| | Event type

Water Polo, Men

Date	8 – 15 August 1936
Status	Olympic
Location	Schwimmstadion, Reichssportfeld, Berlin
Participants	142 from 16 countries
Format	Series of round-robin elimination pools, followed by round-robin semi-final pools, and then round-robin final pools.

Hungary was the clear favorite, having won four straight European Championships, the most recent in 1934, and was the defending champion. Their biggest challenge was expected to come from the host Germans, runner-up in 1932, champions in 1928, and silver medalist at the Europeans in 1931 and 1934.

The four first round groups were won by Hungary, Germany, Austria, and Belgium. In the semi-finals, Hungary won Group A and Germany Group B, as both favorites made it to the final round without losing a game. When the two favorites met, it resulted in a 2-2 tie, and the pool ended with both teams winning one other game, losing one other, and carrying over a win from the previous rounds, but Hungary won the gold medal on goal differential.

Belgium took bronze, their sixth Olympic medal in the sport, but with no golds. As of 2024, it was also their last Olympic water polo medal.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals	Goals
1	–	Hungary	HUN	7	6	1	0	13	44-4	–	Gold
	414	Mihály Bozsi		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	8
	415	Jenő Brandi		5	–	–	–	–	–-–	6
	416	György Bródy		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	417	Olivér Halassy		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	6
	418	Kálmán Hazai		5	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	419	Márton Homonnai		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	420	György Kutasi		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	421	János Németh		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	20
	422	István Molnár		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	423	Miklós Sárkány		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	424	Sándor Tarics		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	4
Coach		László Beleznai
2	–	Germany	GER	7	6	1	0	13	40-8	–	Silver
	522	Bernhard Baier		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	523	Itze Gunst		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	524	Josef Hauser		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	2
	525	Alfred Kienzle		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	526	Paul Klingenburg		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	527	Heinrich Krug		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	528	Hans Schneider		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	22
	529	Hans Schulze		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	8
	530	Gustav Schürger		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	531	Helmut Schwenn		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	7
	532	Fritz Stolze		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
3	–	Belgium	BEL	7	4	1	2	9	16-13	–	Bronze
	25	Gérard Blitz		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	2		1
	26	Albert Casteleyns		5	–	–	–	–	–-–	5		2
	27	Pierre Coppieters		4	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		3
	28	Joseph De Combe		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	29	Henri De Pauw		4	–	–	–	–	–-–	2		4
	30	Henri Disy		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	31	Fernand Isselé		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	4		5
	33	Edmond Michiels		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	2		6
	34	Henri Stoelen		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Frank Matthys DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	John Van den Bossche DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
4	–	France	FRA	7	4	0	3	8	19-21	–
	116	André Busch		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	4		7
	119	Georges Delporte		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	120	René Joder		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	2		8
	121	Paul Lambert		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	122	Maurice Lefèbvre		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		9
	123	Henri Padou, Sr.		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		10
	125	Roger Vandecasteele		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	11		11
	–	Eric Cremers DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Jacques Cuvilly DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Marco Diener DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Léon Thibaud DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
5	–	Netherlands	NED	7	3	3	1	9	18-23	–
	181	Kees van Aelst		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	9		12
	182	Lex Franken		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	3		13
	183	Ru den Hamer		4	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	184	Jan van Heteren		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		14
	185	Hans Maier		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	5		15
	186	Soesoe van Oostrom Soede		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	187	Gé Regter		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	188	Herman Veenstra		5	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	189	Joop van Woerkom		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Hans Stam DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Bertus Mooi Wilten DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Frans Kuijper
6	–	Austria	AUT	7	3	1	3	7	27-16	–
	303	Wilhelm Hawlik		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	3
	304	Sebastian Ploner		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	2
	305	Alfred Lergetporer		4	–	–	–	–	–-–	8
	306	Peter Riedl		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	2
	306	Franz Schönfels		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	10
	307	Otto Müller		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	308	Anton Kunz		4	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	310	Franz Wenninger		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	311	Ervin Blasl		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	312	Karl Steinbach		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	313	Karl Seitz		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
7	–	Sweden	SWE	7	3	0	4	6	27-14	–
	344	Göte Andersson		5	–	–	–	–	–-–	6		16
	345	Bertil Berg		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	346	Erik Holm		5	–	–	–	–	–-–	7		17
	347	Tore Lindzén		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	3		18
	348	Tore Ljungqvist		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	3		19
	349	Åke Nauman		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	350	Gösta Persson		4	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		20
	351	Runor Sandström		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		21
	353	Georg Svensson		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	5		22
	–	Sven Pettersson		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		23
	–	Sigurd Sjöström DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
8	–	Great Britain	GBR	7	2	2	3	6	23-32	–
	153	Les Ablett		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	154	Ernie Blake		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	155	David Grogan		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	156	David McGregor		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	157	Bill Martin		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	5
