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

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

[nat-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.

[albania-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.

[cork-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.

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