Mosconi Cup Totally Explained

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The Mosconi Cup is an annual nine-ball pool tournament contested between teams representing Europe and the USA since 1994. The trophy is named after American player Willie Mosconi. It has been referred to as the "Ryder Cup of pool".

Famous players

The tournament has featured some of the most famous players in the sport, including Earl Strickland, Johnny Archer, Jimmy White, Alex Higgins, and Steve Davis.
In the first year of competition some of the WPBA's top players played alongside the men in their respective teams. These included Franziska Stark (Germany), Allison Fisher (England), Jeanette Lee (US) and Vivian Villarreal (US).

Most appearances

The players to have appeared in the Mosconi Cup:

12 Ralf Souquet, Earl Strickland
11 Johnny Archer, Steve Davis, Mika Immonen
9 Oliver Ortmann ^{(one of them as a non-playing captain)}
7 Jeremy Jones
6 Marcus Chamat
5 Corey Deuel, Rodney Morris, Charles Williams
4 Niels Feijen, Steve Knight, Nick Varner ^{(one of them as a non-playing captain)}
3 Kim Davenport, Thomas Engert, James Rempe, Nick van den Berg
2 Lou Butera, Michael Coltrain, Shannon Daulton, Mike Gulyassy, Thorsten Hohmann, Robert Hunter, Alex Lely, Mike Massey, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Daryl Peach, Reed Pierce, Tony Robles, Tom Storm, Dallas West, Jimmy White, Mark Wilson
1 David Alcaide, Mike Davis, Tommy Donlon, John DiToro, Tony Drago, Vincent Facquet, Allison Fisher, Paul Gerni, Roger Griffis, Danny Harriman, Alex Higgins, Allen Hopkins, Raj Hundal, Lee Kendall, Jeanette Lee, Imran Majid, Shawn Putnam, Fabio Petroni, Andy Richardson, John Schmidt, Franziska Stark, Konstantin Stepanov, Lee Tucker, Shane Van Boening, Vivian Villarreal, C.J. Wiley, Johan Ruijsink ^{(as a non-playing captain)}

European representation

Konstantin Stepanov, who in 2007 was the first Russian player to appear, took the total number of nations who have represented Europe to eleven (in order of total representatives):

— 11

— 5

— 4

— 2

— 1

Television coverage

In the UK, Sky Sports shows this event every year, and until the 2005 tournament had the only live coverage of the competition with a total of 22 hours of coverage across Sky Sports 1, 2 & 3.

Tournament modifications

There have been rule changes and format changes throughout the tournament's brief history. These include, but are not limited to: "Non-playing captain" roles were introduced in the 2003 event (the first Mosconi Cup not played in the UK); however these were removed in the 2004 tournament. The doubles matches were re-formatted to be scotch doubles in 2004. In 2005, a 30-second shot clock was introduced, and caused controversy due to timing malfunctions. The 2006 tournament started with a single team-versus-team match followed by two trebles matches. That year also saw the reintroduction of the non-playing captain role.

Results table

Year	Venue	Victors		Losers
2007	Las Vegas, Nevada	Europe	11	USA	8
2006	Rotterdam, Netherlands	USA	12	Europe	12
2005	Las Vegas, Nevada	USA	11	Europe	6
2004	Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands	USA	12	Europe	9
2003	Las Vegas, Nevada	USA	11	Europe	9
2002	Bethnal Green, London	Europe	12	USA	9
2001	Bethnal Green, London	USA	12	Europe	1
2000	Bethnal Green, London	USA	12	Europe	9
1999	Bethnal Green, London	USA	12	Europe	7
1998	Bethnal Green, London	USA	13	Europe	9
1997	Bethnal Green, London	USA	13	Europe	8
1996	Dagenham, London	USA	15	Europe	13
1995	Basildon, Essex	Europe	16	USA	15
1994	Romford, London	USA	16	Europe	12

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