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2025 Scottish Open (snooker)
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The 2025 Scottish Open (officially the 2025 BetVictor Scottish Open) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 15 to 21 December 2025 at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Qualifying will take place from 14 to 17 October at the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, England. The 10th consecutive edition of the tournament since it was revived in 2016, it will be the 11th ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out and preceding the 2026 German Masters. It will be the third of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, following the 2025 English Open and the 2025 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2026 Welsh Open. The winner will receive £100,000 from a total prize fund of £550,400.
Lei Peifan will be the defending champion, having defeated Wu Yize 9–5 in the 2024 final.
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The tournament originated as the non-ranking 1981 International Open, staged at the Assembly Rooms in Derby, England. Steve Davis won the event, defeating Dennis Taylor 9–0 in the final. The tournament became a ranking event the following year, the first event after the World Snooker Championship to gain ranking status. Staged annually under various names (with the exception of the three years from 1990 to 1992, when it was not held), the tournament moved to Scotland in 1997 and was first branded as the Scottish Open in 1998.[1] It was discontinued after the 2004 edition, apart from one staging in 2012 as a minor-ranking tournament.[2] The tournament was restored to the calendar as a full ranking event in 2016 as part of the newly created Home Nations Series.[3] Marco Fu won the 2016 edition, recovering from 1–4 behind to beat John Higgins 9–4 in the final; he was presented with the newly named Stephen Hendry Trophy by the seven-time World Champion personally.[4]
The 2025 edition of the tournament—the 10th consecutive staging since its 2016 revival—will take place from 15 to 21 December at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.[5] Qualifying will take place from 14 to 17 October at the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, England.[6] It will be the 11th ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out and preceding the 2026 German Masters.[7] It will also be the third of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, following the 2025 English Open and the 2025 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2026 Welsh Open.[8] Lei Peifan will be the defending champion, having defeated Wu Yize 9–5 in the 2024 final to win his maiden ranking title.[9]
Format
The tournament uses a tiered format first implemented for the Home Nations Series in the 2024–25 snooker season. In the first qualifying round, players seeded 65–96 face those seeded 97 and under, including selected amateurs. In the second qualifying round, the 32 winners from the first qualifying round face players seeded 33–64. At the last-64 stage, the 32 winners from the second qualifying round face the top 32 seeds.[10] All matches will be played as best of seven frames until the quarter‑finals, which will be the best of nine. The semi‑finals will be the best of 11, and the final will be a best‑of‑17 frame match played over two sessions.
Prize fund
The prize fund for the tournament is detailed below.[11] In addition, the player who wins the most cumulative prize money across the season's four Home Nations Series events will receive a bonus of £150,000.[12]
- Winner: £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
- Total: £550,400
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Main draw
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The results of the main draw are shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeds, and players in bold denote match winners.
Top half
| Last 64 Best of 7 frames | Last 32 Best of 7 frames | Last 16 Best of 7 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | ||||||||||||||
 Lei Peifan (CHN) (1)
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- Note: w/d=withdrawn; w/o=walkover
Bottom half
| Last 64 Best of 7 frames | Last 32 Best of 7 frames | Last 16 Best of 7 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | ||||||||||||||
| Zhao Xintong (CHN) (2)
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- Note: w/d=withdrawn; w/o=walkover
Final
| Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Meadowbank Sports Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 21 December 2025 | ||
| – | ||
| Afternoon: Evening: | ||
| Highest break | ||
| Century breaks | ||
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Qualifying rounds
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The results of the early rounds will be shown below.
| Round 1 (Last 128) Best of 7 frames | Round 2 (Last 96) Best of 7 frames | |||||
| Gao Yang (CHN) |  Scott Donaldson (SCO) | |||||
 Connor Benzey (ENG) | ||||||
| Bai Yulu (CHN) | Robbie Williams (ENG) | |||||
 Kreishh Gurbaxani (IND) | ||||||
| Allan Taylor (ENG) | Mark Davis (ENG) | |||||
| Liam Graham (SCO) | ||||||
| Chang Bingyu (CHN) | Xu Si (CHN) | |||||
| Xu Yichen (CHN) | ||||||
| David Grace (ENG) | Lyu Haotian (CHN) | |||||
 Sahil Nayyar (CAN) | ||||||
 Robbie McGuigan (NIR) | Gong Chenzhi (CHN) | |||||
| Oliver Brown (ENG) | ||||||
 Farakh Ajaib (PAK) |  Daniel Wells (WAL) | |||||
| Liam Pullen (ENG) | ||||||
 Antoni Kowalski (POL) | David Lilley (ENG) | |||||
 Leone Crowley (IRL) | ||||||
| Dylan Emery (WAL) | Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND) | |||||
| Jack Borwick (SCO) (a) | ||||||
 Wang Yuchen (HKG) | Ricky Walden (ENG) | |||||
 Jonas Luz (BRA) | ||||||
| Cheung Ka Wai (HKG) | Fan Zhengyi (CHN) | |||||
| Fergal Quinn (NIR) | ||||||
| Haydon Pinhey (ENG) | Matthew Stevens (WAL) | |||||
 Mink Nutcharut (THA) | ||||||
| Steven Hallworth (ENG) |  Luca Brecel (BEL) | |||||
 Mahmoud El Hareedy (EGY) | ||||||
| Duane Jones (WAL) | Zak Surety (ENG) | |||||
| Patrick Whelan (ENG) (a) | ||||||
| Ken Doherty (IRL) | Stan Moody (ENG) | |||||
| Ross Muir (SCO) | ||||||
 Iulian Boiko (UKR) | Robert Milkins (ENG) | |||||
| Jimmy White (ENG) | ||||||
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