UK Snooker Championship LIVE: Full schedule, scores and prize money with Ronnie O’Sullivan out amid early shocks

The first of the Triple Crown snooker events is now well underway, with the 2025 UK Championship taking centre stage.

Judd Trump claimed victory in the tournament last year, defeating Barry Hawkins in a first-to-ten frames contest.

The Brit is back to defend his title, but it’s a rare feat to achieve.

There hasn’t been a back-to-back winner of this tournament since Ronnie O’Sullivan in 2017 and 2018.

O’Sullivan is one of only three players to manage it, with Stephen Hendry and Steve Davis the other two.

For ‘The Rocket’ this time around, his bid for success came crashing down in the first round with a shock loss to Zhou Yuelong.

2024 World Champion Kyren Wilson has also been eliminated early, while Mark Allen fell at the first hurdle too.

UK Snooker Championship: Dates and start times

The 2025 UK Snooker Championship got going on Saturday, November 29, and it will come to an end on Sunday, December 7.

The whole event is taking place at the Barbican Centre in York, where it has been hosted since 2001.

It will be shown on free-to-air TV by the BBC. The BBC show all three of the Triple Crown Events across their network.

The event will be broadcast on BBC One, Two and Four, while BBC iPlayer will have games as well as the BBC Sport website.

TNT Sports will also show the action through discovery+. More information here.

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UK Snooker Championship: Prize money

The prize money hasn’t changed from 2024, with a total of £1.2million being handed out.

For the winner, there is a cheque for a cool £250,000.

The runner-up takes £100,000, while the semi-finalists get £50,000 and the quarter-finalists take home £25,000.

Meanwhile, for the highest break, there is a £15,000 bonus, and of course, there is an added incentive as well.

Should a player make two 147 breaks across any of the Triple Crown events, they will win £147,000 as a bonus.

O’Sullivan has already done this with two maximum breaks in the Saudi Masters.

UK Snooker Championship 2025: Full schedule and scores

Last 32

• Judd Trump 6-4 Stephen Maguire
• Si Jiahui 6-0 Ryan Day
• Mark Williams 6-4 David Gilbert
• Pang Junxu 6-2 Xiao Guodong
• Wu Yize 6-4 Michael Holt
• Neil Robertson 6-2 Julien Leclercq
• John Higgins 6-2 Ben Woollaston
• Shaun Murphy 6-2 Lyu Haotian
• Zhao Xintong 6-1 Long Zehuang
• Ding Junhui 6-4 Xu Si
• Scott Donaldson 6-1 Mark Allen
• Zhang Anda 6-5 Gary Wilson
• Mark Selby 6-2 Lei Peifan
• Zhou Yuelong 6-4 Ronnie O’Sullivan
• Barry Hawkins 6-4 David Lilley
• Elliot Slessor 6-4 Kyren Wilson

Last 16

Wednesday, December 3

• Mark Williams vs Pang Junxu – 1pm
• Wu Yize vs Neil Robertson – 1pm
• Judd Trump vs Si Jiahui – 7pm
• Mark Selby vs Zhou Yeulong – 7pm

Thursday, December 4

• Zhang Anda vs Zhao Xintong – 1pm
• Ding Junhui vs Scott Donaldson – 1pm
• Elliot Slessor vs Barry Hawkins – 7pm
• John Higgins vs Shaun Murphy – 7pm

Quarter-finals

Friday, December 5

• 2x Quarter-finals – 1pm
• 2x Quarter-finals – 7pm

Semi-finals

Saturday, December 6

• Semi-final – 1pm
• Semi-final – 7pm

Final

Sunday, December 7

• Final (Session 1) – 1pm
• Final (Session 2) – 7pm