Ukraine women's national water polo team

Ukraine
FINA codeUKR
AssociationUkrainian Swimming Federation
ConfederationLEN (Europe)

The Ukraine women's national water polo team represents Ukraine in international women's water polo competitions. The team has never qualified for a major international event (Olympics, World and European Championships). In 2023, the team debuted in the World Cup. The team never competed in the World League.

Summer Olympics qualification tournaments

Ukraine women's national team qualified for the 2007 Women's European Water Polo Olympic Qualifier but finished last after losing all games.

European Championships qualification tournaments

Ukraine women's national team debuted in the qualification for the 1999 European Championships. The team played in group B and lost all their matches (against Greece, Germany, and Great Britain).[1]

In 2006, the team played in the qualifiers but finished last in their group (behind Greece, Spain, and Czech Republic).

During the 2012 qualifiers, Ukraine managed to secure two victories against Israel but lost to Spain and Great Britain, thus losing chances to qualify for the European Championships. Ukraine was drafted for the 2014 qualifiers in the group with the Netherlands, Great Britain, Portugal, and Israel. One victory over Israel was not enough to get through to the continental championships. Ukraine did not enter the qualifications for the 2016 European Championships.

In the playoffs of the 2018 qualifiers, Ukraine lost both matches (8–10 and 1–6) to Serbia after having hosted the Qualifying round 1 in Kyiv.[2][3][4] The next qualifiers were unsuccessful, too. Ukraine did not manage to overcome France.[5] During the 2022 qualifiers, Ukraine managed to play a draw with Ireland only and finished behind Germany, Romania, and Slovakia (the first two qualified for the Europeans).[6]

Ukraine is expected to face Serbia and the Czech Republic in the first round of the 2024 qualifiers.[7]

Competitive record

FINA World League

  • 2023 – 8th place (Division 2)

European Water Polo Championship

Year P W D L GF GA GD Rank ECh Qual P W D L GF GA GD Rank
1993 United Kingdom Leeds Did not enter 1993–1997 No separate qualification
1995 Austria Vienna
1997 Spain Sevilla
1999 Italy Prato Did not qualify 1999 3 0 0 3 23 46 −23 4/4
2001 Hungary Budapest 2001 3 0 0 3 8 28 −20 4/4
2003 Slovenia Ljubljana 2003 3 0 0 3 18 51 −33 4/4
2006 Serbia Belgrade 2006 3 0 0 3 16 52 −36 4/4
2008 Spain Málaga 2008 3 0 0 3 12 39 −17 4/4
2010 Croatia Zagreb 2010 3 0 0 3 11 51 −40 4/4
2012 Netherlands Eindhoven 2012 6 2 0 4 57 93 −36 3/4
2014 Hungary Budapest 2014 4 1 0 3 23 64 −41 4/5
2016 Serbia Belgrade Did not enter 2016 Did not enter
2018 Spain Barcelona Did not qualify 2018 8 3 0 5 53 51 +2 4/7 + play-off
2020 Hungary Budapest 2020 7 0 1 6 35 75 −40 6/6 + play-off
2022 Croatia Split 2022 4 0 1 3 28 57 −29 4/5
2024 Netherlands Eindhoven 2024 2 0 0 2 8 32 −24 3/3
2026 Serbia Belgrade Future event 2026 Future event

European B Championships

Year P W D L GF GA GD Rank ECh Qual P W D L GF GA GD Rank
1996 Portugal Lisbon 4 1 0 3 19 28 −9 4/7 1996–2002 No qualification
1998 Czech Republic Prague 5 ? ? ? ?? ?? ? 4/9
2000 Denmark Odense 5 3 0 2 35 29 +6 2/8
2002 Czech Republic Prague 5 4 0 1 39 28 +11 2/8
2004 France Nancy 6 3 0 3 40 32 +8 3/8 2004 Bye
2007 Czech Republic Prague 6 5 0 1 78 37 +41 3/9 2007–2009 No qualification
2009 United Kingdom Manchester 6 3 0 3 57 53 +4 3/8

Head-to-head record

As of 25 June 2023. The data is incomplete since the results of the 1998 (Ireland, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Belarus - semifinal, Czech Republic - final) European B Championships are missing. The statistics considers all games played in the qualification for European Championships since 1999, European B Championships since 1996, 2008 European Water Polo Olympic Qualifier as well as 2023 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup.

Against Played Won Drawn Lost GF GA GD
Belarus Belarus 3 3 0 0 25 12 +13
Bulgaria Bulgaria 1 1 0 0 20 3 +17
Croatia Croatia 1 0 0 1 6 7 −1
Czech Republic Czech Republic 12 3 0 9 90 118 −28
Denmark Denmark 2 1 0 1 11 7 +4
France France 6 0 0 6 26 78 −52
Germany Germany 6 0 0 6 37 91 −54
United Kingdom Great Britain 9 1 0 8 51 96 −45
Greece Greece 5 0 0 5 21 102 −81
Republic of Ireland Ireland 1 0 1 0 8 8 0
Israel Israel 6 4 0 2 57 60 −3
Italy Italy 2 0 0 2 8 41 −33
Malta Malta 1 1 0 0 9 2 +7
Netherlands Netherlands 1 0 0 1 2 26 −24
Portugal Portugal 6 3 0 3 43 45 −2
Romania Romania 3 1 1 1 24 24 0
Serbia Serbia 3 0 0 3 10 35 −25
Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro 1 0 0 1 7 8 −1
Slovakia Slovakia 5 2 0 3 28 4 +24
South Africa South Africa 1 0 0 1 6 19 −13
Spain Spain 5 0 0 5 27 97 −70
Sweden Sweden 1 0 0 1 5 7 −2
Switzerland Switzerland 6 5 0 1 76 37 +39
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan 1 0 0 1 10 11 −1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 1 0 0 1 5 13 −8
Total: 25 nations 89 25 2 62 612 951 −339

Junior and Youth national teams

Kamianske (officially Dniprodzerzhynsk at that time) hosted the 2010 European Women's U19 Championships. Ukraine finished 14th (last) at the tournament.[8]

References

  1. ^ Women Water Polo European Championship 1999 Qualification.
  2. ^ Ukraine national team completed its competition in the qualification for the European Championships, Ukraine Water Polo Federation, 9 October 2017 (in Ukrainian).
  3. ^ European Water Polo Championships 2018, Qualification Women - Day 3 (with photos), Ukraine Water Polo Federation, 6 October 2017 (in Ukrainian).
  4. ^ European Water Polo Championships 2018, Qualification Women - Day 1 (with photos), Ukraine Water Polo Federation, 4 October 2017 (in Ukrainian).
  5. ^ Water Polo: Women's National Team Suffered a Crushing Defeat in the Match against France, sport.ua, 12 October 2019 (in Ukrainian).
  6. ^ Results of the 2022 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers, Ukraine Water Polo Federation, 20 February 2022 (in Ukrainian).
  7. ^ European Championships for adults, U17 and U15: draw allotments, Ukraine Water Polo Federation, 1 April 2023 (in Ukrainian).
  8. ^ 2010 European Women's U19 Water Polo Championships