2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship

The 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship was held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Serbia won their seventh, and third straight, title by defeating the Montenegro 10–8 in the final. Hungary captured the bronze medal after a 13–10 win over Greece.

Qualification
For the first time, the tournament will be contested by 16 countries (12 previously). The 16 teams qualified as follows:
 * The host nation
 * The best seven teams from the 2014 European Championships not already qualified as the host nation
 * eight qualifiers

Format
The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams. All teams advance to the knockout stage, from which on a knockout-system will be used to determine the final positions..

Draw
The draw was held on 4 October 2015.

Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+1).

Knockout stage

 * 5th place bracket


 * 9th place bracket


 * 13th place bracket

Top goalscorers
Source: wpbelgrade2016.microplustiming.com