The 2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World League was the fifth edition of the annual event

FINA Water Polo World League

The FINA Water Polo World League began in 2002 to capitalize on increased worldwide popularity of water polo created by recent Olympic Games, especially in Europe, North America and Australia. Competition between the world’s best male players began on national teams in a season format with a prize...

, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA

Fina

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. After a preliminary round and a semifinal round, the Super Final was held in Athens

Athens

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, Greece

Greece

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.

Preliminary round

Three teams from each pool advanced to the semifinal round. The semifinal round hosts (Spain and the United States) were guaranteed qualification, as was the Super Final host (Greece).

Group A

Rank	Team	G	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1		6	6	0	0	0	76	42	+34	18
2		6	3	0	0	3	70	68	+2	9
3		6	2	0	0	4	49	63	–14	6
4		6	1	0	0	5	64	86	–22	3

Group B

Rank	Team	G	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1		2	2	0	0	0	29	13	+16	6
2		2	1	0	0	1	18	21	–3	3
2		6	0	0	0	2	8	21	–13	0

Group C

Rank	Team	G	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1		6	4	0	0	2	64	54	+10	12
2		6	4	0	0	2	74	57	+17	12
3		6	3	0	0	3	56	69	–13	9
4		6	1	0	0	5	50	64	–14	3

Group D

Rank	Team	G	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1		6	4	1	0	1	64	57	+7	14
2		6	4	0	0	2	55	51	+4	12
3		6	2	0	1	3	54	62	–8	7
4		6	1	0	0	5	55	58	–3	3

Semifinal round

Three teams from each pool advanced to the final round. The final round hosts (Greece) were guaranteed qualification.

Group A

Rank	Team	G	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1		5	4	1	0	0	67	22	+45	14
2		5	4	0	1	0	54	27	+27	13
3		5	3	0	0	2	35	35	0	9
4		5	2	0	0	3	25	50	–25	6
5		5	1	0	0	4	35	49	–14	3
6		5	0	0	0	5	24	57	–33	0

Group B

Rank	Team	G	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1		5	5	0	0	0	54	29	+25	15
2		5	4	0	0	1	55	37	+18	12
3		5	3	0	0	2	47	35	+12	9
4		5	2	0	0	3	36	45	–2	6
5		5	1	0	0	4	37	55	–18	3
6		5	0	0	0	5	33	61	–28	0

Group round

The top two teams advanced to the final, while the other four played for bronze.

Rank	Team	G	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1		5	5	0	0	0	68	34	+34	15
2		5	4	0	0	1	53	33	+20	12
3		5	2	1	0	2	41	46	–5	8
4		5	2	0	0	3	43	51	–8	6
5		5	1	0	1	3	44	47	–3	4
6		5	0	0	0	5	33	71	–38	0

3rd to 6th place playoffs

	10–10 (4–3 p.)
	14–7

5th place match

11-4

Bronze medal match

11–10

Gold medal match

6–4

Final ranking

Rank	Team
4
5
6