Florian Nüßle (born 18 December 2001) is an Austrian professional snooker player from Graz. In 2017, aged 16, he became his country's youngest national snooker champion. In March 2025, he won his Q Tour Playoff to gain a two-year professional tour card starting from the 2025–26 season, becoming the first professional snooker player from Austria.
Career
National tournaments Florian Nüßle became interested in snooker as a child and played pool with a standing aid when he was five years old. He also played football in his youth for five years for SK Sturm Graz, and golf, but ultimately opted for snooker. After obtaining his secondary school certificate he went to the UK with the aim of becoming a professional player.
He first participated in the Austrian national youth championships in 2007, and won his first national title in the under16 age group at the age of 13, defending his title in the following two years. In 2015 he won the under21 title and defended it in the years that followed. At 16, he became the youngest player to win the national championship when he won the Austrian National Championship. He also became ranked as Austrian number one that season. In 2018 he played in the final, winning 5–2.
International tournaments After his first national youth title, he played in the EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships and IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship. At the 2017 event, he reached the quarter-finals of the under-21 event. He also entered the IBSF World Snooker Championship that year, reaching the semi-finals losing to eventual champion Pankaj Advani 4–7. From 2017, he competed in the annual pro-am Paul Hunter Classic (PHC), an amateur tournament from the World Snooker Tour. He would defeat professional player Elliot Slessor during the 2018 event.
Professional career In March 2025, Nüßle defeated Estonian former professional Andres Petrov 103 in the final of Playoff 3 of the 2024–25 Q Tour to gain a professional tour card for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 snooker seasons, becoming the first professional snooker player from Austria.
Performance and rankings timeline
Tournament 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 2026/27RankingIt shows the ranking at the beginning of the seasonHe was an amateurNew players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking93Ranking tournamentsChampionship LeagueNon-RankingARRRRRRRRRRChina OpenAATournament Not HeldLQWuhan OpenTournament Not HeldAALQLQBritish OpenNot HeldAAAALQLQEnglish OpenAAAAAAALQ1RShenzhen OpenThe event was called the Xi'an Grand Prix (2024/2025–2025/2026)Tournament Not HeldALQLQNorthern Ireland OpenAAAAAALQLQLQInternational ChampionshipAAANot HeldAALQUK ChampionshipAAAAAALQLQShoot OutAAAA1R1RQF2RScottish OpenAAAAAAALQGerman MastersAAALQAAALQWelsh OpenAAAAAA1RLQWorld Grand PrixDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQPlayers ChampionshipDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQWorld OpenAAANot HeldAA1RTour ChampionshipNHDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQWorld ChampionshipALQLQLQLQALQLQFormer ranking tournamentsPaul Hunter ClassicLQ1RNRTournament Not HeldWST Pro SeriesNot HeldRRTournament Not HeldEuropean MastersAALQ1RLQANot HeldSaudi Arabia MastersTournament Not HeldA1RNHFormer non-ranking tournamentsPaul Hunter ClassicRanking1RTournament Not Held
Performance Table LegendLQ lost in the qualifying draw#R lost in the early rounds of the tournament(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)QF lost in the quarter-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD withdrew from the tournament NH / Not Held means an event was not held.NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
Career finals Pro-am finals: 1 (1 title) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final ScoreWinner 1. 2023 Vienna Snooker Open Lukas Kleckers 5–0
Amateur finals: 20 (15 titles) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final ScoreWinner 1. 2013 Austrian Under-16 Championship Oskar Charlesworth 3–2Winner 2. 2016 Austrian Under-21 Championship Manuel Pomwenger 3–0Winner 3. 2017 Austrian Amateur Championship Oskar Charlesworth 5–0Winner 4. 2018 Austrian Amateur Championship (2) Andreas Ploner 5–2Runner-up 1. 2018 EBSA European Under-18 Snooker Championships Jackson Page 3–5Winner 5. 2019 Austrian Amateur Championship (3) Andreas Ploner 5–4Winner 6. 2020 Austrian Amateur Championship (4) Jérôme Liedtke 5–0Winner 7. 2021 Wels Open Manuel Pomwenger 4–0Winner 8. 2022 Austrian Amateur Championship (5) Thomas Janzso 5–1Winner 9. 2022 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship Taweesap Kongkitchertchoo 6–5Runner-up 2. 2022 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships Ben Mertens 1–5Winner 10. 2023 Austrian Amateur Championship (6) Oskar Charlesworth 5–1Runner-up 3. 2023 Q Tour – Playoff Ashley Carty 2–5Runner-up 4. 2023 Wels Open Shachar Ruberg 3–4Winner 11. 2024 Austrian Amateur Championship (7) Thomas Janzso 5–2Runner-up 5. 2024 German Grand Prix - Event 5 Richard Wienold 2–3Winner 12. 2024 EBSA European 6-Reds Championship Stuart Watson 5–3Winner 13. 2024 Wels Open (2) Nicolas Le Clercq 5–0Winner 14. 2024 Italian Snooker Masters Peter Devlin 4–2Winner 15. 2025 Austrian Amateur Championship (8) Lukas Stötzer 5–0
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