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{{short description|World Championship in pool, played in Eight-ball}}
{{Infobox Sports league
| current_season = 
| logo = 
| pixels = 200px
| caption = 
| sport = [[Pool (cue sports)|Pool]]
| founded = 2004
| folded = 
| champion = [[Joshua Filler]]
| champ_season = 2024
| most_champs = <!--if more than one-->
| website = {{url|wpapool.com}}
| related_comps = [[WPA World Nine-ball Championship|Nine-ball]], [[WPA World Ten-ball Championship|Ten-ball]]
| Founder = [[World Pool-Billiard Association]]
}}
The '''WPA World Eight-ball Championship''' is a professional [[eight-ball]] [[Pool (cue sports)|pool]] tournament sanctioned by the [[World Pool Association]] (WPA), initially contested from 2004 to 2012 in [[Fujairah]], [[United Arab Emirates]].<ref name="W8BC 2007">{{cite web |title=World 8 Ball Pool Championship 2007 Fujairah |work=World8BallChampionship.com |publisher=WPA |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=March 2007 |access-date=1 March 2011 |url=http://www.world8ballchampionship.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316082937/http://www.world8ballchampionship.com/ |archive-date=16 March 2008 |url-status=usurped |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="WPA 2011">
{{cite web |url=http://www.wpa-pool.com/web/index.asp?id=25&pagetype=event_details&eventid=17 |title=World 8-Ball Championship - Men - Fujaira UAE - 19-26 Feb 2011 |work=WPA-Pool.com |publisher=[[World Pool-Billiard Association]] (WPA) |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=26 February 2011 |access-date=1 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221113320/http://www.wpa-pool.com/web/index.asp?id=25&pagetype=event_details&eventid=17 |archive-date=2011-02-21 |url-status=dead }}
</ref> After not being held for several years, it was announced by the WPA that the championship would return in 2017, to be held at the Olympic Centre in [[Jinan|Jinan, China]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wpa-pool.com/web/index.asp?id=17&pagetype=news_details&newsid=121 |title=World Pool-Billiard Association |access-date=2016-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016091915/http://www.wpa-pool.com/web/index.asp?id=17&pagetype=news_details&newsid=121 |archive-date=2016-10-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, that event did not occur, and the championship continued to remain dormant until Predator Cues re-established the tournament as part of their Pro Billiard Series, beginning with the 2022 edition of the tournament.

