Leone Crowley

Leone Crowley is an Irish snooker player. In January 2025 he won the WSF World Junior Championship, and with it earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour starting with the 2025–26 snooker season.

Career

A successful junior snooker player, he won Irish national titles in the U12, U14, U16, U18, and U21 age-groups.[1] In 2022, he was a finalist at the EBSA European Under-18 Snooker Championship, in Albania.[2] He had his first televised match in losing to professional Jackson Page at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out in Swansea.[3][4]

He won the U21 UK Open Championship in 2024.[1] He reached the final of the WSF Junior Snooker Championship in January 2025 in Saïdia, Morocco, with a semi-final win over Scotland's Amaan Iqbal, having only lost six frames in the tournament.[5][6] In the final on 23 January 2025, he whitewashed Kaylan Patel of England 5-0 to win a two-year professional card on the World Snooker Tour from the 2025-26 snooker season. He also became the first Irishman to win the event.[7][2]

Personal life

He is from Ballyvolane, Cork, in the Republic of Ireland.[5] He practised for a time with former professional Anthony O'Connor at Shooters snooker club in Cork.[8] He regularly practises at Mark Allen's snooker camp in Belfast.[9]

References

1. "Cork snooker star Leone Crowley on the verge of history after reaching the WSF Junior Championship final". Echolive.ie. 23 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
2. Day, Michael (23 January 2025). "Ireland's Leone Crowley wins WSF World Junior Snooker Championship". Totally Snookered. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
3. "Shaun Murphy makes historic 147 against clock in Shoot Out". RTE.ie. 8 Dec 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
4. "Crowley to play in World Snooker BetVictor Shoot Out". sbireland. 5 December 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
5. "PATEL TO MEET CROWLEY IN WSF JUNIOR FINAL". WST.tv. 22 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
6. "PATEL AND CROWLEY SET UP 2025 WSF JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL". World Snooker Federation. 22 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
7. "Cork teenage star Leone Crowley wins world junior snooker title". the42.ie. 23 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
8. "Cork snooker is stronger than ever thanks to passionate cue men like O'Connor". Exholive.ie. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
9. "CROWLEY EARNS TOUR CARD WITH WSF JUNIOR TRIUMPH". wst.tv. 23 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.