Vicenç Prats prevails in Montornès

Last Sunday, February 2, 29 players met in the 3rd Catalan Circuit tournament of the season in Montornès del Vallès. The competition brought together a total of 29 participants from all over Catalonia and Mallorca. This equals the record for attendance at a Circuit tournament.

The tournament ended with the victory of Vicenç Prats (Sarrià – Barcelona), who defeated Fabio Mastroianni (Mallorca) in a contested final that ended with the result 2-1. In fact, this was Prats' first participation in the Circuit this season, which explains his current position in the general classification. However, his victory has allowed him to regain first position in the individual ranking .

The young Mataró player Julià Rosa was the winner of the consolation tournament, beating his Iluro teammate, Cesc Vidal. In this way, he continues with the great progression in his sporting career, consolidating himself as one of the young promises of the Circuit.

Fabio Mastrioanni, Vincenç Prats and Julia Rosa

With this tournament, the Catalan Circuit reaches the midpoint of the season. Therefore, the next event, which will take place on March 30 in Girona, will be decisive for the players who aspire to qualify for the end-of-season playoffs. Thus, the participants will continue to accumulate points to secure a position among the top sixteen in the general classification.

Below, you can see the link to the results.

WASPA rankings of January 2025

The WASPA rankings of January are now available.

Excel file (rankings)

PDF file (results)

We have added 32 regional tournaments and 2 tournaments with the old rules in the records.

We are happy to see Germany, the USA and Japan hold their first tournaments, which means we have had tournaments in 20 different countries since the start of the season in September.

There were all types of events, sometimes very small with 3 players taking part, sometimes very big like the Leicester tournament, part of the English circuit, with 48 players. England had many tournaments in many different clubs but there is also a fantastic domestic circuit in Australia with tournaments held in many different cities.

Sometimes tournaments have the chance to attract players from different nations. It was great to see the Karlsruhe tournament attracted players from France, Switzerland and Italy.

Keep in mind all organizers are welcome in the WASPA circuit and that it's totally free to be included in the records.

For any question regarding the WASPA circuit, don't hesitate to send a message to vincentcoppenolle@gmail.com

Please use the same address for sending results.

I will stay at your disposal if you need details ;-)

Have a great week and keep on flicking!

Vincent Coppenolle

Some pictures of January events

Adelaide players back in action

Action in Tokyo, Japan

Sankt Pauli players in Hamburg, Germany

Action in Melbourne, Australia

Players in Limassol, Cyprus

Tournament in Ocean city, Maryland, USA

Players in Johannesburg, South Africa

Old rules tournament in Grottaferratta, Italy

International field in Karlsruhe, Germany

Group picture in Derry, Northern Ireland

January 2025: more results from Northern Ireland, Germany, Japan and Australia

More WASPA results from around the world. For the final note of January results, we received news from Northern Ireland, Germany, Japan and Australia. it's always exciting to see returning players and some new faces. It's also extremely important to remember that small events are also part of the development process in many different nations.

Thanks to contributors Martinog Bradley, Simon Stewart, Andrew Martini and Steve Dettre.

Derry, Northern Ireland

Derry City TFC recently held the ’Paul Boyle New Year Cup’ with 7 players divided in two groups. In the semi-finals, Martinog bradley defeated Ian Greer (3-0) while Barry Spence took the best on Lawrence Watson (4-1). Martinog won the final against Barry (1-0) while Dee Jenkins won the Plate final.

Hamburg, Germany

The Sankt Pauli players held their first WASPA for several years at their new venue on January 30. It was the club's first tournament for several years. The new venue, situated under the iconic South Curve at the Millerntor Stadion hosts many sports activities officially affiliated with the football club. On the night Marius took the honours but special mention to father and son Julian and Levy making their debuts who both recorded wins.

Tokyo, Japan

This week-end the Tokyo Sunzeol players held a small challenge cup under WASPA banner. Suguru Sugino, Tomoyoshi Ikeya and New Zealand's Andrew Martini were taking part. Andrew won the tournament on goal-difference while Suguru was runner-up.

The group is hoping to attract more players next time.

Another tournament will be held in March (see attached poster) and all ideas to promote the game in Japan and WASPA tournaments are always welcome!

