2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

The 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was the twelfth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in the Tašmajdan Swimming Pool in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from August 20 to August 25, 2002. Participating teams were the eight best teams from the last World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (2001).

The FINA Cup in Belgrade decided which teams qualified directly to the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain from July 13 to July 27, 2003. Russia and Hungary, as well as the host Spain, already qualified based on the results from the 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World League (June 28 – August 4, 2002).

Teams
The top eight teams from the previous World Aquatic Championship have qualified.

Seeding
Following ranking of the 2001 World Championship

Group A

 * August 20, 2002


 * August 21, 2002


 * August 22, 2002

Group B

 * August 20, 2002


 * August 21, 2002


 * August 22, 2002

Quarterfinals

 * August 23, 2002

Semifinals

 * August 24, 2002

Finals

 * August 23, 2002 &mdash; Seventh place


 * August 24, 2002 &mdash; Fifth place


 * August 25, 2002 &mdash; Third place


 * August 25, 2002 &mdash; First place

Final ranking

 * Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and the United States qualified for the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. Russia and Hungary, as well as the host Spain, already qualified.

Individual awards

 * Most Valuable Player
 * 🇭🇺 Tamás Kásás (HUN)
 * Best Goalkeeper
 * 🇷🇺 Nikolai Maximov (RUS)
 * Topscorer
 * 🇭🇺 Tamás Kásás (HUN) &mdash; 13 goals


 * Teo Đogaš
 * Nikola Franković
 * Hrvoje Herceg
 * Igor Hinić
 * Hrvoje Koljanin


 * Aljoša Kunač
 * Ivan Milaković
 * Dalibor Perčinić
 * Danijel Premuš
 * Tomislav Primorac

Head coach:
 * Ratko Štritof
 * Goran Volarević
 * Tihomil Vranješ
 * Veselin Đuho


 * Christos Afroudakis
 * Theodoros Chatzitheodorou
 * Nikolaos Deligiannis
 * Theodoros Kalakonas
 * Konstantinos Loudis


 * Dimitrios Mazis
 * Georgios Reppas
 * Stefanos Santa
 * Anastasios Schizas
 * Argyris Theodoropoulos

Head coach:
 * Ioannis Thomakos
 * Dimitrios Tsiklos
 * Antonios Vlontakis
 * Takis Michalos


 * Alberto Angelini
 * Fabio Bencivenga
 * Leonardo Binchi
 * Fabrizio Buonocore
 * Alessandro Calcaterra


 * Roberto Calcaterra
 * Maurizio Felugo
 * Francesco Ferrari
 * Goran Fiorentini
 * Federico Mistrangelo

Head coach:
 * Francesco Postiglione
 * Bogdan Rath
 * Stefano Tempesti
 * Alessandro Campagna


 * Attila Bárány
 * Tibor Benedek
 * Péter Biros
 * Rajmund Fodor
 * Tamás Kásás


 * Gergely Katonás
 * Gergely Kiss
 * Zoltán Kovács
 * Csaba Kiss
 * Tamás Molnár

Head coach:
 * Barnabás Steinmetz
 * Zoltán Szécsi
 * Attila Vári
 * Dénes Kemény


 * Revaz Chomakhidze
 * Denis Denisov
 * Aleksandr Fyodorov
 * Serguei Garbouzov
 * Dmitry Gorshkov


 * Nikolay Kozlov
 * Nikolay Maximov
 * Andrei Reketchinski
 * Dmitri Stratan
 * Yuri Yatsev

Head coach:
 * Alexander Yerishev
 * Marat Zakirov
 * Irek Zinnourov
 * Aleksandr Kabanov


 * Tony Azevedo
 * Ryan Bailey
 * Layne Beaubien
 * Larry Felix
 * Peter Hudnut


 * Dan Klatt
 * Genai Kerr
 * Merrill Moses
 * Jeff Powers
 * Chris Segesman

Head coach:
 * Jesse Smith
 * Wolf Wigo
 * Adam Wright
 * Ratko Rudić


 * Aleksandar Ćirić
 * Danilo Ikodinović
 * Nikola Janović
 * Viktor Jelenić
 * Nikola Kuljača


 * Aleksandar Šapić
 * Dejan Savić
 * Denis Šefik
 * Petar Trbojević
 * Vanja Udovičić

Head coach:
 * Vladimir Vujasinović
 * Nenad Vukanić
 * Boris Zloković
 * Nenad Manojlović