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Champion of Champions 2025 qualification
The Champions of Champions 2025 will take place from Monday 10th November until Sunday 16th November 2025 at the Mattoli Arena in Leicester
In the UK, the event is broadcast by ITV.
Below is the line-up for 2025 so far and how they have qualified:
| Qualified Player | Method of qualification |
|---|---|
| Zhao Xintong | World Championship |
| Judd Trump | UK Championship |
| Shaun Murphy | Masters |
| Mark Williams | Champions of Champions |
| Neil Robertson | Saudi Arabia Masters |
| Kyren Wilson | German Masters |
| John Higgins | Tour Championship |
| Stephen Maguire | Championship League (ranking) |
| Mark Selby | Welsh Open |
| Mark Allen | English Open |
| Tom Ford | Shoot Out |
| Lei Peifan | Scottish Open |
| Bai Yulu | Women's World Championship |
| Xiao Guodong | Wuhan Open |
| Jack Lisowski | Northern Ireland Open |
| Ronnie O'Sullivan (yet to be confirmed) | World Ranking Top-up |
Champion of Champions - Previous Winners
| Year | Winner | Runner-Up | Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mark Williams | Xiao Guodong | 10-6 |
| 2023 | Mark Allen | Judd Trump | 10-3 |
| 2022 | Ronnie O'Sullivan | Judd Trump | 10-6 |
| 2021 | Judd Trump | John Higgins | 10-4 |
| 2020 | Mark Allen | Neil Robertson | 10-6 |
| 2019 | Neil Robertson | Judd Trump | 10-9 |
| 2018 | Ronnie O'Sullivan | Kyren Wilson | 10-9 |
| 2017 | Shaun Murphy | Ronnie O'Sullivan | 10-8 |
| 2016 | John Higgins | Ronnie O'Sullivan | 10-7 |
| 2015 | Neil Robertson | Mark Allen | 10-5 |
| 2014 | Ronnie O'Sullivan | Judd Trump | 10-7 |
| 2013 | Ronnie O'Sullivan | Stuart Bingham | 10-8 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan has played in the Champions of Champions ten times and has made the final on six of those ten appearances, winning the title four times.
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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 (as of 2024 - 2025 details yet to be announced)
- 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 2025 but how have the competitors previously fared in the event?
| Player | Previous Appearances | Best Result |
|---|---|---|
| Ronnie O'Sullivan | Ten | Won four times, beaten finalist twice |
| Mark Allen | Ten | Won twice, beaten finalist once |
| Neil Robertson | Eleven | Won twice, beaten finalist once |
| Judd Trump | Twelve | Won once, beaten finalist four times |
| John Higgins | Eleven | Won once, beaten finalist once |
| Mark Williams | Four | Won once |
| Shaun Murphy | Eleven | Won once |
| Kyren Wilson | Seven | Beaten finalist once |
| Xiao Guodong | One | Beaten finalist once |
| Mark Selby | Twelve | Semi-finalist |
| Stephen Maguire | Six | Quarter finalist twice |
| Zhao Xintong | One | Quater-finalist |
| Yai Bulu | One | First round |
| Jack Lisowski | Debut | Debut |
| Tom Ford | Debut | Debut |
| Lei Peifan | Debut | Debut |
Champion of Champions 2024: Draw and results
Mark Williams won the 2024 Champions of Champions. The Welshman had played in the event three times previously and had failed to win a match!
Final - Best of nineteen frames
Mark Williams v Xiao Guodong 10-6
Semi-finals - Best of eleven frames
Mark Allen v Xiao Guodong
Mark Williams v Neil Robertson
Quarter-finals - Best of eleven frames:
Mark Allen v Jak Jones 6-4
Xiao Guodong v Mark Selby 6-5
Kyren Wilson v Mark Williams 5-6
Neil Robertson v Judd Trump 6-4
Last Sixteen - Best of seven frames (seedings in brackets):
Mark Allen (1) v Igor Figueiredo 4-2
Gary Wilson (8) v Jak Jones 2-4
Mark Selby (4) v Shaun Murphy 4-2
Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) v Xiao Guodong 3-4
Kyren Wilson (3) v Luca Brecel 4-1
Mark Williams (6) v Bai Yulu 4-1
Judd Trump (2) v Ding Junhui 4-0
Ali Carter (7) v Neil Robertson 3-4
Champion of Champions - Facts and figures
- This will be the first time the Champion of Champions has been played in Leicester.
- The Champion of Champions has previously been played in Bolton. Milton Keynes and Coventry
- Only two players have played in every renewal of the Champions of Champions: Judd Trump and Mark Selby
- Only seven players have won the Champions of Champions: Ronnie O'Sullivan (4 times), Neil Robertson (twice), Mark Allen (twice), John Higgins (once), Shaun Murphy (once), Judd Trump (once) and Mark Williams (once).
- Three time World Champion Mark Selby has only made it as far as the semi-final in twelve attempts in the Champion of Champions
- Five of the twelve Champion of Champions finals have been close affairs with two of the renewals going to a final frame decider, although in the last five years the finals have been won 10-6, 10-4, 10-6, 10-3 and 10-6.
- 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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Contributor Information
We are fortunate to have two snooker obsessed staff members at OLBG in Tipster Competition manager Darren Brett and our Editor-In-Chief Steve Madgwick, working together with Dan Tracey our data man, we are proud to provide this Champion of Champions Snooker, Betting Guide, Stats and Analysis article and all major snooker events throughout the year.
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