2017–18 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)

The 2017–18 Országos Bajnokság I (known as the e·on férfi OB I osztályú Országos Bajnokság for sponsorship reasons) was the 112th season of the Országos Bajnokság I, Hungary's premier Water polo league.

e·on férfi OB I

Season	2017–18
Champions	FTC-PQS Waterpolo (22nd title)
Relegated	ContiTech Szeged
Champions League	FTC-PQS Waterpolo Szolnoki Dózsa ZF-Eger
Euro Cup	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda MKB Euroleasing-BVSC-Zugló
Top goalscorer	Alex Bowen (66 goals)
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

Teams

Eger

MVLC

Szeged

Debrecen

Szolnok

Szentes

PVSK

Kaposvár

Tatabánya

AVUS

Budapest

Budapest teams
BVSC
Ferencváros
Honvéd
OSC
UVSE
Vasas

Location of teams in 2017-18 Országos Bajnokság I

BVSC

FTC

Honvéd

OSC

UVSE

Vasas

Budapest OB I waterpolo teams

The following 16 clubs compete in the OB I during the 2017–18 season:

OB I
Team	City	Pool	Founded	Colours
AVUS	Szombathely	Szombathelyi Városi Uszoda	2010
BVSC	Budapest (XIV. ker)	Szőnyi úti uszoda	1911
Debrecen	Debrecen	Debreceni Sportuszoda	2006
Eger	Eger	Bitskey Aladár uszoda	1910
FTC	Budapest (IX. ker)	Népligeti uszoda	1899
Honvéd	Budapest (XIX. ker)	Kőér utcai uszoda	1950
Kaposvár	Kaposvár	Virágfürdő	1999
Miskolc	Miskolc	Kemény Dénes Sportuszoda	2012
OSC	Budapest (XI. ker)	Nyéki Imre uszoda	1957
PVSK	Pécs	Abay Nemes Oszkár Sportuszoda	1997
Szeged	Szeged	Szegedi Sportuszoda	1993
Szentes	Szentes	Dr. Rébeli Szabó József Sportuszoda	1934
Szolnok	Szolnok	Tiszaligeti uszoda	1921
TVSE	Tatabánya	Tatabányai Sportuszoda	1992
UVSE	Budapest (IV. ker)	Hajós Alfréd Sportuszoda	2008
Vasas	Budapest (XIII. ker)	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda	1945

Head coaches

Team	Head coach
AVUS	Márk Matajsz
BVSC	Levente Szűcs
Debrecen	Péter Komlósi
Eger	Norbert Dabrowski
FTC	Zsolt Varga
Honvéd	Lajos Vad
Kaposvár	Zoltán Szécsi (until 16 October 2017)[1] József Berta (from 21 October 2017)
MVLC	dr. József Sike
OSC	Attila Petik (until 3 February 2018)[2] László Tóth (from 4 February 2018)
PVSK	Gergely Lukács
Szeged	Péter Varga
Szentes	Csaba Pellei
Szolnok	ifj. Sándor Cseh
Tatabánya	Tamás Zantleitner
UVSE	Zsolt Németh
Vasas	László Földi

Regular season

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Szolnoki Dózsa	14	13	0	1	225	89	+136	39[lower-alpha 1]	Qualification for the Championship round
2	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	14	13	0	1	234	91	+143	39[lower-alpha 1]
3	MKB Euroleasing-BVSC-Zugló	14	8	1	5	146	123	+23	25
4	Debreceni VSE	14	5	2	7	135	159	−24	17
5	Kaposvári VK	14	5	1	8	105	157	−52	16	Qualification for the Relegation round
6	VasasPlaket	14	4	3	7	107	152	−45	15
7	AVUS Szombathely	14	3	0	11	114	192	−78	9
8	UVSE	14	1	1	12	86	189	−103	4

Source:
Notes:

1. SZOL - FTC: 11–13; FTC - SZOL: 8–11

Schedule and results

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.

