So we start September off at Stadium MK , Marshall Arena , Milton Keynes with the announcements that a number of key events will be hosted starting with the
Championship League – Milton Keynes Commencing on the 13th -20th Sept
European Masters – Milton Keynes 21st-27th Sept
Championship League – Milton Keynes 28th Sept- 5th Oct
The draw for Championship League Snooker has been made and we see Judd Trump set to get the new season off to a flying start with the Stadium MK making the phenomenal base for the upcoming tournaments right the way up until the end of November.
Following the unprecedented success of this summer’s Championship League, the event has been expanded to a full World Snooker ranking event feature 128 players over 21 days, split into three weeks across September and October.
Trump is the seeded player in Group One, where he will be joined by Alan McManus, David Lilley and Fan Zhengyi.
On the same day, we see Group Two taking place with Matthew Stevens, Ryan Day, Rod Lawler and Paul Davison featuring.
Luca Brecel, who won the summer’s Championship League has been drawn into Group 27 where he will face Tom Ford, Mitchell Mann and Ashley Hugill.
We then see World Champion Ronnie O’Sullivan enter the tournament in Group 32 on Monday, October 5, concluding the second and final week of Stage One action. ‘O’Sullivan ’ has been drawn to face Hang Li, Alex Borg and Iulian Boiko in his group.
Players were seeded according to their World Ranking after the World Snooker Championship.
- STAGE ONE will be played across two blocks of eight days: September 13-20 and September 28–October 5. This stage features 32 groups of four players, with two tables per day hosting one group each. The player who tops each group will progress to Stage Two.
- STAGE TWO (October 26-29) sees the 32 group winners split into eight further groups of four, with two groups per day also played over two tables.
- STAGE THREE (October 30) will see the eight Stage Two Group Winners battle it out over two final groups, with the two group winners contesting the best-of-5 final.
Each group of four is a round robin, with matches played as best-of-four frames.
Players are awarded three points for a win and one point for a draw.
Players who conclude the group on an equal number of points will be separated, in this order, by net frame difference, head-to-head result and, if the players are still tied, by the highest break achieved in the group.
CHAMPIONSHIP LEAGUE SNOOKER DRAW – Stage One
STAGE ONE – WEEK ONE– Featuring Players from the 13th -20th Sept
| Sunday, September 13 | ||
| Group 1 | Group 2 | |
| Judd Trump | Matthew Stevens | |
| Alan McManus | Ryan Day | |
| David Lilley | Rod Lawler | |
| Fan Zhengyi | Paul Davison |
| Monday, September 14 | ||
| Group 3 | Group 4 | |
| Gary Wilson | Barry Hawkins | |
| Robert Milkins | Sam Craigie | |
| Chen Zifan | Jackson Page | |
| Jamie Jones | Ben Hancorn |
| Tuesday, September 15 | ||
| Group 5 | Group 6 | |
| Stephen Maguire | Zhou Yuelong | |
| Louis Heathcote | Ricky Walden | |
| Dominic Dale | Gerard Greene | |
| Leo Fernandez | Jianbo Zhao |
| Wednesday, September 16 | ||
| Group 7 | Group 8 | |
| Matthew Selt | Shaun Murphy | |
| Ben Woollaston | Martin O’Donnell | |
| Si Jiahui | Jimmy White | |
| Yang Gao | Peter Devlin |
| Thursday, September 17 | ||
| Group 21 | Group 10 | |
| David Gilbert | Zhao Xingtong | |
| Lu Ning | Liam Highfield | |
| Xu Si | Nigel Bond | |
| Aaron Hill | Oliver Brown |
| Friday, September 18 | ||
| Group 18 | Group 12 | |
| Xiao Guodong | Stuart Bingham | |
| Hossein Vafaei | Yuan Sijun | |
| Jak Jones | James Cahill | |
| Farakh Ajaib | Junxu Pang |
| Saturday, September 19 | ||
| Group 13 | Group 14 | |
| Jack Lisowski | Graeme Dott | |
| Ian Burns | Liang Wenbo | |
| Fraser Patrick | Soheil Vahedi | |
| Rory McLeod | Zak Surety |
| Sunday, September 20 | ||
| Group 15 | Group 16 | |
| Michael Holt | Mark Selby | |
| Anthony Hamilton | Lyu Haotian | |
| Jamie O’Neill | Brandon Sargeant | |
| Sean Maddocks | Fergal O’Brien |
STAGE ONE – WEEK TWO -Featuring Players from the 28th Sept –5th Oct
| Monday, September 28 | ||
| Group 17 | Group 11 | |
| Neil Robertson | Anthony McGill | |
| Andrew Higginson | Alexander Ursenbacher | |
| Eden Sharav | Riley Parsons | |
| Ken Doherty | Lukas Kleckers |
| Tuesday, September 29 | ||
| Group 19 | Group 20 | |
| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | Yan Bingtao | |
| Sunny Akani | Stuart Carrington | |
| Peter Lines | Jordan Brown | |
| Lee Walker | Michael White |
| Wednesday, September 30 | ||
| Group 9 | Group 22 | |
| Mark Allen | Scott Donaldson | |
| Luo Honghao | Chris Wakelin | |
| Billy Castle | Barry Pinches | |
| Jamie Wilson | Ashley Carty |
| Thursday, October 1 | ||
| Group 23 | Group 24 | |
| Jimmy Robertson | Kyren Wilson | |
| Mark King | Daniel Wells | |
| David Grace | Duane Jones | |
| Allan Taylor | Kuldesh Johal |
| Friday, October 2 | ||
| Group 25 | Group 26 | |
| John Higgins | Kurt Maflin | |
| Joe O’Connor | Martin Gould | |
| Amine Amiri | Igor Figueiredo | |
| Brian Ochoiski | Simon Lichtenberg |
| Saturday, October 3 | ||
| Group 27 | Group 28 | |
| Tom Ford | Mark Williams | |
| Luca Brecel | Mark Joyce | |
| Mitchell Mann | Lei Peifan | |
| Ashley Hugill | Jamie Clarke |
| Sunday, October 4 | ||
| Group 29 | Group 30 | |
| Joe Perry | Ali Carter | |
| Elliot Slessor | Mark Davis | |
| Kacper Filipiak | Chang Bingyu | |
| Steven Hallworth | Jamie Curtis-Barrett |
| Monday, October 5 | ||
| Group 31 | Group 32 | |
| Noppon Saengkham | Ronnie O’Sullivan | |
| Tian Pengfei | Hang Li | |
| Robbie Williams | Alex Borg | |
| Oliver Lines | Iulian Boiko |
