Which professional snooker events are being played in November 2025? A list of tournaments and information

Tournaments will take place in three different areas of the world and there will be play across the month with just four days free of baize action.

A trio of first prizes all in excess of £150,000 are believed to be dished out - as well as a $1 million jackpot being on offer for an unprecedented feat - and this season's Triple Crown Series gets underway.

2025 International Championship (November 2-9)

The main venue, televised stages of the 11th edition of the International Championship take place in Nanjing, China with the South New City National Fitness Centre hosting the prestigious tournament for the second consecutive year.

Ding Juhnui will be defending the title; the national hero ended a near five-year wait for a ranking crown here last year when he defeated Chris Wakelin in the final.

A star-studded field is scheduled to be in the Far East with world number one Judd Trump, world champion Zhao Xintong, and seven-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan some of the big names on the programme.

The competition retains its longer format with all matches up to and including the quarter-finals being the best of 11 frames. The semi-finals are the best of 17 held over two sessions - with each fixture getting its own day - and the final is the best of 19.

The champion will pocket the top prize of £175,000. Visit our tournament information centre here for further details and the draw/results.

2025 Champion of Champions (November 10-16)

The day after the trophy is lifted in Nanjing, the latest staging of the Champion of Champions will break off.

One of the most popular stops on the snooker circuit amongst players and fans alike, the one-table extravaganza moves to a new home of the Mattioli Arena in Leicester.

This year's 16-player invitational field is exclusively made up of winners of events from across the past 12 months with Mark Williams being the first player to qualify having won last year's edition after defeating Xiao Guodong in the final.

Williams will aim to retain the title but faces a very stern test with nine other members of the world's current top 12 in the line-up.

The competition features four debutants: Tom Ford, Lei Peifan and Jack Lisowski - who have all won their maiden ranking event titles in recent months - and world seniors champion Alfie Burden who claimed the final spot.

The full prize money breakdown has yet to be officially released, but Williams pocketed £150,000 last year.

At the time of writing, the draw has yet to be made, and the full schedule probably won't be released until only a few days before with many top stars on the other side of the world for the International Championship.

2025 Riyadh Season Championship (November 19-21)

The third edition of this unique invitational takes place in Boulevard City within the Saudi Arabian capital.

The 12-player field consists of 10 professionals (the top nine from the world rankings after the Xi'an Grand Prix and world champion Zhao Xintong) and two local amateur wildcards.

A total prize fund of £785,000 is on offer in Riyadh - with a £250,000 winner’s purse - but there is an additional prize of $1 million if a player can complete a 167 'golden maximum', that's making a 147 followed by potting the 'gold' ball that is worth an additional 20 points.

The draw has been published with defending champion Mark Allen one of the top six seeds who don't enter the fray until the quarter-finals. The other players - including the inaugural champion O'Sullivan - start their campaigns earlier in the competition.

We have yet to see a 167 made, but with the huge amount of maximums already fashioned on this season's top flight, perhaps this is the most likely chance yet.

2025 UK Championship Qualifying (November 22-27)

Following those back-to-back invitationals, attention turns to the first Triple Crown event of the term with the qualifying rounds of the UK Championship set for the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan.

The UK Championship is one of the most important and longest-running events in professional snooker, with Patsy Fagan winning the first edition in 1977.

A total of 144 players will start out in this year's event, with 128 (including several top performing amateur invites) of those heading off to the qualifiers where four rounds will be played in a tiered system.

The amateurs and lowest-ranked professionals will start in the opening round with higher ranked cueists joining in later on. Only 16 players will emerge and qualify for the main draw in York a few days later.

2025 UK Championship (November 27-December 7)

The UK Championship main event gets underway on Saturday 27th November as the world's top 16 players come into the fold.

They will face the 16 qualifiers in the 32-player main draw which will initially be played across two tables and all in front of the television cameras.

After switching between venues down the years, the UK Championship appears to have found a permanent home at the Barbican Centre in York - a venue that has hosted this annual spectacular since 2011 (apart from 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic).

World number one Trump will be trying to become only the second player this century - after O'Sullivan in 2017 and 2018 - to register back-to-back UK glories. 'The Ace in the Pack' ousted Barry Hawkins 10-8 in last year's gripping final.

There is a total prize fund of over £1.2 million with £250,000 going to the champion. Matches are the best of 11 frames throughout the whole of qualifying and up to and including the semi-finals. The two-session final is the best of 19.