1981 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

The 1981 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup
FINA Water Polo World Cup
The FINA Water Polo World Cup is an international water polo competition among the top men's national water polo teams of the members of FINA. It was established in 1979 and was held every two years, but it has been contested every four years since 2002....

was the second edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation

International Swimming Federation

Fédération Internationale de Natation is the International Federation recognized by the International Olympic Committee for administering international competition in the aquatic sports...

(FINA). The event took place in Long Beach, United States

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

. The eight participating teams played a round robin to decide the second ever winner of what would be a bi-annual event until 1999.

Results Matrix


	10 – 6	8 – 3	6 – 5	5 – 5	7 – 5	15 – 6	15 – 5
6 – 10		11 – 6	7 – 7	10 – 9	11 – 10	6 – 4	15 – 4
3 – 8	6 – 11		10 – 9	7 – 7	9 – 8	9 – 7	7 – 6
5 – 6	7 – 7	9 – 10		4 – 4	12 – 7	9 – 5	11 – 3
5 – 5	9 – 10	7 – 7	4 – 4		6 – 11	7 – 3	13 – 7
5 – 7	10 – 11	8 – 9	7 – 12	11 – 6		12 – 7	11 – 4
6 – 15	4 – 6	7 – 9	5 – 9	3 – 7	7 – 12		15 – 8
5 – 15	4 – 15	6 – 7	3 – 11	7 – 13	4 – 11	8 – 15

Final standings

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Team	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff
1.	13	7	6	1	0	66	34
2.	11	7	5	1	1	66	50
3.	9	7	4	1	2	51	56	–5
4.	8	7	3	2	2	57	42
5.	7	7	2	3	2	51	47
6.	6	7	3	0	4	64	56
7.	2	7	1	0	6	47	66	–19
8.	0	7	0	0	7	37	87	–50

Final ranking

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