Manchester will be hosting U17 men’s Euro qualifiers! - January 21, 2017

In an exciting announcement today by the governing body for European Aquatic Sport (LEN), Manchester has been awarded host city status for the European U17 men’s water polo Championship qualification tournament, which will take place over three days from May 11-14^th.

Following months of preparation by Manchester City Council, British Swimming and the ASA’s England Water Polo led by Chairman Ian Elliot, it has been decided that the qualifying event will be hosted at the East Manchester Leisure Centre, a purpose-built international water polo facility complete with outstanding spectator facilities and transport links, located in East Manchester.

Great Britain has been drawn in Group C and will face Romania, Ukraine, Israel and Lithuania.

Although the GB team that will compete in Manchester in May has yet to be selected, the squad drawn from all the home nations has been training hard with the ultimate goals of representing their country, and becoming the first junior GB men to qualify for the European Water Polo Championships in over 10 years.

Ian Elliot England Water Polo’s Chairman is delighted to secure GB hosting in Manchester

Chairman of England Water Polo, Ian Elliot said, “This group of athletes is highly talented and dedicated to achieving their sporting goal of representing Great Britain at the European Championships in September. The support of Manchester City Council, and the big benefit of having home advantage in the qualifying tournament now makes this a realistic prospect, and I for one am very excited!”

Before the Manchester event takes place, the athletes will be representing England, Scotland and Wales, competing in April in the EU Nations Water Polo Cup event in the Czech Republic and will be supported in the training build-up in Manchester by the City of Manchester Water Polo Club, University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University.

Meanwhile, the GB U17 women are one of the 17 teams entered in the 2017 women’s European Junior Water Polo Championships. All are directly qualified to the Championship proper to be played in Novi Sad (SRB) on 19 – 27 August 2017.

Further information about the Manchester event, including game schedule and ticketing information, will be posted as soon as it is available.

8 responses to “Manchester will be hosting U17 men’s Euro qualifiers!”

1. Sam Smith says:

   January 21, 2017 at 2:29 pm

   How will we be able to secure tickets?

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   • cheerychris says:

     January 21, 2017 at 5:34 pm

     Hi Sam, thanks for your helpful question. At the moment as far as we are aware ticketing has not been finalised. However we will raise the question with the management group now and as soon as we have any info we’ll post it here.
     Best wishes and thanks again
     WPE admin

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     • Sam Smith says:

       March 21, 2017 at 3:29 pm

       Hello,

       Any update re tickets? I’d like to arrange a group from my club to go and would like to get the ball rolling re coaches etc.

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       • cheerychris says:

         March 21, 2017 at 6:01 pm

         Hi Sam

         Great to hear that you will be attending. Unfortunately at the moment we have no info about ticketing for the event. I will contact Mark Ray (the marketing and commercial lead on the WPMG) about this now and post any info I am given.

         Best wishes
         WPE Admin

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2. Jo Aquatic says:

   January 25, 2017 at 4:09 am

   In which Group Malta is in and who are also in that Group please ?

   Thank you

   Jo Aquatic

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   • cheerychris says:

     January 25, 2017 at 8:48 am

     Hi Jo, Malta are actually hosting the 2017 junior men’s European Championships Sept 10-17 hence no qualifying tournament entry. Best wishes, Chris, Water Polo England admin.

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3. Noam Kolodny says:

   May 2, 2017 at 4:39 pm

   Hi,
   I am interested in watching the games online.
   Is there a website I can view the junior games next week? In Manchester?
   Thank You

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   • cheerychris says:

     May 2, 2017 at 9:59 pm

     Hello Noam,

     Thanks for your query. We are hoping to live stream the GB games on our Water Polo England YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe3uweZCW4_2qWvmhJ811PQ

     Best wishes
     Chris
     WPE Admin

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