Adelaide, Australia

We are extremely happy to see the first WASPA tournament taking place for years in Adelaide, Australia. It's a great example of how ATFA has been encouraging players in Adelaide, and now one is making the pilgrimmage to the FISTF AGP25, while they staged their first WASPA in 10 years!

Final table:
1. Stephen Wilson (12 points)
2. Mick Phillips (4 points)
3. Richard Gwynne (1 points)

Daniele Lombardi wins Hipfingerz tournament in Sydney

Congratulations to Daniele Lombardi for taking the Tuesday night Hipfingerz WASPA session, unbeaten but had some tough matches. Adrian Grunbach took second place on goal difference from Franck Cozzarin.

Great to see all four Sydney clubs represented.

It came down to the last round of the Swiss to determine second place, where virtually anyone could have snapped it up. But Adrian G's win took him home.

News from around the world - January 2025

The last few days have been full of subbuteo tournaments in many different countries. We will come back later with all the results from England but here is a summary of the other recent tournaments added in the WASPA records.

Karlsruhe, Germany

Last Saturday, 11 players from different nations met in Karlsruhe, germany, for a wonderful day of Subbuteo. "There were some old faces but there were also some new players. That is the most important thing and the main goal to show the game to others and that's why we organize WASPA events", commented Milan Knezevic, the happy organizer of the tournament. "Results are not important. The important thing is that we meet from different cities and that we had a wonderful day. There were players from Basel, Mulhouse, München, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe attending".

For the records, Milan Knezevic defeated John Imbrogiano (2-1) in the big final to win the tournament.

Final standings of the tournament:

1. Milan Knezevic (Serbia)
2. John Imbrogiano (Switzerland)
3. Janus Gersie (Germany)
4. Peter Erb (Switzerland)
5. Pierre Troestler (France)
6. Nicola Mariconda (Italy)
7. Alessandro Indellii (Italy)
8. Charlotte Troestler (France)
9. Pascal Chevalier (France)
10. Daniele Giulianelli (Switzerland)
11. Gionatan Luppolo (Italy)

Limassol, Cyprus

The 5th stage of the domectic circuit took place last Sunday in Limassol with 7 players taking part. Giorgos Zangylos (Famagusta) finished on top of the main event, which consisted in a group of 5, while Christos Panaretos (Phoenix) won the beginners section.

Main event:

1. Giorgos Zangylos (Famagusta)
2. Petros Kosmas (Famagusta)
3. Marcos Kalopsidiotis (Salamis)
4. Marios Nikolaou (Phoenix)
5. Giorgos Stylianou (Famagusta)

Beginners: 

1. Christos Panaretos (Phoenix)
2. Christos Andreou (Salamis)

Gouda, the Netherlands

Last week the Dutch Legends held another WASPA event with 9 players taking part. Three groups of three in the first round and some three other groups of 3 in the second rounds managed to define the final ranking. Fabrizio cavazza was the big winner. Congratulations.

Final table:

1. Fabrizio Cavazza (Gorizia)
2. Nico Marks (Dutch Legends)
3. Jarno Marks (Dutch Legends)
4. Marco de Bruin (Dutch Legends)
5. Xavier Aret (Dutch Legends)
6. Maurice Montone (no club)
7. Rinaldo van Dijk (Rijnmond)
8. Richard Oranje (Dutch Legends)
9. Cailim Marks (Dutch Legends)

Genova, Italy

On Saturday, the club of Rebels Genova held another WASPA tournament with 10 players from different ages taking part. Three players were attending their very first WASPA tournament, which is a great satisfaction. After the group format, finals were played to define the winners as follows:

Final: Massimo Garatti - Tommaso Sani 0-1
Final 3-4: Samuele Bignardi - Luca Bignardi 2-1
Final 5-6: Filippo Careddu - Alessandro Gandin 1-3
Final 7-8: Rononio Rossi - Massimo Togo 2-0
Final 9-10: Andrea Gandin - Simone Pennati 3-0

Tralee, Ireland

In Ireland, the Tralee club held their latest tournament on January 20. 8 players from 2 different clubs (Tralee and Cork) were taking part and after the 5 sessions of the Swiss system, William Magnier was the big winner. It was also James Murphy's first tournament so we are glad to see another beginner from Ireland.

