The Union Mondiale de Billard ( French for World Union of Billiards) is the world governing body for

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(carambole) billiard games.

History

The organization was founded in

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on 1 June 1959, and is dedicated to promoting the modern carom billiards games. However, the actual founding of the World Federation took place in 1923 under the name "Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billard" (UIFAB). The UMB monitors and controls international carom competitions and tournaments, and organizes an annual World Three-cushion Billiards Championship and World Championship 5 Pins National Teams.

Sub Organ

Billiards World Cup Association The Billiards World Cup Association (BWA) was a governing body for three-cushion carom billiards which organized and marketed the Three-Cushion World Cup from 1985 to 1999. It was subordinate to the World Association Union Mondiale de Billard (U ...

Events

Three-Cushion World Cup The Three-Cushion World Cup is an international tournament series in three-cushion billiards, which is held every year since 1986 between three and ten times a year. History The World Cup was founded in 1985 by German Werner Bayer, a carom bi ...

UMB World Three-cushion Championship The UMB World Three-cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). Until 1953 it was organized by the UIFAB (Union ...

* UMB Women's World Three-cushion Championship * UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams

Work

The goals of the UMB include favoring the development of billiard games as sports at the international level, and representing the interests of billiards in general. The UMB provides a permanent and stable liaison with its affiliated regional confederations, and constitutes the largest

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in carom billiards. The UMB is a co-founding member, and the sole representative of carom billiards, in the

World Confederation of Billiards Sports The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports (billiards-type games), including carom billiards, pool games of several varieties, and snooker.pool Pool may refer to: Water pool * Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended for swimming * Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings * Tide pool, a rocky pool ...

games of several varieties, and

snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...

. Four large confederations are recognized by UMB, namely:African Federations join UMB from April 30
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Confédération Européenne de Billard The Confédération Européene de Billard (CEB) is the European governing body of carom billiards and is affiliated to the world federation UMB. History The CEB was founding on 12 July 1958 in Geneva. Its predecessor was the Fédération Inte ...

(CEB - European Billiard Confederation), # Confederación Panamericana de Billar (CPB - Pan-American Billiard Confederation; South and to an extent North America), #

Asian Carom Billiard Confederation The Asian Carom Billiard Confederation (ACBC) is the Asian governing body of carom billiards and is affiliated to the world federation Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). Work The ACBC is responsible for the organisation of international tournamen ...

(ACBC - Asia and the Pacific) # and since 30 April 2013 the

African Carom Confederation The African Carom Confederation (ACC) is the African continental federation for carom billiards. It is a member of the world federation Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB) and was founded on 25 March 2013 in Cairo. History At the General Assembly of ...

(ACC). The national federations subsumed within these broad, regional confederations, along with independent federations in the US, is recognized UMB affiliates. (Note: Some US-based organizations are CPB affiliates, such as the

United States Snooker Association The United States Snooker Association (USSA) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport of snooker in the United States, with its current headquarters registered in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1991 by the British-born Mich ...

Organisation Board

Timeline

References

External links

Official website
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