2025–26 Q Tour


The 2025–26 Q Tour is an ongoing multi-regional series of second-tier snooker tournaments, run by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. It takes place during the 2025–26 snooker season for players not on the main tour.

Overview

A series of seven Q Tour Europe events will be played, with the leading money-winner gaining a place on the main tour for the 2026–27 snooker season. Eighteen players – the highest-ranked players who have not already secured a place on the main tour for the 2026–27 season – gained entry to a further event, the WPBSA Q Tour Global Play-Off. They are joined by five players from the Regional Q Tour winners outside Europe and one player from the CBSA China Tour third-ranked. These players will compete for a further three places on the World Snooker Tour.
This season sees an increase of prize money, more than doubled from £14,300 last season to £30,000 per event. An extended event duration from three to four days, along with a new seeding structure and points-based system, is also introduced.

Q Tour Europe

Format

Q Tour Europe events are generally played over four days. The first day is an open qualifying day with 16 places available. The main draw starts on the second day when the 16 successful qualifiers are joined by the 48 seeded players who qualified based on their rankings in the 2025 Q School Orders of Merit to make a first round field of 64 players. There are two rounds on the second day and a further four on the final day, to determine the winner of the event. The 48 who qualified directly included the top 32 eligible players from the 2024 UK Q School Order of Merit, the top eight from the 2025 Asia-Oceania Q School Order of Merit, and the eight highest ranked junior players on the 2024 UK Q School Order of Merit, not already qualified.

Prize fund

Each Q Tour Europe event featured a prize fund of £30,000, with the winner receiving £6,000.
  • Winner: £6,000
  • Runner-up: £3,000
  • Semi-final: £2,000
  • Quarter-final: £1,250
  • Last 16: £750
  • Last 32: £350
  • Total: £30,000

Schedule

The schedule for the Q Tour Europe events is given below.

Rankings

Below are listed the leading players in the rankings. A new points-based was introduced to replace the previous system which was based on prize money.
RankPlayerEvent 1Event 2Event 3Event 4Event 5Event 6Event 7Total
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Event 1

The first Q Tour Europe event took place at the Snookerhallen in Stockholm from 29 to 31 August 2025. Hammad Miah beat Patrick Whelan 4–2 in the final. The final-day results are given below.

Event 2

The second Q Tour Europe event took place at the Austrian Snooker Academy in Vienna from 25 to 28 September 2025. Peter Lines beat Peter Devlin 4–3 in the final. The final-day results are given below.

Event 3

The third Q Tour Europe event took place at the Grand Blue Fafa Resort in Golem, Kavajë, Albania from 9 to 12 October 2025. Simon Blackwell beat Mark Joyce 4–3 in the final. The final-day results are given below.

Event 4

The fourth Q Tour Europe event took place at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds from 29 October to 1 November 2025. Jamie Clarke beat Craig Steadman 4–2 in the final. The final-day results are given below.

Event 5

The fifth Q Tour Europe event took place at the Bulgarian Snooker Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria from 5 to 7 December 2025. Jamie Clarke beat Stuart Carrington 4–2 in the final to win his second Q Tour event of the season. The final-day results are given below.

Q Tour Global

The Q Tour Global will consist of regional Q Tour series held outside Europe.

Americas series

The schedule for the Q Tour Americas events is given below.

Asia Pacific series

The schedule for the Q Tour Asia Pacific events is given below.

Middle East series

The schedule for the Q Tour Middle East events is given below.

Q Tour Playoff

The final event, the WPBSA Q Tour Playoff, will be held in Gandía, Spain, from 15 to 17 March, following the EBSA Spring Championships.