🎱 Players Championship Snooker Stats, Tips and Betting Guide

Players Championship: Draw and Results

Mark Allen added his eleventh ranking event victory when taking the Players Championship in a hard-fought victory over Zhang Anda, 10-8.

Allen is up to number three on the world rankings and was winning his seventh major event in the last three seasons.

The full draw and results from the Players Championship are listed below:

Final - Best of nineteen frames:

Mark Allen v Zhang Anda 10-8

Semi-Finals - Best of eleven frames:

Mark Allen v Ali Carter 6-3

Mark Selby v Zhang Anda 5-6

Quarter Finals - Best of eleven frames:

Judd Trump v Ali Carter 4-6

Mark Allen v Gary Wilson 6-4

Zhang Anda v John Higgins 6-4

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby 0-6

First Round - Best of eleven frames:

Judd Trump v Chris Wakelin 6-2

Tom Ford v Ali Carter 2-6

Mark Williams v Mark Allen 3-6

Gary Wilson v Hossein Vafaei 6-4

Zhang Anda v Noppon Saengkham

Ding Junhui v John Higgins 4-6

Barry Hawkins v Mark Selby

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Zhou Yuelong 6-2

Players Championship 2024: Format and Prize Fund

The Players Championship will be played at the Telford International Centre between the 19th and 25th of February.

The event is the second leg of the bonus Players Series which features the top players on the one-year ranking list. The other two tournaments in this series are the World Grand Prix (won this season by Ronnie O'Sullivan) and the Tour Championship, which was won last season by Shaun Murphy.

The Players Championship will feature the top sixteen players in the one-year ranking list after the Welsh Open.

The first three rounds of the event are played over eleven frames. The final is played over two sessions and consists of seventeen frames.

The Players Championship has a total prize fund of £385,000:

• Winner: £125,000
• Runner-up: £50,000
• Semi-final: £30,000
• Quarter-final: £15,000
• Last sixteen: £10,000
• Highest break: £10,000

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Players Championship: Previous Winners

The Players Championship has yet to establish a permanent home with ten different venues used in the event’s fourteen-year history.

There have been ten different winners of the Players Championship with Shaun Murphy, Judd Trump and Ronnie O’Sullivan all winning the event twice. Murphy won the first renewal of this event in 2011 and also won the latest version in 2023 but has failed to qualify for 2024.

Details of all the previous winners, runners-up, final score and venue can be found below:

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Players Championship: One-year ranking list

The Players Championship features the top sixteen players on the one-year ranking list. 

Players receive points based on their performance in the previous events in the 23/23 season.

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Below is the final one-year points list after the completion of the Welsh Open.

Players Championship: Highest Break winners

Below is a table outlining the high break winners from all of the Players Championship events where the final was played over nineteen frames:

The players in bold also won the tournament.