2025 English Open: Draw, Preview and Prize Money

The 2025 English Open gets underway on Thursday, with reigning champion Neil Robertson and world champion Zhao Xintong leading a strong lineup of players. The event is the fourth ranking tournament of the 2025/26 snooker season and marks the start of this term’s Home Nations Series.

World No. 1 Judd Trump and Shanghai Masters winner Kyren Wilson are also among the top contenders set to feature. The tournament boasts a total prize fund of £550,400, with the champion receiving £100,000. An additional £150,000 bonus is available for the player who performs best across all four Home Nations events this season.

Prize Money Breakdown:

• Champion: £100,000
• Runner-up: £45,000
• Semi-final: £21,000
• Quarter-final: £13,200
• Last 16: £9,000
• Last 32: £5,400
• Last 64: £3,600
• Last 96: £1,000
• Highest Break: £5,000

Past Champions:
The English Open was first held in 2016. Liang Wenbo won the inaugural title but was later banned for life from the sport due to match-fixing. Ronnie O’Sullivan claimed the trophy in 2017 but is absent this year, as is John Higgins.

Other former winners include Judd Trump, Mark Selby, and Stuart Bingham. Notably, Trump, Selby, and Robertson have won the last six editions of the tournament between them.

2025 Draw Structure:
The top 32 seeds enter directly at the Round of 64 stage. The remaining places are determined through preliminary rounds involving lower-ranked players such as Jimmy White, Marco Fu, and Reanne Evans.