# Leone Crowley

Leone Crowley is an Irish 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 in losing to professional Jackson Page at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out in Swansea.
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 only lost six frames in the tournament. In the final on 23 January 2025, he whitewashed Kaylan Patel of England 5-0 to win 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.

## Personal life

He is from Ballyvolane, Cork, in the Republic of Ireland. He practised for a time with former professional Anthony O'Connor at Shooters snooker club in Cork. He regularly practises at Mark Allen's snooker camp in Belfast.

## Performance and rankings timeline

| Tournament | 2023/ 24 | 2024/ 25 |
| Ranking | | |
| Championship League | A | A |
| Xi'an Grand Prix | NH | A |
| Saudi Arabia Masters | NH | A |
| English Open | A | A |
| British Open | A | A |
| Wuhan Open | A | A |
| Northern Ireland Open | A | A |
| International Championship | A | A |
| UK Championship | A | A |
| Shoot Out | 1R | A |
| Scottish Open | A | A |
| German Masters | A | A |
| Welsh Open | A | A |
| World Open | A | A |
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ |
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ |
| Tour Championship | DNQ | DNQ |
| World Championship | A | |
Performance Table Legend :
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) | QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. |
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. |
| R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. |
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. |
* ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
* 1 2 He was an amateur

## Career finals
### Amateur finals: 11 (8 titles)

| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Winner | 1. | 2017 | Irish Under-12 Championship | Adam Quinn | 3–0 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2019 | Irish Under-18 Championship | Aaron Hill | 0–4 |
| Winner | 2. | 2021 | Irish Under-18 Championship | Alex Currid | 3–2 |
| Winner | 3. | 2021 | Irish Under-16 Championship | Aaron Smith | 3–2 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2021 | Irish Under-21 Championship | Ross Bulman | 1–3 |
| Winner | 4. | 2022 | Irish Under-18 Championship | Alex Currid | 3–1 |
| Winner | 5. | 2022 | Irish Under-21 Championship | Aaron Goldrick | 3–2 |
| Winner | 6. | 2022 | Irish Under-16 Championship | David Farrelly | 3–0 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 2022 | European Under-18 Championships | Liam Davies | 1–4 |
| Winner | 7. | 2023 | Irish Under-21 Championship | Sean Walsh | 3–2 |
| Winner | 8. | 2025 | WSF Junior Championship | Kaylan Patel | 5–0 |