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Mosconi Cup: Dates, venue, teams, format, schedule, history & more

Everything you need to know ahead of the 2024 Mosconi Cup as the spotlight gets set to fall upon Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida, for the 31st staging of the exhilarating event.

2024 Mosconi Cup

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What is the Mosconi Cup?

The Mosconi Cup is an annual nine-ball pool match between players from Europe and the USA, named after the legendary 18-time world champion Willie Mosconi, who died in 1993, a year before this competition was played for the first time.

The US used to dominate the four-day showpiece but now it's Europe's turn, as they will head into the 2024 competition having triumphed in each of the last four years and in 12 of the previous 14 events.

Mosconi Cup - Dates

The Mosconi Cup has been held in late November or December ever since it started and the 2024 staging will be no different.

The 31st edition will run from Sunday 30th November through to Tuesday 3rd December 2024.

Mosconi Cup - Location and venue

The 2024 Mosconi Cup will take place in Orlando, Florida, at the Caribe Royal Resort.

The venue, which is right in the heart of the entertainment city of Orlando, is a holiday destination, but has also played host to numerous sporting events, including blockbuster boxing bouts.

Who competes in the Mosconi Cup?

The Mosconi Cup is contested between Europe and the United States with both teams selecting five players, as well as a non-playing captain.

Three players from each team will qualify based on the World Nineball Rankings one-year list, while the remaining two places on each side are selected by team captains on a wildcard basis.

Mosconi Cup - Players

Who is playing at the 2024 Mosconi Cup?

Team USA:

  • Skyler Woodward (Captain of Team USA)
  • Fedor Gorst (World Champion)
  • Shane Van Boening (Five-time US Open Champion)
  • Tyler Styer (Two-time Mosconi Cup winner)
  • Billy Thorpe (Two-time Mosconi Cup winner)

Team Europe:

  • Jayson Shaw (Captain of Team Europe)
  • Eklent Kaçi (Two-time Mosconi Cup winner)
  • David Alcaide (Four-time Mosconi Cup winner)
  • Mickey Krause (European Open Champion)
  • Francisco Sanchez Ruiz (Former World Champion)

Mosconi Cup - Format

There are 21 points up for grabs which means a team needs to win 11 points to be crowned champions.

The first three days feature a team event - all 10 players at the table - followed by a succession of singles and doubles matches, two of which are chosen by a public vote.

The final day features five singles matches and if the match score is tied at 10-10, the captains pick a player to contest the deciding match.

Each match is best-of-nine racks, so effectively a race to five racks.

Who won last year's Mosconi Cup?

Europe completed their fourth successive win in 2023 as they cruised to an 11-3 victory at Alexandra Palace in London.

Ralph Eckert’s team made a strong start by winning all four of the matches on the opening day, which included a 5-0 win for Joshua Filler, who was voted the tournament’s most valuable player, over Skyler Woodward.

They showed no signs of easing up as they ended the second day 7-1 ahead and, despite a third-day rally from the Americans, they claimed victory when David Alcaide edged out Shane Wolford 5-4 in the final match.

Mosconi Cup - Most Player Wins

Which player has won the most Mosconi Cups?

The legendary Earl Strickland and fellow American compatriot Johnny Archer have tasted success in the Mosconi Cup more than any other players on the planet having reigned supreme at the event on nine occasions.

Niels Feijen is Europe's most decorated player having been on the winning team on eight separate occasions.

He is followed in the list by British star Darren Appleton on seven, whilst Germany's Ralf Souquet has also tasted success seven times too.

Mosconi Cup - History

The first Mosconi Cup was held at the Roller Bowl in Romford with six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis among the inaugural European team.

It was the US who won that match 16-12, part one of a decade or so of dominance, as by 2005 the Americans held a 10-2 edge over Europe.

The change came the next year, a 12-12 draw in Rotterdam in which the host continent blew a 12-10 lead, but it confirmed to them that the Americans were beatable.

The very next year a strong European team, featuring nine-ball legends such as Ralf Souquet, Niels Feijen and Daryl Peach, went to Vegas and beat an awesome American side containing the incomparable Earl Strickland, Jonny Archer and Rodney Morris.

It was the first time the Americans had been beaten on their own turf and it was a truly transformational moment.

Europe has now won 14 of the last 17 Mosconi Cups, including a never-to-be-forgotten 11-2 destruction of the Americans at the Mirage in Las Vegas in 2013, when Strickland and his team-mates were swept aside in just two-and-a-half days.

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