We have recently collected results from different events held around Europe. Here is the summary of recent WASPA tournaments in England, Romania, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium.

The Solent club opened the year with a brilliant event held in Swiss system. Jason Christopher took the honors after the fours sessions. 14 players were attending the meeting. In North Shields, Top Heslop was the best player of the night. Unfortunately there was a smaller turnout than expected with only 3 players. The Bristol tournament was a success with a food field of 13 entries including some guests from the Cardiff club. Dave Fletcher took the win.

Adam Jackson won the latest Chasers tournament in Dagenham while Jerrel van Keimpema was the best in Rijnmond, the Netherlands. This was the third WASPA event organised by MVV Rijnmond, which means the club will be part of the Conference League in the forthcoming ranking of january.

Our mates in Bucharest, Romania still do their best to promote the game and, once again, Michele Sterlechini was undefeated in the latest club tournament.

In Italy, the Virtus Calabria guys competed in a old rules tournament with Andrea Pagano finishing on top of a group of 5. Finally, in Belgium, the Templeuve United club had their first "club WASPA" with 8 players taking part and Sébastien Rochez in a great day to win the tournament.

Solent, England, January 5 2026

1. Jason Christopher (Solent)
2. Paul Izard (Solent)
3. Dave Hunter (Solent)
4. Andy McGovern (Solent)
5. Simon Hawley (Solent)
6. Jerry Lovegrove (Solent)
7. Gary Birch (Solent)
8. Chris Burford (Solent)
9. Nigel Morgan (Solent)
10. Rob Piggott (Solent)
11. Tony Martin (Solent)
12. Jon Lee (Solent)
13. Steve Smith (Solent)
14. Russell Cramer (Solent)

North Shields, England, January 9 2026

1. Tom Heslop (North Shields)
2. Jeff Parsons (Wolverhampton)
3. Nigel Lamond (North Shields)

Bucharest, Romania, January 12 2026

1. Michele Sterlechini (Italy/Bucharest)
2. Massimo DalPrà (Bucharest)
3. Cezar Stoilescu (Bucharest)
4. Bogdan Panait (Bucharest)
5. Ciprian Necula (Bucharest)

Bristol, England, January 12 2026

1. Dave Fletcher (Bristol)
2. Stuart Briffett (Bristol)
3. Aaron Skinner (Bristol)
4. Phillip Bryant (Bristol)
5. Alex Salter (Bristol)
6. John Lauder (Wales/Cardiff)
7. Matthew Rowley (Wales/Cardiff)
8. Malcolm Jarvis (Bristol)
9. Alan Twiddy (Bristol)
10. David Lauder (Wales/Cardiff)
11. Andy Jarvis (Bristol)
12. Darren Barnes (Wales/Cardiff)
13. Lyndon Davies (Bristol)

Dagenham, England, January 14 2026

1. Adam Jackson (Chasers)
2. Gary Gladwell (Chasers)
3. Samantha Levy (Chasers)
4. Jonathan Beales (Chasers)
5. Martin Colwell (Chasers)
6. Michele Claydon (Chasers)

Rijnmond, the Netherlands, January 14 2026

1. Jerrel van Keimpema (Rijnmond)
2. Marco de Bruin (Dutch Legends)
3. Casey van Os (Rijnmond)
4. Rinaldo van Dijk (Rijnmond)
5. Xavier Aret (Dutch Legends)
6. Richard Oranje (Dutch Legends)

Lamezia Terme, Italy, January 14, old rules

1. Andrea Pagano (Virtus Calabria)
2. Gianpaolo Pulice (Virtus Calabria)
3. Angelo De Santis (Virtus Calabria)
4. Antonio Di Lieto (Virtus Calabria)
5. Francesco De Santis (Virtus Calabria)

Néchin, Belgium, January 16, Club WASPA

1. Sébastien Rochez (Stembert)
2. Vincent Coppenolle (Templeuve)
3. Matthias Averlant (AS Hennuyer)
4. Nicolas Malfait (France/Wattrelos)
5ea. Jean-Michel Cordier (France/Wattrelos)
5ea. Romain Laloy (France/Wattrelos)
7. Sébastien Sorge (France/Wattrelos)
8. Martin Laloy (France/Wattrelos)

Subbuteo in Italy: January WASPA events in Genova, Lamezia and Terni

Things are on the up in Italy where several WASPA tournaments have been held in the last few days. In a country where Subbuteo is part of the national culture, it is great to see that some clubs continue to work on local development and try to recruit new players.

