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The World Snooker Championship is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament in professional snooker.It is also the richest, with total prize money of £2,395,000 in 2023, including £500,000 for the winner. [1]
The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
The 2024 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May 2024. Organised by the World Snooker Tour, it was the 17th and final ranking event of the 2023–24 season. The title sponsor was car retailer Cazoo, so the tournament was promoted as the 2024 Cazoo World Snooker Championship.
The 2023 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2023 Cazoo World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 15 April to 1 May 2023 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 47th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was staged at the venue.
The 2025 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2025 Cazoo World Snooker Championship) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament to be held from 19 April to 5 May 2025. [1] It will be the 49th consecutive edition of the World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield , England.
The snooker major tournaments, often referred to simply as "the majors", are the most prestigious tournaments in snooker.. Traditionally, the majors consisted of the three Triple Crown tournaments: the World Snooker Championship (first held in 1927 and staged as a knockout tournament continuously since 1969), the invitational Masters (held annually since 1975), and the UK Championship (held ...
This article lists every player to have competed in the World Snooker Championship (not including qualifiers) since 1969, when the championship reverted to a knockout format, following the title being decided in a series of challenge matches from 1964 to 1968.
The 2022 World Snooker Championship took place from 16 April to 2 May 2022, [11] as the last of 16 ranking events in the 2021–22 season. [12] The event featured a 32-player main draw, preceded by a 128-player qualifying tournament that was held at the English Institute of Sport between 4 and 13 April 2022, finishing three days before the start of the main event.