{{Infobox Snooker tournament |tournament_name = Merseyside Professional Championship |image = |venue = {{nowrap|Liverpool Billiards & Snooker Club}}<br>George Scott Snooker Club |location = Liverpool |country = England |establishment = 1993 |organisation = Liverpool Billiards and Snooker |format = Non-ranking event |prizefund = |final year= 2004 |Current Champion = |Final Champion = {{flagicon|ENG}} Joe Perry }}
The '''Merseyside Professional Championship''' was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held in England that ran from 1993 to 2004. The final champion was Joe Perry.
==History== The tournament was a highly successful low-budget professional event promoted by referee Peter Williamson. Although the prize money was modest, it attracted a large field mainly drawn from the lower end of the ranking list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc3.html|title=Merseyside Professional Championship|publisher=Chris Turner's Snooker Archive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216160441/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc3.html|accessdate=26 August 2018|archive-date=2012-02-16}}</ref>
==Winners== {| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto" |- ! style="text-align: center; background-color: #00af00" | Year ! style="text-align: left; background-color: #00af00" | Winner ! style="text-align: left; background-color: #00af00" | Runner-up ! style="text-align: left; background-color: #00af00" | Final score ! style="text-align: left; background-color: #00af00" | Season |- ! colspan=5 style="text-align: center; background-color: #c0ffc0" | Merseyside Professional Championship (non-ranking) |- | 1993 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Dave Harold | {{flagicon|ENG}} Tony Rampello | style="text-align: center" | 5–3 | 1993/1994 |- | 1994 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Dean Reynolds | {{flagicon|ENG}} Jason Ferguson | style="text-align: center" | 5–1 | 1994/1995 |- | 1995 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Rod Lawler | {{flagicon|ENG}} Dean Reynolds | style="text-align: center" | 5–4 | 1995/1996 |- | 1996 | {{flagicon|ENG}} David Gray | {{flagicon|ENG}} Paul Sweeny | style="text-align: center" | 5–2 | 1996/1997 |- | 1997 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Antony Bolsover | {{flagicon|ENG}} Paul Wykes | style="text-align: center" | 5–4 | 1997/1998 |- | 1998 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Peter Lines | {{flagicon|WAL}} Lee Walker | style="text-align: center" | 5–4 | 1998/1999 |- | 1999 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Stuart Bingham | {{flagicon|ENG}} Stuart Pettman | style="text-align: center" | 5–1 | 1999/2000 |- | 2000 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Michael Holt | {{flagicon|ENG}} Rod Lawler | style="text-align: center" | 5–3 | 2000/2001 |- | 2001 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Nick Dyson | {{flagicon|ENG}} Paul Davison | style="text-align: center" | 5–2 | 2001/2002 |- | 2002 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Mark Davis | {{flagicon|SCO}} Stephen Maguire | style="text-align: center" | 5–2 | 2002/2003 |- | 2003 | {{flagicon|SCO}} Stephen Maguire | {{flagicon|ENG}} Mark Davis | style="text-align: center" | 5–1 | 2003/2004 |- | 2004 | {{flagicon|ENG}} Joe Perry | {{flagicon|ENG}} Stephen Croft | style="text-align: center" | 5–2 | 2004/2005 |}
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Snooker non-ranking competitions Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1993 Category:Recurring events disestablished in 2004 Category:1993 establishments in England Category:2004 disestablishments in England Category:Snooker competitions in England Category:Defunct snooker competitions Category:Defunct sports competitions in England