In Genova, the "Rebels" held a great event last week-end with 18 players taking part. The players were divided in three divisions of 6 players so that everyone had 5 games. Riccardo Berioli (from the neighbors of "Figures Genova"), Massimo Garatti and Davide Balito won in their respective divisions. The "Rebels" are proving they do an amazing job of promotion and it's great to see representatives from 4 clubs in total where taking part.

There will be an old rules tournament in Genova on Friday, also organized by the Rebels.

In Lamezia Terme, the club of Virtus Calabria held a tournament played with the old rules. 9 players were divided in 3 groups with then another 3 groups to decide the final standings. Congratulations to Andrea Pagano for being not only the organozer of the event but also the winner.

Finally, the latest tournament of SC Terni 2014 took place last week with 3 players. Simone Perotti took the honors. This was already the club's 11th tournament this season, which means they have one tournament left to reach the maximum of 12 events before the end of the season.

Results section

Genova, January 10, modern rules

Champion's League

1. Riccardo Berioli (Ligures Genova)
2. Christian Canessa (Ligures Genova)
3. Tommaso Sani (Club Rebels Genova)
4. Alessandro Gandin (Club Rebels Genova)
5. Samuele Bignardi (Club Rebels Genova)
6. Massimo Risso (PierCrew Genova)

UEFA League

1. Massimo Garatti (Club Rebels Genova)
2. Francesco Polverini (Club Subbuteo Tigullio)
3. Filippo Sottili (Club Rebels Genova)
4. Filippo Careddu (Club Rebels Genova)
5. Riccardo Dordoni (Club Rebels Genova)
6. Massimo Togo (Club Rebels Genova)

Conference League

1. Davide Balito (Club Rebels Genova)
2. Samuele Corrias (Club Rebels Genova)
3. Andrea Bolioli (Club Rebels Genova)
4. Filippo Di Rosa (Club Rebels Genova)
5. Thomas Villa (Club Rebels Genova)
6. Lisa Canessa (Ligures Genova)

Terni, January 6, old rules

1. Simone Perotti (SC Terni 2014)
2. Marco Perotti (SC Terni 2014)
3. Moreno Margheriti (SC Terni 2014)

Lamezia, January 9, modern rules

1. Andrea Pagano (Virtus Calabria)
2. Giuseppe Andricciola (Virtus Calabria)
3. Vittorio Giummo (Virtus Calabria)
4. Gianpaolo Pulice (Virtus Calabria)
5. Francesco Pujia (Virtus Calabria)
6. Domenico Gigliotti (Virtus Calabria)
7. Francesco De Santis (Virtus Calabria)
8. Angelo De Santis (Virtus Calabria)
9. Bernardo Bai (Virtus Calabria)

Great Subbuteo action in Australia during Summer events

Three WASPA events have recently been held in Australia. Thanks to Adrian and Steve for the great reports!

8th annual Christmas Binge WASPA tournament

The Clubhouse, Toongabbie

WSS hosted its traditional Christmas Binge as 7 players turned up to waddle around the pitches and try to burn off a few Christmas kilojoules. Steve started the evening with complaints about the fixture scheduling system. Adrian started the evening not having a clue what fixture scheduling system was even going to be used. But a full league, with quickfire games, was settled upon, to find the final Australian Subbuteo tournament champion for 2025.

Eliot got off to flyer, beating Franck 2-0 - a result which had significant repurcussions later on in the evening. Franck's evening was a mixed one, with 3 draws, against Adrian, John and Gordon respectively, while he also picked up wins over Steve and Gabriel.

Gordon progressively got better as the evening wore on, with the blip of a 0-2 loss to Steve followed by a tight 0-1 loss to Eliot and a draw with Franck. In spite of only picking up a few points, Gabriel showed his improving skills with goals against Steve and Eliot (the only goal Eliot conceded all evening!) and, most importantly, a crushing 2-0 victory in the final round of the evening - the Phokos Derby. John himself struggled for results, though played well - his 0-0 draw with Franck late in the evening a reward for his efforts.

