🎱 Champion of Champions Snooker, Betting Guide, Stats and Analysis

Champion of Champions - Previous Winners

Ronnie O'Sullivan has played in the Champions of Champions nine times and has made the final on six of those eight appearances, winning the title four times. 

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Champion of Champions 2024 qualification

The Champions of Champions 2024 will take place from Monday 11th November until Sunday 17th November 2024 at the Toughsheet Community Stadium in Bolton.

In the UK, the event is broadcast by ITV.

Below is the line-up for 2024 and how they have qualified:

Ding Junhui is the final player to qualify for the Champions of Champions after his 10-7 win over Chris Wakelin in the International Championship in Nanjing.

Champions of Champions - Tournament format and Prize Money

The Champion of Champions is always played as a sixteen player event with winners of recent tournaments qualifying to compete. 

If there are less than sixteen individual winners from the previous season the event is topped up using the current World Rankings.

The first round matches are always played over seven frames.

The Quarter Finals and Semi Finals are played over eleven frames.

The Final is played over nineteen frames.

Prize Money

• Winner: £150,000
• Runner-up: £60,000
• Semi-final: £30,000
• Last eight: £17,500
• Last sixteen: £12,500
• Total: £440,000

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Champions of Champions: Tournament form

Sixteen players line up for the Champions of Champions 2024 but how have the competitors previously fared in the event?

Champion of Champions - Facts and figures

• The Champion of Champions event has been played in Bolton since 2021
• The first seven Champion of Champions tournaments were played at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
• Due to the Covid pandemic the 2020 Champion of Champions was played at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes
• Only six players have won the Champions of Champions: Ronnie O'Sullivan (4 times), Neil Robertson (twice), Mark Allen (twice), John Higgins (once), Shaun Murphy (once),  and Judd Trump (once).
• Three time World Champion Mark Selby has only made it as far as the semi-final in eleven attempts in the Champion of Champions
• Five of the eleven Champion of Champions finals have been close affairs with two of the renewals going to a final frame decider, although in the last four years the finals have been won 10-6, 10-4, 10-6 and 10-3
• All previous finalists (with the exception of the first event in 2013) had played in the event before. 
• 2020 was the first time the Champion of Champions was won by a player (Mark Allen) who had not previously also won the World Championship

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Champion of Champions 2023: Draw and Results

Mark Allen bounced back to his best form after a slow start to the season to beat Judd Trump 10-3 in the Final of the Champion of Champions 2023.

Final - Best of nineteen frames

Judd Trump 3 Mark Allen 10

Semi-Finals

Judd Trump 6 v Barry Hawkins 3

Mark Allen 6 John Higgins 2

Monday 13th November: Group Four - Group Semi-FInals Best of seven frames 

Mark Allen 4 Jimmy White 1

Mark Selby 3 Ali Carter 4

Group Final - Best of eleven frames 

Mark Allen 6 Ali Carter 2

Mark Allen is the first player through to the semi-finals overcoming Ali Carter in a high-qulity match that saw three century breaks and the highest break of the tournament so far, a 143 from Carter.

Tuesday 14th November: Group Two - Group Semi-FInals Best of seven frames 1pm UK time

Luca Brecel 0 Barry Hawkins 4

Mark Williams 2 Robert Milkins 4

Group Final - Best of eleven frames 

Barry Hawkins 6 Robert Milkins 2

Wednesday 15th November - Group One - Group Semi-FInals Best of seven frames 1pm UK time

Ding Junhui 4 Zhang Anda 3 (Ding replaced Ronnie O'Sullivan who withdrew from the event)

John Higgins 4 Chris Wakelin 0

Group Final - Best of eleven frames

John Higgins 6 Ding Junhui 1

Thursday 16th November - Group Three - Group Semi-FInals Best of seven frames 

Judd Trump 4 Baipat Siripaporn 0

Shaun Murphy 4 Gary Wilson 1

Group Final - Best of eleven frames 

Judd Trump 6 Shaun Murphy 4

Champions of Champions 2022: Draw and Results

Final (19 frames)

Ronnie O'Sullivan 10 Judd Trump 6

Semi Finals (11 frames)

Ronnie O'Sullivan 6 v Fan Zhengyi 2

Judd Trump 6 v Mark Selby 3

Group Four

Mark Selby 4 v Lee Walker 0

John Higgins 4 v Hossein Vafaei 2

Mark Selby 6 v John Higgins 4

Group Three

Neil Robertson 3 v Fan Zhengyi 4

Kyren Wilson 3 v Ryan Day 4

Ryan Day 5 v Fan Xhengyi 6

Group One

Judd Trump 4 v Luca Brecel 2

Mark Allen 4 v Joe Perry 2

Judd Trump 6 v Mark Allen 1

Group Two

Ronnie O'Sullivan 4 v Robert Milkins 2

Zhao Xintong 4 v Mink Nutcharut 2

Ronnie O'Sullivan 6 v Zhao Xintong 1

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