The SEPF was formed in 1996 and is recognsied by the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) and the European Eightball Pool Federation (EEPF) as the governing body for pool in Scotland.

The SEPF run regional and national tour events thoughout the year with something for everyone including Men, Ladies, U21s, Juniors (U18), Seniors (over 50s) and wheelchairs. Our national squad compete annually at the World Championships, European Championships and Home Internationals. In 2011 Scotland had the largest squad at the World Championships with 72 players across all categories.

 

The SEPF have four major annual competitions, the Scottish Open, Scottish Masters, Scottish Singles and the SEPF Scottish Interleague. The Scottish Interleague is an opportunity for all affiliated leagues to pit their top players against the best in the country in a 32 team event.

 

The SEPF is split into five regions each with a six event mens tour series. Most regions have Junior, U21, O40 or O50 tours but for those that don't, there's a national tour series for all categories of player. Tours are used to select the following year's International squad with players ranked depending on performance.

See the SEPF map for precise regional boundaries, however, broadly speaking, Region One covers the Nort East of the country and includes the Aberdeen and Fraserburgh Pool Leagues who between them have produced some of the best Scottish players of all time.

 

Region Two roughly covers the Fife area and again has produced some top quality players over the years. Region Three are the Borders region, running from coast to coast across the South of the country. Region Four encompasses the Moray Firth coastline and the Highlands. Region Five is our newest region and covers the West Coast and Islands.

Scotland players have enjoyed great success on the International stage, most notably Sue Thompson (top right), who has dominated the Ladies game, potting her way to a staggering 10 World Ladies Singles titles. She has recently set her sights on overhauling Phil Taylor's 15 World Titles!

Lynette Horsburgh (right) is one of the select few to have won the World Title during Sue's reign. Lynette lifted the trophy in 2008, adding it to her European and Home Internationals Singles titles.

Aberdeen's Darren Matthew (above left) is Scotlands most succesful male player. He won an unprecedented three consecutive World Junior Singles titles between 2001-03 and during the same period added 2 European Junior titles and a Home Internationals title to his collection. Darren has reached the last eight of the Mens World Singles Championships, a game which was broadcast on Sky Sports, and in 2011 finished second in the rankings after the World Championships team event.

Pat McCarron (left), also Aberdeen, followed in Darren's footsteps by lifting the World Junior Singles title in 2006. The following year McCarron capped an unprecedented double by becoming the first reigning Junior Champ to win the World Under 21 Singles Title.

Scotland Ladies were World Champions in 2005, Scotlands Men were Home International champions in 2004, Scotlands Under 21's were both Home International and World Champions in 2006 and Scotland Juniors were also both Home International and World Champions in 2003.