Adrian went undefeated across the evening without conceding a single goal. Keeping up with Eliot was necessary for a chance to win the evening, and a 0-0 draw in that fixture was a step forward, but a 0-0 draw against Franck where Eliot was able to beat him proved to be the difference. Steve had a mixed bag, with equal losses and wins. He was unfortunate to lose to Adrian in the final round - a tight game was decided by a slow shot from Adrian that somehow dribbled under Steve's 'keeper at the near post. 

And so it was, unfortunately, the lone outsider who went away with the title in WSS's last tournament for the year. Congratulations to Eliot, you earned the extra slice of leftover panatone!

(Report by Adrian Elmer)

Please note Western Sydney will hold their next tournament on January 18.

Two winners for the Northern Falcons tournament

Jonty Brener and Adrian Grunbach shared the January WASPA after finishing the five-round Swiss level on 11 points, and having drawn 0-0 in the first round.

It was an epic night of surprises, close matches and all-round fun - as only a Sydney WASPA can be.

Franck and Eliot jumped to the lead after three rounds, but then things got interesting!

When Eliot went into the lead after 4 rounds it was still all to play for, and then Adrian G beat Eliot and Jonty claimed a share of the title by beating Franck.

The normally dominant Daniel couldn't find his shooting finger, Adrian E suffered from three draws, while Johnny Ball had his best performance in ages.

It was great to see Katelyn in action, showing her defence is improving at every outing.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the coming WSS night and Hipfingerz outing before the Australian Grand Prix.

(Report by Steve Dettre)

Finally, Melbourne TFC held their January WASPA on Saturday at East Ivanhoe Bowling Club. Adrian Connolly won his three games to win the league format. Congrats!

Results section

Sydney, Western Sydney, December 29

1. Eliot Kennedy (Northern Falcons)
2. Adrian Elmer (Western Sydney)
3. Francis Cozzarin (Western Sydney)
4. Steve Diasinos (Western Sydney)
5. Gordon Dudley (Western Sydney)
6. Gabriel Phokos (Western Sydney)
7. John Phokos (Western Sydney)

Sydney, Northern Falcons, January 6

1. Jonty Brener (Northern Falcons)
2. Adrian Grunbach (Northern Falcons)
3. Eliot Kennedy (Northern Falcons)
4. Johnny Ball (Northern Falcons)
5. Francis Cozzarin (Western Sydney)
6. Tony Credentino (Sydney TFC)
7. Steve Dettre (Northern Falcons)
8. Louis Dettre (Northern Falcons)
9. Adrian Elmer (Western Sydney)
10. Daniele Lombardi (Sydney TFC)
11. Katelyn Grunbach (Northern Falcons)

Melbourne TFC, January 10

1. Adrian Connolly (Northern Phoenix)
2. Benji Batten (Melbourne TFC)
3. Luke Radziminski (Melbourne TFC)
4. Beth Eveleigh (Northern Phoenix)

WASPA standings of December 2026

Dear Subbuteo friends,

we are pleased to present the WASPA standings of December 2026. The end of the year is usually a calm period in the circuit but we have added 27 regional tournaments and 5 old rules events in the records.

Results file in PDF format

Rankings and statistics in Excel file

Highlights of the months were:

- the last stage of the Irish Circuit in Derry. Kenny Beggs was the big winner of the day;

- first WASPA tournament of the club "Stradivari Cremona" in Italy;

- John Lauder winning the first Bristol tournament and Aaron Skinner winning the other one two weeks later;

- first tournament of the season in Greece organize in Thessaloniki;

- many young players involved in the tournament in Genova, Italy;

- good turnout for the 4 evens held in Belgium;

- many events held all around England;

- the hard work of local organizerts in the Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland and Romania;

- popular old rules events in Terni, Italy;

- Matthias Averlant (AS Hennuyer) taking the lead in the Open Season ranking.

Important notice: the only valid e-mail address to send results is vincentcoppenolle@gmail.com

If you see missing, results in the PDF file, it's not too late to send them.

