The Malta Pool Association will be representing our country in the Ultimate World Eight Ball Pool Championships, this year taking place in Ennis in Ireland. The championships will set their balls rolling on Tuesday 26th August and will reach their climax with the finals on Thursday 4th & Friday 5th September.

Malta will be represented with four teams Men, Under 18’s, Under 23’s and Over 50’s. World Champions for the last two consecutive years Under 18’s Denzel Falzon, Jake Castaldi, Chaylon Castaldi and Nick Muscat, led by team manager Vince Saliba, will be challenging for the triple crown.

The Men’s squad, managed by Carmel Cilia, includes Clayton Castaldi, Ryan Pisani, Johan Attard, Lydan Debono, Dejan Grech, Chris Zaffarese, Miguel Amato and Owen Amato. Ranked number four the Maltese squad is considered as one of the main title contenders.

The Under 23’s team is composed by talented youngsters Matthias Debono, Nordai Desira and Liam Mifsud while the Over 50’s team, led by Pasquale Sciberras, includes Kevin Mercieca, Ivan Rizzo, Antoine Aquilina, Frans Abdilla, Marco Bonello and Manuel Mallia.

All players will also be participating in their respective category singles event, doubles event and in the prestigious Masters Tournament.

Ryan Pisani is the 2025 National Singles Champion!

In a thrilling final, Pisani went on to beat ex world champion Castaldi 8-5. Leading 5-2 by the end of the first session Pisani saw a great comeback from Castaldi in the second session.

Leading 7-5 at the time, Pisani was sitting in his chair witnessing what looked to be another clearance by Castaldi and closing the gap to 7-6. However, Castaldi missed the black ball and Pisani quickly flew to the table and cleared it to win the championships for the first time in his career.

St. George’s BC Qormi A are the Champions of the Premier & 1st Division Easter Cup

With a dominant display, the Qormi club managed to beat current champions Cospicua Rangers A with a convincing 11-4 victory claiming their first Premier trophy.

Well done to Cospicua Rangers for being the finalists.

Verde Club Zabbar A are the Easter Cup Champions for the 2nd & 3rd Division Category

With a convincing final scoreline of 11-4, the greens cruised past Fgura Bocci Club B, to claim the third out of four possible silverware victories during this season.

Congratulations to the reigning Knock-out, Christmas Cup and Easter Cup champions! Well done to Fgura Bocci Club for their run in the Easter Cup tournament as well.

Clayton Castaldi grabs the second spot in the Mens National Team to represent Malta in the 2025 World Championships, which will take place in Ireland next August.

The ex-World Champion showed great character and with an outstanding performance won the final with a score of 8-1.

We congratulate Clayton Castaldi for representing Malta again in this category.

Well done to Stephen Mangion for reaching the final and best of luck for the remaining tours.