Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament of water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics at Paris, France will be held from 28 July to 11 August 2024. It will be held at the Paris Aquatic Centre and Paris La Défense Arena. It will be the 28th official appearance of the tournament, which was not held in 1896 and was a demonstration sport in 1904 but otherwise had been held at every Olympics.

Competition format
The twelve teams were seeded into two groups for a preliminary round. The teams in each group play a round-robin. The top four teams in each group advance to the knockout round while the fifth- and sixth- placed teams will be eliminated. The fifth placed teams will be ranked ninth and tenth based on win–loss record, then goal average; the sixth-placed teams will be ranked eleventh and twelfth in the same way. The knockout round will begin with quarterfinals and the winners advance to the semifinals, while the quarterfinal losers play in the fifth- to eighth- place classification. The two semifinal winners play in the gold medal match, while the two semifinal losers played in the bronze medal match.

Schedule
The competition will begin on 28 July, and matches were held every other day.

Draw
The draw took place on 17 February 2024 in Doha, Qatar.

Seeding
The twelve teams in the men's tournament were drawn into two groups of six teams. The teams were seeded into six pots.

Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+2).

Group A


  

  

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Bracket

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Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Bronze medal game
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Gold medal game
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