2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup
The 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was the twelfth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation. The event took place in the Tašmajdan Swimming Pool in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from August 20 to August 25, 2002. Participating teams were the eight best teams from the last World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
The FINA Cup in Belgrade decided which teams qualified directly to the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain from July 13 to July 27, 2003. Russia and Hungary, as well as the host Spain, already qualified based on the results from the 2002 FINA Men's Water Polo World League.Teams
;Group A
;Group B
- Teo Đogaš
- Nikola Franković
- Hrvoje Herceg
- Igor Hinić
- Hrvoje Koljanin
- Aljoša Kunač
- Ivan Milaković
- Dalibor Perčinić
- Danijel Premuš
- Tomislav Primorac
- Ratko Štritof
- Goran Volarević
- Tihomil Vranješ
Head Coach:
- Veselin Đuho
- Christos Afroudakis
- Theodoros Chatzitheodorou
- Nikolaos Deligiannis
- Theodoros Kalakonas
- Konstantinos Loudis
- Dimitrios Mazis
- Georgios Reppas
- Stefanos Santa
- Anastasios Schizas
- Argyris Theodoropoulos
- Ioannis Thomakos
- Dimitrios Tsiklos
- Antonios Vlontakis
Head Coach:
- Takis Michalos
- Alberto Angelini
- Fabio Bencivenga
- Leonardo Binchi
- Fabrizio Buonocore
- Alessandro Calcaterra
- Roberto Calcaterra
- Maurizio Felugo
- Francesco Ferrari
- Goran Fiorentini
- Federico Mistrangelo
- Francesco Postiglione
- Bogdan Rath
- Stefano Tempesti
Head Coach:
- Alessandro Campagna
- Attila Bárány
- Tibor Benedek
- Péter Biros
- Rajmund Fodor
- Tamás Kásás
- Gergely Katonás
- Gergely Kiss
- Zoltán Kovács
- Csaba Kiss
- Tamás Molnár
- Barnabás Steinmetz
- Zoltán Szécsi
- Attila Vári
Head Coach:
- Dénes Kemény
- Revaz Chomakhidze
- Denis Denisov
- Aleksandr Fyodorov
- Serguei Garbouzov
- Dmitry Gorshkov
- Nikolay Kozlov
- Nikolay Maximov
- Andrei Reketchinski
- Dmitri Stratan
- Yuri Yatsev
- Alexander Yerishev
- Marat Zakirov
- Irek Zinnourov
Head Coach:
- Aleksandr Kabanov
- Tony Azevedo
- Ryan Bailey
- Layne Beaubien
- Larry Felix
- Peter Hudnut
- Dan Klatt
- Genai Kerr
- Merrill Moses
- Jeff Powers
- Chris Segesman
- Jesse Smith
- Wolf Wigo
- Adam Wright
Head Coach:
- Ratko Rudić
- Aleksandar Ćirić
- Danilo Ikodinović
- Nikola Janović
- Viktor Jelenić
- Nikola Kuljača
- Aleksandar Šapić
- Dejan Savić
- Denis Šefik
- Petar Trbojević
- Vanja Udovičić
- Vladimir Vujasinović
- Nenad Vukanić
- Boris Zloković
Head Coach:
- Nenad Manojlović
Preliminary round
Group A
- August 20, 2002
- August 21, 2002
- August 22, 2002
Group B
- August 20, 2002
- August 21, 2002
- August 22, 2002
Quarterfinals
- August 23, 2002
Semifinals
- August 24, 2002
Finals
- August 23, 2002 — Seventh place
- August 24, 2002 — Fifth place
- August 25, 2002 — Third place
- August 25, 2002 — First place
----Final ranking