| Event: | Water polo |
| Games: | 1958 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Metropolitan Indoor Swimming Pool |
| Dates: | 28–31 May 1958 |
| Nations: | 5 |
| Prev: | 1954 |
| Next: | 1962 |
Water polo was contested for men only at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan from May 28 to May 31, 1958 at the Metropolitan Indoor Swimming Pool.
The host nation Japan won the gold medal in a round robin competition, Singapore finished second and won the bronze medal while Indonesia finished on third place.
| ● | Round | ● | Last round |
| Event↓/Date → | 28th Wed | 29th Thu | 30th Fri | 31st Sat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Men | Hachiro Arakawa Kanji Asanuma Toshio Hashimoto Mineo Kato Motonobu Miyamura Hiroshi Ono Kensuke Sato Takanao Sato Masakazu Sawamura Koki Takagi Tsutomu Yusa | valign=top | Lionel Chee Gan Eng Guan Gan Eng Teck Andrew Lim Barry Mitchell Derek Mitchell Tan Eng Bock Tan Eng Liang Thio Gim Hock Eric Yeo | valign=top | Benjamin Idris Kuswara Liem Siong Lien Lim Sing Lok Lim Sing Poen Oei Teng Pie Rudy Oen Tio Tjoe Hong Nicolaas Winter |
All times are Japan Standard Time ------------------------------------
| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||||||
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |