With the 2017 World Cup of Pool set for June 13-18 at the historic York Hall in East London, Matchroom Sport can announce the 14 European teams who will be participating in this year’s event. Among the teams are five previous World Cup winners as well as 10 players who have previously contested the final and overall the European contingent is stacked with talent.
Austria – Mario He / Albin Ouschan
England – Mark Gray / Darren Appleton
England B – Imran Majid / Daryl Peach
Finland – Mika Immonen / Petri Makkonen
Germany – Ralf Souquet / Thorsten Hohmann
Greece – Nikos Ekonomopoulos / Alex Kazakis
Holland – Niels Feijen / Nick van den Berg
Norway – Matts B Schjetne / Tom Bjerke
Poland – Mateusz Sniegocki / Wojiech Szewczyk
Portugal – Joao Grilo / Rui Edgar Francis
Romania – Robert Braga / TBC
Russia – Ruslan Chinakhov / Konstantin Stepanov
Spain – David Alcaide / Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
Sweden – Marcus Chamat / Daniel Tangudd
Previous champions are Finland (2012) and Germany (2011) who both won their titles in Manila, whilst England A’s Darren Appleton was a winner, alongside Karl Boyes back in 2014.
Commencing on Tuesday June 13 and culminating with the final on the evening of Sunday 18, the event will be played to a single elimination format over six days with two sessions a day. There are 31 matches in total.
Teams will be announced shortly with Mosconi Cup stars from both sides of the Atlantic set to be joined by some of the greatest players from around the world.
Tickets are on sale now at www.matchroompool.com priced at just £10.00 per evening session (Tuesday to Sunday) and £8.00 per weekend afternoon session. Tuesday to Friday afternoons are free. A season ticket covering all sessions is priced at £60.00.
The World Cup of Pool will carry a $250,000 prize fund including $60,000 for the champions. The event will be produced by Matchroom Sport Television and televised live on Sky Sports as well as other stations around the world. It is then syndicated internationally as 31 x 1 hour programmes.
2017 WORLD CUP OF POOL is sponsored by Rasson Billiards who supplies the Official Table; the cloth is supplied by Iwan Simonis and the Official Balls are Super Aramith by Saluc. Predator is the Official Cue and Chalk of the event.
Luke Riches, Matchroom Sport: [email protected]
Notes: MATCHROOM SPORT is one of the world’s leading producers of televised sport and is responsible for over 1,000 hours of original programming across a range of sports. Based in the UK and chaired by charismatic founder Barry Hearn, they operate three pool events; the Mosconi Cup, the World Cup of Pool and the World Pool Masters. In addition, the company produce a multitude of events in darts, snooker, tenpin, golf, fishing, ping pong, gymnastics, netball, basketball and boxing.