There are 32 teams in total competing for the lion’s share of the US $250,000 prize fund including a $60,000 first prize.

 
Dates: Tuesday 22 August – Sunday 27 August
 

Venue: The Newport Centre, Newport, South Wales, 01633 656757

Format:          A total of 32 participating countries will be taking part, each represented by top two players.

The matches will be played on a straight knock-out basis – five rounds of matches on one TV table

All matches are scotch doubles with alternate break.

Matches:

 
Tickets:   The free tickets are available in person from The Newport Centre and by sending an e-mail to info@matchroom.com with information of how many tickets you want and for what sessions.

 
Participating Nations
 
Seeded teams in brackets:

Europe (17 teams): Croatia (15), Czech Republic, England A (13), England B, Finland (7), Germany (4), Holland (2), Hungary, Ireland, Italy (10), Malta, Poland (9), Russia (11), Scotland, Spain, Sweden (6) and Wales.

Asia (10 teams): Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan (12), Korea (14), Malaysia (16), Philippines (1), Singapore, Taiwan (5), Thailand and Vietnam

Americas (2 teams): Canada (8) and USA (3)

Rest of the World (2 teams): Qatar and South Africa

 
Playing Schedule
 
The World Cup of Pool will be played over six days in a single-table TV arena, starting on Tuesday and concluding with the final on the Sunday.

First round (race to nine)

Tuesday, August 22 (2pm)

1. Thailand (Tepwin Arunnath and Amnuayporn Chotipong) v Canada (Luc Salvas and Tyler Edey)
2. Qatar (Fahad Mohammadi and Bashar Hussain) v Malaysia (Patrick Ooi Fook Yuen and Ibrahim Bin Amir)
3. Czech Republic (Roman Hybler and Michal Gavenciak) v Poland (Radoslaw Babica and Mariusz Roter)

Tuesday, August 22 (7pm)

4. Philippines (Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante) v Malta (Tony Drago and Alex Borg)
5. Taiwan (Wang Hung-hsiang and Yang Ching-shun) v India (Dharminder Lilly and Alok Kumar)
6. England B (Steve Davis and Daryl Peach) v Korea (Jeong Young-hwa and Lee Gun-jae)

Wednesday, August 23 (2pm)

7. Hungary (Vilmos Foldes and Gabor Solymosi) v Russia (Konstantin Stepanov and Konstantin Zolotilov)
8. Hong Kong (Lee Chenman and Kong Man-ho) v Sweden (Marcus Chamat and Tom Storm)
9. Japan (Maasaki Tanaka and Satoshi Kawabata) v Indonesia (Imran Ibrahim and Ricky Yang)

Wednesday, August 23 (7pm)

10. Spain (David Alcaide and Rafael Guzman) v England A (Raj Hundal and Ronnie O’Sullivan).
11. Singapore (Chan Keng Kwang and Toh Lian Han) v USA (Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris)
12. Wales (Rob McKenna and Ben Davies) v Germany (Thomas Engert and Oliver Ortmann)

Thursday, August 24 (2pm)

13. Ireland (Tommy Donlon and Paddy McLaughlin) v Finland (Mika Immonen and Markus Juva)
14. South Africa (David Anderson and Yulan Govender) v Italy (Fabio Petroni and Angelo Millauro)
15. Vietnam (Thanh Nam Nguyen and Chi Dung Luong) v Croatia (Philipp Stovanovic and Ivan Kralj)

Thursday, August 24 (7pm)

16. Scotland (Michael Valentine and Pat Holtz) v Holland (Nick van den Berg and Niels Feijen)

Second round (race to nine)

17. Philippines or Malta v Qatar or Malaysia
18. Singapore or USA v England B or Korea

Friday, August 25 (2pm)

19. Taiwan or India v Japan or Indonesia
20. Hungary or Russia v Hong Kong or Sweden
21. Czech Republic or Poland v Thailand or Canada

Friday, August 25 (7pm)

22. Ireland or Finland v South Africa or Italy
23. Spain or England A v Wales or Germany
24. Vietnam or Croatia v Scotland or Holland

Saturday, August 26 (2pm)

Quarter-finals (race to 11)
25. QF 1
26. QF 2

Saturday, August 26 (7pm)

27. QF 3
28. QF 4

The schedule of quarter-final matches will be decided once the line-up is completed but the matches will be:

A – Winner of match 17 v winner of match 21
B – Winner of match 19 v winner of match 23
C – Winner of match 18 v winner of match 20
D – Winner of match 22 v winner of match 24.

Sunday, August 27 (2pm)

Semi-finals (race to 11)
29. SF 1 – Winner of match A v winner of match B
30. SF 2 – Winner of match C v winner of match D

Sunday, August 27 (7pm)

Final (race to 13)
31. F – Winner of match 29 v winner of match 30

Prize Fund

Television

Matchroom Sport will be providing coverage of the competition in 31 x 1 hour programmes.