Watch the 2026 Men’s European Water Polo Championships draw live from Belgrade
Watch the Draw Ceremony for the European Water Polo Championships 2026 (EWPC 2026) live on Saturday 13 September 2025 by clicking here at 7pm (CET).
The prestigious White Palace (Beli Dvor) in Belgrade, Serbia, will host the proceedings and will be attended by Serbian water polo greats Filip Filipovic and Milan Aleksic.
The draw will determine the groups for the 16 qualified national teams that will contest the tournament, which will be celebrating its 100-year anniversary in 2026.
According to European Aquatics regulations, the top four nations from the previous championships, Spain, Croatia, Italy and Hungary (Batch 1) will lead the seeding, followed by the teams ranked fifth to eighth, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia and Romania (Batch 2).
They will be joined by the first-ranked qualifiers, France, Georgia, the Netherlands and Slovakia (Batch 3) and the second-ranked qualifiers, Türkiye, Slovenia, Malta and Israel (Batch 4).
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