Knockout Stages Set at 2025 European Disability Snooker Championship
The draw and schedule for the knockout stages of the 2025 European Disability Snooker Championship at the Grand Blue Fafa Resort in Golem, Albania is now available.
- Tournament List (select classification group and click ‘Knockout’ for draw)
- Match schedule (all events)
Following four days of group stage action in Golem, 22 players remain in contention for European glory with the champions set to be crowned on Sunday 19 October.
Read below to find out how the group stages unfolded across the six classification groups.
Group 1-2
- Tony Southern vs. Andrew Blood
- Dave Beaumont vs. Gary Swift
Tony Southern has dropped just a single frame so far at the Grand Blue Fafa Resort and he enters the knockout rounds as the group winner.
The 56-year-old defeated defending champion Dave Beaumont 2-1 in a repeat of last year’s European final but four victories ensured that Beaumont remains on course for a successful title defence.
Southern will meet America’s Andrew Blood in the semi-finals, after he defeated Nathan Williams and Matthew Lester to secure his passage into the knockout stages.
The quartet is completed by reigning Group 1 world champion Gary Swift, who picked up three wins to set up a last four meeting with Beaumont on Saturday.
Group 3
- Peter Hull vs. Andy Lam
The first confirmed final at the European Disability Snooker Championship sees defending champion Andy Lam from Hong Kong China take on England’s Peter Hull on Sunday.
Both finalists overcame current world number one Kal Mattu by a 3-0 scoreline in the three-man group.
Hull, the reigning Belgian Open champion, beat Lam 3-1 in their group stage contest and will be hoping for a repeat in the title match as he aims to win the biggest title of his career.
Group 4
- David Church vs. Yannick Piscador
- Carl Gibson vs. Daniel Blunn
A strong and unpredictable semi-final line-up in Group 4 sees defending champion Carl Gibson and World Snooker Tour Hall of Fame inductee Daniel Blunn joined by David Church and Yannick Piscador.
No player achieved a 100% in a highly competitive group stage but it was former world number one Church who topped the group with six wins from seven.
He will face Belgium’s Piscador, who picked up notable wins against both Blunn and Gibson to help him into the knockout stages.
In a repeat of the 2024 European final, Blunn and Gibson will meet in Saturday’s semi-finals after both players picked up five wins a piece – with Gibson winning the group stage meeting between the pair earlier this week.
Group 5
- Shahzad Butt vs. Brynjar Valdimarsson
- Dalton Lawrence vs. Dave Bolton
Three nations will be represented in the Group 5 semi-finals with Pakistan’s Shahzad Butt leading the way with a 100% record.
The former World Championship semi-finalist has scored the two highest breaks of the entire competition so far, with visits of 82 and 71, and notably defeated world number one and defending champion Dave Bolton in the group stage.
Butt will face Iceland’s Brynjar Valdimarsson, who earned three victories to reach a third ranking event semi-final of his career.
The aforementioned Bolton made an unexpectedly slow start to the competition with losses to Dalton Lawrence and Butt, but three consecutive wins against Valdimarsson, Jose Moreno Lopez and Jodie Wikeepa saw him through to the last four.
There he will once again meet Lawrence, who will be hoping for a repeat of his first ever competitive victory over the defending champion to reach a second European Championship final.
Group 6
- Nicklas Olsen vs. Leroy Williams
- Reece Matin vs. James Hart
Denmark’s Nicklas Olsen has been the story of Group 6 by reaching the knockout stages with a clean sweep of victories on his tournament debut.
The 22-year-old dropped has dropped just two frames so far this week and now meets Leroy Williams, who bounced back from surprise defeats to James Lodge and Rob Diparno to reach the last four.
The other semi-final will feature reigning UK champion Reece Matin, who currently has the Group 6 high break of 45, and former British Open champion James Hart who qualified with a trio of victories.
Group 7+8
- Lewis Knowles vs. Jonathan Steggles
- Gary Taylor vs. Ronnie Allen
The combined visual and deaf classification group features two Englishman and two Welshman competing for the European crown.
We are guaranteed a new winner due to the absence of Luke Drennan and it is Lewis Knowles who has topped the group stage with three wins from four outings.
He will play Wales’ Jonathan Steggles, who qualified courtesy of a group stage victory over Matthew Stera, as he aims to reach a maiden ranking event final.
The other last four clash sees recent UK champion Gary Taylor take on 82-year-old Ronnie Allen.
Allen came from behind to secure a 2-1 success against Taylor in the opening round and he will be hoping to go one better than his semi-final run in Portugal 12 months ago.
The action resumes at 10:00 CEST tomorrow and can be followed via WPBSA SnookerScores.
