ABSF African Snooker Championships

The ABSC African Snooker Championship is an annual snooker competition and is the highest ranking and most prestigious amateur event in Africa. The event series is sanctioned by the African Billiards & Snooker Confederation. established back in 1993, the winner of the event often becomes the African nomination for the World Snooker Tour. Throughout the tournament’s early history the championship was dominated by South African players, however at the turn of the millennium Egyptian players became the dominant force in the championship, winning 11 of 15 championships since the year 2000.

ABSC African Snooker Championship

Tournament information
Established	1993; 32 years ago (1993)
Organisation(s)	African Billiards & Snooker Confederation
Format	Amateur event
Recent edition	2024
Current champion	Hatem Yassen (EGY)

The championship is currently held by Hatem Yassen who defeated Abdel Shaheen 6–5 in the final of the 2024 All-Africa Snooker Championship to win the trophy for a 2nd time.^[1]

Men's finals

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Year	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	Score
1993	Unknown	Ismael Teeluck	Unknown
1994	Port Louis, Mauritius	Bernie Jones	Schalk Mouton	11–10
1995	Durban, South Africa	Warren Horsley	Bernie Jones	11–8
1996[3]	South Africa	Hitesh Naran	Warren Horsley	11–8
1997–1998	Unknown
1999[4]	Cairo, Egypt	Warren Horsley	Munier Cassim	6–5
2000[5]	Casablanca, Morocco	Mohamed El Hamy	Sherif Senna	5–4
2001	Unknown
2002	Cairo, Egypt	Hesham Abbas	Wael Talaat	5–2
2003–2006	Unknown
2007[6]	Casablanca, Morocco	Wael Talaat	Mohamed Samy Elkhayat	5–4
2008[7]	Tripoli, Libya	Mohamed El Hamy	Mohamed Samy Elkhayat	6–2
2009[8]	Johannesburg, South Africa	Wael Talaat	Mohamed Samy Elkhayat	6–0
2010	Cairo, Egypt	Mohamed Samy Elkhayat	Wael Talaat	6–1
2011[9]	Cairo, Egypt	Wael Talaat	Mohamed El Hamy	6–4
2012[10]	Johannesburg, South Africa	Peter Francisco	Mohamed Khairy	6–2
2013[11]	Marrakech, Morocco	Peter Francisco	Khaled Belaid Abumdas	6–2
2014	Unknown
2015[12]	Tunis, Tunisia	Hatem Yassen	Mohamed Khairy	6–5
2016	Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt	Peter Francisco	Wael Talaat	6–1
2017	Hammamet, Tunisia	Basem Eltahhan	Wael Talaat	6–5
2018[13]	Cairo, Egypt	Mohamed Ibrahim	Mostafa Dorgham	6–1
2019[14]	Rabat, Morocco	Amine Amiri	Abdelhamid Abdelrahman	5–4
2022	Casablanca, Morocco	Mohamed Ibrahim	Hesham Shawky	5–4
2023[15]	Casablanca, Morocco	Mostafa Dorgham	Mohamed Khairy	5–2
2024	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hatem Yassen (EGY)	Abdel Shaheen (EGY)	6–5

Champions by country

Champions by country

Country	Players	Total	First title	Last title
Egypt	8	13	2000	2024
South Africa	4	7	1994	2016
Mauritius	1	1	1993	1993
Morocco	1	1	2019	2019

Women's finals

Year	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Ref.
2015	Tunis, Tunisia	Jeanne Young (ZAF)		Round-robin	[16]
2022	Casablanca, Morocco	Yousra Matine (MAR)	Zineb Likaimi	3–0	[17]
2023	Casablanca, Morocco	Bennani Hind (MAR)	Yasmine Yathrib (MAR)	3–0	[15]
2024	Johannesburg, South Africa	Chantelle Perry (ZA)	Amy-Claire King (ZA)	3–1

See also

• World Snooker Tour

References

1. https://wpbsa.com/hatem-yassen-is-the-all-african-snooker-champion/
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10. "2012 ALL AFRICA SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
11. "The African Snooker Championship - Marrakech 2013". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
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14. African Games
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17. "Snooker african championship (women) - The Final Yousra Matine vs Zineb Likaimi". L’Association Nationale des Sports de Billard et de Snooker (Maroc). 24 June 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2023.

External links

• Africa Billiards & Snooker Confederation