2025 UK Championship


The 2025 UK Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 29 November to 7 December 2025 at the York Barbican in York, England. The 49th consecutive edition of the UK Championship since it was first staged in 1977, it was the ninth ranking event of the 202526 snooker season, following the 2025 International Championship and preceding the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out. It was the first of the season's three Triple Crown events, preceding the 2026 Masters and the 2026 World Snooker Championship. The tournament was broadcast by the BBC and TNT Sports domestically, by Eurosport in mainland Europe, by local channels in China and elsewhere in Asia, and by WST Play in all other territories. The winner received £250,000 from a total prize fund of £1,205,000.
The top 16 players in the snooker world rankings were seeded through to the main stage. An additional 128 players competed in a four‑round qualifying tournament from 22 to 27 November at the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, England, with higher ranked players given byes to the later rounds. The 16 successful qualifiers advanced to the main stage in York, where they were drawn at random against the 16 seeds. The last 32 featured 12 players from China, a record at any Triple Crown tournament.
Judd Trump was the defending champion, having defeated Barry Hawkins 108 in the 2024 final. Mark Selby defeated Trump 10–8 in the final to win his third UK Championship title, following his previous wins in 2012 and 2016. It was the 10th Triple Crown title and 25th ranking title of Selby's professional career and his first victory at a Triple Crown tournament since winning the 2021 World Snooker Championship four and a half years previously. He became the fourth player in professional snooker history to win 10 or more Triple Crown titles, following Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, and Ronnie O'Sullivan.
The event produced 118 century breaks, 83 during the qualifiers in Wigan and 35 at the main stage in York. Liam Pullen and Chang Bingyu both made the maiden maximum breaks of their professional careers, in the first and third rounds of qualifying respectively. These were the 15th and 16th of the season, breaking the record of 15 maximums set in the 2024–25 season. The highest break at the main stage was a 138 by Hawkins in his quarter-final match against Selby.

Overview

The UK Championship was first held in 1977 as the United Kingdom Professional Snooker Championship, staged at Blackpool Tower Circus in Blackpool, England. The inaugural event was won by Patsy Fagan, who defeated Doug Mountjoy 12–9 in the final. Joe Davis, who had won the World Snooker Championship 15 times between 1927 and 1946, presented Fagan with the trophy. For the tournament's first seven years, only United Kingdom residents or passport holders were eligible to compete. At the 1984 event, the UK Championship became a ranking tournament open to players of any nationality. Ronnie O'Sullivan is the most successful player in the tournament's history, having won the title eight times.
The 2025 edition of the tournament—its 49th consecutive staging since the inaugural edition in 1977—took place from 29 November to 7 December at the York Barbican in York, England. It was the ninth ranking event of the 202526 snooker season, following the 2025 International Championship and preceding the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out. It was the first of the season's three Triple Crown events, preceding the 2026 Masters and the 2026 World Snooker Championship. The top 16 in the world rankings following the event qualified for the 2026 Masters. Judd Trump was the defending champion, having defeated Barry Hawkins 108 in the 2024 final to win his second UK Championship title.

Format

The event used a format adopted since the 2022 edition, which is similar to the format of the World Championship. The top 16 players in the snooker world rankings, as they stood after the 2025 International Championship, were seeded through to the round of 32. An additional 128 players—comprising professionals ranked outside the top 16 and leading amateur players from the Q Tour and other amateur events—competed in a fourround qualifying tournament from 22 to 27 November at the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, England, with higher ranked players given byes to the later rounds. The 16 successful qualifiers advanced to the round of 32, where they were drawn at random against the top 16 seeds. All matches were played as the best of 11 up to the final, which was the best of 19 frames played over two.

Broadcasters

The qualifying rounds were broadcast in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Austria by Discovery+ and in other European territories by HBO Max. They were broadcast in mainland China by the CBSA‑WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel, the CBSA‑WPBSA Academy Douyin, Huya Live, and. In all other territories, including Ireland, they were streamed by WST Play. On 24 and 25 November, matches on table one were streamed for free on WST Play and YouTube. On 26 and 27 November, coverage of the final qualifying round was streamed for free on WST Play and YouTube.
The main stage was broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC and in the UK and Ireland by TNT Sports and Discovery+. It was broadcast in mainland Europe by Eurosport, with streaming coverage on Discovery+ in Germany, Italy, and Austria and on HBO Max in other European territories. It was broadcast in mainland China by the same broadcasters as the qualifying rounds, with the addition of coverage by CCTV-5. It was broadcast in Hong Kong by Now TV, in Thailand by TrueSports, in Taiwan by Sportcast, in Mongolia by N Sports, in the Philippines by TAP Sports, and in Malaysia and Brunei by Astro SuperSport. In territories where no other coverage was available, the tournament was streamed by WST Play.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for the event is as shown below. In addition, during the 2025–26 snooker season, a player who made two maximum breaks across the four qualifying events—the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, the 2025 UK Championship, the 2026 Masters, and the 2026 World Championship —won a bonus of £147,000. The bonus had been won earlier in the season by O'Sullivan, who made two 147s at the Saudi Arabia Masters, but could be won up to two more times, including multiple times by the same player.
  • Winner: £250,000
  • Runner-up: £100,000
  • Semi-finalists: £50,000
  • Quarter-finalists: £25,000
  • Last 16: £15,000
  • Last 32: £10,000
  • Last 48: £7,500
  • Last 80: £5,000
  • Last 112: £2,500
  • Highest : £15,000
  • Total: £1,205,000

