2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League

2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World League
LeagueFINA Water Polo World League
SportWater Polo
Duration21 November 2017 to
2 June 2018
Super Final
Finals champions United States (12th title)
  Runners-up Netherlands
Finals MVPNetherlands Sabrina van der Sloot

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
  1. ^ "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 78. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ FINA Women's Water Polo World League 2018 fina.org

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