The IBSF World Billiards Championship (previously known as the World Amateur Billiards Championship) is the premier non-professional tournament for the game of English billiards

English billiards

English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated, is a hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table. Billiards is less well known as "the English game", "the all-in game" and "the common game".The game is for...

 in the world. The event series (not to be confused with the World Professional Billiards Championship

World Professional Billiards Championship

The World Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards. It has been played annually since 1980, is one of the oldest sporting World Championships in the world, dating in earnest to the mid-19th century...

) is today sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation

International Billiards and Snooker Federation

The International Billiards & Snooker Federation is the organisation that governs non-professional snooker and English billiards around the world . The organization is presently headquartered in Reims, France.-History:...

.

History

Prior to 1951, when the first "world amateur" championship was held under the auspices of the Billiards Association and Control Council (based in London), this event was called the (British) Empire Billiards Championship.

In 1971, after many years' discussion, the World Billiards & Snooker Council was formed, changing its name in 1973 to the International Billiards & Snooker Federation. The name change came about because of the disquiet of many overseas national associations that the same body should oversee both the English domestic game and the game at international level. Consequently, the IBSF took control of the organisation of the non-professional championships of both snooker and billiards. The first winner from outside the British Commonwealth did not occur until 1999.

Champions

Year	Venue	Winner	Country	Runner-up	Country	Score
2011	Carlow (timed)	Mike Russell	England	Matthew Bolton	Australia	3001-519
2011	Carlow (points)	Mike Russell	England	Pankaj Advani Pankaj Advani Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...	India	6-3 (150up)
2010	Maharashtra (timed)	Mike Russell	England	Peter Gilchrist	Singapore	4120-784
2010	Maharashtra (points)	Mike Russell	England	Pankaj Advani Pankaj Advani Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...	India	6-0 (150up)
2008	Bangalore (timed)	Pankaj Advani Pankaj Advani Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...	India	Devendra Joshi	India	2368-2020
2008	Bangalore (points)	Pankaj Advani Pankaj Advani Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...	India	Geet Sethi Geet Sethi Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...	India	6-1 (150up)
2007	Singapore (timed)	Pankaj Advani Pankaj Advani Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...	India	Dhruv Sitwala	India	1946-1488
2007	Singapore (points)	Rupesh Shah	India	Ashok Shandilya	India	6-4 (150up)
2005	Malta (timed)	Pankaj Advani Pankaj Advani Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...	India	Geet Sethi Geet Sethi Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...	India	2242-1717
2005	Malta (points)	Pankaj Advani Pankaj Advani Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...	India	Devendra Joshi	India	6-2 (150up)
2003	India	Lee Lagan	England	Geet Sethi Geet Sethi Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...	India	6-5 (150up)
2002	Australia (timed)	Mike Russell	England	Geet Sethi Geet Sethi Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...	India	2438-1499
2002	Australia (points)	Ashok Shandilya	India	Praput Chaithanasakun	Thailand	11-9 (50up)
2001	New Zealand	Geet Sethi Geet Sethi Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...	India	Ashok Shandilya	India	3484-1289
2000	England	Chris Shutt	England	Roxton Chapman	England	11-9 (50up)
1999	Ireland	Praput Chaithanasakun	Thailand	Paul Bennett	England	3201-1657
1998	Australia	Robby Foldvari	Australia	Praput Chaithanasakun	Thailand	1869-1439
1997	Malta	Joe Grech	Malta	Ashok Shandilya	India	2895-2836
1990	Bangalore	Manoj Kothari	India	Ashok Shandilya	India	2890-2422
1987	Belfast	Geet Sethi Geet Sethi Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...	India	Joe Grech	Malta	4846-3256
1985	Dublin	Geet Sethi Geet Sethi Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...	India	Robert Marshall	Australia	3809-2453
1983	Malta	Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira , nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion...	India	Subhash Agrawal	India	3933-2744
1981	Delhi	Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira , nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion...	India	Norman Dagley	England	2725-2631
1979	Sri Lanka	Paul Mifsud	Malta	Norman Dagley	England	2943-2152
1977	Melbourne	Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira , nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion...	India	Bob Close	England	2683-2564
1975	Auckland	Norman Dagley	England	Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira , nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion...	India	3385-2268
1973	Bombay	Mohammed Lafir	Sri Lanka	Satish Mohan	India	Round Robin
1971	Malta	Norman Dagley	England	Mannie Francisco	South Africa	Round Robin
1969	London	Jack Karnehm	England	Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira , nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion...	India	Round Robin
1967	Colombo	Leslie Driffield	England	Mohammed J M Lafir	Sri Lanka	Round Robin
1964	Pukekohe	Wilson Jones Wilson Jones (billiards) Wilson Lionel Garton-Jones was a professional player of English billiards from India. Jones, a dominant national amateur champion for more than a decade, won the amateur world championship twice, in 1958 and 1964...	India	Jack Karnehm	England	Round Robin
1962	Perth	Bob Marshall	Australia	Wilson Jones Wilson Jones (billiards) Wilson Lionel Garton-Jones was a professional player of English billiards from India. Jones, a dominant national amateur champion for more than a decade, won the amateur world championship twice, in 1958 and 1964...	India	3623-2891
1960	Edinburgh	Herbert Beetham	England	Jim Long	Australia	Round Robin
1958	Calcutta	Wilson Jones Wilson Jones (billiards) Wilson Lionel Garton-Jones was a professional player of English billiards from India. Jones, a dominant national amateur champion for more than a decade, won the amateur world championship twice, in 1958 and 1964...	India	Leslie Driffield	England	Round Robin
1954	Sydney	Tom Cleary	Australia	Bob Marshall	Australia	Round Robin
1952	Calcutta	Leslie Driffield	England	Bob Marshall	Australia	Round Robin
1951	London	Bob Marshall	Australia	Frank Edwards	England	Round Robin
1938	Melbourne	Bob Marshall	Australia	Kingsley Kennerley	England	Round Robin
1936	Johannesburg	Bob Marshall	Australia	Allan Prior	South Africa	Round Robin
1935	London	Horace Coles	Wales	J McGhie	Scotland	Round Robin
1933	London	Sydney Lee	England	Tom Jones	Wales	Round Robin
1931	Sydney	Laurie Steeples	England	Sydney Lee	England	Round Robin
1929	Johannesburg	Les Hayes	Australia	Allan Prior	South Africa	Round Robin
1927	London	Allan Prior	South Africa	Horace Coles	Wales	Round Robin
1926	London	Joe Earlam	England	George Shailer	Australia	Round Robin