    Summary

Qualifying

First qualification round

The first qualification round was played on 22 and 23 November. Liam Pullen made his maiden maximum break in his 61 victory over amateur player Kaylan Patel. The 232nd maximum in professional snooker history, it was the 15th maximum of the 202526 season, equalling the record for the most 147s in a single season. The youngest professional on the tour, 14-year-old Michał Szubarczyk, defeated the oldest professional, 63-year-old Jimmy White, by a 6–2 scoreline. Bai Yulu, the reigning World Women's Champion, made four breaks as she defeated Mostafa Dorgham 6–1. Mateusz Baranowski defeated Sahil Nayyar despite having in the. Jiang Jun made three century breaks of 116, 114, and 117 as he whitewashed Mink Nutcharut. Marco Fu returned to competitive play after fracturing his elbow earlier in the season; he defeated Ng On-yee 6–2 to advance.

Second qualification round

The second qualification round was played on 23 and 24 November. Michael Holt, a quarter-finalist at the previous year's event, trailed 12-time World Women's Champion Reanne Evans 1–3 at the mid-session interval. He made a 131 break in frame five and tied the scores at 3–3, but Evans restored her two-frame advantage at 5–3. Holt then won three consecutive frames for a 6–5 victory. The 2003 winner Matthew Stevens defeated Hatem Yassen 6–3, while Fu, runner-up in 2008, beat Wang Yuchen by the same score. In a match that ended at 1:30 a.m. local time, Jamie Clarke won a deciding frame against Mark Davis by clearing from the to the ; Ian Burns also defeated Fan Zhengyi on the in a deciding frame. Pullen advanced with a 6–1 win over Farakh Ajaib, and Stan Moody beat Zhou Jinhao by the same score. Liam Highfield made two centuries as he defeated Gong Chenzhi 6–3, and Szubarczyk beat Jordan Brown 6–4.

Third qualification round

The third qualification round was played on 24 and 25 November. Chang Bingyu made the first maximum break of his professional career in frame seven of his match against Stephen Maguire, completing the break by playing a on the last black while using the. It was the 233rd official maximum in snooker history and the 16th of the season, breaking the previous season record of 15. Despite making three centuries of 137, 101, and 147 to lead 4–3, Chang lost the match 5–6 after Maguire won three of the last four frames. The 2023 World Champion Luca Brecel, who had not won a tournament since claiming his world title, lost 3–6 to the world number 106 Burns. From 2–3 behind, Holt won four consecutive frames to beat Jackson Page 6–3, while Mitchell Mann defeated Chris Wakelin by the same scoreline. Daniel Wells won a deciding frame on the colours to beat Robert Milkins. From 1–5 behind, Lyu Haotian won five consecutive frames to defeat Stevens 6–5.
Artemijs Žižins, aged 19, trailed Ali Carter 3–4 but won the last three frames of the match for a 6–4 victory, afterwards calling it the "biggest win" of his career. David Lilley beat Ricky Walden 6–3, and Noppon Saengkham defeated Szubarczyk by the same score, although Szubarczyk compiled his first professional century break during the match. Jack Lisowski, who had won his maiden ranking title a month earlier at the 2025 Northern Ireland Open, lost 2–6 to Louis Heathcote. Stuart Bingham trailed Pullen 4–5 but won the match with an 85 break in the deciding frame. Bulcsú Révész made back-to-back centuries of 144 and 101 as he took a 4–2 lead over Elliot Slessor, but Slessor recovered to win the match on the last black ball of a deciding frame. Zak Surety trailed Martin O'Donnell 0–4 and 2–5 but then took four consecutive frames, winning the decider with a century of 108.
After losing the first four frames against Zhou Yuelong, Fu withdrew for health reasons, meaning that Zhou won 6–0 by default. Clarke beat Matthew Selt 6–2, and Tom Ford made a highest break of 127 as he defeated Sam Craigie by the same score. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made a 129 break in his 6–1 win over Robbie Williams. Long Zehaung beat Aaron Hill by the same scoreline, winning frame four on the last black after Hill had recovered from 57 points behind but missed, the last pink. Former World Championship runner-up Jak Jones lost 2–6 to Julien Leclercq despite making centuries of 131 and 100 in the two frames he won. The losses by Wakelin, Jak Jones, and Carter meant that the three highest ranked players in the qualifiers failed to reach the fourth qualifying round.