Q School (snooker)

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Q School
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Tournament information
Venue Mattioli Arena
BSAT Academy
Location Leicester
Bangkok
Country England
Thailand
Established2011
2022 (Asia-Oceania)
Organisation(s) World Snooker Tour
Format Qualifying school
for the Main Tour and Q Tour
Recent edition 2025

The Q School is an amateur snooker competition which serves as the qualification school for the World Snooker Tour.

Contents

Overview

Pathways to enter the main tour, including Q School; note that the graph omits the qualification path to Q Tour Europe WST feeder.png
Pathways to enter the main tour, including Q School; note that the graph omits the qualification path to Q Tour Europe

Q School is established in 2011 as an attempt to streamline the qualification process and is held annually before the start of the professional season, where amateurs and ex-professionals who dropped out of the top 64 in world rankings in previous seasons can compete for a two-year tour card to play on the Main Tour. [1] It replaced the amateur tournament International Open Series, the former second-tier snooker series organised by the English Association of Snooker and Billiards (EASB).

In 2022, a Q School branch in Bangkok was established for entrants from the Asia-Oceania region. 2 qualifying places were awarded to the winners whilst discontinuing qualification through Order of Merit in Q School Europe.

Players pay a fixed entry fee to enter the play-off events, and there is no prize money. Winners of quarter-finals will be joining the World Snooker Main Tour, whilst the top 32 players of Q School Europe along with other junior players and Asia-Oceania qualifiers will be qualified for the second-tier WPBSA Q Tour.

Qualifiers

For each event, the players who qualified for the World Snooker Tour are listed.