Home \ Away	AVUS	BVSC	DVSE	FTC	KAP	SZOL	UVSE	VAS
AVUS Szombathely		7–14	11–13	8–21	10–8	3–23	9–4	10–12
BVSC-Zugló	10–8		10–11	3–13	10–6	9–10	14–8	9–8
Debreceni VSE	16–10	8–12		6–22	7–9	7–16	13–5	10–10
Ferencvárosi TC	18–5	10–7	15–9		23–6	8–11	19–7	18–3
Kaposvári VK	11–6	7–13	9–9	7–17		5–15	13–5	8–7
Szolnoki Dózsa	20–8	13–9	19–7	11–13	18–2		17–6	20–3
UVSE	9–11	8–20	4–13	4–20	7–11	1–13		10–10
Vasas SC	13–8	6–6	7–6	4–17	10–3	8–19	6–8

Source: [3]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	ZF-Eger	14	13	1	0	175	77	+98	40	Qualification for the Championship round
2	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	14	11	0	3	153	83	+70	33
3	PannErgy-Miskolci VLC	14	8	2	4	138	97	+41	26
4	RacioNet Honvéd	14	7	2	5	125	117	+8	23
5	PVSK-Mecsek Füszért	14	5	2	7	114	118	−4	17	Qualification for the Relegation round
6	Metalcom Szentes	14	4	1	9	105	141	−36	13
7	Tatabányai VSE	14	3	2	9	93	133	−40	11
8	ContiTech Szeged	14	0	0	14	60	197	−137	0

Source:

Schedule and results

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.

Home \ Away	BHSE	EGER	MVLC	OSC	PVSK	SZEG	SZEN	TVSE
Bp. Honvéd SE		3–12	9–9	12–6	9–9	15–5	11–6	9–5
Egri VK	17–4		8–4	8–7	14–7	20–4	17–8	15–5
Miskolci VLC	11–6	8–8		7–10	10–6	18–2	12–5	13–9
Orvosegyetem SC	9–4	8–9	8–4		10–6	15–1	13–4	15–3
Pécsi VSK	9–5	5–12	8–9	6–13		11–5	8–3	6–4
Szegedi VE	3–20	4–16	5–18	4–13	4–14		5–9	5–7
Szentesi VK	8–9	4–6	7–12	10–14	11–10	12–7		8–8
Tatabányai VSE	8–9	6–13	6–3	5–12	9–9	9–6	9–10

Source: [4]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second round

Championship round

The top four teams, from two groups advance from the regular season. Teams start the Championship round with their points from the Regular season.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	22	21	0	1	331	148	+183	63	Qualification to 1st – 4th Placement matches
2	Szolnoki Dózsa	22	20	0	2	335	146	+189	60
3	ZF-Eger	22	18	1	3	268	155	+113	55
4	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	22	15	0	7	220	157	+63	45
5	MKB Euroleasing-BVSC-Zugló	22	11	1	10	217	210	+7	34	Qualification to 5th – 8th Placement matches
6	PannErgy-Miskolci VLC	22	10	2	10	232	194	+38	32
7	RacioNet Honvéd	22	9	2	11	183	212	−29	29
8	Debreceni VSE	22	6	2	14	201	270	−69	20

Source:

Schedule and results

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 14 games)

Rounds
15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
A1 - B4 B1 - A4 A2 - B3 B2 - A3	A1 - B2 B1 - A2 B4 - A3 A4 - B3	B3 - A1 A3 - B1 A2 - B4 B2 - A4	A1 - B1 A2 - B2 B3 - A3 B4 - A4	B4 - A1 A4 - B1 B3 - A2 A3 - B2	B2 - A1 A2 - B1 A3 - B4 B3 - A4	A1 - B3 B1 - A3 B4 - A2 A4 - B2	B1 - A1 B2 - A2 A3 - B3 A4 - B4

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.

Home \ Away	BHSE	BVSC	DVSE	EGER	FTC	MVLC	OSC	SZOL
Bp. Honvéd SE		10–9	12–3		7–17			3–16
BVSC-Zugló	10–7			7–13		11–10	7–11
Debreceni VSE	12–9			10–16		10–21	9–10
Egri VK		14–9	16–8		10–11			8–7
Ferencvárosi TC	14–3			10–9		14–10	12–5
Miskolci VLC		11–12	15–10		7–9			8–16
Orvosegyetem SC		11–6	12–4		6–10			8–15
Szolnoki Dózsa	14–7			16–7		15–12	11–4

Source: [5]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation round

The bottom four teams, from two groups advance from the regular season. Teams start the Relegation round with their points from the Regular season.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
9	PVSK-Mecsek Füszért	22	11	3	8	198	184	+14	36	Qualification to 9th – 12th Placement matches
10	Kaposvári VK	22	10	4	8	188	221	−33	34
11	VasasPlaket	22	9	4	9	184	209	−25	31
12	Metalcom Szentes	22	7	3	12	168	203	−35	24[lower-alpha 1]
13	AVUS Szombathely	22	8	0	14	194	272	−78	24[lower-alpha 1]	Qualification to 13th – 16th Placement matches
14	Tatabányai VSE	22	5	3	14	165	211	−46	18
15	UVSE	22	3	1	18	148	258	−110	10
16	ContiTech Szeged	22	0	0	22	111	293	−182	0

Source:
Notes:

1. SZEN - AVUS: 9–4; AVUS - SZEN: 11–6

Schedule and results

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.

