2025 Scottish Open (snooker)

2025 BetVictor Scottish Open

Part of the Home Nations Series
Tournament information
Dates	15–21 December 2025 (2025-12-15 – 2025-12-21)
Venue	Meadowbank Sports Centre
City	Edinburgh
Country	Scotland
Organisation	World Snooker Tour
Format	Ranking event
Defending champion	Lei Peifan  (CHN)
← 2024

The 2025 Scottish Open (officially the 2025 BetVictor Scottish Open) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 15 to 21 December 2025 at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Qualifying will take place from 14 to 17 October at the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, England. The 10th consecutive edition of the tournament since it was revived in 2016, it will be the 11th ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out and preceding the 2026 German Masters. It will be the third of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, following the 2025 English Open and the 2025 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2026 Welsh Open.

Lei Peifan will be the defending champion, having defeated Wu Yize 9–5 in the 2024 final.

Overview

The tournament originated as the non-ranking 1981 International Open, which was staged at the Assembly Rooms in Derby, England, and won by Steve Davis, who defeated Dennis Taylor 9–0 in the final. It became a ranking event the following year, the first tournament after the World Snooker Championship to gain ranking status. Staged annually under various names (with the exception of the three years from 1990 to 1992, when it was not held), the tournament was first branded as the Scottish Open in 1998, the year after it was first staged in Scotland. ^[1] Discontinued after the 2004 edition, it was held once in 2012 as a minor-ranking tournament, ^[2] but was revived as a full ranking event in 2016 as part of the newly created Home Nations Series. ^[3] Marco Fu won the 2016 edition, recovering from 1–4 behind to beat John Higgins 9–4 in the final, and was presented with the newly named Stephen Hendry Trophy by the seven-time World Champion personally. ^[4]

The 2025 edition of the tournament—the 10th consecutive staging since its 2016 revival—will take place from 15 to 21 December at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. ^[5] Qualifying will take place from 14 to 17 October at the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, England. ^[6] It will be the 11th ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out and preceding the 2026 German Masters. ^[7] It will also be the third of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, following the 2025 English Open and the 2025 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2026 Welsh Open. ^[8] Lei Peifan will be the defending champion, having defeated Wu Yize 9–5 in the 2024 final to win his maiden ranking title. ^[9]

References

1. Turner, Chris. "International Open, Goya Matchroom Trophy". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
2. "Betfair European Tour Event Five (2012) - snooker.org". www.snooker.org. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
3. "World Championship: Snooker tour to be revamped in 2016". BBC Sport. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
4. "Scottish Open: Marco Fu fights back to stun John Higgins in final in Glasgow". BBC Sport. 18 December 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
5. "Tournaments 2025–26". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
6. "Scottish Open Qualifiers 2025 - snooker.org". www.snooker.org. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
7. "Calendar 2025/2026 - snooker.org". www.snooker.org. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
8. Day, Michael (11 September 2025). "2025 English Open Snooker: Draw, format, order of play, prize money, how to watch". Totally Snookered. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
9. "Scottish Open: China's Lei Peifan at career high in snooker world rankings after Edinburgh win". BBC Sport. 17 December 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2025.