"Very well done to William who took first place in the Monday night WASPA in Tralee. An excellent turnout of 8 players and with 4 missing through illness the numbers are improving. A closely fought contest with the Cork man just shading it. Keep a close eye on our new recruit James. One point behind in his second outing. Undoubtedly one to watch for the future", commented David Elton.

Final standings:

1. William Magnier (Cork)
2. David Elton (Tralee)
3. Cian Hogan (Tralee)
4. James Murphy (Tralee)
5. Jeff Murphy (Cork)
6. Silvia Martin Simal (Spain/Tralee)
7. Barry Higgins (Cork)
8. Sean O'Connell (Tralee)

Johannesburg, South Africa

The ETS club in Johannesburg, South Africa had 2 small tournaments on December 24. The first one was held to re-introduce Shaun Majendie to the game and the other one was a group format with five players before everyone went on leave. The next ETS tournament will be in February for the club's Anniversary Birthday (5 Years).

First tournament (every player met each other twice)

1. Jason Kennedy (ETS Club)
2. Shaun Majendie (ETS Club)
3. Johan Niewenhuis (Johannesburg TFC)

Second tournament (group of 5)

1. Clifford Graaff (Johannesburg TFC)
2. Jason Kennedy (ETS Club)
3. Fernando Rodrigues (ETS Club)
4. Shaun Majendie (ETS Club)
5. Liam Chapman (ETS Club)

Eliot Kennedy winner in Toongabbie

Monday, January 20, 2025, 7PM
The Clubhouse, Toongabbie

The big news as the year kicked off was the return of Steve ('Di' for those trying to keep up) making his first appearance at a WASPA tournament since 2017!! While a regular Spring League contender, he's been shy when it comes to pitting himself against the wider Sydney subbuteo community. No more!

8 players battled out in the usual Swiss system, 4 players each from the Western Sydney Subbuteo and Northern Falcons clubs. The temperatures had cooled to a very pleasant low-20ºs, allowing the outdoor pitches to come into play on a picturesque evening with a high level of excitment in the air.

Some notable results included Dave upsetting Jonny 1-0 in the first round, before finishing the night on high with a 1-0 victory of the aforementioned Steve Di. He was unable to be consistent with this, unfortunately, to the point of conceding not one, but two stranded goalkeeper goals in a drubbing by Adrian. Franck got his evening off to a flyer with his best result ever over Adrian, a 2-0 victory, before crashing back to earth in the second round against Eliot. Eliot himself had started well with a crushing win over Louis, followed by a 2-0 win over Franck. In his next game he took until the final 30 seconds against Steve De to finally get his bearings on target and score a winning goal, setting himself up well before the final round. 

Louis had a tough evening, his first back on the pitch for a number of months, conceding lots of goal until his final game, the Dettre Derby, where he opened the scoring within 20 seconds of flick-off. Unfortunately for Louis, Steve De was able to turn it around with two goals in reply. Jonny had an up and down night, following that opening loss to Dave, with draws against Steve De and Franck and a win over Louis. Steve Di also had a mixed bag of results, drawing against Jonny and in the Steve Derby, before losing narrowly to both Franck and Dave. Adrian exorcised his frustrations at losing to Franck with convincing wins over Louis and Dave, setting himself up for a final round encounter with Eliot to decide the title. He elected to use the homeground advantage of playing on the 1970s cotton pitch which did go some way to helping him. But, in the end, a 0-0 result was enough to leave Eliot at the top of the pile, without conceding a goal all evening, and Adrian being pipped at the post to second place by virtue of Franck's head-to-head win in their earlier encounter. 

The pileup of players on similar points in the middle of the table was testament to the overall evenness of the evening's games, with all players loving every second, though Steve Di, unaccustomed to 4 straight games in tournament play, did pull the out the old man complaint about his back becoming sore. No doubt he'll bring himself up to speed with his subbuteo fitness if he can venture out a little more regularly for future tournaments.

Original report here

WASPA tournaments organized in Greece

A few WASPA events have recently been held in Greece.