	158	Bobby Mitchell		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	4
	159	Freddie Milton		4	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	160	Alfred North		4	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	161	Leslie Palmer		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	162	Reg Sutton		7	–	–	–	–	–-–	13
	163	Ted Temme		6	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
Coach		John Hodgson
=9	–	United States	USA	3	1	0	2	2	7-8	–
	474	Kenneth Beck		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	475	Phil Daubenspeck		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	4
	476	Charley Finn		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	477	Dixon Fiske		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	480	Fred Lauer		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	481	Harold McCallister		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	482	Wally O'Connor		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	2
	483	Ray Ruddy		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	484	Herb Wildman		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Frank Graham DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Bill Kelly DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Clyde Swendsen
=9	–	Yugoslavia	YUG	3	1	0	2	2	11-8	–
	253	Mirko Tarana		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	255	Vinko Cvjetković		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	256	Bogdan Tošović		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		24
	257	Ante Roje		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	258	Filip Bonačić		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1		25
	261	Miro Mihovilović		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Luka Ciganović		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	2		26
	–	Milivoj Ćurlica DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Miran Fux DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Ivo Giovanelli DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Vojke Pavičić DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
=9	–	Czechoslovakia	TCH	3	1	0	2	2	7-12	–
	384	Lešek Boubela		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	385	Josef Bušek		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	386	Kurt Epstein		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	388	Konstantin Koutek		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	390	Josef Medřický		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	392	Karol Schmuck		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	5
	394	Hugo Vondřejc		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	–	Rudolf Kroc DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Josef Mikšovský DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Michal Schmuck DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Josef Tomášek DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
=9	–	Switzerland	SUI	3	1	0	2	2	7-16	–
	367	Ferdy Denzler		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	368	Jean Gysel		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	369	Werner Kopp		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	371	Heinz Meier		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	372	Robert Mermoud		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	374	Benjamin Vessaz		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	376	Robert Wyss		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Roger Zirilli		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Daniel Maillefer DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Fred Nobs DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Bruno Walter DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
=13	–	Uruguay	URU	3	0	1	2	1	2-4	–
	426	Alberto Batignani		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	427	José Castro		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	428	Julio César Costemalle		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	429	Francisco Figueroa		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	430	Hugo García		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	431	Enrique Pereira		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Maximino García		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Luis de Souza DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Renard Pérez DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	José Pescador DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Nobel Valentini DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
=13	–	Malta	MLT	3	0	0	3	0	2-27	–
	270	Jimmy Chetcuti		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	271	Joseph Demicoli		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	272	Jack Frendo Azzopardi		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	273	Alfred Lanzon		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	275	Babsie Podestá		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	276	Wilfred Podestá		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	277	Pippo Schembri		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	2
	278	Sydney Scott		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	279	Frank Wismayer		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Joe Albanese DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Charlie Parlato Trigona DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
=13	–	Japan	JPN	3	0	0	3	0	4-25	–
	233	Jihei Furusho		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	235	Torajiro Kataoka		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	236	Shigetaka Katsuhisa		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	237	Yasutaro Sakagami		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	1
	238	Kosei Tano		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	241	Zenjiro Takahashi		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	2
	242	Koichi Wada		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	243	Takimi Wakayama		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Masuzo Maeda DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Shigeo Takagi DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Saburo Takahashi DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Yasutaro Sakagami
=13	–	Iceland	ISL	3	0	0	3	0	1-24	–
	191	Stefán Jónsson		2	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	194	Þorsteinn Hjálmarsson		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	195	Þórður Guðmundsson		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	196	Magnús Pálsson		1	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	197	Jónas Halldórsson		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	198	Jón Jónsson		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	199	Úlfar Þórðarson		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	200	Jón Ingi Guðmundsson		3	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Logi Einarsson DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Røgnvaldur Sigurjónsson DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–
	–	Pétur Snæland DNS		–	–	–	–	–	–-–	–

