2025 Northern Ireland Open

2025 BetVictor
Northern Ireland Open

Part of the Home Nations Series
Tournament information
Dates	19–26 October 2025 (2025-10-19 – 2025-10-26)
Venue	Waterfront Hall
City	Belfast
Country	Northern Ireland
Organisation	World Snooker Tour
Format	Ranking event
Defending champion	Kyren Wilson  (ENG)
← 2024

The 2025 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2025 BetVictorNorthern Ireland Open) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 19 to 26 October 2025 at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Qualifiers will take place from 4 to 7 September 2025 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. The 10th consecutive edition of the tournament since it was first staged in 2016, it will be the seventh ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Xi'an Grand Prix and preceding the 2025 International Championship. It will be the second of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, following the 2025 English Open and preceding the 2025 Scottish Open and the 2026 Welsh Open.

Kyren Wilson will be the defending champion, having defeated Judd Trump 9–3 in the 2024 final.

Overview

The 10th consecutive edition of the Northern Ireland Open since it was first staged in 2016, the tournament will take place from 19 to 26 October 2025 at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ^[1] Qualifying will take place from 4 to 7 September 2025 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. ^[2] It will be the seventh ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Xi'an Grand Prix and preceding the 2025 International Championship. ^[3] Kyren Wilson will be the defending champion, having defeated Judd Trump 9–3 in the 2024 final. ^[4]

Format

The tournament will use a tiered format first implemented for the Home Nations Series in the 2024–25 snooker season. In the first qualifying round, players seeded 65‍–‍96 face those seeded 97‍–‍128. In the second qualifying round, the 32 winners from the first qualifying round will face players seeded 33‍–‍64. At the last-64 stage, the 32 winners from the qualifying rounds will face the top 32 seeds. ^[5] All matches will be played as best of seven frames until the quarter‑finals, which will be the best of nine. The semi‑finals will be the best of 11, and the final will be a best‑of‑17 frame match played over two sessions .

References

1. "Tournaments 2025–26". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
2. "Northern Ireland Open Qualifiers 2025 - snooker.org". www.snooker.org. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
3. "Calendar 2025/2026 - snooker.org". www.snooker.org. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
4. "Northern Ireland Open: Kyren Wilson hammers Judd Trump in Belfast final". BBC Sport. 27 October 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
5. "Tiered format for Home Nations and German Masters in 2024/25". World Snooker Tour . 5 April 2024. Archived from the original on 5 April 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024.