Black Sea Cup: Ferencvaros beat Pro Recco in the final, Waspo take bronze

Ferencvaros won the Black Sea Cup 2026 after beating Pro Recco 15:18 in the final on Sunday. Balazs Nyeki’s side won all four of their games, and Akos Nagy led the way in the final with 5 goals from 6 shots.

Waspo Hannover took the bronze medal after coming back from two goals down late in the fourth quarter against Novi Beograd and winning the penalty shootout 4:2. Hosts A-Polo Sport Management finished fifth after a shootout win over CN Marseille, and Dinamo Tbilisi beat Bourbon Kashiwazaki 12:10 for seventh place.

Final

Pro Recco 15:18 Ferencvaros

Recco won a high scoring first quarter 6:5, with Matteo Iocchi Gratta putting them ahead 30 seconds before the break. Ferencvaros then won the second quarter 0:4 and scored five in a row from 6:5 to 6:10, with Nagy scoring the first two. They led from 6:7 to the end. Recco came back to 13:15 through Francesco Condemi with 4:13 left, but Nagy and Konstantinos Kakaris restored a four goal lead, and Recco could get no closer than three.

Nagy scored 5 goals from 6 shots, Vendel Vigvari added three, and Marton Vamos and Stylianos Argyropoulos two each. Krisztian Manhercz had four assists, and Soma Vogel made 10 saves. Alvaro Granados scored five for Recco, two of them penalties, and finished the tournament with 24 goals. Gergo Zalanki added three, while Marko Bijac made 4 saves after replacing Gianmarco Nicosia, who made 2, in the second quarter.

Bronze medal game

Waspo Hannover 15:13 Novi Beograd (11:11, penalties 4:2)

Novi Beograd led for most of the game and were 9:11 ahead after Viktor Urosevic scored with 3:39 left. Mark Gansen pulled one back with 2:33 to play, and Lazar Vukicevic equalised 34 seconds from the end. In the shootout, Felix Benke saved from Nika Shushiashvili and Vasilije Martinovic also missed, while Waspo scored all four of their penalties, Gansen taking the last one.

Martinovic scored 5 goals from 9 shots for Novi Beograd and finished the tournament with 29, and Nikola Kojic added two. Milan Glusac made 13 saves. Gansen and Vukicevic scored three each for Waspo, two of Gansen’s from penalties, and Andrija Basic added two. Max Spittank made 5 saves in regular time before Benke came in for the shootout.

5th place

A-Polo Sport Management 16:15 CN Marseille (11:11, penalties 5:4)

Marseille led 1:3 after the first quarter and 7:8 after three, before the hosts scored three in a row to go 10:8 up. The French side answered with three straight goals, the last from Lorris Canovas for 10:11 with 2:11 left, but Dusan Vasic equalised 18 seconds from time. A-Polo scored all five of their penalties in the shootout, and Adam Nagy missed Marseille’s fourth.

Filip Gardasevic scored 4 goals from 6 shots for A-Polo, and Matija Sladovic, Vasic and Vuk Draskovic added two each. Igor Chirkov made 12 saves. Canovas scored three for Marseille, Vasilije Radovic two from penalties, and Nic Porter made 14 saves.

7th place

Bourbon Kashiwazaki 10:12 Dinamo Tbilisi

The game was level after each of the first three quarters, at 2:2, 5:5 and 8:8, with Kaito Tanaka equalising one second before the end of the third. Sora Ikeda put Kashiwazaki 9:8 ahead early in the fourth, but the Georgian side replied with four straight goals, two each from Demetre Todua and Revaz Imnaishvili, for their first win of the tournament.

Imnaishvili finished with 4 goals and 4 assists, while Todua and Giorgi Magrakvelidze scored two each. Giorgi Gvetadze made 5 saves. Takanori Maeno scored 4 goals from 5 shots for Kashiwazaki, two of them penalties, and goalkeeper Yusuke Ogura made 18 saves.

Final standings

All results and statistics are live on our Black Sea Cup 2026 page.

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