Players Championship Snooker: Start date, venue, format, prize money breakdown, history & more

Everything you need to know ahead of the 2025 Players Championship as the top 16 players on the one-year ranking list bid for glory at the Telford International Centre in March.

Mark Allen captured the title 12 months ago, seeing off Zhang Anda in an enthralling final, and the Northern Irish star is once again amongst the field once again this time around.

Players Championship Snooker - Date

When is the Players Championship Snooker?

The 2025 Players Championship starts on Monday 17th March with the final scheduled for Sunday 23rd March.

Players Championship Snooker - Prize Money

Winner (1):	£125,000
Runner-Up (1):	£50,000
Semi-Final Losers (2):	£30,000
Quarter-Final Losers (4):	£15,000
Last 16 Losers (8):	£10,000

The tournament has a total prize fund of £385,000, with £125,000 going to the winner, and the runner-up taking home £50,000.

Players Championship Snooker - Venue & Location

The 2025 Players Championship will be held year will be held at the Telford International Centre for a second successive year.

The 2024 instalment represented the first time that a professional snooker event had been held at the Shropshire venue in 14 years, when John Higgins reigned supreme at the 2007 UK Championship.

The Players Championship has previously been staged at various venues around the country, including the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, the Convention Centre in Southport, the Guild Hall in Preston as well as the Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton.

Players Championship Snooker - Players

Who is playing in the 2025 Players Championship Snooker?

Players ranked inside the top 16 of the one-year ranking list will receive invites to the Players Championship, with the cut-off point being after the Welsh Open.

The following players are including in this year's event:

1. Judd Trump
2. Kyren Wilson
3. Neil Robertson
4. John Higgins
5. Xiao Guodong
6. Mark Selby
7. Mark Williams
8. Barry Hawkins
9. Shaun Murphy
10. Ding Junhui
11. Si Jiahui
12. Wu Yize
13. Chris Wakelin
14. Stuart Bingham
15. Mark Allen
16. Lei Peifan

Players Championship Snooker - Format

What is the format of the Players Championship Snooker?

The Players Championship sees the top 16 players in the world do battle and they are seeded by the amount of points they have secured in the one-year ranking list.

The matches will be played as the best-of-11 frames until the final, which is best-of-19 frames and played over two sessions.

Players Championship Snooker - History

The Players Championship is a ranking event which was first staged back in 2011.

Previously known as the Players Tour Championship Finals up until 2016, the competition was rebranded as the Players Championship in 2017 and now forms part of the three-event Players Series, alongside the World Grand Prix and Tour Championship.

Mark Allen is the defending champion after capturing the title for the first time under its current guise 12 months ago.

The Northern Irishman did also reign supreme in 2016 in what was the competition's final staging as the Players Tour Championship Finals.

Since its change however, there have been just two players who have landed the title on more than one occasion, those being Judd Trump and Ronnie O'Sullivan, both of whom captured each of their two titles between 2017 and 2020.

In more recent years, John Higgins, Neil Robertson and Shaun Murphy have added their names to the list.