World Cup of Pool

The World Cup of Pool is a pool tournament in the 9-ball discipline organized by Matchroom Sport , which has been held annually since 2006. It is a national tournament in which each participating country is represented by a team of two players. The venue for the first edition was Newport , Wales and moved to Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 2007 . From 2009 to 2012 Manila was the venue. The World Cup of Pool has been held in England since 2013.

Record winners are the Philippines , who won the tournament in 2006 , 2009 and 2013 .

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32 teams from 31 countries have taken part in each of the previous tournaments ( England provided two teams in 2006 ; the Netherlands in 2007 and 2008 , the Philippines from 2009 to 2012 and England again since 2013 - both as the host nation).

The game is played in Scotch Doubles mode with a winner break. This means that the team that won the previous game has the right to kick-off.

Since 2007 the game has been played up to the quarter-finals until a team has won eight games ( racks ), in the semifinals the number of wins required was increased to nine and in the final to eleven. In 2006, however, the game was played up to nine in the semifinals and thirteen in the final.

Furthermore, a so-called shot clock is used, which does not allow the players to wait longer than 40 seconds with their shot. However, you have the option to announce an extension once per rack, which gives you another 40 seconds more time for the push.

The 2013 World Cup of Pool was held at York Hall in London . For the first time in years, pool billiards was broadcast live on German television ( Sport1 ), commented by national pool coach Andreas Huber .

Prize money

A total of 250,000 US dollars will be distributed. The following information relates to the team, not to the individual players.

space	Prize money
winner	US $ 60,000
finalist	US $ 30,000
Semi-finalists	US $ 15,000
Quarter finalists	US $ 9,000
Round of 16 players	US $ 4,500
17th to 32nd place	US $ 3,625
total	US $ 250,000

Tournament statistics

year	venue	final			Semi-finalists
		winner	Result	finalist
2006	Newport	Philippines Reyes / Bustamante	13: 5	USA Strickland / Morris	Germany Engert / Ortmann	Vietnam Nguyen / Lương
2007	Rotterdam	China Li / Fu	11:10	Finland Immonen / Juva	Japan Ōi / Kawabata	Canada Martel / Montal
2008		USA Morris / van Boening	11: 7	England Peach / Gray	Philippines Bustamante / Orcollo	China Li / Fu
2009	Quezon City	Philippines Reyes / Bustamante	11: 9	Germany Souquet / Hohmann	China Li / Fu	Philippines Alcano / Orcollo
2010	Manila	China Li / Fu	10: 5	Philippines Orcollo / Gomez	Germany Souquet / Ortmann	Chinese Taipei Ko / Chang
2011	Quezon City	Germany Souquet / Hohmann	10: 4	Thailand Kanjanasri / Palajin	South Korea Lee / Hwang	Chinese Taipei Ko / Ko
2012	Manila	Finland Immonen / Makkonen	10: 8	Poland Skowerski / Szewczyk	USA van Boening / Morris	Chinese Taipei Han / Hsin
2013	London	Philippines Corteza / Orcollo	10: 8	Netherlands Feijen / van den Berg	Finland Immonen / Makkonen	Chinese Taipei Chang , Ko
2014	Portsmouth	England Appleton / Boyes	10: 9	Netherlands Feijen / van den Berg	Finland Immonen / Makkonen	Austria Ouschan / He
2015	London	Chinese Taipei Ko / Chang	10: 8	England Gray / Peach	England Appleton / Boyes	Japan Ōi / Kuribayashi
2017		Austria He / Ouschan	10: 6	United States van Boening / Woodward	People's Republic of China Wu / Dang	Chinese Taipei Ko / Chang
2018	Shanghai	People's Republic of China Wu / Liu	10: 3	Austria He / Ouschan	Chinese Taipei Jung-lin / Cheng	People's Republic of China Dejing / Ming
2019	Leicester	Austria He / Ouschan	11: 3	Philippines Biado / de Luna	Netherlands Bijsterbosch / Feijen	Spain Alcaide / Sanchez