The players of Atlas TFC organized a tournament in Swiss system. After 4 sessions, Makis Arvanitakis was the big winner of the night.

The final standings were as follows:

1. Makis Arvanitakis
2. Giorgos Karatarakis
3. Yannis Bougiouris
4. Kostas Seses
5. Markos Kapsabelis
6. Kostas Kechris
7. Alberto Di Maggio
8. George Papadopoulos
9. Giannis Nikolaidis
10. Konstantinos Sourlas
11. Miltiadis Giochalas
12. Lazaros Papakonstantinou

A few days later, the Piraeus Lions TSC held a WASPA tournament to celebrate the memory of Manos Tsardoulias. Alberto Di Maggio took the honors after defeating Dimitris Kourabas in the final.

Semi-finals: Kostas Kordatos - Alberto Di Maggio 2-3 ; Dimitris Kourabas - Nikos Probonas 2-0
Final: Alberto Di Maggio - Dimitris Kourabas 4-0

In the next day, another tournament took place iin Pireas with different players taking part. This time it was Foggia's Markos Kapsabelis taking the honors as he beat Leonidas Koutromanos in the final.

Semi-finals: Markos Kapsabelis - Kostas Karasavvas 3-1 ; Leonidas Koutromanos - Nikos Probonas 4-2
Final: Markos Kapsabelis - Leonidas Koutromanos 3-1

Benny Ng is back in great shape

Melbourne TFC held the first leg of the 2025 Victorian Championships this week-end.9 players came to East Ivanhoe Bowling Club Incorporated for a great afternoon of subbuteo amidst some searing Melboune Heat!

The Northern Phoenix Table Football Club will organize leg 2.

The event was also a WASPA tournament played in Swiss system and Benny Ng (Western Flickers) took the honors after winning his four games while Luke Radziminski was runner-up!

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Daniel Cranston wins Melman Open

The first Melman Open took place last week-end in Ocean City, Maryland. it was the very first tournament organized by the newly formed Delaware Subbuteo Club, run by Collin Dohner who used to be one of Paul Eyes's students.

Daniel Cranston defeated Paul Eyes (1-0) in the final. "It was a light turnout because of a snowstorm, but what better way to spend it playing subbuteo", commented Collin Dohner.

Ian Clarke wins New Year Challenge Cup

South Africa has regular WASPA events and some interesting developments and the three clubs in Johannesburg are doing a great job to keep the game alive in the country. South African is not only the number 1 nation in Africa but is also a top 10 nation in the WASPA circuit (currently ranked 6th).

The recent New Year Challenge Cup organized by Easterns TFC had a good field of 9 players taking part. Ian Clarke, who is currently number 5 in the WASPA Open ranking won the tournament after defeating Fernando Rodrigues (1-0) in the final. Jarrys Westerdale won the Plate final.

Semi-finals: Ian Clarke - Johan Niewenhuis 4-0 & Christopher Paolini - Fernando Rodrigues 0-2

Final: Ian Clarke - Fernando Rodrigues 1-0

Plate final: Jarryd Westerdale - Keegan Paolini 2-0

Marco Perotti winner in Grottaferrata

Earlier this month, a WASPA tournament was organized in Grottaferrata (Roma), Italy. The event was played with the old rules and 6 players were taking part. Marco Perotti (SC Terni 2014) won his 5 group games to win the tournament. Thanks to the club of ASD Alba Subbuteo Roma for making things happen!

Final standings:

1. Marco Perotti (SC Terni 2014)
2. Luca Di Lullo (ASD Alba Subbuteo Roma)
3. Ernesto Poncetta (SS Lazio TFC Roma)
4. Francesco Di Lullo (ASD Alba Subbuteo Roma)
5. Andrea Alfonsi (ASD Alba Subbuteo Roma)
6. Valerio Lombardo (SS Lazio TFC Roma)

Results of the WASPA tournaments held in England in December 2024

As usual, England has been the most active Subbuteo nation in the WASPA circuit in December 2024. Event have been run by 11 different clubs and some of the events have had an impressive turnout. Thumbs up to the organizers of the Pedmore tournament, which attracted 31 players from many different clubs. Old rules events have also been held in London. We are also very happy to see many of the active clubs in the country continueing to run regular events (Haverhill, Chasers, Solent, Stanway, Morecambe Bay, Dudley-Kingswinford, Bristol, Worthing, Kent Invicta, London SC). Many thanks to all organizers for working hard to keep the game alive!