Home \ Away	AVUS	KAP	PVSK	SZEG	SZEN	TVSE	UVSE	VAS
AVUS Szombathely			6–14	13–11	11–6	15–14
Kaposvári VK			11–9	11–5	9–9	13–8
Pécsi VSK	11–9	5–5					13–6	8–7
Szegedi VE	8–13	11–15					7–11	5–10
Szentesi VK	9–4	7–9					9–7	10–10
Tatabányai VSE	7–9	10–10					9–6	8–9
UVSE			11–12	14–2	3–8	4–9
Vasas SC			11–12	9–2	9–5	12–7

Source: [6]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

1st – 4th placement matches

Semi-finals

Team 1	Points	Team 2	Games in the season	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
FTC-PQS Waterpolo (1)	9–0	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda (4)	12-5	10-6	8-4	—	—
Szolnoki Dózsa (2)	9–6	ZF-Eger (3)	16-7	7-8	13-14 (p)	12-6	9-4

Game 1

25 April 2018 19:30 (CEST)	Report	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	8–4	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, Budapest Referees: Molnár, Rubos
		Score by quarters: 3-1, 3-0, 0-2, 2-1
		Vámos, Jakšić 2	Goals	Kovács, Burián 2

FTC-PQS Waterpolo won the series 9–0 with points ratio, and advanced to the Finals.

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25 April 2018 16:00 (CEST)	Report	Szolnoki Dózsa	3–3 ^(10–11 PSO)	ZF-Eger	Tiszaligeti uszoda, Szolnok Referees: Petik, Dodog
		Score by quarters: 0-0, 1-0, 1-1, 1-2  PSO: 10–11
		Prlainović 4	Goals	Rašović 4

Game 2

2 May 2018 19:00 (CEST)	Report	ZF-Eger	6–12	Szolnoki Dózsa	Bitskey Aladár uszoda, Eger Referees: Székely, Németh
		Score by quarters: 1-3, 2-3, 3-3, 0-3
		Hosnyánszky, Rašović 2	Goals	Kis, Prlainović 3

Game 3

5 May 2018 16:00 (CEST)	Report	Szolnoki Dózsa	9–4	ZF-Eger	Tiszaligeti uszoda, Szolnok Referees: Rubos, Csanádi
		Score by quarters: 1-0, 3-2, 4-1, 1-1
		Kis, Prlainović 2	Goals	four players 1

Szolnoki Dózsa won the series 9–6 with points ratio, and advanced to the Finals.

Finals

Higher ranked team hosted Game 1 and Game 3 plus Game 5 if necessary. The lower ranked hosted Game 2 plus Game 4 if necessary.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
FTC-PQS Waterpolo	3–2	Szolnoki Dózsa	12-9	14-9	6-14	7-8	8-7

13 May 2018 17:45 (CEST)	Report	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	12–9	Szolnoki Dózsa	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, Budapest Attendance: 1,600[7] Referees: dr. Marosvári, Csanádi
		Score by quarters: 2-3, 3-2, 4-2, 3-2
		Dé. Varga 4	Goals	Prlainović 3

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16 May 2018 19:00 (CEST)	Report	Szolnoki Dózsa	9–14	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	Tiszaligeti uszoda, Szolnok Attendance: 1,100[8] Referees: Mucskai, Németh
		Score by quarters: 2-4, 3-4, 1-3, 3-3
		Younger 3	Goals	Dé. Varga 4

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19 May 2018 15:00 (CEST)	Report	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	6–14	Szolnoki Dózsa	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, Budapest Attendance: 1,600[9] Referees: Molnár, Székely
		Score by quarters: 1-4, 2-3, 2-3, 1-4
		Vámos 3	Goals	Zalánki, Younger 4

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23 May 2018 18:15 (CEST)	Report	Szolnoki Dózsa	8–7	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	Tiszaligeti uszoda, Szolnok Attendance: 1,100[10] Referees: Molnár, Németh
		Score by quarters: 2-0, 3-2, 2-3, 1-2
		Mezei 2	Goals	Vámos 3

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26 May 2018 17:00 (CEST)	Report	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	8–7	Szolnoki Dózsa	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, Budapest Attendance: 1,600[11] Referees: Székely, Csanádi
		Score by quarters: 3-4, 3-2, 1-0, 1-1
		Dá. Varga 3	Goals	Prlainović 2

FTC-PQS Waterpolo won the Final series 3–2.

