# Florian Nüßle

Florian Nüßle (born 18 December 2001) is an Austrian snooker player from Graz. In 2017, aged 16, he became his country's youngest national snooker champion. In March 2025, he won his Q Tour Playoff to gain a two-year professional tour card starting from the 2025–26 season, becoming the first professional snooker player from Austria.

## Career
### National tournaments

Florian Nüßle became interested in snooker as a child and played pool with a standing aid when he was five years old. He also played football in his youth for five years for SK Sturm Graz, and golf, but ultimately opted for snooker. After obtaining his secondary school certificate he went to the UK with the aim of becoming a professional player.
He first participated in the Austrian national youth championships in 2007, and won his first national title in the under–16 age group at the age of 13, defending his title in the following two years. In 2015 he won the under–21 title and defended it in the years that followed. At 16, he became the youngest player to win the national championship when he won the Austrian National Championship. He also became ranked as Austrian number one that season. In 2018 he played Andreas Ploner [de] in the final, winning 5–2.

### International tournaments

After his first national youth title, he played in the EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships and IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship. At the 2017 event, he reached the quarter-finals of the under-21 event. He also entered the IBSF World Snooker Championship that year, reaching the semi-finals losing to eventual champion Pankaj Advani 4–7. From 2017, he competed in the annual pro-am Paul Hunter Classic (PHC), an amateur tournament from the World Snooker Tour. He would defeat professional player Elliot Slessor during the 2018 event.

### Professional career

In March 2025, Nüßle defeated Estonian former professional Andres Petrov 10‍–‍3 in the final of Playoff 3 of the 2024–25 Q Tour to gain a professional tour card for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 snooker seasons, becoming the first professional snooker player from Austria.

## Performance and rankings timeline

| Tournament | 2017/ 18 | 2018/ 19 | 2019/ 20 | 2020/ 21 | 2022/ 23 | 2023/ 24 | 2024/ 25 |
| Ranking | | | | | | | |
| Ranking tournaments ||||||||
| Championship League | Non-Ranking | Non-Ranking | Non-Ranking | A | RR | RR | RR |
| Xi'an Grand Prix | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | A |
| Saudi Arabia Masters | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | A |
| English Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
| British Open | Not Held | Not Held | Not Held | A | A | A | A |
| Wuhan Open | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | A | A |
| Northern Ireland Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | LQ |
| International Championship | A | A | A | Not Held | Not Held | A | A |
| UK Championship | A | A | A | A | A | A | LQ |
| Shoot Out | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | QF |
| Scottish Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A |
| German Masters | A | A | A | LQ | A | A | A |
| Welsh Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R |
| World Open | A | A | A | Not Held | Not Held | A | A |
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ |
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ |
| Tour Championship | NH | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ |
| World Championship | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | A | |
| Former ranking tournaments ||||||||
| Paul Hunter Classic | LQ | 1R | NR | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held |
| WST Pro Series | Not Held | Not Held | Not Held | RR | Not Held | Not Held | Not Held |
| European Masters | A | A | LQ | 1R | LQ | A | NH |
| Former non-ranking tournaments ||||||||
| Paul Hunter Classic | Ranking | Ranking | 1R | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held | Tournament Not Held |
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 3 4 5 6 7 He was an amateur

## Career finals
### Pro-am finals: 1 (1 title)

| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Winner | 1. | 2023 | Vienna Snooker Open | Lukas Kleckers | 5–0 |

### Amateur finals: 20 (15 titles)

| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Winner | 1. | 2013 | Austrian Under-16 Championship | Oskar Charlesworth | 3–2 |
| Winner | 2. | 2016 | Austrian Under-21 Championship | Manuel Pomwenger | 3–0 |
| Winner | 3. | 2017 | Austrian Amateur Championship | Oskar Charlesworth | 5–0 |
| Winner | 4. | 2018 | Austrian Amateur Championship (2) | Andreas Ploner | 5–2 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2018 | EBSA European Under-18 Snooker Championships | Jackson Page | 3–5 |
| Winner | 5. | 2019 | Austrian Amateur Championship (3) | Andreas Ploner | 5–4 |
| Winner | 6. | 2020 | Austrian Amateur Championship (4) | Jérôme Liedtke | 5–0 |
| Winner | 7. | 2021 | Wels Open | Manuel Pomwenger | 4–0 |
| Winner | 8. | 2022 | Austrian Amateur Championship (5) | Thomas Janzso | 5–1 |
| Winner | 9. | 2022 | IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship | Taweesap Kongkitchertchoo | 6–5 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2022 | EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships | Ben Mertens | 1–5 |
| Winner | 10. | 2023 | Austrian Amateur Championship (6) | Oskar Charlesworth | 5–1 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 2023 | Q Tour – Playoff | Ashley Carty | 2–5 |
| Runner-up | 4. | 2023 | Wels Open | Shachar Ruberg | 3–4 |
| Winner | 11. | 2024 | Austrian Amateur Championship (7) | Thomas Janzso | 5–2 |
| Runner-up | 5. | 2024 | German Grand Prix - Event 5 | Richard Wienold | 2–3 |
| Winner | 12. | 2024 | EBSA European 6-Reds Championship | Stuart Watson | 5–3 |
| Winner | 13. | 2024 | Wels Open (2) | Nicolas Le Clercq | 5–0 |
| Winner | 14. | 2024 | Italian Masters | Peter Devlin | 4–2 |
| Winner | 15. | 2025 | Austrian Amateur Championship (8) | Lukas Stötzer | 5–0 |