The World Cup was founded in 1985 by German Werner Bayer, a carom billiards enthusiast and patron.

As a patron he had excellent contact to sponsors, and quickly the tournament grew into a popular meeting place for players and spectators.

The BWA organized the World-Cup along with the world governing body, the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB).

After settling the disputes, the UMB and the BWA led the tournament together until early 1999 (Berlin Cup).

From 1994, the UMB tournaments were organized in collaboration with the European member association “Confédération Européenne de Billard” (CEB).

The individual results of the World Cup 1997/1 were lost directly following the tournament and, up to now, have been unable to be reconstructed, even through research by the well-known billiards archivists Heinrich Weingartner and Dieter Haase (both editors of the three-volume "Encyclopedia of Billiards Sports").

[1] On 26 January 2013 it was announced that the Greek shipping magnate, Thanos Athanasiou, until 1995 a player himself, would finance a total of five tournaments in the coming three years.