2025 Scottish Open snooker tournament information: Who is playing in Edinburgh and what is the draw?
The final professional snooker title of 2025 will be claimed at the latest edition of the Scottish Open held at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh between December 15-21.
This is the third leg of this season’s four-pronged Home Nations Series; Mark Allen won September’s English Open in Brentwood and Jack Lisowski secured an emotional maiden ranking event triumph at the Northern Ireland Open in Belfast in October. The Welsh Open in Llandudno will round off the Series in February/March 2026.
Lei Peifan returns to the Scottish capital city as the reigning and defending champion. The Chinese youngster won his first ranking title after defeating compatriot Wu Yize in the 2024 final to lift The Stephen Hendry Trophy and become one of the unlikeliest winners of a professional event, ever.
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What is the format for the 2025 Scottish Open, how does the draw work?
Like all Home Nations Series events these days, the Scottish Open uses a tiered draw, meaning players begin their campaigns in different rounds depending on their world ranking position.
The top 32 seeds for the tournament all went straight through to the last 64 when the main venue, televised stages in Edinburgh start.
The remaining 96 entrants had to go to the qualifying rounds that were held at the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan in October. Those preliminary ties yielded the 32 qualifiers who will line up against the top ranked stars at the Meadowbank.
Matches up to and including the last 16 are the best of 7 frames. Quarter-finals are the best of 9 frames, semi-finals are the best of 11, and the two-session final is the best of 17.
Who is playing in the 2025 Scottish Open? Draw and results
From the world's top 32 rankings, only three players elected to skip this year's Scottish Open - Judd Trump, Ronnie O'Sullivan, and Ding Junhui. Neil Robertson, Mark Williams, and Jak Jones all entered, but subsequently withdrew.
As the title holder, Lei is the number one seed, and he is set to begin his defence against Iran's Amir Sarkhosh during the opening session on Monday morning.
Fresh from his recent UK Championship glory which followed his Champion of Champions triumph on home soil in Leicester, Mark Selby is going for three titles in as many appearances and will begin his campaign against Northern Irish youngster Robbie McGuigan.
Selby (2019, 2020) is one of four players who have won this title before and remain in the main draw in Edinburgh. The others are Mark Allen (2018), Gary Wilson (2022, 2023) and reigning champ Lei.
Only one Scottish player in the history of the event has claimed the title, that was Stephen Hendry in 1999, long before the trophy was named after him and this tournament became part of the Home Nations Series. Three Scotsman are left in this year's edition: John Higgins, Stephen Maguire, Anthony McGill.
As well as the £100,000 top prize on offer over the coming days, we may get a lot closer to discovering who will pocket the £150,000 bonus for the player who earns the most cumulative prize money across all four Home Nations Series events this season.
Allen currently leads the way with £121,000, twelve grand in front of Lisowski. Zhou Yuelong - who reached the final in Brentwood and semis in Belfast - is third with £66,000.
Last 64:
Lei Peifan 4-3 Amir Sarkhosh
Yuan Sijun 4-1 Ben Woollaston
Chris Wakelin 4-2 Oliver Lines
Tom Ford 1-4 Anthony McGill
Stuart Bingham 4-2 Artemijs Zizins
Shaun Murphy 4-3 Liu Hongyu
Zhou Yuelong 4-3 Sam Craigie
Xiao Guodong 4-3 Michael Holt
Mark Williams o/w Ben Mertens
Jackson Page 0-4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Barry Hawkins 0-4 Jiang Jun
David Gilbert 4-1 Ashley Hugill
Wu Yize 4-0 Ian Burns
Gary Wilson 1-4 Lan Yuhao
Matthew Selt 4-2 Ryan Day
Neil Robertson o/w He Guoqiang
Kyren Wilson 4-1 Gao Yang
Pang Junxu 4-3 Robbie Williams
Si Jiahui 4-3 Mark Davis
Stephen Maguire 2-4 Chang Bingyu
Hossein Vafaei 4-2 David Grace
Mark Selby 4-1 Robbie McGuigan
Noppon Saengkham 4-3 Liam Pullen
John Higgins 4-2 Antoni Kowalski
Mark Allen 4-0 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Jack Lisowski 1-4 Wang Yuchen
Zhang Anda 4-1 Fan Zhengyi
Jak Jones o/w Matthew Stevens
Elliot Slessor 4-0 Steven Hallworth
Ali Carter 2-4 Zak Surety
Joe O'Connor 4-3 Stan Moody
Zhao Xintong w/o Robert Milkins
Last 32:
Lei 3-4 Yuan
Wakelin 4-0 McGill
Bingham 4-1 Murphy
Zhou 4-2 Xiao
Mertens 2-4 Un-Nooh
Jiang 4-3 Gilbert
Wu 4-0 Lan
Selt 4-0 He
K. Wilson 4-1 Pang
Si 1-4 Chang
Vafaei 0-4 Selby
Saengkham 4-0 Higgins
Allen 4-0 Wang
Zhang 4-0 Stevens
Slessor 1-4 Surety
O'Connor 4-2 Zhao
Last 16
Yuan 2-4 Wakelin
Bingham 3-4 Zhou
Un-Nooh 1-4 Jiang
Wu 1-4 Selt
K. Wilson 1-4 Chang
Selby 4-0 Saengkham
Allen 4-3 Zhang
Surety 2-4 O'Connor
Quarter-Finals
Wakelin 5-3 Zhou
Jiang 2-5 Selt
Chang 5-3 Selby
Allen 5-2 O’Connor
Semi-Finals
Wakelin 6-4 Selt
Chang 6-1 Allen
Final
Wakelin 9-2 Chang
Tournament schedule:
- Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th: Last 64
- Wednesday 17th: Last 32
- Thursday 18th: Last 16
- Friday 19th: Quarter-finals
- Saturday 20th: Semi-finals
- Sunday 21st: Final
What is the prize money and how much does the champion get?
- Champion: £100,000
- Runner-up: £45,000
- Losing semi-finalists: £21,000 (each)
- Losing quarter-finals: £13,200 (each)
- Round of 16 losers: £9,000 (each)
- Round of 32 losers: £5,400 (each)
- Round of 64 losers: £3,600 (each)
- Round of 96 losers: £1,000 (each)
- Highest break of the event: £5,000
- Total prize fund: £550,400
How to watch the 2025 Scottish Open:
UK & Ireland: TNT Sports and discovery+, DMAX (Freeview channel showing weekday afternoon sessions and all semi-final / final sessions)
Mainland Europe: Eurosport and locally relevant streaming platforms (discovery+ in Germany, Italy and Austria and HBO Max in all other markets)
China: Huya.com, Migu,CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel, CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong China: Now TV
Malasyia & Brunei: Astro Supersport
Taiwan: Sportcast
Thailand: True Sport
Philippines: TAP Sports
All other territories: WST Play