The Valley National 8-Ball League Association is one of the world's largest amateur pool leagues., there are nearly 100,000 individual members in some 1,400 weekly local leagues playing in over 10,000 pool halls, bars and other venues in around 400 different cities, towns and suburbs in 36 U.S. states, and abroad.The organization was founded in the United States in 1979 by equipment manufacturer Valley-Dynamo as the Valley 8-Ball League Association. It was later known as the Valley National 8-Ball Association, a name the league still uses sometimes. Despite its name, it is neither national, having leagues in eleven countries, nor limited to the game of eight-ball, as team nine-ball, as well as individual artistic pool and speed pool, are all now VNEA disciplines . An annual, week-long VNEA International Pool Championships series is held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The organization is headquartered in Bay City, Michigan. The president of VNEA's board of directors is Michael Fowler and its executive director is R. Gregg Elliott.
