2025 International Championship

2025 International Championship

Tournament information
Dates	2–9 November 2025 (2025-11-02 – 2025-11-09)
City	Nanjing
Country	China
Organisation	World Snooker Tour
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£825,000
Winner's share	£175,000
Defending champion	Ding Junhui  (CHN)
← 2024

The 2025 International Championship is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 2 to 9 November 2025 in Nanjing, China. Qualifiers will take place from 30 September to 2 October at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England. The 11th edition of the International Championship since it was first staged in 2012, it will be the eighth ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2025 UK Championship. The winner will receive £175,000 from a total prize fund of £825,000.

Ding Junhui will be the defending champion, having defeated Chris Wakelin 10–7 in the 2024 final.

Overview

The International Championship is a professional ranking snooker tournament held in China. It first took place in 2012 and the inaugural champion was Judd Trump, who defeated Neil Robertson 10–8 in the final. ^[1] Staged from 2012 to 2014 in Chengdu and from 2015 to 2019 in Daqing, the tournament was not held from 2020 to 2022 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following its return to the calendar, the tournament was staged in Tianjin in 2023 and Nanjing in 2024. ^[2]

The 2025 edition of the tournament—the 11th staging of the event—will take place from 2 to 9 November in Nanjing, China. ^{[3] [4]} Qualifiers will take place from 30 September to 2 October at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England. ^[5] It will be the eighth ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2025 UK Championship. ^[6] Ding Junhui will be the defending champion, having defeated Chris Wakelin 10–7 in the 2024 final. ^[7]

Format

Matches will be played as the best of 11 frames until the semi‑finals, which will be the best of 17 frames played over two sessions . The final will be the best of 19 frames, also played over two sessions.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below: ^[2]

• Winner: £175,000
• Runner-up: £75,000
• Semi-final: £33,000
• Quarter-final: £22,000
• Last 16: £14,000
• Last 32: £9,000
• Last 64: £5,000
• Highest break: £5,000

• Total: £825,000

Qualifying

Qualification for the tournament will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2024 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England.

Nanjing

A number of matches have been held over, to be played in Nanjing.

•   Bai Yulu  (CHN) v wild card
•   Ding Junhui  (CHN) v   David Grace  (ENG)
•   Robbie Williams  (ENG) v   Bai Yulu  (CHN) or wild card
•   Thepchaiya Un-Nooh  (THA) v wild card
•   Xiao Guodong  (CHN) v   Mahmoud El Hareedy  (EGY)
•   Judd Trump  (ENG) v   Dylan Emery  (WAL)
•   Zhou Yuelong  (CHN) v wild card
•   Barry Hawkins  (ENG) v wild card
•   Ronnie O'Sullivan  (ENG) v   Allan Taylor  (ENG)
•   Zhao Xintong  (CHN) v   Oliver Brown  (ENG)

Sheffield

The qualifying matches to be played in Sheffield are as follows:

30 September

•   Long Zehuang  (CHN) v   Jiang Jun  (CHN)
•   John Higgins  (SCO) v   Liam Pullen  (ENG)
•   Xu Si  (CHN) v   Sahil Nayyar  (CAN)
•   Robert Milkins  (ENG) v   Wang Yuchen  (HKG)
•   Yuan Sijun  (CHN) v   Julien Leclercq  (BEL)
•   Si Jiahui  (CHN) v   Sunny Akani  (THA)
•   Neil Robertson  (AUS) v  Umut Dikme (GER) (a)
•   Matthew Selt  (ENG) v   Ben Mertens  (BEL)
•   David Lilley  (ENG) v   Chatchapong Nasa  (THA)
•   Jack Lisowski  (ENG) v   Bulcsú Révész  (HUN)
•   Mark Selby  (ENG) v   Steven Hallworth  (ENG)
•   Jak Jones  (WAL) v   Mateusz Baranowski  (POL)
•   Lyu Haotian  (CHN) v   Ng On-yee  (HKG)
•   Ben Woollaston  (ENG) v   Cheung Ka Wai  (HKG)
•   Anthony McGill  (SCO) v   Mink Nutcharut  (THA)
•   Kyren Wilson  (ENG) v   Gong Chenzhi  (CHN)
•   Martin O'Donnell  (ENG) v   Xu Yichen  (CHN)
•   Mark Williams  (WAL) v   Iulian Boiko  (UKR)
•   Fan Zhengyi  (CHN) v   Hatem Yassen  (EGY)
•   Stan Moody  (ENG) v   Ken Doherty  (IRL)
•   Luca Brecel  (BEL) v   Liu Wenwei  (CHN)

