Player line-up confirmed for 2025 Tour Championship following qualification cut-off

The 2025 Tour Championship takes place at the Manchester Central between March 31 to April 6. It is the third and final Players Series event of the term, and features an elite field solely consisting of the top 12 players from this season's one-year ranking list.

All matches throughout the event are multi-session, best-of-19 frame affairs. The reigning champion is Mark Williams, who defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-5 in last year's final at the impressive Manchester venue.

There is a total prize fund of £500,000, with £150,000 of that going to the eventual champion.

Who has qualified for the 2025 Tour Championship?

Following the conclusion of the opening round of the 2025 Players Championship - the event preceding the 2025 Tour Championship - the identities of all 12 players who will be invited to the lucrative tournament are known, regardless of whatever else happens in Telford from the quarter-finals onwards.

All eight quarter-finalists in the ongoing Players Championship (at the time of writing) have already booked their spots for the Tour Championship, meaning no-one can drop out or come into the top 12.

The only thing that can change are the seeding positions of those 12 players for Manchester - determining where they fit in the fixed bracket draw and what round they start in. The top four on the one-year list will get passes to the quarter-finals, while those ranked 5 to 12 play in the first round.

The 12 players who have qualified for the 2025 Tour Championship are: Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson, Neil Robertson, John Higgins, Xiao Guodong, Mark Selby, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, Barry Hawkins, Ding Junhui, Si Jiahui and Wu Yize.

Title holder Williams is set to defend his crown, something Murphy and Robertson weren't able to do properly in 2024 and 2023 respectively as they didn't qualify.

A third of the field are from China, with Xiao, Si and Wu all set to make their Tour Championship debuts.

World number 22 Wu - who is enjoying his best season as a professional following final appearances at the English and Scottish Opens - is the only player from outside of the world's top 16 to make the cut.

The 21-year-old can still break into the sport's elite bracket for the first time and become a seed at the Crucible Theatre for the 2025 World Championship, but he will need to at least make the final in Manchester.

At the time of writing, Trump, Wilson and Robertson are all guaranteed to be in the top four of the one-year list for Manchester, meaning they all skip the opening round and start in the last eight.

Please note, the above information is reliant on all 12 players accepting their invites to the competition. Should someone not enter or withdraw before it begins, 13th-placed Chris Wakelin would be first in-line for a call-up.