World Bowls Series is excited to launch its 2025 calendar.
The World Bowls Series, launched in 2024, is the official year-long calendar of sanctioned events connecting to the official world rankings. It is a joint venture between World Bowls and Tier 5 Ventures. The sanctioned events occur across the globe and will feature a mixture of existing and new events.
2025 sees 30 sanctioned events. Each WBS event will belong to a different tier having different ranking points based on the size, location, and stature it presents for the sport.
The purpose of WBS is to build the profile and brand of bowls, showcase the best players in the game, accelerate the legitimacy of the sport on the global stage and launch world rankings that will help create clarity and interest in the sport of bowls.
Since the WBS was launched in June 2024, there have been three men’s No 1 ranked players – Aron Sherriff (Australia), Izzat Shameer Dzukelple (Malaysia) and Stewart Anderson (Scotland), while the inaugural women’s No 1 Kelsey Cottrell (Australia) has been succeeded by Kelly McKerihen (Canada).
The next ranking list will be announced later this week, with the para ranking list to be launched in the coming weeks.
A highlight of the 2025 calendar will be the inaugural World Cup in Hong Kong China in November. It will be a gold sanctioned event and is planned to be played every four years.
Twelve countries are to be invited to participate, the host country – Hong Kong, China plus the 11th highest overall countries from the 2023 World Championships – Australia, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, USA and Wales.
Other events included will be the World Bowls Indoor Championship, World Bowls Champion of Champions, Australian Open, Oceania Challenge, British Bowls International Championships and Asia Pacific Merdeka Championship.
Said Neil Dalrymple, World Bowls CEO:
In 2024 we launched the WBS calendar of sanctioned events, and this was very well received by the Players and the event owners alike. With 24 events sanctioned in 2024, we are pleased that this has grown to 30 in 2025. This will provide more players in all regions across the world, the opportunity to achieve a World Ranking and gather more ranking points. The culmination of 2025, will see the highest ranked women and men bowlers play off at the WBS Finals event which will be an exciting conclusion to the 2025 calendar.
2025 World Bowls Series Calendar
See World Bowls Series website for more information.
Ceris Hewlings, World Bowls media officer
