2025 Champion of Champions

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Champion of Champions
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Tournament information
Dates10–16 November 2025 (2025-11-10 – 2025-11-16)
Venue Mattioli Arena
City Leicester
CountryEngland
Organisation Matchroom Sport
FormatNon-ranking event
Defending championFlag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Mark Williams  (WAL)
← 2024

The 2025 Champion of Champions (officially the 2025 Sportsbet.ioChampion of Champions [1] ) is an upcoming professional non-ranking snooker tournament that will take place from 10 to 16 November 2025 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. [2] [3] It will feature 16 participants, primarily winners of significant tournaments since the previous year's event. Part of the 2025–26 snooker season, it will be the 13th consecutive edition of the Champion of Champions since the tournament was revived in 2013. The tournament will be the final professional snooker event broadcast on ITV Sport, which chose not to renew its contract with the World Snooker Tour or Matchroom Sport. [4]

Mark Williams will be the defending champion, having defeated Xiao Guodong 10‍–‍6 in the 2024 final. [5]

Qualification

Players qualify for the event by winning events throughout the previous year. Events shown below in grey are for players who had already qualified for the event.

Qualification table
TournamentDate of tournament finalWinner
2024 Champion of Champions 17 November 2024Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Mark Williams  (WAL)
2024 UK Championship 1 December 2024Flag of England.svg  Judd Trump  (ENG)
2025 Masters 19 January 2025Flag of England.svg  Shaun Murphy  (ENG)
2025 World Championship 5 May 2025Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zhao Xintong  (CHN)
2025 World Grand Prix 21 January 2025Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Neil Robertson  (AUS)
2025 German Masters 2 February 2025Flag of England.svg  Kyren Wilson  (ENG)
2025 Players Championship 23 March 2025Flag of England.svg  Kyren Wilson  (ENG)
2025 Championship League (invitational) 5 February 2025Flag of England.svg  Mark Selby  (ENG)
2025 Tour Championship 6 April 2025Flag of Scotland.svg  John Higgins  (SCO)
2025 Championship League (ranking) 23 July 2025Flag of Scotland.svg  Stephen Maguire  (SCO)
2025 Wuhan Open 30 August 2025Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Xiao Guodong  (CHN)
2025 International Championship 9 November 2025
2024 Scottish Open 15 December 2024Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Lei Peifan  (CHN)
2025 English Open 21 September 2025
2025 Welsh Open 16 February 2025Flag of England.svg  Mark Selby  (ENG)
2025 Northern Ireland Open 26 October 2025
2025 British Open 28 September 2025
2025 World Women's Championship 27 May 2025Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Bai Yulu  (CHN)
2025 World Championship (runner-up)5 May 2025Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Mark Williams  (WAL)
2025 Shanghai Masters 3 August 2025Flag of England.svg  Kyren Wilson  (ENG)
2025 World Seniors Championship 11 May 2025Flag of England.svg  Alfie Burden  (ENG)
2024 Shoot Out 7 December 2024Flag of England.svg  Tom Ford  (ENG)
Player also qualified by winning another tournament
Note: Qualification table is based on previous editions. No official qualification table is available and possible qualification by a unique winner of either the invitational Riyadh Season Snooker Championship (won by Mark Allen), the ranking World Open (won by John Higgins who have since qualified by winning the Tour Championship), the ranking Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters (won by Neil Robertson who had already qualified by winning the World Grand Prix), or the Xi'an Grand Prix (yet to be played) is unclear.

References

  1. ↑ Tour, World Snooker (14 January 2025). "Sportsbet.io Becomes New Title Partner of Snooker's Players Championship, Tour Championship and Champion of Champions". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  2. ↑ "Tournaments 2025–26". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  3. ↑ "Sportsbet.io Champion of Champions 2025 - snooker.org". www.snooker.org. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  4. ↑ Haigh, Phil (25 June 2025). "Three major World Snooker Tour events move to new TV channel". Metro. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "Mark Williams wins first Champion of Champions title by beating Xiao Guodong". BBC Sport. 17 November 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
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