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 (FINA). 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 (2001).
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 (June 28 – August 4, 2002).
Teams
The top eight teams from the previous World Aquatic Championship have qualified.
Seeding
Following ranking of the 2001 World Championship
Groups
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
Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and the United States qualified for the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. Russia and Hungary, as well as the host Spain, already qualified.
Individual awards
Most Valuable Player
Best Goalkeeper
Topscorer
— 13 goals
Squads
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