Q School (snooker)

Q School
Tournament information
VenueMattioli Arena
BSAT Academy
LocationLeicester
Bangkok
CountryEngland
Thailand
Established2011
2022 (Asia-Oceania)
Organisation(s)World Snooker Tour
FormatQualifying school
for the Main Tour and Q Tour
Recent edition2025

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

Overview

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.

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

Asia-Oceania Q School

Year Location Entries Event End date Qualifier 1 Qualifier 2 Ref.
2022 Bangkok 70 Asia & Oceania Event 1 5 June Muhammad Asif Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
Asjad Iqbal[44] 		[45]
Asia & Oceania Event 2 11 June Dechawat Poomjaeng Himanshu Jain [46]
2023 Bangkok 99 Asia & Oceania Event 1 6 June Thor Chuan Leong Manasawin Phetmalaikul [47]
Asia & Oceania Event 2 12 June Ishpreet Singh Chadha He Guoqiang [48]
2024 Bangkok 99 Asia & Oceania Event 1 27 May Lim Kok Leong Sunny Akani [49]
Asia & Oceania Event 2 2 June Haris Tahir Kreishh Gurbaxani [50]
2025 Bangkok 86 Asia & Oceania Event 1 18 May Chatchapong Nasa Liu Wenwei [51]
Asia & Oceania Event 2 24 May Xu Yichen Zhao Hanyang [52]

Statistics

References

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