Full list of players who have qualified for the 2025 Masters snooker invitational event

With an increased top prize of £350,000, the second Triple Crown event of the 2024/25 World Snooker Tour season will take place at the Alexandra Palace in London between January 12-19.

Professional snooker’s most prestigious invitational event will be hosting its 51st staging, 50 years on from its maiden outing in 1975 when John Spencer ousted Ray Reardon on a re-spotted black ball in the deciding frame.

Only those ranked inside the world’s top 16 following the conclusion of the 2024 UK Championship will receive invites, and following the quarter-finals of that event in York, the identities of all 16 are now mathematically confirmed.

Two-time Masters finalist Barry Hawkins was the final player to confirm their spot.

List of players who have qualified for the 2025 Masters:

• Judd Trump
• Kyren Wilson
• Mark Selby
• Ronnie O'Sullivan
• Mark Allen
• Mark Williams
• Luca Brecel
• Shaun Murphy
• Ding Junhui
• Zhang Anda
• Gary Wilson
• Ali Carter
• Barry Hawkins
• Si Jiahui
• John Higgins
• Chris Wakelin

What is the format, and when is the draw for 2025 Masters Snooker?

The Masters is a 16-player straight knockout event played on one table at the Alexandra Palace. All matches are the best of 11 frames, except for the two-session, best of 19 frames final.

The top eight seeds are fixed into the draw and will be randomly drawn against seed numbers 9 to 16.

As the defending champion, Ronnie O’Sullivan is the number one seed. In 2024, O’Sullivan defeated Ali Carter 10-7 in the final to win his record-extending eighth Masters crown.

World Champion Kyren Wilson is the number two seed, and world number one Judd Trump is the third seed.

Mark Selby, Mark Allen, Mark Williams, Luca Brecel and Shaun Murphy are all confirmed to be one of the top eight seeds for the tournament, and will be drawn from bag one (although, their actual seeding position may not be confirmed until the completion of the UK Championship).

Hawkins will be in the second bag as one of the seeds numbered between 9 to 16, but how he finishes in York (at the time of writing, it is before the semi-finals) will determine his official seeding number.

The draw for the 2025 Masters will take place during the BBC’s live coverage of the 2024 UK Championship final on Sunday 1st December.

UPDATE: The draw has since been made and can be viewed here

Who will be making their Masters debuts in 2025?

Two players in the 2025 Masters field will be making their bows in the lucrative event; Si Jiahui and Chris Wakelin, who have both broken into the world’s top 16 for the first time in their careers in recent months.

Gary Wilson will be making his Alexandra Palace debut, although he played at the 2021 Masters when it was held behind-closed-doors in Milton Keynes due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The world number 19 at the time, Wilson received a late call-up when Judd Trump and Jack Lisowski were withdrawn because of positive Covid tests, and Anthony McGill declined his invite.

Two-time champion John Higgins will be making a record-extended 31st consecutive Masters appearance.

What is the prize money for the 2025 Masters? How much does the winner get?

There is a record prize fund of over £1 million for the 2025 staging of the Masters:

• Winner: £350,000
• Runner-up: £140,000
• Semi-final losers: £75,000
• Quarter-final losers: £40,000
• Last 16 losers: £25,000
• Highest break bonus: £15,000
• Total prize fund: £1,015,000