YearLocationEntriesEventEnd dateQualifier 1Qualifier 2Qualifier 3Qualifier 4Ref.
2011 Sheffield 124Event 116 May Flag of England.svg Andrew Norman Flag of England.svg David Grace Flag of England.svg Adam Wicheard Flag of Finland.svg Robin Hull [2]
Event 222 May Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Yan Flag of Ireland.svg David Morris Flag of England.svg Simon Bedford Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tian Pengfei [3]
Event 328 May Flag of Norway.svg Kurt Maflin Flag of England.svg Stuart Carrington Flag of England.svg Adam Duffy Flag of England.svg David Gilbert [4]
2012 Sheffield 115Event 117 May Flag of England.svg Martin O'Donnell Flag of England.svg Sam Baird Flag of England.svg Ian Burns Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Chen Zhe [5]
Event 223 May Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Daniel Wells Flag of England.svg Jamie O'Neill Flag of England.svg Sean O'Sullivan Flag of England.svg Paul Davison [6]
Event 329 May Flag of England.svg Rod Lawler Flag of England.svg Michael Wasley Flag of England.svg Joel Walker Flag of England.svg Robbie Williams [7]
2013 Sheffield 110Event 114 May Flag of England.svg Elliot Slessor Flag of England.svg Alex Davies Flag of England.svg Lee Page Flag of England.svg Hammad Miah [8]
Event 218 May Flag of Qatar.svg Ahmed Saif Flag of Scotland.svg Ross Muir Flag of England.svg Ryan Clark Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Alexander Ursenbacher [9]
Event 322 May Flag of Ireland.svg David Morris Flag of England.svg Lee Spick Flag of England.svg Chris Wakelin Flag of Scotland.svg Fraser Patrick [10]
2014 Gloucester 145Event 115 May Flag of England.svg Craig Steadman Flag of England.svg Chris Melling Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Anda Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tian Pengfei [11]
Event 221 May Flag of England.svg Liam Highfield Flag of England.svg Michael Georgiou Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Lee Walker Flag of Scotland.svg Michael Leslie [12]
2015 Burton-
upon-Trent
166Event 119 May Flag of England.svg Sydney Wilson Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Daniel Wells Flag of Scotland.svg Eden Sharav Flag of Scotland.svg Rhys Clark [13]
Event 225 May Flag of England.svg Jason Weston Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Gareth Allen Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Duane Jones Flag of England.svg Paul Davison [14]
2016 Burton-
upon-Trent
182Event 116 May Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fang Xiongman Flag of England.svg Christopher Keogan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Cao Yupeng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Chen Zhe [15]
Event 222 May Flag of Cyprus.svg Michael Georgiou Flag of England.svg John Astley Flag of Malta.svg Alex Borg Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg David John [16]
Order of Merit Flag of England.svg Craig Steadman Flag of England.svg Jamie Curtis-Barrett Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Ian Preece Flag of England.svg Adam Duffy [17]
2017 Preston 206Event 114 May Flag of Germany.svg Lukas Kleckers Flag of England.svg Allan Taylor Flag of England.svg Billy Joe Castle Flag of England.svg Ashley Hugill [18]
Event 220 May Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Duane Jones Flag of England.svg Sanderson Lam Flag of England.svg Paul Davison Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Chen Zifan [19]
Order of Merit Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Yong Flag of England.svg Sean O'Sullivan Ulster Banner.svg Joe Swail Flag of England.svg Martin O'Donnell [20]
2018 Burton-
upon-Trent
202Event 119 May Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Jak Jones Flag of England.svg Sam Baird Flag of England.svg Hammad Miah Flag of England.svg Sam Craigie [21]
Event 225 May Ulster Banner.svg Jordan Brown Flag of England.svg Craig Steadman Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lu Ning Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhao Xintong [22]
Event 331 May Flag of Malaysia.svg Thor Chuan Leong Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Kishan Hirani Flag of Hong Kong.svg Andy Lee Flag of England.svg Ashley Carty [23]
2019 Wigan 218Event 123 May Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xu Si Flag of England.svg David Lilley Flag of England.svg Jamie O'Neill Flag of Iran.svg Soheil Vahedi [24]
Event 229 May Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Chen Zifan Flag of England.svg Riley Parsons Flag of England.svg Louis Heathcote Flag of Scotland.svg Fraser Patrick [25]
Event 34 June Flag of England.svg Barry Pinches Flag of Malta.svg Alex Borg Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Alexander Ursenbacher Flag of England.svg Andy Hicks [26]
Order of Merit Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Si Jiahui Flag of England.svg Billy Castle Flag of England.svg Peter Lines Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lei Peifan [27]
2020 Sheffield 172Event 17 August Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Lee Walker Flag of England.svg Peter Devlin Flag of Germany.svg Simon Lichtenberg Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fan Zhengyi [28]
Event 28 August Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Jamie Jones Flag of England.svg Zak Surety Flag of England.svg Oliver Lines Flag of England.svg Ben Hancorn [29]
Event 39 August Flag of Jamaica.svg Rory McLeod Flag of England.svg Jamie Wilson Flag of England.svg Farakh Ajaib Flag of England.svg Steven Hallworth [30]
2021 Sheffield 196Event 11 June Flag of England.svg Peter Lines Flag of Scotland.svg Fraser Patrick Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Jackson Page Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yuan Sijun [31]
Event 27 June Flag of England.svg Barry Pinches Flag of England.svg Craig Steadman Flag of Ireland.svg Michael Judge Flag of England.svg Alfie Burden [32]
Event 313 June Flag of England.svg Ian Burns Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lei Peifan Flag of Scotland.svg Dean Young Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Duane Jones [33]
Order of Merit Flag of England.svg Hammad Miah Flag of England.svg Mitchell Mann [34]
2022 Sheffield 173Event 121 May Flag of England.svg Rod Lawler Flag of Hong Kong.svg Andy Lee Flag of Ireland.svg Fergal O'Brien Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Bai Langning [35]
Event 227 May Flag of England.svg Adam Duffy Flag of Ireland.svg Aaron Hill Flag of England.svg Zak Surety Flag of England.svg Sanderson Lam [36]
Event 32 June Flag of England.svg James Cahill Flag of England.svg John Astley Flag of England.svg Jenson Kendrick Flag of Germany.svg Lukas Kleckers [37]
2023 Leicester 208Event 131 May Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Alexander Ursenbacher Flag of England.svg Andrew Higginson Flag of England.svg Liam Pullen Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Andrew Pagett [38]
Event 26 June Flag of Scotland.svg Dean Young Flag of England.svg Louis Heathcote Flag of England.svg Stuart Carrington Flag of England.svg Alfie Burden [39]
2024 Leicester 167Event 126 May Flag of Latvia.svg Artemijs Zizins Flag of England.svg Allan Taylor Flag of England.svg Haydon Pinhey Flag of Hong Kong.svg Wang Yuchen [40]
Event 21 June Flag of Poland.svg Antoni Kowalski Flag of Scotland.svg Chris Totten Flag of Pakistan.svg Farakh Ajaib Flag of England.svg Mitchell Mann [41]
2025 Leicester 171Event 126 May Flag of England.svg Liam Pullen Flag of England.svg Oliver Brown Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Alexander Ursenbacher Flag of Poland.svg Mateusz Baranowski [42]
Event 21 June Flag of England.svg David Grace Flag of England.svg Ian Burns Ulster Banner.svg Fergal Quinn Flag of England.svg Connor Benzey [43]

Asia-Oceania Q School

YearLocationEntriesEventEnd dateQualifier 1Qualifier 2Ref.
2022 Bangkok 70Asia & Oceania Event 15 June Flag of Pakistan.svg Muhammad Asif Flag of Thailand.svg Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
Flag of Pakistan.svg Asjad Iqbal [44]
[45]
Asia & Oceania Event 211 June Flag of Thailand.svg Dechawat Poomjaeng Flag of India.svg Himanshu Jain [46]
2023 Bangkok 99Asia & Oceania Event 16 June Flag of Malaysia.svg Thor Chuan Leong Flag of Thailand.svg Manasawin Phetmalaikul [47]
Asia & Oceania Event 212 June Flag of India.svg Ishpreet Singh Chadha Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg He Guoqiang [48]
2024 Bangkok 99Asia & Oceania Event 127 May Flag of Malaysia.svg Lim Kok Leong Flag of Thailand.svg Sunny Akani [49]
Asia & Oceania Event 22 June Flag of Pakistan.svg Haris Tahir Flag of India.svg Kreishh Gurbaxani [50]
2025 Bangkok 86Asia & Oceania Event 118 May Flag of Thailand.svg Chatchapong Nasa Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liu Wenwei [51]
Asia & Oceania Event 224 May Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xu Yichen Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhao Hanyang [52]

Statistics

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