Q School (snooker)

The Q School is an amateur snooker competition which serves as the qualification process for the World Snooker Tour.

Overview
See also: World Snooker Tour

The Q School was established in an attempt to streamline the qualification process for the World Snooker Tour. A series of play-offs are run every year before the season. Players pay a fixed entry fee to enter the play-off events, and there is no prize money. Each player who wins a quarter-final game qualifies for a two-year tour card on the Main Tour.[1]

Winners by event

For each event, four winners which qualified for the World Snooker Tour are listed.

Season Date of final Players Event Qualifier 1 Qualifier 2 Qualifier 3 Qualifier 4
2011–12 11 May 2011[2] 124 Event 1 Andrew Norman David Grace Adam Wicheard Robin Hull
17 May 2011[3] Event 2 Li Yan David Morris Simon Bedford Tian Pengfei
23 May 2011[4] Event 3 Kurt Maflin Stuart Carrington Adam Duffy David Gilbert
2012–13 13 May 2012[5] 115 Event 1 Martin O'Donnell Sam Baird Ian Burns Chen Zhe
19 May 2012[6] Event 2 Daniel Wells Jamie O'Neill Sean O'Sullivan Paul Davison
25 May 2012[7] Event 3 Rod Lawler Michael Wasley Joel Walker Robbie Williams
2013–14 11 May 2013[8] 110 Event 1 Elliot Slessor Alex Davies Lee Page Hammad Miah
15 May 2013[9] Event 2 Ahmed Saif Ross Muir Ryan Clark Alexander Ursenbacher
19 May 2013[10] Event 3 David Morris Lee Spick Chris Wakelin Fraser Patrick
2014–15 10 May 2014[11] 145 Event 1 Craig Steadman Chris Melling Zhang Anda Tian Pengfei
16 May 2014[12] Event 2 Liam Highfield Michael Georgiou Lee Walker Michael Leslie
2015–16 14 May 2015[13] 166 Event 1 Sydney Wilson Daniel Wells Eden Sharav Rhys Clark
20 May 2015[14] Event 2 Jason Weston Gareth Allen Duane Jones Paul Davison
2016–17 16 May 2016[15] 182 Event 1 Fang Xiongman Christopher Keogan Cao Yupeng Chen Zhe
22 May 2016[16] Event 2 Michael Georgiou John Astley Alex Borg David John
22 May 2016[17][18] Order of Merit Craig Steadman Jamie Curtis-Barrett Ian Preece Adam Duffy
2017–18 14 May 2017[19] 206 Event 1 Lukas Kleckers Allan Taylor Billy Joe Castle Ashley Hugill
20 May 2017[20] Event 2 Duane Jones Sanderson Lam Paul Davison Chen Zifan
20 May 2017[21][22] Order of Merit Zhang Yong Sean O'Sullivan Joe Swail Martin O'Donnell
2018–19 19 May 2018[23] 202 Event 1 Jak Jones Sam Baird Hammad Miah Sam Craigie
25 May 2018[24] Event 2 Jordan Brown Craig Steadman Lu Ning Zhao Xintong
31 May 2018[25] Event 3 Thor Chuan Leong Kishan Hirani Andy Lee Ashley Carty
2019–20 23 May 2019[26] 218 Event 1 Xu Si David Lilley Jamie O'Neill Soheil Vahedi
29 May 2019[27] Event 2 Chen Zifan Riley Parsons Louis Heathcote Fraser Patrick
4 June 2019[28] Event 3 Barry Pinches Alex Borg Alexander Ursenbacher Andy Hicks
4 June 2019[29] Order of Merit Si Jiahui Billy Joe Castle Peter Lines Lei Peifan
Notes

Statistics
  • Paul Davison and Craig Steadman have both qualified through the event on a record three occasions.[22]
  • Michael Georgiou is the only Q-School qualifier to win a ranking event.
  • The highest rank reached by a player who has qualified through Q School is David Gilbert, who as of Nov 2019 is ranked number 10 in the world. This does not include Joe Swail, who was ranked number 10 long before he dropped off the tour and had to qualify through Q School.

References
  1. "World Snooker Q School". World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  2. "Qualifying School - Event One (2011)". Snooker.org. 2011-05-11.
  3. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2011)". Snooker.org. 2011-05-17.
  4. "Qualifying School - Event Three (2011)". Snooker.org. 2011-05-23.
  5. "Qualifying School - Event One (2012)". Snooker.org. 2012-05-13.
  6. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2012)". Snooker.org. 2012-05-19.
  7. "Qualifying School - Event Three (2012)". Snooker.org. 2012-05-25.
  8. "Qualifying School - Event One (2013)". Snooker.org. 2013-05-11.
  9. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2013)". Snooker.org. 2013-05-15.
  10. "Qualifying School - Event Three (2013)". Snooker.org. 2013-05-19.
  11. "Qualifying School - Event One (2014)". Snooker.org. 2014-05-10.
  12. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2014)". Snooker.org. 2014-05-16.
  13. "Qualifying School - Event One (2015)". Snooker.org. 2015-05-14.
  14. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2015)". Snooker.org. 2015-05-20.
  15. "Qualifying School - Event One (2016)". snooker.org. 2016-05-16.
  16. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2016)". snooker.org. 2016-05-22.
  17. "Q School Order of Merit (2016)". snooker.org. 2016-05-22.
  18. "Q School Event 2 Qualifiers". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association. 2016-05-22.
  19. "Qualifying School - Event One (2017)". snooker.org. 2017-05-14.
  20. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2017)". snooker.org. 2017-05-20.
  21. "Q School Order of Merit (2017)". snooker.org. 2017-05-20.
  22. "Lam secures immediate tour return". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association. 2017-05-20.
  23. "Qualifying School - Event One (2018)". snooker.org. 2018-05-19.
  24. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2018)". snooker.org. 2018-05-25.
  25. "Qualifying School - Event Three (2018)". snooker.org. 2018-05-31.
  26. "Qualifying School - Event One (2019)". snooker.org. 2019-05-23.
  27. "Qualifying School - Event Two (2019)". snooker.org. 2019-05-29.
  28. "Qualifying School - Event Three (2019)". snooker.org. 2019-06-04.
  29. "Q School Order of Merit (2019)". snooker.org. 2019-06-04.
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