2019 FINA Women's Water Polo World League explained

2019 FINA Women's Water Polo World League
League:	FINA Water Polo World League
Sport:	Water Polo
Duration:	3 November 2018 to 9 June 2019
Playoffs:	Super Final
Finals Champ:	(13th title)
Finals Mvp:	Maddie Musselman
Seasonslist:	FINA Women's Water Polo World League
Seasonslistnames:	FINA Women's Water Polo World League
Prevseason Link:	2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League
Prevseason Year:	2018
Nextseason Link:	2020 FINA Women's Water Polo World League
Nextseason Year:	2020

The 2019 FINA Women's Water Polo World League was the 16th edition of the annual women's international water polo tournament. It was played between November 2018 and June 2019 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 4–9 June 2019.^[1]

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

Preliminary rounds

European Preliminaries

• November, 2018 – May, 2019

Group B

Europa Cup Final

• March 29–31, 2019, Turin, Italy

Source: FINA

Quarterfinals

All times are CET (UTC+1).

Semifinals

All times are CET (UTC+1).

5th place match

All times are CET (UTC+1).

Bronze medal match

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Gold medal match

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Final ranking

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Qualified to Super Final

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4
5
6

Intercontinental Cup

• March 23–31, 2019, Perth, Australia

Group B

5th–8th place bracket

Championship bracket

Bronze medal match

^[2]
All times are AWST (UTC+8).

Gold medal match

^[2]
All times are AWST (UTC+8).

Final ranking

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Qualified to Super Final

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4
5
6
7
8

Super Final

• June 4–9, 2019, Budapest, Hungary

Venue

Budapest
Danube Arena
Capacity: 12,500 expanded

Qualified teams

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Seeding

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(1st Europa Cup) (4th Europa Cup) (2nd ICC) (3rd ICC)	(1st ICC) (4th ICC) (2nd Europa Cup) (3rd Europa Cup)

Preliminary round

Group A

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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Group B

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

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Final round

5th–8th place bracket

5th–8th place classification

^[3]
All times are CEST (UTC+2).

7th place match

^[4]
All times are CEST (UTC+2).

5th place match

^[4]
All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Championship bracket

Quarterfinals

^[5]
All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Semifinals

^[3]
All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Bronze medal match

^[4]
All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Gold medal match

^[4]
All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Final ranking

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Qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics

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4
5
6
7
8

Team RosterAmanda Longan, Maddie Musselman, Melissa Seidemann, Rachel Fattal, Paige Hauschild, Maggie Steffens (C), Jamie Neushul, Kiley Neushul, Aria Fischer, Kaleigh Gilchrist, Makenzie Fischer, Alys Williams, Ashleigh Johnson, Jordan Raney, Stephania Haralabidis. Head coach: Adam Krikorian.

Individual awards

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• Most Valuable Player
  • Maddie Musselman
• Best Goalkeeper
  • Laura Aarts
• Top Scorer
  • Maud Megens Rita Keszthelyi - 17 goals

External links

• Media book 2019

Notes and References

1. wwl . dmy .
2. Web site: Australia and USA claim Intercontinental Cups in Perth . FINA.org . March 31, 2019.
3. Web site: USA and Italy will clash for highest honours. 5 years after. . FINA.org . June 9, 2019.
4. Web site: USA reigns supreme at the Super Final for the 13th time . FINA.org . June 10, 2019.
5. Web site: The USA, the Netherlands, Russia and Italy hope for more history . FINA.org . June 8, 2019 .
6. Web site: QUALIFIED! USA Women Punch Ticket To Tokyo With Super Final Gold . USAwaterpolo.org . June 9, 2019.