WDBS Rankings | European Championship 2025 Update
The official WDBS rankings have been updated following the 2025 European Disability Snooker Championship held at the Grand Blue Fafa Resort in Golem, Albania.
- View the updated rankings at the WDBS website
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- View further information about the ranking system
The WDBS ranking system includes individual ranking lists for each of the main classification groups, with players earning points from based upon their finishing position at designated ranking tournaments.
The rankings operate on a rolling two-year basis, with points earned during 2023/24 to be removed during the course of this season. At this revision points earned at the 2025 European Disability Snooker Championship were added with points from the 2023 German Open removed.
TAYLOR BACK ON TOP
Gary Taylor has returned to the summit of the world rankings in the deaf Group 8 classification after earning a silver medal at the 2025 European Disability Snooker Championship.
Despite losing out to Lewis Knowles in the title match, the 57-year-old did enough to overtake the absent Luke Drennan at the top by just 1,400 points.
The race for first place in Group 8 remains one of the tightest across the WDBS Tour, with just 10,300 points separating the top four – as reigning world champion Kristof De Bruyn and newly-crowned European champion Knowles complete the quartet.
CHAMPIONS CLIMB
Six European champions were crowned in Golem, Albania last weekend and many have had a major impact on the latest revision of the world ranking lists.
Denmark’s Nicklas Olsen made a stunning WDBS Tour debut by winning the combined Group 6 competition and he immediately climbs to sixth place in the Group 6A rankings.
There was also a maiden title for former World Championship semi-finalist Shahzad Butt, who hit top breaks of 82 and 71 en route to the Group 5 final, and the man from Pakistan climbs to seven places to sixth.
Andy Lam, from Hong Kong China, successfully defend his European title and he jumps from eighth to sixth place in Group 3 as a result. England’s Dave Beaumont managed the same feat in the wheelchair Group 1-2 competition and has now opened up a lead of over 40,000 points on Tony Southern at the top.
World Snooker Tour (WST) Hall of Fame inductee Daniel Blunn impressed in Group 4, defeating both Carl Gibson and David Church on his way to glory, and he has closed the gap on second-placed Church to just 4,500 points in the early race to the season-ending Champion of Champions.
KEY MOVERS
A number have players have seen notable climbs in the world rankings as a result of their strong performances at the European Championship.
Peter Hull made the final in Group 3, losing out to Andy Lam in the title match, and has moved up from fifth to third as a result.
A run to the semi-finals for America’s Andrew Blood (Group 1-2), Iceland’s Brynjar Valdimarsson (Group 5) and Wales’ Jonathan Steggles (Group 8) has seen each of them climb to a career-high position of 13th, fifth and fifth respectively.
Matthew Lester has moved up a place to 8th in the wheelchair classification while Nathan Williams climbs inside the world’s top ten in the same group. Elsewhere, Australia’s Jodie Wikeepa has risen four positions to 22nd in Group 5.
The WDBS season continues with the Irish Open on 21-23 November – enter now via WPBSA SnookerScores.
