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. Having been 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
Established1993 (1993)
Organisation(s)African Billiards & Snooker Confederation
FormatAmateur event
Recent edition2023
Current champion Mostafa Dorgham (EGY)

The championship is currently held by Mostafa Dorgham who defeated Mohamed Khairy 5–2 in the final of the 2023 All-Africa Snooker & 6-Red Championship.

Men's finals

[1]

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

Champions by country
Champions by country
Country Players Total First title Last title
 Egypt 8 12 2000 2023
 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 [14]
2022 Casablanca, Morocco  Yousra Matine (MAR) Zineb Likaimi 3–0 [15]
2023 Casablanca, Morocco  Bennani Hind (MAR)  Yasmine Yathrib (MAR) 3–0 [13]

See also

References
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  8. "2012 ALL AFRICA SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA". African Billiards & Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  9. "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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  11. Snooker Scene, June 2018, page 39
  12. African Games
  13. "Dorgham beats Khairy to Aftican Title". World Snooker Tour. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  14. Stead, Marcus (July 2015). "Tournament winners". Around the world. Snooker Scene. p. 41.
  15. "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.


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