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)