==Winners==
{{see also|List of world eight-ball champions}}
{| border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse; text-align:center; font-size:90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
|- bgcolor="#C1D8FF"
!rowspan="2" width="5%"| Year
!rowspan="2" width="10%"| Host
| rowspan="12" width="1%" bgcolor="ffffff" |
!colspan="3" |Final
| rowspan="12" width="1%" bgcolor="ffffff" |
!rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Semifinalists
|- bgcolor="EFEFEF"
!width="15%"| Winner
!width="8%"| Score
!width="15%"| Runner-up
|-
|[[2004 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2004]]
|rowspan=7|{{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|'''{{Flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Efren Reyes]]'''
|'''11–4'''
|{{Flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Marlon Manalo]]
|{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Francisco Bustamante]]
|{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Alex Pagulayan]]
|-
|[[2005 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2005]]
|'''{{flagicon|TPE|size=30px}}<br />[[Wu Jiaqing]]'''
|'''11–5'''
|{{flagicon|NED|size=30px}}<br />[[Nick van den Berg]]
|{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Francisco Bustamante]]
|{{flagicon|NED|size=30px}}<br />[[Niels Feijen]]
|-
|[[2007 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2007]]
|'''{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Ronnie Alcano]]'''
|'''11–8'''
|{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Dennis Orcollo]]
|{{flagicon|NED|size=30px}}<br />[[Niels Feijen]]
|{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Joven Bustamante]]
|-
|[[2008 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2008]]
|'''{{flagicon|GER|size=30px}}<br />[[Ralf Souquet]]'''
|'''13–9'''
|{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Ronnie Alcano]]
|{{flagicon|SWE|size=30px}}<br />[[Marcus Chamat]]
|{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Dennis Orcollo]]
|-
|[[2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2010]]
|'''{{flagicon|ENG|size=30px}}<br />[[Karl Boyes (pool player)|Karl Boyes]]'''
|'''13–12'''
|{{flagicon|NED|size=30px}}<br />[[Niels Feijen]]
|{{flagicon|RUS|size=30px}}<br />[[Ruslan Chinachov]]
|{{flagicon|ENG|size=30px}}<br />[[Darren Appleton]]
|-
|[[2011 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2011]]
|'''{{flagicon|PHI|size=30px}}<br />[[Dennis Orcollo]]'''
|'''10–3'''
|{{flagicon|NED|size=30px}}<br />[[Niels Feijen]]
|{{flagicon|ESP|size=30px}}<br />[[David Alcaide]]
|{{flagicon|ENG|size=30px}}<br />[[Darren Appleton]]
|-
|[[2012 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2012]]
|'''{{flagicon|TPE|size=30px}}<br />[[Chang Jung-lin]]'''
|'''11–6'''
|{{flagicon|TPE|size=30px}}<br />[[Fu Che-wei]]
|{{flagicon|ENG|size=30px}}<br />[[Chris Melling (pool player)|Chris Melling]]
|{{flagicon|CHN|size=30px}}<br />[[Liu Haitao (pool player)|Liu Haitao]]
|-
|[[2022 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2022]]
|{{flag|Puerto Rico}}
|'''{{flagicon|ESP|size=30px}}<br />[[Francisco Sánchez Ruíz]]'''
|'''10–6'''
|{{flagicon|POL|size=30px}}<br />[[Wiktor Zielinski]]
|{{flagicon|SCO|size=30px}}<br />[[Jayson Shaw]]
|{{flagicon|AUT|size=30px}}<br />[[Mario He]]
|-
|[[2023 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2023]]
|{{flag|Austria}}
|'''{{flagicon|USA|size=30px}}<br />[[Shane Van Boening]]'''
|'''10–7'''
|{{flagicon|BIH|size=30px}}<br />[[Sanjin Pehlivanović]]
|{{flagicon|POL|size=30px}}<br />[[Wojciech Szewczyk]]
|{{flagicon|AUT|size=30px}}<br />[[Max Lechner]]
|-
|[[2024 WPA World Eight-ball Championship|2024]]
|{{flag|New Zealand}}
|'''{{flagicon|GER|size=30px}}<br />[[Joshua Filler]]'''
|'''10–8'''
|{{flagicon|TPE|size=30px}}<br />[[Hsu Jui-an]]
|{{flagicon|NED|size=30px}}<br />[[Marco Teutscher]]
|{{flagicon|TPE|size=30px}}<br />[[Wu Kun-lin]]
|}

==Top performers==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%; text-align: center;"
|-
! Name
! Nationality
! Winner
! Runner-up
! {{nobreak|Semi-final}}<br />or better
|-
|align="left" | [[Dennis Orcollo]]
|align="left"|{{PHL}}
|rowspan="10" |1
|rowspan="2" |1
|3
|-
|align="left" | [[Ronnie Alcano]]
|align="left"|{{PHL}}
|2
|-
|align="left" | '''[[Chang Jung-Lin]]'''
|align="left"|{{TPE}}
|rowspan="8" |0
|rowspan="8" |1
|-
|align="left" | [[Efren Reyes]]
|align="left"|{{PHL}}
|-
|align="left" | '''[[Francisco Sánchez Ruíz]]'''
|align="left"|{{ESP}}
|-
|align="left" | '''[[Joshua Filler]]'''
|align="left"|{{GER}}
|-
|align="left" | [[Karl Boyes (pool player)|Karl Boyes]]
|align="left"|{{ENG}}
|-
|align="left" | '''[[Ralf Souquet]]'''
|align="left"|{{GER}}
|-
|align="left" | [[Shane Van Boening]]
|align="left"|{{USA}}
|-
|align="left" | [[Wu Jiaqing]]
|align="left"|{{CHN}}
|}

* Active participants are shown in '''bold'''.
* In the event of identical records, players are sorted in alphabetical order by first name.

==References==
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