In the January rankings, we will add results of events collected in the last few days from Sydney (Western Sydney and Northern Falcons), Solent, Attard, Yorkshire and Terni.

We try to publish regular stories about WASPA events on our Facebook links and the WASPA blog. Thanks to the organizers who send a small story and some pictures of their events.

Your feedback to improve the WASPA circuit is more than welcome.

The doors of the WASPA circuit remain open for all players and clubs around the world ;-)

For any question, feel free to send me a message at vincentcoppenolle@gmail.com

Best wishes for 2026. I really hope we can continue to grow this year and to attract more new players and clubs.

Best regards,

Vincent Coppenolle

Best pictures of the month

South Devon, England

Northern Phoenix in Melbourne, Australia

Wamme SC, Belgium

Edinburgh, Scotland

Thessaloniki, Greece

Bucharest, Romania

Marco Bevilacqua and Gabriel Ebejer winners in Yorkshire

Marco Bevilacqua (right) receiving his trophy from Paul Lawrenson

Last week-end, Yorkshire Phoenix organized another fantastic event as the Yorkshire International Open was a success with more than 50 players travelling from different countries to take part. Once again, organizers proved there is a strong partnership bewteen FISTF and WASPA and consolation events were held under WASPA banner. *Scotland's and Golazzo's Marco Bevilacqua defeated Craig Heward (Yorkshire) on shots in the Plate final while Malta's Gabriel Ebejer (Bormla) took the best against Brendan Ashley (London Road/Yorkshire) in the Shield final.

Gabriel Ebejer (right)

Special thanks to the organizers, Paul Lawrenson and Martin Hodds in particular, for the amazing work!

More details and pictures are available on the Yorkshire Phoenix page at https://www.facebook.com/yorkshirephoenixtfc

First WASPA tournament of 2026 in Malta

The first WASPA tournament of the year took place this week-end in Malta and consisted in a group of 5 players. The tournament was organized by H'Attard Subbuteo Club and Robert Farrugia Randon took the win, while Vincent Mifsud and Mark Baldacchino finished joint runners-up on equal points and goal difference. Special mention to the club youngster Luke Xerri, who continues to show clear improvement tournament after tournament.

Please note you have thill tuesday evening to send your December results to vincentcoppenolle@gmail.com so that we can publish the December standings by the end of the week.

Posters of forthcoming old rules tournaments in Brescia and Terni

 

More WASPA results from Australia, England and Italy

Some more results from Australia, England and Italy as Subbuteo continues to be played in the Christmas period.

In Melbourne, Autralia, the Northern Phoenix club had a recent gathering with 4 players. Players returned to the club's spiritual home and the guys were defying the temptations of late night festive shopping for some competitive clicking. It was great to see Anthony Madiona back in action after a small hiatus. Given his absence from the game, his form was extraordinary combining deft touches with some well controlled gameplay.

South Devon Subbuteo Club held their Christmas tournament on Tuesday. The tournament consisted in a group of 5 players with Bob Fairbrother finishing on top of the table.

Finally, our mates in Terni, Italy, continue to promote old rules. Their last two events were played in the premises of the club with Moreno Margheriti and Marco Perotti taking the honors in both events!

Northern Phoneix tournament in Melbourne, Australia

1. Christos Garagounis (Northern Phoenix)
2. Anthony Madiona (Northern Phoenix)
3. Kevin Grant (Central Victoria)
4. George Theocharis (Northern Phoenix)

South Devon Christmas Cup

1. Bob Fairbrother (South Devon SC)
2. Simon Francis (South Devon SC)
3. Oakley Francis (South Devon SC)
4. Bill Berkley (South Devon SC)
5. Marcus Ellis (South Devon SC)

Terni old rules event of December 23

1. Moreno Margheriti (SC Terni 2014)
2. Simone Perotti (SC Terni 2014)
3. Marco Perotti (SC Terni 2014)

Terni old rules event of December 30

 

1. Marco Perotti (SC Terni 2014)
2. Alessandro Arca (Subbito Gol Ferrara)
3. Moreno Margheriti (SC Terni 2014)
4. Simone Perotti (SC Terni 2014)
5. Leonardo Ascani (SC Terni 2014)