12 teams, eight men and four women, will be competing with the top four men’s teams and the top four women’s teams earning tickets to the Berlin World Aquatics Water Polo World Cup, Division 2 Qualifier
SINGAPORE — Singapore is currently hosting the Asian Water Polo Championships from 22 Mar to 27 Mar at the OCBC Aquatic Centre at the Singapore Sports Hub, with Asian powerhouses such as Kazakhstan and China joining top Southeast Asian nations like Singapore and Thailand in the tournament that will serve as the qualifying event for the World Aquatics Water Polo World Cup, Division 2 Qualifier that will be held in May in Berlin, Germany.
Singapore men’s team are in Group A alongside Uzbekistan, China and Thailand. In Group B are Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Iran and the Philippines. The men’s will play the round robin, before proceeding to the quarter-finals and semi-finals on the weekend, with the finals taking place on 27 Mar. In the women’s event, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Thailand and Uzbekistan will play each other in a double round-robin format.
The men’s national water polo team comes into the event having won the 2022 Inter Nations Cup, a tournament pitting the best water polo teams in Southeast Asia. They also finished sixth at last year’s Asian Water Polo Championships. At the same event, the women’s team finished fifth in the women’s competition.
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