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Liam Highfield Tops English Amateur Tour Ranking List
Liam Highfield has finished top of the 2024/25 English Amateur Tour ranking list after a memorable campaign that saw the 34-year-old pick up a title and make an unforgettable maximum break.
England’s flagship national amateur tour featured an enhanced prize money structure and five prestigious events staged across four venues between August and January.
A total of 136 players competed this season – nearly a 10% increase on the 2023/24 campaign. Highfield, Barry Pinches, Ashley Hugill and Kayden Brierley each picked up titles and, as a result, make up the top four in the ranking list to earn nominations for the 2025 EBSA European Championships in Turkey alongside reigning English Amateur champion Steven Hallworth.
Roll of Honour
- Event 1 (Landywood Snooker Club, Walsall): Liam Highfield 4-0 Ryan Davies
- Event 2 (Northern Snooker Centre, Leeds): Barry Pinches 4-0 Simon Bedford
- Event 3 (Club 200, Manchester): Kayden Brierley 4-2 John Welsh
- Event 4 (Frames Sports Bar, Coulsdon): Barry Pinches 4-2 Liam Highfield
- Event 5 (Landywood Snooker Club, Walsall): Ashley Hugill 4-3 Mark Joyce
Highfield, who was returning to the amateur game following a 14-year spell on the World Snooker Tour between 2010 and 2024, made the perfect start by whitewashing Ryan Davies 4-0 in the final of the first event at the Landywood Snooker Club.
Earlier that day against Hayden Staniland, Highfield had made the first 147 break on the tour since Hamim Hussain’s at the same venue back in January 2023.
A consistent campaign from Highfield, which included another run to the final of event four at the Frames Sports Bar in Coulsdon, saw him finish in top spot on the ranking list courtesy of the count back rule – having finished tied on points with double event winner Pinches.
The Top Eight
- Liam Highfield (215)
- Barry Pinches (215)
- Ashley Hugill (210)
- Kayden Brierley (190)
- Ryan Davies (150)
- Harvey Chandler (125)
- Kuldesh Johal (125)
- Peter Lines (125)
The experienced cueist from Norwich rolled back the years to pick up two titles – defeating Highfield in the aforementioned event four final to follow up on his earlier success in event two at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, where he had whitewashed Simon Bedford in the title match.
Twenty-two-year-old Brierley became the youngest player to pick up an English Amateur Tour title this season, defeating veteran John Welsh in the event three final at the impressive new Club 200 venue in Manchester, while Hugill brought the series to a close in dramatic fashion by coming from 3-1 down to defeat Mark Joyce 4-3 at the Landywood Snooker Club in last weekend’s event five title match.
Focus in the second half of the 2024/25 EPSB season will now switch to the national championships. The flagship English Amateur Championship, snooker longest-running competition, is down to the final 16 and the 2025 champion is set to be crowned on Sunday 6 April at the Landywood Snooker Club.
Details of the 2025/26 English Amateur Tour season will be announced in due course. Click to view the remainder of the 2024/25 calendar.
