| Event: | Water polo |
| Games: | 1974 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Aryamehr Swimming Pool |
| Dates: | 2–7 September 1974 |
| Nations: | 7 |
| Prev: | 1970 |
| Next: | 1978 |
Water polo was contested by men's teams at the 1974 Asian Games in Aryamehr Swimming Pool, Tehran, Iran from September 2 to September 7, 1974.
The host team Iran won the gold medal in the round robin competition by having a better goal difference than China and Japan. The winner also qualified for the 1975 World Championships and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
| Men | Firouz Abdolmohammadian Reza Kamrani Abdolreza Majdpour Dariush Movahedi Hossein Nasim Ahmad Peidayesh Morteza Shariat Heidar Shonjani Bahram Tavakkoli Jahangir Tavakkoli Ahmad Yaghouti | Bao Xianliang Li Derong Li Jinkun Lin Li Lin Zhiquan Peng Shaorong Xiang Liande Xie Runchen Xu Lisan Zhao Yinghua Zhong Shenggen | valign=top |
All times are Iran Standard Time
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| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||
| 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||
| 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||
| 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||
| 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |