Leone Crowley (born 2 June 2006) is an Irish professional snooker player. In January 2025 he won the WSF World Junior Championship, and with it earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour starting with the 2025–26 snooker season.
Career A successful junior snooker player, he won Irish national titles in the U12, U14, U16, U18, and U21 age-groups. In 2022, he was a finalist at the EBSA European Under-18 Snooker Championship, in Albania. He had his first televised match at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out in Swansea, where he was defeated by Welsh professional Jackson Page.
He won the U21 UK Open Championship in 2024. He reached the final of the WSF Junior Snooker Championship in January 2025 in Saïdia, Morocco, with a semi-final win over Scotland's Amaan Iqbal, having had dominant wins as he progressed through the tournament, only lost six frames in total up to that point in the championship. In the final on 23 January 2025, he whitewashed Kaylan Patel of England 5-0 to secure a two-year professional card on the World Snooker Tour from the 2025-26 snooker season. He also became the first Irishman to win the event. He was awarded a place into the qualifying rounds for the 2025 World Snooker Championship. In the first round of qualifying, held in Sheffield, in April 2025, he was defeated 3-10 by Thailand professional Manasawin Phetmalaikul.
2025-26 season In June 2025, he was drawn to make his professional debut in the first round of qualifying for the 2025 Wuhan Open against former world champion Neil Robertson, and suffered a 5-0 defeat. He recorded his first win as a professional later that month in qualifying for the 2025 British Open, with a 4-0 win against Hatem Yassen. He was drawn in the round-robin stage of the 2025 Championship League against Daniel Wells, Ng On Yee and He Guoqiang, earning a 2-2 draw against Wells. In April 2026, Crowley won his first round match 10-5 in the qualifying rounds for the 2026 World Snooker Championship against Huang Jiahao before defeating Duane Jones of Wales by the same margin to set up a third round match against experienced professional Dave Gilbert, losing 10-3.
2026/27 season In September 2026, Crowley led former world champion Kyren Wilson 5-2 before being ultimately defeated 6-5 in the qualifying round for the 2026 International Championship.
Personal life He is from Dublin Hill, Cork, in the Republic of Ireland. He practised for a time with former professional Anthony O'Connor at Shooters snooker club in Cork. He regularly practises at Mark Allen's snooker camp in Belfast.
Performance and rankings timeline Tournament 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 2026/27RankingIt shows the ranking at the beginning of the seasonHe was an amateurNew players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking86Ranking tournamentsChampionship LeagueAARRRRChina OpenNot HeldLQWuhan OpenAALQLQBritish OpenAA1RLQEnglish OpenAALQLQShenzhen OpenThe event was called the Xi'an Grand Prix (2024/2025–2025/2026)NHALQLQNorthern Ireland OpenAALQLQInternational ChampionshipAALQUK ChampionshipAALQShoot Out1RA1RScottish OpenAALQLQGerman MastersAALQWelsh OpenAALQWorld Grand PrixDNQDNQDNQPlayers ChampionshipDNQDNQDNQWorld OpenAALQTour ChampionshipDNQDNQDNQWorld ChampionshipALQLQFormer ranking tournamentsSaudi Arabia MastersNHA2RNH Performance Table LegendLQ lost in the qualifying draw#R lost in the early rounds of the tournament(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)QF lost in the quarter-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD withdrew from the tournament NH / Not Held means an event was not held.NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
Career finals Amateur finals: 11 (8 titles) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final ScoreWinner 1. 2017 Irish Under-12 Championship Adam Quinn 3–0Runner-up 1. 2019 Irish Under-18 Championship Aaron Hill 0–4Winner 2. 2021 Irish Under-18 Championship Alex Currid 3–2Winner 3. 2021 Irish Under-16 Championship Aaron Smith 3–2Runner-up 2. 2021 Irish Under-21 Championship Ross Bulman 1–3Winner 4. 2022 Irish Under-18 Championship Alex Currid 3–1Winner 5. 2022 Irish Under-21 Championship Aaron Goldrick 3–2Winner 6. 2022 Irish Under-16 Championship David Farrelly 3–0Runner-up 3. 2022 European Under-18 Championships Liam Davies 1–4Winner 7. 2023 Irish Under-21 Championship Sean Walsh 3–2Winner 8. 2025 WSF Junior Championship Kaylan Patel 5–0
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