{"id":1331,"date":"2019-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/rules\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:45:53","slug":"rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/?page_id=1331","title":{"rendered":"Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Competition-Rules-2024-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"181\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/6cm.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5909 lazyload\" title=\"file-page1-1\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/181;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Competition-Rules-2024-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Competition-Rules-2025-26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Team Championships<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Team Championships League is split in four division being Premier, First, Second and Third Division<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Competition-Rules-2025-26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to view\/print rules<\/a><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Singles-League-2024-rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Singles-League-2024-rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/CISK-LAGER-Low-Res.jpg\" alt=\"FARS1401CiskLager4ColourCMYKCorporateOLCS5\" title=\"FARS1401CiskLager4ColourCMYKCorporateOLCS5\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/658;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Singles-League-2024-rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Singles-League-2024-rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Singles Championships<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cisk Singles National Championships are held between January and March.&nbsp; The winner will be declared National Champion<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Singles-League-2024-rules.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view\/print rules<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ranking-Tournament-Rules-2024-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ranking-Tournament-Rules-2024-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Euro-Rankings-Tournament.png\" alt=\"Euro Rankings Tournament\" title=\"Euro Rankings Tournament\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ranking-Tournament-Rules-2024-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ranking-Tournament-Rules-2024-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ranking Tournaments<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open for Mens, Under 18&#8217;s, Under 23&#8217;s, Over 50&#8217;s and Over 60&#8217;s categories.&nbsp; Five Euro &amp; Five World tournaments are scheduled to be held this season between July and March.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ranking-Tournament-Rules-2024-25.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view\/print rules<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">International Rules<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Rules are the official game rules of Pool. These were voted and accepted by the World Eight Ball Pool Federation members in October 2022.&nbsp; The first international events using these rules was the European Championships 2023 held in Malta.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/International-Eightball-Rules-Revision-2b-Jan-2023-A4-booklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download International Rules<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WEPF-New-Logo.png\" alt=\"WEPF-New-Logo\" title=\"WEPF-New-Logo\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Championships The National Team Championships League is split in four division being Premier, First, Second and Third DivisionClick here to view\/print rules Singles Championships The Cisk Singles National Championships are held between January and March.&nbsp; The winner will be declared National ChampionClick here to view\/print rules Ranking Tournaments Open for Mens, Under 18&#8217;s, Under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1331","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7808,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1331\/revisions\/7808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltapoolassociation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}