What is the prize money at the 2025 World Snooker Championship? How much does the Crucible winner get?

The 2025 edition of snooker's blue riband event in Sheffield takes place across 27 days; 10 days of qualifying at the English Institute of Sport (April 7-16) and 17 days at the main venue, the Crucible Theatre (April 19-May 5).

Kyren Wilson is the reigning and defending World Snooker Champion after he won the crown for the first time in his career in 2024 after defeating Jak Jones 18-14 in the final.

Wilson is set to return to the scene of his greatest triumph on the opening day of this year's Championship where he will face a qualifier in round one.

World number one Judd Trump, seven-time World Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, and John Higgins - winner of the last competition on the professional circuit, The Tour Championship - are just some of the other big names scheduled to be at the Crucible.

The World Snooker Tour continues to expand, with several new, lucrative events introduced to the calendar over the past 18 months. Saudi Arabia has suddenly become a big player on the circuit with two events - the Riyadh Season Invitational that features a gold ball worth $1 million, and the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters ranking tournament that has a first prize of £500,000.

The World Grand Prix recently moved to a new state-of-the-art venue in Hong Kong and received a big boost in prize money at the same time, while the new Xi’an Grand Prix in China near the start of this season had one of the weightiest prize pots of the campaign, too.

However, the World Snooker Championship remains the sport’s wealthiest event. This year’s edition has a regular total prize fund of £2,395,000, this is slightly more than the aforementioned Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters that is now the second richest stop on the circuit.

Heading into the Crucible, Trump has made nearly £1.5 million in tournament earnings alone this season. Wilson is nearly at the £1 million mark for seasonal winnings.

2025 World Snooker Championship Prize Money:

The winner of the 2025 World Snooker Championship will receive £500,000. This has been the first prize every year since 2019.

All 32 players who appear for the televised stages at the Crucible are already guaranteed at least £20,000.

Due to the prize money-based world ranking system that the professional tour currently uses, money won at ranking events is added to a player’s cumulative ranking total which is on a two-year rolling cycle.

However, players in the World Championship only receive these ranking points if they win their opening match of the tournament. So, if any of the world’s top 16 lose their first round match at the Crucible, they will collect the actual money, but it won’t get added to their ranking.

Like other events on the circuit, highest break and 147 bonus prizes don’t get added to ranking totals.

Breakdown of prize money at the 2025 World Snooker Championship:

• Winner: £500,000
• Runner-up: £200,000
• Semi-finalists: £100,000 (each)
• Quarter-finalists: £50,000 (each)
• Last 16 losers: £30,000 (each)
• Last 32 losers: £20,000 (each)
• Last 48 losers: £15,000 (each)
• Last 80 losers: £10,000 (each)
• Last 112 losers: £5,000 (each)
• Highest tournament break: £15,000 (eligible during qualifying and at the main venue)
• Total prize fund: £2,395,000

John Spencer - the winner of the first World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre in 1977 - collected £6,000 from the overall prize pot of £17,000.

At the turn of the new millennium, the 2000 champion Mark Williams banked £240,000.

What is the prize for making a 147 break at the 2025 World Snooker Championship?

There is no better snooker tournament on the planet to compile a maximum 147 break than the World Championship, and even better if it is made on the sport’s grandest stage of the Crucible.

Young Welshman Jackson Page made snooker history during this year’s World Championship in his third qualifying round match against Allan Taylor at the English Institute of Sport when he completed perfection in both frames eight and twelve, becoming the first player ever to make more than one 147 break within the same professional match.

There was a £10,000 bonus for a 147 break made during the qualifiers at the EIOS. If multiple people were to compile one, that sum would be shared.

It is understood that there is a £40,000 bonus prize for a maximum 147 break made at the Crucible this year. Again, if more than one person achieves this, the kitty would be split.

As for Page, though, because of his double maximum heroics, he is already guaranteed to bank £147,000 for making more than one maximum 147 break across this season’s four biggest events on the World Snooker Tour - the Saudi Arabia Masters, UK Championship, Masters, World Championship.

This special bonus prize has been unlocked for the first time; it was first introduced on to the professional circuit last season - although back then it was for the three Triple Crown events as the Saudi Arabia Masters hadn’t taken place yet.