Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

The following is the list of squads that took part in the men's water polo tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Australia
The following players represented Australia:


 * Michael Withers
 * Tom Hoad
 * David Woods
 * Peter Montgomery
 * Ian McLauchlain
 * Robert Menzies
 * David Neesham
 * Les Nunn
 * Nicky Barnes
 * Leon Wiegard
 * Bill Tilley

Bulgaria
The following players represented Bulgaria:


 * Biser Naumov
 * Ivan Kovachev
 * Aleksandar Shintser
 * Toma Tomov
 * Plamen Brankov
 * Mladen Khristov
 * Nedelcho Yordanov
 * Vasil Tomov
 * Andrey Konstantinov
 * Matey Popov
 * Lyubomir Runtov

Canada
The following players represented Canada:


 * William Van der Pol
 * Alan Pyle
 * Rick Pugliese
 * Clifford Barry
 * Donald Packer
 * Stephen Hart
 * Jack Gauldie
 * Robert Thompson
 * David Hart
 * Gabor Csepregi
 * Guy Leclerc

Cuba
The following players represented Cuba:


 * Oscar Periche
 * David Rodríguez
 * Jorge Rizo
 * Guillermo Martínez Ginoris
 * Orlando Cowley
 * Eugenio Almenteros
 * Carlos Sánchez
 * Gerardo Rodríguez
 * Osvaldo García
 * Guillermo Cañete
 * Jesús Pérez

Greece
The following players represented Greece:


 * Dimitrios Konstas
 * Georgios Theodorakopoulos
 * Evangelos Voultsos
 * Kyriakos Iosifidis
 * Dimitrios Kougevetopoulos
 * Periklis Damaskos
 * Thomas Karalogos
 * Ioannis Karalogos
 * Efstathios Sarantos
 * Ioannis Palios
 * Panagiotis Mikhalos

Hungary
The following players represented Hungary:


 * Endre Molnár
 * Tibor Cservenyák
 * András Bodnár
 * István Görgényi
 * Zoltán Kásás
 * Tamás Faragó
 * László Sárosi
 * István Szivós Jr.
 * István Magas
 * Dénes Pócsik
 * Ferenc Konrád

Italy
The following players represented Italy:


 * Alberto Alberani Samaritani
 * Eraldo Pizzo
 * Roldano Simeoni
 * Mario Cevasco
 * Alessandro Ghibellini
 * Gianni De Magistris
 * Guglielmo Marsili
 * Silvio Baracchini
 * Franco Lavoratori
 * Sante Marsili
 * Ferdinando Lignano

Japan
The following players represented Japan:


 * Yukiharu Oshita
 * Hirokatsu Kuwayama
 * Toshio Takahashi
 * Shuzo Yajima
 * Hiroshi Hashimoto
 * Koji Nakano
 * Naoto Minegishi
 * Tatsuo Jihira
 * Takashi Kimura
 * Yoshihiro Yasumi
 * Toru Arase

Mexico
The following players represented Mexico:


 * Daniel Gómez
 * Francisco García
 * Maximiliano Aguilar
 * Raúl Alanis
 * Arturo Valencia
 * Juan Manuel García
 * Armando Fernández
 * Alfredo Sauza
 * Ricardo Chapa
 * Víctor García
 * Rafael Azpeitia

Netherlands
The following players represented the Netherlands:


 * Evert Kroon
 * Hans Wouda
 * Jan Evert Veer
 * Hans Hoogveld
 * Wim Hermsen
 * Hans Parrel
 * Ton Schmidt
 * Mart Bras
 * Ton Buunk
 * Gijze Stroboer
 * Wim van de Schilde

Romania
The following players represented Romania:


 * Şerban Huber
 * Bogdan Mihăilescu
 * Gheorghe Zamfirescu
 * Gruia Novac
 * Dinu Popescu
 * Claudiu Rusu
 * Iosif Culineac
 * Cornel Rusu
 * Viorel Rus
 * Radu Lazăr
 * Cornel Frăţilă

Soviet Union
The following players represented the Soviet Union:


 * Vadim Gulyayev
 * Anatoly Akimov
 * Aleksandr Dreval
 * Aleksandr Dolgushin
 * Vladimir Zhmudsky
 * Aleksandr Kabanov
 * Oleksiy Barkalov
 * Aleksandr Shidlovsky
 * Nikolay Melnikov
 * Leonid Osipov
 * Viacheslav Sobchenko

Spain
The following players represented Spain:


 * Salvador Franch
 * Juan Rubio
 * Juan Sans
 * Juan Jané
 * Alfonso Cánovas
 * Gabriel Soler
 * Poncio Puigdevall
 * Enrique Guardia
 * José Padrós
 * Gaspar Ventura
 * Luis Bestit

United States
The following players represented the United States:


 * James Slatton
 * Stan Cole
 * Russ Webb
 * Barry Weitzenberg
 * Gary Sheerer
 * Bruce Bradley
 * Peter Asch
 * Jim Ferguson
 * Steve Barnett
 * John Parker
 * Eric Lindroth

West Germany
The following players represented West Germany:


 * Gerd Olbert
 * Hermann Haverkamp
 * Peter Teicher
 * Kurt Küpper
 * Günter Wolf
 * Ingulf Nossek
 * Ludger Weeke
 * Kurt Schuhmann
 * Jürgen Stiefel
 * Hans Simon
 * Hans Hoffmeister

Yugoslavia
The following players represented Yugoslavia:


 * Karlo Stipanić
 * Ratko Rudić
 * Ozren Bonačić
 * Uroš Marović
 * Ronald Lopatni
 * Zoran Janković
 * Siniša Belamarić
 * Dušan Antunović
 * Đorđe Perišić
 * Mirko Sandić
 * Miloš Marković