English Open (snooker)

English Open

Part of the Home Nations Series
Tournament information
Venue	Brentwood Centre
Location	Brentwood
Country	England
Established	2016
Organisation(s)	World Snooker Tour
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£550,400
Winner's share	£100,000
Recent edition	2025
Current champion	Mark Allen  (NIR)

The English Open is a professional ranking snooker tournament held in Brentwood, as part of the four-event Home Nations Series. The winner is awarded the Steve Davis Trophy, named in honour of the English six-time world champion. ^[1] The reigning champion is Mark Allen from Northern Ireland.

History

On 29 April 2015, World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn announced that a new event called the "English Open" would be held for the first time in 2016 in Manchester, England, as part of a new Home Nations Series, with the existing Welsh Open and Scottish Open and the new Northern Ireland Open tournaments. ^{[2] [3]} The inaugural event took place between 10 and 16 October 2016, ^[4] and was won by Liang Wenbo. ^[5]

After relocations to Barnsley, Crawley and Milton Keynes, the tournament was subsequently played at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, Essex since 2022; Steve Dawson, the chairman of WST, has claimed Essex to be the "root" of the game ^[6] , hence the choice of the venue. It also coincides with the birthplace of Hearn's Matchroom Sport, the main promoter of snooker, founded in Brentwood back in 1982.

A separate qualification event for the tournament was removed from the 2024 event, and all matches from round one is now staged at the main venue.

Winners

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Final score	Venue	City	Season
2016 [7]	Liang Wenbo  (CHN)	Judd Trump  (ENG)	9–6	EventCity	Manchester, England	2016/17
2017 [8]	Ronnie O'Sullivan  (ENG)	Kyren Wilson  (ENG)	9–2	Barnsley Metrodome	Barnsley, England	2017/18
2018 [9]	Stuart Bingham  (ENG)	Mark Davis  (ENG)	9–7	K2	Crawley, England	2018/19
2019 [10]	Mark Selby  (ENG)	David Gilbert  (ENG)	9–1			2019/20
2020 [11]	Judd Trump  (ENG)	Neil Robertson  (AUS)	9–8	Marshall Arena	Milton Keynes, England	2020/21
2021 [12]	Neil Robertson  (AUS)	John Higgins  (SCO)	9–8			2021/22
2022 [13]	Mark Selby  (ENG)	Luca Brecel  (BEL)	9–6	Brentwood Centre	Brentwood, England	2022/23
2023 [14]	Judd Trump  (ENG)	Zhang Anda  (CHN)	9–7			2023/24
2024 [15]	Neil Robertson  (AUS)	Wu Yize  (CHN)	9–7			2024/25
2025	Mark Allen  (NIR)	Zhou Yuelong  (CHN)	9–8			2025/26

References

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