ASSOCIATION CROQUET WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2027
The WCF Management Committee warmly invite eligible Players
TO THE ASSOCIATION CROQUET WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Wellington New Zealand 2027, Saturday 30 January to Sunday 7 February
Please don’t hesitate to contact Rosie Landrebe if you have any questions or you need support.
WhatsApp contact: +61 481 915
- The event capacity is 80 Players
- All Members and RCOs are eligible to participate.
- The competition is being held between Saturday 30 January and Sunday 7 February
Kelburn Municipal Croquet Club (Wellington): 5 courts
Wellington Municipal Croquet Club (Wellington): 3 courts
Waimarie Hutt Valley Croquet Club (Hutt City): Headquarters 5 courts
Paraparaumu Croquet Club (Paraparaumu): 4 courts
Waikanae Croquet Club (Waikanae): 5 courts
The Qualifying Tournament will be held from Sunday 24th January to Wednesday 27th January 2027.
The format of the Qualifying Tournament will be determined once the number of players is known.
24 is the maximum entry for the Qualifier event.
The qualifying Tournament will be held at Rose Gardens Croquet Club (Palmerston North), approximately two hours’ drive north of Wellington City: 6 courts
The event will be held under the most current Laws of Association Croquet as at December 2026 and the WCF Sport Regulations and relevant policies.
Regulations specific to the event will be available on the WCF website and forwarded to members from 30/09/2026.
Details regarding accommodation and transport will be provided on the event website and a link to that website will be provided on the WCF website and Facebook page, as it becomes available.
Please submit your entries, by the response date, to secretary@worldcroquet.org. Please note that the Response Date is the 6th of September 2026.
| Response Date – 06/09/2026 | This is the date by which Members and RCOs should notify their wish to participate |
| Allocation Date – 20/09/2026
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The World Ranking List is used to determine the initial allocation of Ranking Places is that published at the end of the Allocation Date. |
| Announcement Date- 04/10/2026
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This is the date on or before which the MC announces the players who have been awarded Ranking Places and Wild Card Places. |
| Closing Date- 18/10/2026 | *Please note the closing date for Members to notify Membership places is 14 days after the announcement date. |
| Player Information Due Date – 28/10/2026 | The date by which all Players should complete the Player Information form and provide a headshot to secretary@worldcroquet.org |
| Entry Fee Due Date – 14/11/2026
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Entry fees must be paid by this date.
Players will be invoiced for their entry fee. |
Urgent Attention GCWC EGYPT, 2026.
Thank you for your patience, with the issuing of the ranking places for the GCWC Egypt 2026.
I have pleasure presenting the list below, the list will also be published on the WCF website. worldcroquet.org
Wild Cards
The wild cards for this event have been awarded to:
Alfred Makhubo-South Africa
Mateo Palazon - Spain
Breakdown of the Allocation for the Event
Total number of competitors - 80
Member Places -38
Places awarded from the Qualifier event- 4
Wild Cards- 2
Ranking Places- 36
Next Steps
1. Members are asked to decide their Member Places by the 12th of August 2026, 11.59 BST, by emailing their preferences to secretary@worldcroquet.org
2.If a Ranking Place is returned prior to the Cut-Off Date (3rd October), it will be filled from the Replacement Ranking List (RRL). The RRL will be sorted by Max DGrade (minimum 10 games in the prior 12 months) at the end of the day on which the vacancy arises It may include players who were not on the Initial Allocation List, provided that they have been nominated by their Member country and have not previously refused a place or withdrawn from the Event
3. Please see the regulations here WCF Sports Regulations for further explanation of the process, and do not hesitate to contact me at any time if you require help.
Ranking Places
# Name Country MaxDG
1 Matthew Essick USA 2708
2 Reg Bamford ZAF 2670
3 Ahmed Elmahdy EGY 2668
4 Tom Balding USA 2655
5 Hamy Erian EGY 2655
6 Yasser Sayed EGY 2632
7 Jack Good ENG 2604
8 Karim Ghamry EGY 2603
9 Ahmed Nasr EGY 2602
10 Mohamed Nasr EGY 2591
11 Mohamed Karem EGY 2585
12 Mohamed Taha EGY 2580
13 Euan Burridge ENG 2576
14 Khaled Kamel EGY 2557
15 Soha Mostafa EGY 2553
16 Fawzy Helmy EGY 2551
17 Jamie Burch ENG 2550
18 Stephen Mulliner ENG 2545
19 Yousif Yasser EGY 2534
20 Levi Franks NZL 2509
21 Jose Riva ESP 2502
22 Mostafa Nezar EGY 2500
