Name: Brendan Moore
Birthplace: Sheffield, England
First Pro Tournament: 2005 Grand Prix Qualifiers
147′s Officiated: 2
Career Highlights: Officiating at the: 2010 UK Championship and 2010 Welsh Open finals, 2012 World Championship semi-finals, making his Crucible Theatre début in 2008, including his first World Championship quarter-final between Stephen Hendry and Ryan Day.
Twitter: @brendanmoore147
Career Summary
One of the more recent additions to the professional circuit, Sheffield’s Brendan Moore has become an increasingly familiar face in front of the television cameras during the past few seasons.
The 2007/8 season saw his involvement increase as he was able to officiate in tournaments such as the Northern Ireland Trophy, Welsh Open and UK Championship.
Brendan at the 2010 World Championship qualifiers
The highlight however was to come at his home tournament, the World Championship at the Crucible Theatre where he was chosen to officiate for the first time. In doing so he became just the second referee from Sheffield to referee at the tournament and his matches included the opening round clashes between Jamie Cope/Peter Ebdon and Steve Davis/Stuart Bingham, the second round match between Mark King/Peter Ebdon and a quarter-final between Stephen Hendry and Ryan Day.
2008/9
The 2008/9 season again saw Brendan officiate a number of important matches, for the first time being selected to referee overseas in tournaments such as the Bahrain Championship eventually won by Neil Robertson.
During the 2009 World Championship he took charge of a thrilling last 16 clash between Stephen Hendry and Ding Junhui which saw Hendry produce his best snooker seen for a number of years on the BBC, winning his 1000th frame at the Crucible in the process.
2009/10
The season-opening Shanghai Masters saw Brendan reach a new landmark as he refereed his first ranking event semi-final, that between Liang Wenbo and Shaun Murphy.
He continued to be a presence at the latter stages of the season’s ranking events before he was handed his first final at the Welsh Open in January, eventually won 9-4 by world champion John Higgins against defending champion Ali Carter.
2010/11
Continuing to be heavily involved with the year’s major ranking tournaments, Brendan capped off a memorable year in the best way possible as he was selected to officiate his first major final on the BBC, the UK Championship.
As it would transpire, the final between John Higgins and Mark Williams would prove to be one of the matches of the year and arguably a very early contender for one of the matches of the new decade. Leading 9-5 it appeared as though it would be the Welshman who would get over the line to take his first major title in seven years but it was not to be as John somehow managed to recover a 9-5 deficit to take his third UK crown on the colours 10-9.
Brendan at the Crucible in 2011
Brendan understandably ranks that match as his most memorable to date and as he has also said, should his future finals be half as special as that one then he can have no complaints!
Later in the season Brendan was also to referee a thriller between Matthew Stevens and Fergal O’Brien at the 2011 World Championship qualifiers before going on to officiate at the Crucible for a fourth successive year.
2011/12
Brendan continued to be a familiar face at the major venues, with the highlight of his season coming at the Crucible Theatre in May as he officiated his first semi-final at the venue, between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Matthew Stevens.
Earlier in the season, Brendan also presided over his first professional maximum break, that of Ricky Walden against Gareth Allen at the PTC10 event in Sheffield.
2012/13
The 2012/13 tournament was to start with a bang for Brendan as not only was he to officiate the final of the 2012 Wuxi Classic, but during that match he was to officiate the second maximum break of his career as Stuart Bingham compiled the break during the sixth frame of his match with Ricky Walden. Following in the footsteps of John Newton and Lawrie Annandale, Brendan therefore became only the third referee in professional snooker to have refereed a 147 break in a ranking event final.
Finals:
| Event | Year |
| UK Championship | 2010 |
| Masters | 2012 |
| Wuxi Classic | 2012 |
| Welsh Open | 2010 |
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Brendan Moore
October 1, 2009 at 9:04 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Hi Matt, great website you have here. It’s good to see it’s updated often. Hopefully their will be more things for you to put on this page by the end of the season. Keep up the good work, speak to you soon.
Brendan Moore
October 1, 2009 at 9:11 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
By the way, just a few corrections for you. I didn’t ref the game between Day/Judge at the Crucible in 2008. My games were Steve Davies v Stuart Bingham and Ken Doherty v Liang Wenbo in the first round. I had to ref the 2nd session of Ebdon v Cope due to illness of the original ref Alan Chamberlain. The rest of the info is correct.
matt2745
October 1, 2009 at 6:08 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Hi Brendan,
Thanks for the comments and corrections, much appreciated. I put Day/Judge in because I was sure that in that match you told a few of us on the second row to turn down our radios, but it must have been the Doherty/Wenbo match which was on the same table. I was sat in the same seat for both now I come to think of it so must have got mixed up.
Dave C
April 22, 2010 at 6:41 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Brendan are you on facebook or any site like that for your fans?
Brendan Moore
May 5, 2010 at 5:50 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Hi Dave, yes i’m on Facebook
Archie J.
April 27, 2011 at 9:56 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Brendan Moore has a very friendly and positive voice and his pronounciation is perfect. A very good rer, I look forward to seeing him refereeing in WC final one day!
Brendan Moore
June 19, 2011 at 8:26 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Thanks for the kind words Archie. Hopefully i’ll get to ref the World final one day.
dawn
June 20, 2011 at 8:02 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
hello long time no see bet you dont remember me im a childhood friend
Zeeshan Aziz
May 6, 2012 at 9:58 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Can anyone give me email address of any official referee. I want to ask some questions about snooker rules
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