The World Pool League (WPL) was a nine ball pool tournament promoted by Matchroom Sport and PartyGaming, [1] and sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). All of the events were held in Warsaw, Poland, annually from 1999 to 2006. [1] Six notable players were selected to participate in each event, which lasted for three days. [1] Despite its name, the events were invitational tournaments, not a league in the usual sporting senses. The victor in the final event was Dennis Orcollo of the Philippines, 8–5 over Niels Feijen of the Netherlands, for a US$20,000 first-place prize. [1]
The players were arranged such that each on the others once, in round-robin fashion. Unlike most matches in the sport where a player has to score a required number of racks to win, players in this round play in an assigned number of racks (for example: 10 racks or 12 racks). If a player won more racks than those remaining in the match, 2 points were earned. If the match ended with two players in the same score, then both settled for a point each. The leading 4 players in the field proceeded to the semi-finals.
The semi-finals were single-elimination (knock-out). The final was played as a race (such as race-to-nine or race-to-eight).
| Year | Location | Winner | Runner-up |
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| 1998 | Warsaw, Poland |  Jim Rempe [1] |  Fabio Petroni |
| 1999 | Jim Rempe (2) |  Efren Reyes | |
| 2000 |  Steve Knight | Francisco Bustamante | |
| 2001 | Efren Reyes [1] | Steve Davis | |
| 2002 | Efren Reyes (2) | Earl Strickland | |
| 2003 | Rodney Morris [1] |  Thorsten Hohmann | |
| 2004 | Francisco Bustamante [1] |  Alex Pagulayan | |
| 2005 | Thorsten Hohmann [1] | Francisco Bustamante | |
| 2006 | Dennis Orcollo [1] |  Niels Feijen [1] |
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