Michał Szubarczyk

Michał Szubarczyk (born 12 January 2011) is a Polish professional snooker player. In 2025, at the age of 14, he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship and also won a nomination for a two-year tour card on the World Snooker Tour, starting from the 2025–26 snooker season.

Early and personal life

Szubarczyk is from Lublin, Poland. His mother works in a bank and his father Kamil ran his own business before moving to part-time work to support his son as a snooker coach and manager. Szubarczyk and his father had watched the sport on television together and Szubarczyk developed an interest, so they started playing snooker together at a local club when he was six years old. Szubarczyk's first coach, from age 6 to 12, was European Billiards and Snooker Association assistant head coach Mateusz Nowak, who also coached his father. Szubarczyk scored his first snooker maximum break in practice at the age of 12. He also likes playing football and chess. He uses home education instead of traditional school education to reconcile his student duties and snooker training.

Career

At the age of 12, he won the Polish national championships at under-18 and under-21 level. In January 2024, he reached the quarter-final of the senior Polish snooker championships, aged 13. He became the Polish champion at six-red snooker, and became the Polish under-16 pool champion and the Polish junior champion at Snooker Shoot Out.

In August 2024, he won the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, defeating German Alexander Widau in the final in Bengaluru, India. He became the youngest ever winner of the tournament. He had lost in the under-17 semi-final earlier in the same week.

In March 2025, he won both the under-16 and EBSA European Under-18 Snooker Championship titles. Later that month, he reached the final of the EBSA European Snooker Championship with a win over Harvey Chandler, losing in the final to former professional Liam Highfield. With Highfield having already regained professional status for the following season through a different qualification route, Szubarczyk received the nomination to the World Snooker Tour for the 2025‍–‍26 and 2026‍–‍27 seasons, becoming the youngest ever professional player. He was awarded a place into the qualifying rounds for the 2025 World Snooker Championship where he lost in the first round 10-8 to Dean Young.

2025–26 season

In June 2025, he was drawn to make his professional debut in the first round of qualifying for the 2025 Wuhan Open against former world champion Shaun Murphy, losing 5-0. That month, he had a narrow defeat in the qualifying round at the 2025 British Open in a deciding frame against Umut Dikme of Germany. He was drawn in the round-robin stage of the 2025 Championship League against Fan Zhengyi, Xu Si and Liam Highfield, finishing bottom of the group but earning a 2-2 draw against Fan. He recorded his first wins as a professional against Ryan Davies and Bulcsu Revesz as he reached the third round of the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters before losing to English former world champion Stuart Bingham.

He reached the last-64 at the 2025 Xi'an Grand Prix with a win in a deciding frame 5-4 against world number 43 Martin O'Donnell, despite being pegged back from 4-1 up. He was then drawn against Thailand's Noppon Saengkham. He recorded a 6-4 win over Ishpreet Singh Chadha in qualifying at the 2025 International Championship.

In November 2025, he became the second youngest winner of the IBSF World Snooker Championship, after Yan Bingtao in 2014. That month, he defeated Jimmy White 6-2 in the first round of qualifying at the 2025 UK Championship. In the next round he was defeated by Noppon Saengkham, but made his first century break on tour, a 106 in frame five in a 6-3 defeat. On 11 December, he recorded a win over Jamie Jones at the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out.

Szubarczyk retains his EBSA European U18 title in March 2026, defeating Moldova’s Vladislav Gradinari in the final. The following month, he won his first round match in the qualifying rounds of the 2026 World Snooker Championship 10-7 against Ng On-yee. In doing so at the age of 15 years, two months and 25 days, he became the youngest player to win a match in the championships, breaking the previous record set by Liam Davies in 2022. In the second round he took a 5-3 overnight lead over Sanderson Lam, before winning 10-8. In the third round he lost 10-2 to experienced Iranian Hossein Vafaei.

Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Amateur finals: 5 (4 titles)

External links

• at WPBSA
• at WPBSA SnookerScores
• at the World Snooker Tour
• at Snooker.org