Haverhill, December 4

1. Martin Hodds (Yorkshire)
2. Peter Holmes (Haverhill)
3. David McCartney (White Notley)
4. Gerry Harrington (IRL/Haverhill)
5. Callum Course (Haverhill)
6. Euan  (Haverhill)
7. Ebbie Hart (Haverhill)

Dudley-Kingswinford, December 15

1. Derek Air (SCO/Dudley-Kingswinford)
2. Jordan Clee (Dudley-Kingswinford)
3. Andy Lane (Dudley-Kingswinford)

Morecambe Bay, December 17

1. Dan Nicholls (Morecambe Bay)
2. Luca Lanzani (Morecambe Bay)
3. Stuart Andrews (Morecambe Bay)
4. Perry Sinacola (Morecambe Bay)
5. Rob Wilkinson (Morecambe Bay)
6. Keith Carman (Morecambe Bay)

Stanway, December 17

The Stanway “Santaway Cup” was a full on fun filled festive flick-fest (try saying that with a mouthful of eggnog), that brought more joy than a stocking full of top spin balls. Kev Cordell was the undisputed king of the Christmas waspa, flicking his way to victory with all the tenacity of a Santa’s elf. Marco Ghigliotti nicked second place by the skin the cold custard on a his mince pie, just pipping Martin Hodds on goal difference—Martin is still claiming he was robbed of his spot by being on the "naughty list".

Young Jamie  needs an honorary mention for his jingle-bell energy by finishing a respectable fourth, despite sending a few players off the table like a reindeer off a slippery roof. The tournament was full of festive cheer, “thanks to Marco’s bottle of bubbly and some chocs”. and the occasional cry of “that’s not in the Christmas spirit!”.

Also great to see the two new players from Haverhill, Ebbie and Callum who are picking up the game very well. It was truly a Subbuteo winter wonderland!

1. Kevin Cordell (Stanway)
2. Marco Ghigliotti (Harrow)
3. Martin Hodds (Yorkshire)
4. Jamie Samuel Warren (Stanway)
5. Ian Welby (Stanway)
6. Gerry Harrington (Haverhill)
7. Adam Douglas (Stanway)
8t. Rob Fitch (Stanway)
8t. Peter Holmes (Haverhill)
10. Callum Course (Haverhill)
11. Ebbie Hart (Haverhill)

Bristol, December 17

1. Steve Wonnacott (Bristol)
2. Stuart Briffett (Bristol)
3. Phillip Bryant (Bristol)
4. Taylor Randles (Bristol)
5. Malcolm Jarvis (Bristol)
6. Dave Fletcher (Bristol)
7. Bob Fairbrother (Bristol)
8. David Pawsey (Bristol)
9. Aaron Skinner (Bristol)
10. Andy Jarvis (Bristol)
11. Lyndon Davies (Bristol)
12. Simon Bodily (Pedmore)
13. Richard Roper (Pedmore)
14. Alex Salter (Bristol)
15. David Samuel (WAL/Cardiff)
16. John Lauder (WAL/Cardiff)
17. Dennis Perry (Bristol)
18. Matthew Rowley (WAL/Cardiff)
19. Gareth Hughes (Bristol)
20. Mick Hammonds (Wolverhampton)

Worthing, December 18

1. Malcolm Jamieson (SCO/Solent)
2. Joe Currey (Worthing)
3. Steve Taylor (Worthing)
4. Shaun Allison (Worthing)
5. Ian Maskell (Worthing)
6. Chris Stapleton (Worthing)
7. Daniel Whittington (Worthing)
8. Dave Cope (Worthing)
9. Kyle Jamieson (WAL/Solent)

Dagenham, December 23

1. Victor Jones (Harrow)
2. Adam Jackson (Chasers)
3. Gary Gladwell (Chasers)
4. Martin Colwell (Kent)
5. Mark West (Chasers)
6. John Kiely (Chasers)
7. Samantha Levy (Chasers)
8. Jack Cossington (Chasers)
9. Michele Claydon (Chasers)

Pedmore, December 29

Pedmore Subbuteo & Table football club Festive Flick off/Roy Holden Trophy WASPA open… it’s a wrap. Firstly thank you to everyone who played it the event, there were some serious miles travelled.