1 October

•   Ricky Walden  (ENG) v   Gao Yang  (CHN)
•   Lei Peifan  (CHN) v   Haris Tahir  (PAK)
•   Wu Yize  (CHN) v   Lan Yuhao  (CHN)
•   Mark Allen  (NIR) v   Mitchell Mann  (ENG)
•   Mark Davis  (ENG) v   Huang Jiahao  (CHN)
•   Jimmy Robertson  (ENG) v   Chang Bingyu  (CHN)
•   Pang Junxu  (CHN) v   Ross Muir  (SCO)
•   Stuart Bingham  (ENG) v   Ian Burns  (ENG)
•   Noppon Saengkham  (THA) v   Jonas Luz  (BRA)
•   Zak Surety  (ENG) v   Farakh Ajaib  (PAK)
•   Elliot Slessor  (ENG) v   Alexander Ursenbacher  (SWI)
•   Hossein Vafaei  (IRN) v   Fergal Quinn  (NIR)
•   Jackson Page  (WAL) v   Liam Highfield  (ENG)
•   Joe O'Connor  (ENG) v   Sam Craigie  (ENG)
•   David Gilbert  (ENG) v   Liam Davies  (WAL)
•   Stephen Maguire  (SCO) v   Kreishh Gurbaxani  (IND)
•   Shaun Murphy  (ENG) v   Yao Pengcheng  (CHN)
•   Matthew Stevens  (WAL) v   Connor Benzey  (ENG)
•   Ishpreet Singh Chadha  (IND) v   Michał Szubarczyk  (POL)
•   Sanderson Lam  (ENG) v   Amir Sarkhosh  (IRN)
•   Scott Donaldson  (SCO) v   Antoni Kowalski  (POL)

2 October

•   Liu Hongyu  (CHN) v   Haydon Pinhey  (ENG)
•   He Guoqiang  (CHN) v   Duane Jones  (WAL)
•   Ryan Day  (WAL) v   Zhao Hanyang  (CHN)
•   Zhang Anda  (CHN) v   Chris Totten  (SCO)
•   Chris Wakelin  (ENG) v   Florian Nüßle  (AUT)
•   Aaron Hill  (IRL) v   Leone Crowley  (IRL)
•   Daniel Wells  (WAL) v   Jimmy White  (ENG)
•   Gary Wilson  (ENG) v   Artemijs Žižins  (LAT)
•   Jordan Brown  (NIR) v   Oliver Lines  (ENG)
•   Michael Holt  (ENG) v   Reanne Evans  (ENG)
•   Jamie Jones  (WAL) v   Louis Heathcote  (ENG)
•   Ali Carter  (ENG) v   Liam Graham  (SCO)
•   Tom Ford  (ENG) v   Robbie McGuigan  (NIR)

References

1. "Judd Trump beats Robertson in International Championship final". BBC Sport . 4 November 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
2. "International Championship". World Snooker Tour . Retrieved 4 September 2025.
3. "Tournaments 2025–26". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
4. "International Championship draw". World Snooker Tour . 24 September 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
5. "International Championship Qualifiers 2025 - snooker.org". www.snooker.org. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
6. "Calendar 2025/2026 - snooker.org". www.snooker.org. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
7. "International Championship: Ding Junhui beats Chris Wakelin 10-7 in final". BBC Sport. 10 November 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2025.