EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championship

The EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships is the premier amateur junior snooker tournament in Europe. The event series is sanctioned by the European Billiards and Snooker Association. It took place first in 1997 and is held annually since then. The event was known as the EBSA European Under-19 Snooker Championships until 2010.^[1][2][3] In most years the winner of the tournament qualifies for the next two seasons of the World Snooker Tour as well as being awarded the Ebdon Trophy which is named in honour of former World Champion Peter Ebdon.^[4]

Winners

Sources: ^[1][2][3]

Year	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Ref
EBSA European Under-19 Snooker Championships
1997	Saint Helier, Jersey	Thomas Dowling	Michael Holt	6–3
1998	Rabat, Malta	Ian Preece	Sean O'Neill	7–3	[5]
1999	Kalisz, Poland	Gerrit bij de Leij	Ian Preece	6–3
2000	Budapest, Hungary	Roger Baksa	Rolf de Jong	6–3
2001	Bad Wildungen, Germany	Mark Joyce	David Donovan	6–3	[6]
2002	Carlow, Ireland	Robert Shanks	Mark Joyce	6–3
2003	Riga, Latvia	Jamie O’Neill	Robert Shanks	6–3	[7]
2004	Wellingborough, England	Jamie Jones	Mark Allen	6–3	[8]
2005	Yekaterinburg, Russia	Mark Allen	Chris Norbury	6–5	[9]
2006	Riga, Latvia	Ben Woollaston	Vincent Muldoon	6–4	[10]
2007	Prestatyn, Wales	Michael White	Vincent Muldoon	6–2	[11]
2008	Glasgow, Scotland	Stephen Craigie	Anthony McGill	6–2	[12]
2009	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Luca Brecel	Michael Wasley	6–5	[13]
2010	Qawra, Malta	Jak Jones	Anthony McGill	6–4	[14]
EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships
2011	Qawra, Malta	Kacper Filipiak	Michael Leslie	6–3	[15]
2012	Sofia, Bulgaria	Michael Leslie	Shane Castle	6–2	[16]
2013	Bor, Serbia	James Cahill	Ashley Carty	6–0	[17]
2014	Bucharest, Romania	Oliver Lines	Josh Boileau	6–1	[18]
2015	Qawra, Malta	Darryl Hill	Louis Heathcote	6–3	[19]
2016	Wrocław, Poland	Josh Boileau	Brandon Sargeant	6–1	[20]
2017	Nicosia, Cyprus	Alexander Ursenbacher	Jackson Page	6–4	[21]
2018	Sofia, Bulgaria	Simon Lichtenberg	Tyler Rees	6–3	[22]
2019	Eilat, Israel	Jackson Page	Ross Bulman	5–1	[23]
2020	Albufeira, Portugal	Aaron Hill	Hayden Staniland	5–2	[24]
2021	Albufeira, Portugal	Dylan Emery	Julien Leclercq	5–2	[25]
2022	Shengjin, Albania	Ben Mertens	Florian Nüßle	5–1	[26]
2023	St. Paul's Bay, Malta	Liam Graham	Iulian Boiko	5–2	[27]
2024	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Liam Davies	Antoni Kowalski	5–3	[28]
2025	Antalya, Turkey	Iulian Boiko	Oliver Sykes	5–4	[29]

Statistics

Champions by country

Country	Players	First title	Last title
England	7	2000	2014
Wales	7	1998	2024
Ireland	3	1997	2020
Scotland	3	2002	2023
Belgium	2	2009	2022
Netherlands	1	1999	1999
Northern Ireland	1	2005	2005
Poland	1	2011	2011
Isle of Man	1	2015	2015
Switzerland	1	2017	2017
Germany	1	2018	2018
Ukraine	1	2025	2025

See also

• EBSA European Snooker Championship
• EBSA European Under-18 Snooker Championships
• IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship
• World Snooker Tour