Preliminary Round

Date	8 – 10 August 1936

Group A

Date	8 – 10 August 1936
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Belgium	BEL	2	1	0	5	6-4
2	Netherlands	NED	1	2	0	4	5-4
3	United States	USA	1	0	2	2	7-8
4	Uruguay	URU	0	1	2	1	2-4

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	08 Aug 11:25	Belgium	BEL	1 – 0	Uruguay	URU
Match #2	08 Aug 16:15	Netherlands	NED	3 – 2	United States	USA
Match #3	09 Aug 11:30	United States	USA	2 – 1	Uruguay	URU
Match #4	09 Aug 17:50	Belgium	BEL	1 – 1	Netherlands	NED
Match #5	10 Aug 11:30	Netherlands	NED	1 – 1	Uruguay	URU
Match #6	10 Aug 12:10	Belgium	BEL	4 – 3	United States	USA

Group B

Date	8 – 10 August 1936
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Hungary	HUN	3	0	0	6	26-2
2	Great Britain	GBR	2	0	1	4	13-15
3	Yugoslavia	YUG	1	0	2	2	11-8
4	Malta	MLT	0	1	2	1	2-27

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	08 Aug 12:05	Great Britain	GBR	8 – 2	Malta	MLT
Match #2	08 Aug 16:55	Hungary	HUN	4 – 1	Yugoslavia	YUG
Match #3	09 Aug 10:45	Hungary	HUN	12 – 0	Malta	MLT
Match #4	09 Aug 16:30	Great Britain	GBR	4 – 3	Yugoslavia	YUG
Match #5	10 Aug 12:50	Yugoslavia	YUG	7 – 0	Malta	MLT
Match #6	10 Aug 17:00	Hungary	HUN	10 – 1	Great Britain	GBR

Group C

Date	8 – 10 August 1936
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Germany	GER	3	0	6	27-3
2	France	FRA	2	1	4	12-10
3	Czechoslovakia	TCH	1	2	2	7-12
4	Japan	JPN	0	3	0	4-25

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	08 Aug 17:35	Germany	GER	8 – 1	France	FRA
Match #2	08 Aug 18:15	Czechoslovakia	TCH	4 – 3	Japan	JPN
Match #3	09 Aug 12:10	France	FRA	8 – 0	Japan	JPN
Match #4	09 Aug 15:50	Germany	GER	6 – 1	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Match #5	10 Aug 13:30	Germany	GER	13 – 1	Japan	JPN
Match #6	10 Aug 17:40	France	FRA	3 – 2	Czechoslovakia	TCH

Group D

Date	8 – 10 August 1936
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Austria	AUT	3	0	6	17-1
2	Sweden	SWE	2	1	4	18-2
3	Switzerland	SUI	1	2	2	7-16
4	Iceland	ISL	0	3	0	1-24

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	08 Aug 12:45	Switzerland	SUI	7 – 1	Iceland	ISL
Match #2	08 Aug 13:30	Austria	AUT	2 – 1	Sweden	SWE
Match #3	09 Aug 12:50	Austria	AUT	9 – 0	Switzerland	SUI
Match #4	09 Aug 17:10	Sweden	SWE	11 – 0	Iceland	ISL
Match #5	10 Aug 18:20	Sweden	SWE	6 – 0	Switzerland	SUI
Match #6	10 Aug 19:00	Austria	AUT	6 – 0	Iceland	ISL

Semi-Finals

Date	11 – 12 August 1936

Group A

Date	11 – 12 August 1936
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Hungary	HUN	3	0	0	6	21-1	27
2	Belgium	BEL	1	1	1	3	7-5	28
3	Netherlands	NED	0	2	1	2	5-13	29
4	Great Britain	GBR	0	1	2	1	6-20	30

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	11 Aug 11:15	Great Britain	GBR	4 – 4	Netherlands	NED
Match #2	11 Aug 11:45	Hungary	HUN	3 – 0	Belgium	BEL
Match #3	12 Aug 12:05	Belgium	BEL	6 – 1	Great Britain	GBR
Match #4	12 Aug 12:45	Hungary	HUN	8 – 0	Netherlands	NED

Group B

Date	11 – 12 August 1936
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Germany	GER	3	0	6	15-3	31
2	France	FRA	2	1	4	7-11	32
3	Austria	AUT	1	2	2	5-8	33
4	Sweden	SWE	0	3	0	3-8	34

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	11 Aug 16:25	France	FRA	2 – 1	Sweden	SWE
Match #2	11 Aug 17:05	Germany	GER	3 – 1	Austria	AUT
Match #3	12 Aug 16:25	France	FRA	4 – 2	Austria	AUT
Match #4	12 Aug 17:05	Germany	GER	4 – 1	Sweden	SWE

Classification Round 5-8

Date	13 – 14 August 1936
Format	Classification matches.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Netherlands	NED	2	1	0	5	13-11	35
2	Austria	AUT	1	1	1	3	9-9	36
3	Sweden	SWE	1	0	2	2	8-8	37
4	Great Britain	GBR	0	2	1	2	9-11	38

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	13 Aug 12:30	Netherlands	NED	5 – 4	Austria	AUT
Match #2	13 Aug 13:10	Sweden	SWE	4 – 2	Great Britain	GBR
Match #3	14 Aug 11:45	Netherlands	NED	4 – 3	Sweden	SWE
Match #4	14 Aug 12:25	Austria	AUT	3 – 3	Great Britain	GBR

Final Round

Date	14 – 15 August 1936
Format	Medal round.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Hungary	HUN	2	1	0	5	10-2	39
2	Germany	GER	2	1	0	5	14-4	40
3	Belgium	BEL	1	0	2	2	4-8	41
4	France	FRA	0	0	3	0	2-16	42

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	14 Aug 17:15	Belgium	BEL	3 – 1	France	FRA
Match #2	14 Aug 17:55	Germany	GER	2 – 2	Hungary	HUN
Match #3	15 Aug 17:15	Germany	GER	4 – 1	Belgium	BEL
Match #4	15 Aug 17:55	Hungary	HUN	5 – 0	France	FRA