23 Jose Alvarez-Sala ESP 2499
24 Amr Alebiary EGY 2477
25 Sherif Abdelwahab USA 2476
26 Omar Fahmy EGY 2468
27 Mohamed Salah EGY 2468
28 Naguib Hossam EGY 2463
29 Jenny Clarke NZL 2448
30 Maram Nabil EGY 2438
31 Ayman Nagah EGY 2437
32 Manuel Alvarez-Sala ESP 2434
33 Yasser Abuelnour EGY 2431
34 Mohamed Walid EGY 2421
35 Tamer Hatata USA 2420
36 Mostafa Eissa EGY 2420
Provisional Reserve Ranking Places
1 Edmund Fordyce NZL 2551
2 Greg Fletcher AUS 2453
3 Brian Lozano MEX 2419
4 Sam Cuthbert ENG 2418
5 Dominic Nunns ENG 2415
6 Andres Alvarez-Sala ESP 2404
7 Juan Ojeda ESP 2393
8 Ahmed Elamary EGY 2389
9 Stephen Morgan USA 2389
10 Omar Elzainy EGY 2384
11 Gary Phipps AUS 2359
12 Eduardo Nunez ESP 2353
13 Darin Guffey USA 2348
14 Pouline Salib EGY 2348
15 Nicolas Denizot ESP 2347
16 Ahab Abdelwahab USA 2345
17 Nour Aly EGY 2340
18 Josh Winter NZL 2337
19 Basem Bahgat EGY 2327
20 Dom Aarvold ENG 2324
21 Tim O'Donnell IRL 2321
22 StuartM Smith ENG 2315
23 Macey White USA 2311
24 Alison Sharpe AUS 2307
25 Ahmed Eltaweel EGY 2291
26 Mark Stephens IRL 2290
27 Otakar Stankus CZE 2288
28 Khaled Tharwat EGY 2286
29 Addison Matthews AUS 2269
30 Hanan Rashad CAN 2268
31 James Hopgood ENG 2255
32 Ahmed Kamal EGY 2246
33 Paul Kaiser NZL 2244
34 Tim Russell ENG 2243
35 Mohammad Kamal USA 2242
36 Robert O'Donoghue IRL 2241
37 Inigo Castanon ESP 2225
38 Sherif Eltarahony EGY 2225
39 Simon Williams IRL 2222
40 Brett McHardy AUS 2221
41 Debbie Lines ENG 2221
42 Steve Leonard ENG 2209
43 Kent Lovvorn USA 2205
44 Inigo Morenes ESP 2205
45 Mohamed Abuelnour EGY 2197
46 Ian Sexton CHE 2188
47 Guy Scurfield ENG 2184
48 Aadham Khaled Tharwat EGY 2183
49 Patricio Jnr Garay ESP 2182
50 Fred Rogerson IRL 2177
51 Ian Burridge WAL 2173
52 Pierre Beaudry BEL 2164
53 Ian Lines ENG 2160
54 Amr Hamdy CAN 2160
55 Begona Elzaburu ESP 2153
56 Peter Payne CHE 2152
57 Ahmed Alshurafa CAN 2146
58 Kendall Hendrick USA 2141
59 Konstantin Yudintsev ENG 2141
60 Marco Fernandez ESP 2138
61 Wolfgang Usbeck DEU 2134
62 Gabrielle Higgins ENG 2131
63 Mark Shanks SCO 2117
64 David Maunder AUS 2104
65 Ulf Saewert DEU 2098
66 Federico Zamora ESP 2091
67 Alfonso Ayuso ESP 2090
68 Rick Zazueta MEX 2087
69 Ivo Bozevnieks LAT 2072
70 Angel Nunez ESP 2072
71 Michael Lauer NZL 2070
72 Josef Rakosnik CZE 2064
73 David Wise AUS 2060
74 Adam Peck USA 2056
75 Stefan Amour SWE 2048
76 Luis Alvarez-Sala ESP 2046
77 Pilar Plasencia ESP 2036
78 Louise Smith ENG 2018
79 Nazmi Nazmi CAN 1992
80 Hans Johansson SWE 1919
81 Pedro Martins ZAF 1895
82 KS Tsang CAN 1878
83 John Carr AUS 1868
84 Francisco Paradinas ESP 1816
85 Viggo Olsen NOR 1790
86 Declan Macphee ENG 1778
87 Richard Platt ENG 1756
88 Sarah Persons USA 1708
89 Manuel Marcos Fal ESP 1698
90 Sandy Tawa AUS 1641
91 Rosario Garcia-Zozaya ESP 1637
92 Sue Fraser SCO 1615
93 Salvador Robles ESP 1606
94 Russell Roux ZAF 1593
95 Pilar Prado Latorre ESP 1491
96 Elvira Luque ESP 1374
97 Milo Ruoff HKG 1264
Players nominated but below the 10-game threshold for 12-month MaxDG:
Felix Webby NZL
Blake Fields USA
Richard Peperell ENG
Carlos Munoz ESP
Pedro Ruiz-Ocejo ESP
GCWC Egypt 2026 now has confirmed dates:
Qualifier event: 14th to the 18th of November
Opening Ceremony: 20th of November
Main Event: 21st to the 29th of November
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Croquet at its most basic is a sport played on grass using six hoops, four balls and two mallets. It's a mix of snooker and chess, but on grass. The winner is the side that can get both their balls through the hoops before the other. It is a game of skill and strategy, with precision and touch as important as hitting that long shot across the lawn.
In Association Croquet players make 'breaks' just like in snooker. Only one player is on the lawn at a time, whilst the other sits to one side, anxiously watching for a mistake and their turn to play. In Golf Croquet, each player takes it in turns to play a single stroke. Played by the top players it is very competitive and challenging but at club level it is easy to learn and pick up the basics.
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The World Croquet Federation is the international governing body for the sport of croquet. The WCF's main function is to act as the overall co-ordinating body for the sport. As well as managing the sport in accordance with the wishes of its Members, its main responsibilities are to organise World Championships, facilitate development of the games and to manage the infrastructure of the sport. This includes controlling and updating the GC Rules and AC Laws, maintaining the Ranking Systems, and ensuring all other policies and regulatory documents are maintained and fit for purpose.
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