Additional thanks to: Wolverhampton TFC for allowing us to host the Roy Holden Trophy on their behalf, Rudi Peters for his continued guidance and to Shaun Dunne for his help & support (as Ever) along with the guys from Wolverhampton TFC.

The Winners were: Main Event: Bob Varney took the Festive Flicker & Roy Holden Trophy 2024 beating Chris Bedford 1 v 0 in the Main event Final.

Plate Event: Warden of the North, Shaun Dunne came out on top beating Stephen Wonnacott 1 v 0 in the final.

Shield Event: Contested by Two Stalwarts of the game (Sure they won’t mind me saying that) Robert Paterson & Jeff Parsons with Rob coming out on Top, Winning 2 v 1 in the final.

S’fortunato Finger final: Riley Duckworth beat Paul Taylor with a golden goal after it was 0 v 0 after full-time.

Under 18’s: Ruby Matthews came out on top (Ruby also made the semi-finals of the Main Event) with Connor Gregory taking the runner’s up spot.

It was a Long Day, but we (Pedmore TFC) were determined to support players of all abilities by holding a Shield & S’fortunato finger event also.

Pictures below of all Trophy winners.

PS: Big Thanks to Quarry Bank Social Club & Nathan Prentice for hosting & for allowing us to hire the room. Just keep flicking.

(PS: original post from the Pedmore Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/176810971922999)

Quarter-finals: Paul Sutton - Richard Badger 2-1
Bob Varney - Gage Badger 6-2
Rudi Peterschinigg - Chris Bedford 0-0*
Ruby Matthews - Jeremy Boothman 5-2

Semi-finals: Paul Sutton - Bob Varney 0-3
Chris Bedford - Ruby Matthews 0*-0

Final: Bob Varney - Chris Bedford 1-0

Plate final: Shaun Dunne - Steve Wonnacott 1-0

Shield final: Jeff Parsons - Rob Paterson 1-2

Gillingham, December 29

1. Thomas Lacey (Kent)
2. Terry Arnold (Kent)
3. Hadley Chapman (Kent)
4. Daniel McCormick (Kent)
5. James Palmer-Jones (Kent)
6. Joel Palmer-Jones (Kent)

Solent, December 17

1. Malcolm Jamieson (SCO/Solent)
2. Jerry Lovegrove (Solent)
3. Connor Gregory (Solent)
4. Chris Burford (Andover)
5t. Dave Hunter (Solent)
5t. Paul Izard (Solent)
7. Dave Cope (Worthing)
8. Nigel Morgan (Solent)
9. Reggie Cramer (Solent)
10. Tim Hill (Solent)
11. Simon Hawley (Solent)
12. Tony Martin (Solent)

Old rules tournaments

London, October 14 2024, Old Rules English Championship

On Sunday 14 October Rudi Peters won the Round One of the English Subbuteo Association Old School 24/25 Circuit with 16 participants organised by the London Subbuteo Club at La Pizzica Restaurant - London.

Semi-finals: Simon Goodman - Rudi Peterschinigg 0-0*
Victor Jones - Paul Andreas 1-0

Final: Rudi Peterschinigg - Victor Jones 1*-1

Plate final: Jason Christopher - Tony Banks 1-0

London, December 15 2024

Semi-finals: Tony Kiely - Tony Banks 1-1*
Jason Christopher - Mark Weaver 2-1
Final: Tony Banks - Jason Christopher 0-1

Plate final: Paolo Agostinelli - Drew Kiely 0-1

London, December 19 2024

1. Victor Jones (Harrow)
2. Simon Goodman (Surrey)
3. Tony Banks (London SC)
4. Gianluca Zucchelli (London SC)
5. Lindsay Reid (London SC)
6. Troy Cowdrey (London SC)
7. Paul Queen (London SC)