IBSF World Snooker Championship

This article is about the amateur event. For the professional event, see World Snooker Championship. For the junior event, see IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship.

IBSF World Snooker Championship
StatusActive
GenreSports Event
Date(s)Midyear
FrequencyAnnual
Inaugurated1963 (M) / 2003 (W)
Most recent2023
Organised byIBSF

The IBSF World Snooker Championship (also known as the World Amateur Snooker Championship) is the premier non-professional snooker tournament in the world. The event series is sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation. A number of IBSF champions have gone on to successful careers in the professional ranks, notably Jimmy White (1980), James Wattana (1988), Ken Doherty (1989), Stuart Bingham (1996), Marco Fu (1997), Stephen Maguire (2000) and Mark Allen (2004). Both Doherty (in 1997) and Bingham (in 2015) have gone on to win the professional World Snooker Championship.