Leone Crowley
Leone Crowley 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 forthe 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.