| Tournament Name: | European Tour 2014/2015 Event 3 |
| Venue: | Universiada Hall |
| Location: | Sofia |
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Organisation: | World Snooker |
| Format: | Minor-ranking event |
| Total Prize Fund: | €125,000 |
| Winners Share: | €25,000 |
| Highest Break: | (139) |
| Score: | 4–2 |
| Previous: | ET2 |
| Next: | AT2 |
The European Tour 2014/2015 – Event 3 (also known as the 2014 Victoria Bulgarian Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 1–5 October 2014 in Sofia, Bulgaria.[1]
The tournament was meant to be Ali Carter's first since his lung cancer diagnosis and subsequent chemotherapy treatment,[2] but he was forced to withdraw due to acute pain in his left arm following his radiofrequency ablation surgery.[3]
John Higgins was the defending champion,[4] but he lost 1–4 against Judd Trump in the last 64.[5]
Shaun Murphy won his fifteenth professional title by defeating Martin Gould 4–2 in the final.[6] [7]
The breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below:[8]
| width=110px | ! | width=110px align="right" | Prize fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | €25,000 | ||
| Runner-up | €12,000 | ||
| Semi-finalist | €6,000 | ||
| Quarter-finalist | €4,000 | ||
| Last 16 | €2,300 | ||
| Last 32 | €1,200 | ||
| Last 64 | €700 | ||
| Total | €125,000 |
Best of 7 frames
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vasil Todorov | 0–4 | Martin O'Donnell | |||
| Iveilo Pekov | n/s–w/o | Alex Taubman | |||
| Sashko Dimitrov | 0–4 | Richard Beckham | |||
| Teodor Chomovski | 4–0 | Veselin Lazarov |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bratislav Krustev | 4–3 |  Sergiy Isayenko | |||
| Chris Jones | 4–1 | Chris Bryant | |||
| Nikolai Hristov | 0–4 | Paul Davison |
Best of 7 frames
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jeff Jacobs | 4–2 | Mark Owens | |||
 Kjetil Hårtveit | 2–4 | ||||
| Ivan Kyupov | 1–4 | Martin O'Donnell | |||
| Marko Vukovic | 0–4 | Alex Taubman | |||
| Sam Harvey | 4–0 | Julian Petrov | |||
| 3–4 | Joe O'Connor | ||||
| 4–0 | David Frew | ||||
| Georgi Velichkov | 1–4 | Richard Beckham | |||
| Hans Blanckaert | 1–4 |  Josh Boileau | |||
| Kristof Vermeiren | 4–3 | Jack Bradford | |||
| Sydney Wilson | 4–0 |  Karen Osipov | |||
| Damail Tugov | 1–4 | Spasian Spasov | |||
| Simon Dent | 4–0 | Corina Maracine | |||
| Matthew Day | 4–1 | Rhys Clark | |||
| 0–4 | Thomas Dowling | ||||
| Reanne Evans | 4–3 | Nikola Kemilev | |||
| Billy Brown | 3–4 | Ryan Causton | |||
| Tomasz Skalski | 4–1 | Daniel Wells | |||
| Joe Steele | 2–4 | Mitchell Travis | |||
| Peter Devlin | 4–0 | Matthew Hulatt | |||
 Brian Cini | 4–1 | Matthew Glasby | |||
| Ashley Hugill | 4–0 | Krasimir Kameshev | |||
| Marc Davis | 4–1 | Jonathan Mabey | |||
| Adam Duffy | 4–0 | Stefan Simeonovski |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gareth Allen | 4–0 | Mark Vincent | |||
| Ivaylo Hristov | 0–4 | Michael Collumb | |||
| Jeff Cundy | 4–0 | Teodor Chomovski | |||
| Dylan Craig | 4–1 | Josh Mulholland | |||
| John Chapman | 0–4 | Oliver Brown | |||
| Jake Nicholson | 3–4 | Nico Elton | |||
| 3–4 | Zack Richardson | ||||
 Kacper Filipiak | w/o–w/d | Michal Zielinski | |||
| Sanderson Lam | 4–0 | Bratislav Krustev | |||
| Sean O'Sullivan | 4–1 | ||||
| Anthony Jeffers | 3–4 | Ben Jones | |||
| 2–4 | Luke Garland | ||||
| Eden Sharav | 4–3 | Chris Jones | |||
 Arshad Qureshi | w/d–w/o | Daniel Schneider | |||
| Hristo Sirakov | 3–4 | Conor McCormack | |||
| Luchezar Gergov | 0–4 | Grzegorz Biernadski | |||
| Andrew Rogers | 2–4 | Paul Davison | |||
| Joshua Baddeley | 4–0 | ||||
| Kobi Mates | 0–4 | Jurian Heusdens | |||
| 3–4 | Brandon Sargeant | ||||
 Andreas Ploner | 1–4 | Lukas Kleckers | |||
| Michael Williams | 4–0 | Viktor Iliev | |||
| 3–4 | Ashley Carty | ||||
| John Parkin | 4–0 |
Best of 7 frames
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Jacobs | 4–0 | ||||
| 3–4 | Alex Taubman | ||||
| Sam Harvey | 4–3 | Joe O'Connor | |||
| 4–1 | Richard Beckham | ||||
| Josh Boileau | 4–0 | Kristof Vermeiren | |||
| Sydney Wilson | 4–0 | Spasian Spasov | |||
| Simon Dent | 1–4 | Matthew Day | |||
| Thomas Dowling | 4–3 | Reanne Evans | |||
| 3–4 | Tomasz Skalski | ||||
| Mitchell Travis | 4–0 | Peter Devlin | |||
| 3–4 | Ashley Hugill | ||||
| 2–4 | Adam Duffy |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gareth Allen | 4–0 | Michael Collumb | |||
| Jeff Cundy | 4–3 | Dylan Craig | |||
| 2–4 | Nico Elton | ||||
| Zack Richardson | 3–4 | Kacper Filipiak | |||
| Sanderson Lam | 4–0 | Sean O'Sullivan | |||
| Ben Jones | 4–2 | Luke Garland | |||
| Eden Sharav | 4–0 | Daniel Schneider | |||
| Conor McCormack | 1–4 | ||||
| Paul Davison | 4–3 | Joshua Baddeley | |||
| Jurian Heusdens | 1–4 | Brandon Sargeant | |||
| 3–4 | Michael Williams | ||||
| Ashley Carty | 4–2 | John Parkin |