World Cup (Snooker)

World cup
Tournament status
Invitation tournament:	1979–1983, 1985–1990, 1996, 1999–2001, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019
Current tournament dates
Defending champion:	Scotland
Attendees:	24 teams
Venue:	Wuxi Sports Park Stadium , Wuxi , China
Prize money (total):	$ 800,000
Prize money (winner):	$ 200,000
Frames in the final:	Best of 7
Records
Most wins:	England  (5 ×)
Highest Break:	147 ( Maximum Break ) John Higgins 2000
Venue (s) on the map
Newcastle Bournemouth Reading London Birmingham Bangkok

The Snooker World Cup (also called World Team Classic and Nations Cup ; sometimes with sponsors in front) is a professional snooker tournament on the Main Tour .

history

The tournament was established in 1979 and initially took place in Birmingham . The team from Wales won the first World Cup . Then the tournament moved to the New London Theater for a year before taking place in Reading from 1981 to 1983 under the name World Team Classic . Bournemouth was the venue for the next six editions . After the 1989/90 season, the tournament disappeared from the calendar for a few years. 1996/97 there was a new edition in Thailand. After a year break, it was reactivated again for three years under the new name Nations Cup in England, with the teams consisting of four (previously three) players in the first two years.

After a break of eleven years, the 2011/12 tournament was reintegrated into the Main Tour as the PTT-EGAT Snooker World Cup .

In 2000, the Scot John Higgins scored the only maximum break in tournament history in the game against Dennis Taylor .

winner

year	venue	winner	Result	finalist	Main sponsor	season
World Challenge Cup
1979	Birmingham Haden Hill Leisure Center	Wales Terry Griffiths Doug Mountjoy Ray Reardon	14: 3	England Fred Davis Graham Miles John Spencer	State Express	1979/80
1980	London New London Theater	Wales Terry Griffiths Doug Mountjoy Ray Reardon	8: 5	Canada Kirk Stevens Cliff Thorburn Bill Werbeniuk		1980/81
World Team Classic
1981	Reading The Hexagon	England Steve Davis John Spencer David Taylor	4: 3	Wales Terry Griffiths Doug Mountjoy Ray Reardon	State Express	1981/82
1982		Canada Kirk Stevens Cliff Thorburn Bill Werbeniuk	4: 2	England Steve Davis Tony Knowles Jimmy White		1982/83
1983		England Steve Davis Tony Knowles Tony Meo	4: 2	Wales Terry Griffiths Doug Mountjoy Ray Reardon		1983/84
World cup
1985	Bournemouth International Center	Ireland & Northern Ireland Alex Higgins Eugene Hughes Dennis Taylor	9: 7	England A Steve Davis Tony Knowles Tony Meo	Guinness	1984/85
1986		Ireland & Northern Ireland A Alex Higgins Eugene Hughes Dennis Taylor	9: 7	Canada Kirk Stevens Cliff Thorburn Bill Werbeniuk	Car Care Plan	1985/86
1987		Ireland & Northern Ireland A Alex Higgins Eugene Hughes Dennis Taylor	9: 2	Canada Kirk Stevens Cliff Thorburn Bill Werbeniuk	Tuborg	1986/87
1988		England Steve Davis Jimmy White Neal Foulds	9: 7	Australia Eddie Charlton Warren King John Campbell	Fersina Windows	1987/88
1989		England Steve Davis Jimmy White Neal Foulds	9: 8	"Rest of the World" Tony Drago Dene O'Kane Silvino Francisco		1988/89
1990		Canada Cliff Thorburn Bob Chaperon Alain Robidoux	9: 5	Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor Alex Higgins Tommy Murphy	British Car Rental	1989/90
1996	Bangkok Amari Watergate Hotel	Scotland Stephen Hendry John Higgins Alan McManus	10: 7	Ireland Ken Doherty Fergal O'Brien Stephen Murphy	Castrol - Honda	1996/97
Nations Cup
1999	Newcastle Telewest Arena	Wales Matthew Stevens Mark Williams Dominic Dale Darren Morgan	6: 4	Scotland Stephen Hendry John Higgins Alan McManus Chris Small	-	1998/99
2000	Reading The Hexagon	England Ronnie O'Sullivan Jimmy White John Parrott Stephen Lee	6: 4	Wales Matthew Stevens Mark Williams Dominic Dale Darren Morgan		1999/00
2001		Scotland Stephen Hendry John Higgins Alan McManus	6: 2	Ireland Ken Doherty Fergal O'Brien Michael Judge	Coalite	2000/01
World cup
2011	Bangkok Bangkok Convention Center	People's Republic of China Ding Junhui Liang Wenbo	4: 2	Northern Ireland Mark Allen Gerard Greene	PTT EGAT	2011/12
2015	Wuxi Wuxi Sports Park Stadium	People's Republic of China B Zhou Yuelong Yan Bingtao	4: 1	Scotland John Higgins Stephen Maguire	Nongfu Spring	2015/16
2017		People's Republic of China A Ding Junhui Liang Wenbo	4: 3	England Judd Trump Barry Hawkins	Little Swan	2017/18
2019		Scotland John Higgins Stephen Maguire	4-0	People's Republic of China B Zhou Yuelong Liang Wenbo	Beverly	2019/20

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Team Events . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on February 16, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2010.