2017 FINA Women's Water Polo World League

2017 FINA Women's Water Polo World League
LeagueFINA Water Polo World League
SportWater Polo
Duration22 November 2016 to
11 June 2017
Super Final
Finals champions United States (11th title)
  Runners-up Canada
FINA Women's Water Polo World League seasons

The 2017 FINA Women's Water Polo World League is the 14th edition of the annual women's international water polo tournament. It was played between November 2016 and June 2017 and open to all women's water polo national teams. After participating in a preliminary round, eight teams qualify to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final from 06 to 11 June 2017.[1][2]

In the world league, there are specific rules that do not allow matches to end in a draw. If teams are level at the end of the 4th quarter of any world league match, the match will be decided by a penalty shootout. Teams earn points in the standings in group matches as follows:

  • Match won in normal time - 3 points
  • Match won in shootout - 2 points
  • Match lost in shootout - 1 point
  • Match lost in normal time - 0 points
  1. ^ "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 78. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ FINA Women's Water Polo World League 2017 fina.org