2017–18 Országos Bajnokság I Champion[12]
FTC-PQS Waterpolo 22nd title

Vogel, Gárdonyi (goalkeeper), D. Gál, Goschi, Jakšić, Sz. Jansik, Madaras (c), Manhercz, Mitrović, T. Német, Nikić, Pohl, Sedlmayer, Szirányi, Dá. Varga, Dé. Varga, Vámos

Head Coach: Zsolt Varga, Assistant Coach: Balázs Nyéki, Technical Director: György Gerendás

Third place

Higher ranked team hosted Game 1 plus Game 3 if necessary. The lower ranked hosted Game 2.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
ZF-Eger	2–0	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	11-5	9-7	—

12 May 2018 19:00 (CEST)	Report	ZF-Eger	11–5	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	Bitskey Aladár uszoda, Eger Referees: Petik, Rubos
		Score by quarters: 2-0, 3-3, 4-1, 2-1
		Rašović 5	Goals	Burián 2

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16 May 2018 18:00 (CEST)	Report	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	7–9	ZF-Eger	Nyéki Imre uszoda, Budapest Referees: Marnitz, Dodog
		Score by quarters: 1-3, 1-4, 1-2, 4-0
		Brguljan 2	Goals	Rašović 4

ZF-Eger won the Third place.

5th – 8th Placement matches

Team 1	Points	Team 2	Games in the season	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
MKB Euroleasing-BVSC-Zugló (5)	9–3	Debreceni VSE (8)	10-11	12-8	10-4	10-9	—
PannErgy-Miskolci VLC (6)	7–1	RacioNet Honvéd (7)	11-6	9-9	8-3	—	—

Fifth place game (European competition play-off)

Higher ranked team hosted Game 1 plus Game 3 if necessary. The lower ranked hosted Game 2.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
MKB Euroleasing-BVSC-Zugló	2–1	PannErgy-Miskolci VLC	9-8	10-12	14-13 (p)

Seventh place game

Higher ranked team hosted Game 1 plus Game 3 if necessary. The lower ranked hosted Game 2.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
RacioNet Honvéd	2–0	Debreceni VSE	10-9	13-12	—

9th – 12th Placement matches

Team 1	Points	Team 2	Games in the season	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
PVSK-Mecsek Füszért (9)	9–6	Metalcom Szentes (12)	8-3	10-11	11-6	2-16	7-5
Kaposvári VK (10)	9–6	VasasPlaket (11)	8-7	3-10	14-13	7-8	11-4

Ninth place game

Higher ranked team hosted Game 1 plus Game 3 if necessary. The lower ranked hosted Game 2.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
PVSK-Mecsek Füszért	1–2	Kaposvári VK	13-9	7-6	6-10

Eleventh place game

Higher ranked team hosted Game 1 plus Game 3 if necessary. The lower ranked hosted Game 2.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
VasasPlaket	1–2	Metalcom Szentes	8-7	3-11	9-10

13th – 16th Placement matches

Team 1	Points	Team 2	Games in the season	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
AVUS Szombathely (13)	9–0	ContiTech Szeged (16)	13-11	13-8	12-7	—	—
Tatabányai VSE (14)	9–0	UVSE (15)	9-6	9-4	7-6	—	—

Thirteenth place game

Higher ranked team hosted Game 1 plus Game 3 if necessary. The lower ranked hosted Game 2.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
AVUS Szombathely	2–0	Tatabányai VSE	11-6	14-11	—

Fifteenth place game (Relegation play-out)

Higher ranked team hosted Game 1 plus Game 3 if necessary. The lower ranked hosted Game 2.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
UVSE	2–0	ContiTech Szeged	11-5	13-6	—

Season statistics

Top goalscorers As of 27 May 2018.[13] Rank Player Team Goals 1 Alex Bowen MVLC 66 2 Márton Vámos FTC 62 3 Strahinja Rašović Eger 61 4 Dénes Varga FTC 60 5 Andrija Prlainović Szolnok 56 6 Gergő Zalánki Szolnok 54 7 Aaron Younger Szolnok 52 8 Angelos Vlachopoulos Eger 49 9 Márton Nagy Szentes 48 Mátyás Pásztor BVSC 48

