European Snooker Championship

European Snooker Championship
Tournament information
Venue	N/A
Location	Bucharest
Country	Romania
Established	2016
Organisation(s)	World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	N/A
Recent edition	2016

The European Snooker Championship, or the European Snooker Open, is a professional ranking snooker tournament. It is also the primary competition determining the continental champion of Europe.^[1]

The first championship will be held in 2016 and played in Bucharest, Romania for the next three years. The tournament will run from October 3rd to 9th in 2016, with the venue yet to be confirmed. There will be a flat draw, with all 128 players starting in the first round in Bucharest.

References

↑ "Romania to stage new European Championship/". World Snooker. Retrieved 18 January 2016.

Active snooker tournaments

Ranking	Wuxi Classic Australian Goldfields Open Shanghai Masters International Championship UK Championship German Masters Welsh Open Indian Open Players Championship Grand Final China Open European Championship World Championship

PTC events	Bulgarian Open Gdynia Open Gibraltar Open Haining Open Paul Hunter Classic Riga Open Ruhr Open

Non-ranking	General Cup Champion of Champions Masters Championship League World Seniors Championship World Grand Prix

Variant	Six-red World Championship Snooker Shoot-Out

Pro-am	Vienna Snooker Open Pink Ribbon

Related	Triple Crown List of ranking title winners Withdrawn tournaments Tournaments by longevity

Future events	Home Series English Open Irish Open Scottish Open Welsh Open European Open

Cue sports

Pool games	Nine-ball Eight-ball Straight pool Ten-ball Blackball Artistic pool & trick shots Bank pool Baseball pocket billiards Bottle pool Bowliards Chicago Chinese eight-ball Cowboy pool Cribbage Cutthroat Golf Honolulu Kelly pool Killer One-pocket Rotation Seven-ball Speed pool Three-ball

Carom billiards	Three-cushion Five-pins Artistic Goriziana Balkline and straight rail Cushion caroms Four-ball

Other games	Snooker English billiards Russian pyramid Kaisa Bumper pool Bagatelle Bar billiards Novuss Carrom

Resources	Glossary Techniques Billiard table Billiard ball Billiard hall Cue stick Rack

World championships	World Snooker Championship champions Six-red World Championship WPA World Nine-ball Championship champions WPA World Ten-ball Championship World Straight Pool Championship WPA World Eight-ball Championship (defunct) champions World Cup of Pool World Pool Masters Tournament See also: Cue sports at the World Games

Categories	Cue sports Players Organizations Competitions

The rules of games in italics are standardized by international sanctioning bodies.

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