WELCOME PORTUGAL
NEXT STOP - BRIDLINGTON !!!
THE NATIONS WHERE ALL THE TROPHIES ENDED UP
LADIES - France
SENIORS - England
MASTERS - Wales
GRANDMASTERS - England
UNDER 23 - France
UNDER 18 - Malta
UNDER 15 - Scotland
LEARNING DISABILITIES - Wales
LADIES - England
SENIORS - Scotland
MASTERS - Scotland
UNDER 15 - England
LADIES - Chucky Preston (Northern Ireland)
SENIORS - Andy Lucas (England)
MASTERS - Derek Smyth (Ireland)
GRANDMASTERS - Keith Brewer (England)
UNDER 23 - Kyle Cope (England)
UNDER 18 - Steven Muscat (Malta)
UNDER 15 - Jake Castaldi (Malta)
LEARNING DISABILITIES - Thomas Heal (Wales)
WHEELCHAIR - Roy Kimberley (England)
ALL THE SCORES AND STATS FROM MALTA
NEW EBA MERCHANDISE PARTNER & STORE
INTRODUCING THE NEW OFFICIAL EBA MERCHANDISE COLLECTION FROM ONBOARD !!!
2024 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HEAD TO MALTA !!!
The International Blackball Federation Executive Committee is delighted to announce our first ever World Championships will be held in Malta from November 2nd to November 10th, 2024.
2023 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS ACCOMMODATION
THE NATIONS TO WHERE ALL THE TITLES WENT
2023 UNDERS & LDs NATIONS CUP OF POOL UNDERWAY !!!
It's just great to back in The Spa, Bridlington, one of, if not the best playing arena in the World for Pool. Good luck to all participating Under 15, Under 18, Under 23 and Learning Disabilities players. All the links as follows -
FREE LIVE STREAMING FROM BRIDLINGTON
You will be able to catch the action on Facebook, You Tube and TYPPlayer. More info to follow.
WELCOME ORKNEY
INTERNATIONAL BLACKBALL FEDERATION LAUNCHES
2023 EBA UK SINGLE TITLES
WELCOME IRELAND
We look forward to seeing them grow and will soon be meeting players and officials at their first International event, the 2023 EBA Nations Cup of Pool in Bridlington, England starting 26th March.
Welcome on board Ireland.
Click here to visit the Blackball Federation of Ireland Facebook Page
2023 EBA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
The EBA European Championships will be held in Malta in 2023 for the very first time. The venue is the Dolmen Hotel, Qawra from 1st - 8th November. Information on hotel bookings in due course.
STATEMENT FROM OUR CHAIRMAN 29TH OCTOBER 2022
Dear Members of the EBA,
On August 2nd 2022 the EBA committee and Nation Reps met and found that the Ireland Blackball Association (IBA) was in breach of Article 7, Paragraph 3 of the EBA Constitution 3 which states “All members must recognise the EBA as the only controlling body for the game of Blackball on the continent and must prohibit their players taking part in any national, continental or international competition that has been identified by the EBA as being detrimental to the interests of the Association in performing this task or to the unity of the game of Blackball. In no case will players compete in representation of their countries in events that have not been sanctioned by the EBA.” They breached this because they had announced that they were sending players to a BI Blackball tournament in Morocco which was at the same time as the World Championships held in Albi and this was detrimental to the EBA, who had democratically left BI. The EBA at this point suspended the IBA as EBA members and requested the IBA to retract their attendance to the Blackball event in Morocco within 7 days of receiving the letter, and if they did not do that we would invoke Article 8 (Disciplinary of Members and Expulsion), Section 8.2, Subsection iii giving the EBA the power to expulse the IBA. the Article 8, Section 8.2, Subsection iii states “Refusal to comply with the provisions of the constitution and its associated regulations”
On the August 10th 2022 the IBA responded saying that the EBA had no authority in sanctioning the IBA in attending the event in Morocco and that the event was not detrimental to the EBA. The EBA then responded back on August 21st explaining why the event in Morocco was detrimental to the EBA World Championships in Albi, and how we did have the right to sanction Ireland under our constitution. At this point the EBA invoked “Article 8, Section 8.2, Subsection iii” and expulsed the IBA giving them 2 months to fix the situation and not attend the event in Morocco. We stated that if they attended Morocco we would have no choice but to make their expulsion permanent. There has been no response to date to this letter and as we all know Ireland did attend Morocco and have had the blessing from the IBA.
So it is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that, Ireland Blackball Association (IBA) is no longer a member of the EBA.
Yours in sport
Sean Rumbado, EBA Chairman
Secretary: Gillian Rolston
EBA email: europeanbb@outlook.com web site: http://www.eba-pool.org
2023 EBA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Due to the Covid Pandemic our last European Championship took place in 2019 and our reigning Champions are as follows -