Points classification As of 27 May 2018.[13] Rank Player Team Rating 1 Márton Vámos FTC 75.0 2 Alex Bowen MVLC 68.4 3 Strahinja Rašović Eger 68.3 4 Dénes Varga FTC 64.2 5 Saša Mišić MVLC 64.0 6 Angelos Vlachopoulos Eger 63.9 7 Gergő Zalánki Szolnok 61.3 8 Alex Csacsovszky PVSK 60.2 9 Tamás Mezei Szolnok 55.4 10 Gábor Kis Szolnok 55.3

Top exclusions As of 27 May 2018.[13] Rank Player Team Fouls 1 Dimitrije Obradović DVSE 57 2 Bálint Takács Vasas 55 3 Zsombor Horváth PVSK 53 Dávid Jansik Szolnok 53 Szilárd Jansik FTC 53 Kristóf Takács AVUS 53 7 Erik Bundschuch OSC 52 Tibor Kókai Szentes 52 9 Dávid Hőna Vasas 50 Máté Sántavy Kaposvár 50

Discipline As of 16 May 2017.[14] Most goals conceded (club): 23 Szolnoki Dózsa-KÖZGÉP vs. Debreceni VSE / Round 5, (Group A) Most goals conceded: 30 Szolnoki Dózsa-KÖZGÉP 23–7 Debreceni VSE / Round 5, (Group A) Fewest goals conceded (club): 3 KSI SE vs. Szentesi VK / Round 4, (Group A) Fewest goals conceded: 8 EBP Tatabánya 4–4 RacioNet Honvéd / Round 14, (Group B) Attendance: Highest: 1,224 ZF-Eger vs. Szolnoki Dózsa-KÖZGÉP / Final (1,3) Lowest: 50 KSI SE vs. Debreceni VSE and Szentesi VK

Number of teams by counties

Pos.	County (megye)		№ of teams	Teams
1		Budapest (capital)	6	BVSC, FTC, Honvéd, OSC, UVSE and Vasas
2		Csongrád	2	Szegedi VE and Szentesi VK
3		Baranya	1	Pécsi VSK
		Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	1	Miskolci VLC
		Hajdú-Bihar	1	Debreceni VSE
		Heves	1	Egri VK
		Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	1	Szolnoki Dózsa
		Komárom-Esztergom	1	Tatabányai VSE
		Somogy	1	Kaposvári VK
		Vas	1	AVUS Szombathely

Final standing

Pos	Team	Qualification or Relegation
	FTC-PQS Waterpolo	Qualification to Champions League preliminary round
	Szolnoki Dózsa	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
	ZF-Eger	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
4	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	Qualification to Euro Cup first qualifying round
5	MKB Euroleasing-BVSC-Zugló
6	PannErgy-Miskolci VLC
7	RacioNet Honvéd
8	Debreceni VSE
9	Kaposvári VK
10	PVSK-Mecsek Füszért
11	Metalcom Szentes
12	VasasPlaket
13	AVUS Szombathely
14	Tatabányai VSE
15	UVSE
16	ContiTech Szeged	Relegation to Országos Bajnokság I/B

Awards

• Best Goalkeeper:
• Best Field player:

See also

• 2017 Magyar Kupa (National Cup of Hungary)
• 2017 Szuperkupa (Super Cup of Hungary)

References

1. "Férfi vízilabda: mától nem Szécsi irányítja a kaposváriakat". nso.hu (in Hungarian). 16 October 2017.
2. "Férfi vízilabda: nem meglepetés, lemondott az OSC edzője". nso.hu (in Hungarian). 3 February 2018.
3. Results of Group A
4. Results of Group B
5. Results of Championship round
6. Results of Relegation round
7. "Varga Dénes extrája döntött – előnyben a Fradi a Szolnokkal szemben". nso.hu.
8. "Bajnoki labda: az FTC győzött Szolnokon, és 2–0-ra vezet a döntőben". nso.hu.
9. "Nagy Viktor vezérletével feltámadt a Szolnok, (még) nem bajnok a Fradi". nso.hu.
10. "Férfi vízi ob I: ismét nyert a Szolnok, az ötödik meccs dönt!". nso.hu.
11. "18 év után újra bajnok a Ferencváros vízilabdacsapata!". nso.hu.
12. ""Ez egy sikerkorszak kezdete lehet"". waterpolo.hu (in Hungarian). 26 May 2018.
13. "OB I statistics" (in Hungarian). waterpolo.hu.
14. "A férfi Ob I legjei – nevek, számok, érdekességek". vizipolo.hu.

External links

• Hungarian Water Polo Federaration (in Hungarian and English)
• vlv.hu
• vizipolo.hu