| Alias | El Matador |
| Country | Spain |
| Hometown | Malaga |
| Age | 47 |
| Height | 5ft 8in |
| Highest Rank | 12 |
| Majors Won | 2 |
| Invitationals Won | 9 |
| Ranking Events Won | 2 |
| Prize Money | $114,475 |
David Alcaide is a Spanish nineball player from Málaga whose career includes two World Pool Masters titles, the European Open and the inaugural Philippines Open. Known as “El Matador”, he won the Masters in 2017 and 2019 before adding further individual and team honours in the following decade.
Alcaide partnered Francisco Sánchez Ruiz to win the 2022 World Cup of Pool for Spain. In 2023, he captured the Jacoby 9-Ball Open in Scotland and the European Open in Fulda, where Anton Raga finished runner-up. He added the Morocco Open in 2024 and became the first Philippines Open champion in 2025.
A long-standing Team Europe representative, Alcaide made his Mosconi Cup debut in 2006 and has been part of multiple winning sides, including Europe’s consecutive victories in 2023, 2024 and 2025. His 2026 results include an Arizona Open quarter-final and a US Open semi-final, extending a record of competing for titles well beyond his earliest international breakthroughs.
Selected honours and results
Major titles: European Open — 2023; Philippines Open — 2025
Invitational titles: World Pool Masters — 2017, 2019
WNT Ranking titles: Jacoby 9-Ball Open — 2023; Morocco Open — 2024
Team title: World Cup of Pool with Francisco Sánchez Ruiz — 2022
Team distinction: Multiple Mosconi Cup wins with Team Europe, including 2023, 2024 and 2025; debut — 2006
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The World Pool Masters is one of nineball’s longest-running invitational tournaments. First staged in Plymouth, England in 1993, it has been won by players including Francisco Bustamante, Shane Van Boening and Joshua Filler, giving each new field a place to pursue among the sport’s established champions.
The event’s recent editions have used a straight-knockout format, placing immediate pressure on a select field: one defeat ends a player’s challenge. The 2027 tournament brings together 20 players at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei City from 12–14 January, following the Chinese Taipei Open at the same venue.
For the first time, the Masters will feature a two-table arena, with matches from both tables available live on WNT TV. The move to Chinese Taipei opens a new chapter for a competition with more than three decades of history.
