Water polo at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament
The 1998 Men's World Water Polo Championship was the eighth edition of the men's water polo tournament at the World Aquatics Championships, organised by the world governing body in aquatics, the FINA. The tournament was held from 7 to 18 January 1998 in the Challenge Stadium, and was incorporated into the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia.
Groups formed
;Group A;Group B
;Group C
;Group D
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Preliminary round
Group A
- January 9, 1998
- January 10, 1998
- January 11, 1998
Group B
- January 9, 1998
- January 10, 1998
- January 11, 1998
Group C
- January 9, 1998
- January 10, 1998
- January 11, 1998
Group D
- January 9, 1998
- January 10, 1998
- January 11, 1998
Second round
Group E
Preliminary round results apply.- January 13, 1998
- January 14, 1998
- January 15, 1998
Group F
Preliminary round results apply.- January 13, 1998
- January 14, 1998
- January 15, 1998
- January 16, 1998
Group G
- January 13, 1998
- January 14, 1998
- January 15, 1998
Final round
9th-12th place
- January 17, 1998
- January 18, 1998 — 9th place
- January 18, 1998 — '''11th place'''
5th-8th place
- January 17, 1998
- January 18, 1998 — 5th place
- January 18, 1998 — '''7th place'''
Semi finals
- 16 January 1998
Finals
- 18 January 1998 – Bronze Medal Match
- 18 January 1998 – '''Gold Medal Match'''
Final ranking
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Medalists
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| ' | ' Zoltán Kovacs Zoltán Kósz Tibor Benedek Gergely Kiss Frank Toth Rajmund Fodor Zsolt Varga Barnabás Steinmetz Balázs Vincze Tamás Molnár Tamás Kásás Attila Vári Tamás Marcz Head coach: Dénes Kemény | Aleksandar Ćirić Danilo Ikodinović Dragan Jovanović Nikola Kuljača Aleksandar Nikolić Dušan Popović Dejan Savić Aleksandar Šapić Petar Trbojević Veljko Uskoković Željko Vičević Vladimir Vujasinović Nenad Vukanić Head coach: Nikola Stamenić |