Medal table

#	country				∑
1	Philippines	3	2	2	7th
2	Austria	2	1	1	4th
3	China	2	0	3	5
4th	Finland	1	3	0	4th
5	England	1	2	1	4th
	United States	1	2	1	4th
7th	Germany	1	1	2	4th
8th	Chinese Taipei	1	0	5	6th
9	Netherlands	0	2	1	3
10	Thailand	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
12	Japan	0	0	2	2
13	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1

Attendees

country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2017
Australia		R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.
Belgium		V	A.	R.	R.		R.	R.	R.	R.
China		S.	H	H	S.	R.	V	R.	V	R.	H
Chile									R.
Germany	H	R.	V	F.	H	S.	A.	A.	V	R.	A.
Denmark		R.	R.	R.
England	R.	A.	F.	V	A.	R.	V	V	S.	H	R.
England 2	A.							V	A.	F.	V
Estonia						A.		R.		R.
Finland	A.	F.	R.	A.	V	R.	S.	H	H	V	V
France		A.	R.	A.	V	R.			A.	A.
Greece								A.	A.	R.	R.
Hong Kong	V		R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.
India	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	A.	R.	A.	R.	R.	A.
Indonesia	R.	R.		A.	V	R.	R.	R.	R.	A.	R.
Ireland	R.
Iceland			R.
Italy	V	R.	V	A.	A.	A.	V	A.	R.	R.
Japan	A.	H	V	A.	A.	A.	A.	V	R.	H	V
Canada	A.	H	A.	R.	R.	A.	A.	R.	A.	R.	A.
country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2017
Qatar	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.				A.	V	R.
Croatia	R.	A.	A.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.
Kuwait						R.	R.	R.			R.
Malaysia	A.		R.	R.	R.	A.	R.		R.	R.	R.
Malta	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.		R.	R.		R.
New Zealand										R.	R.
Netherlands	A.	A.	R.	V	A.	R.	A.	F.	F.	A.	A.
Netherlands 2		R.	A.
Norway											R.
Austria		A.	V	R.	R.	R.	A.	R.	H	V	S.
Peru			R.							R.
Philippines	S.	V	H	H	A.	V	R.	S.	V	A.	V
Philippines 2				S.	F.	V	V
Poland	R.	R.	A.	V	V	V	F.	R.	A.	A.	A.
Portugal								R.	R.		R.
Romania										V	R.
Russia	A.	R.	A.	A.	A.	R.	R.	A.	A.	R.	A.
Scotland	R.	R.						R.			A.
Sweden	R.			R.	R.	V	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.
Switzerland		V	A.			A.	A.		A.
country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2017
Serbia							R.
Singapore	R.	V		R.	R.	A.	R.	A.		A.	R.
Slovenia					R.
Spain	A.	R.	R.	A.	A.	R.	A.	R.	R.	R.	A.
South Africa	R.	R.
South Korea	R.	A.	A.	R.	R.	H	R.	A.	R.	A.
Taiwan / Chinese Taipei	V	A.	R.	A.	H	H	H	H	R.	S.	H
Thailand	R.		R.	R.	R.	F.	A.				R.
Czech Republic	V								R.	A.
Hungary	R.	R.					R.	V			R.
United States	F.	A.	S.	V	A.	R.	H	A.	V	R.	F.
Vietnam	H	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.	R.
Wales	R.
Explanation : R = out in the first round, A = out in the round of 16, V = out in the quarter-finals, H = out in the semi-finals, F = defeat in the final, S = tournament winner

Web links

• Official website
• World Cup of Pool at azbilliards.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ World Cup of Pool 2017. In: matchroompool.com. Matchroom Sport , accessed June 18, 2017 . 
2. ^ World Cup of Pool - History. In: matchroompool.com. Matchroom Sport, accessed March 3, 2017 .