womens-water-polo-world-league-2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League 2018
- http://www.fina.org/event/women-super-final-2018 Women Super Final 2018
- http://www.fina.org/news/usa-russia-canada-netherlands-water-polo-super-final-semifinals “USA-Russia, Canada-Netherlands in Water Polo Super Final semifinals“
- http://www.fina.org/news/usa-netherlands-out-gold-fina-womens-water-polo-super-finala “USA-Netherlands out for gold in FINA Women's Water Polo Super Final“
- http://www.fina.org/news/usa-retains-fina-womens-water-polo-super-final-kunshan “USA retains FINA Women's Water Polo Super Final in Kunshan“
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