Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held between 20 June and 3 July 2022.

Two competitions were held.^[1]

All time are local (UTC+2).

A total of 16 teams qualified for each tournament.^[2]

Event	Dates	Hosts	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	1	Hungary
2020 Summer Olympics	25 July – 8 August 2021	Tokyo	4	Serbia  Greece  Spain  Croatia
2020 FINA World League	26 June – 1 July 2020	Tbilisi	2	Montenegro  United States
2020 European Championship	14–26 January 2020	Budapest	3	Italy  Russia  Germany  Georgia
2022 Intercontinental Cup (Americas qualifier)	7–13 March 2022	Lima	2	Canada  Brazil
2018 Asian Games	16 August – 1 September 2018	Jakarta	2	Kazakhstan  Japan
African Selection	—	—	1	South Africa
Oceanian Selection	—	—	1	Australia
Total			16

Russia was excluded due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[3]

Event	Dates	Hosts	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	1	Hungary
2020 Summer Olympics	24 July – 7 August 2021	Tokyo	4+1	United States  Spain  Russia  Australia  Netherlands  Canada
2020 FINA World League	14– 19 June 2020	Athens	0	—[note 1]
2020 European Championship	12–25 January 2020	Budapest	3	Italy  Greece  France
2022 Intercontinental Cup (Americas qualifier)	7–13 March 2022	Lima	2	Brazil  Argentina
2018 Asian Games	16 August – 1 September 2018	Jakarta	2	China  Japan  Kazakhstan  Thailand
African Selection	—	—	1	South Africa
Oceanian Selection	—	—	1	New Zealand
Wild card[4]	—	—	1	Colombia
Total			16

Russia was excluded due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[3]
China and Japan withdrew before the tournament.^[4]

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
3	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
5	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	2	6

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Spain [5] Unai Aguirre Alberto Munarriz Álvaro Granados Bernat Sanahuja Miguel de Toro Marc Larumbe Martin Famera Sergi Cabanas Roger Tahull Felipe Perrone (c) Blai Mallarach Alejandro Bustos Eduardo Lorrio Head coach: David Lozano	Italy[6] Marco Del Lungo (c) Francesco Di Fulvio Luca Damonte Matteo Iocchi Gratta Andrea Fondelli Giacomo Canella Luca Marziali Gonzalo Echenique Nicholas Presciutti Lorenzo Bruni Edoardo Di Somma Vincenzo Dolce Gianmarco Nicosia Head coach: Alessandro Campagna	Greece[7] Manos Zerdevas Dinos Genidounias Dimitris Skoumpakis Stathis Kalogeropoulos Yiannis Fountoulis (c) Alexandros Papanastasiou Giorgos Dervisis Stelios Argyropoulos Costas Gouvis Costas Kakaris Dimitris Nikolaidis Angelos Vlachopoulos Panagiotis Tzortzatos Head coach: Thodoris Vlachos
Women details	United States [8] Ashleigh Johnson Madeline Musselman Tara Prentice Rachel Fattal Ava Elizabeth Johnson Margaret Steffens Stephania Haralabidis Ryann Neushul Denise Mammolito Kaleigh Gilchrist Bayley Weber Jordan Raney Amanda Longann Head coach: Adam Krikorian	Hungary [9] Edina Gangl Dorottya Szilágyi Vanda Vályi Gréta Gurisatti Zsuzsanna Máté Rebecca Parkes Geraldine Mahieu Rita Keszthelyi Dóra Leimeter Natasa Rybanska Kamilla Faragó Krisztina Garda Alda Magyari Head coach: Attila Biró	Netherlands [10] Laura Aarts Iris Wolves Brigitte Sleeking Sabrina van der Sloot Lola Moolhuijzen Simone van de Kraats Rozanne Voorvelt Vivian Sevenich Kitty Joustra Ilse Koolhaas Maxine Schaap Nina ten Broek Sarah Buis Head coach: Evangelos Doudesis

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