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Championship League snooker 2025: Schedule, results, TV, stream FREE as Ronnie O’Sullivan & Judd Trump set to star

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AFTER a decent Christmas break snooker is BACK!

The Championship League is underway now with players seeing it as the perfect warm-up for the Masters, which returns on January 12.

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Ronnie O’Sullivan, Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson, Mark Allen – fresh off his massive win in Saudi Arabia – defending champion Mark Selby and the rest of the world’s top snooker players are all scheduled to appear.

Here’s everything you need to know for the tournament.

When is the Championship League snooker 2025?

The Championship League takes place from January 3 to February 4, although there is a break in the middle while the Masters takes place.

There are seven groups then a Winners’ group – more on the format is below.

The dates are as follows:

January 3-4 – Group 1
January 6-11 – Groups 2,3 and 4
January 20-25 – Groups 5, 6 and 7.
February 3-4 – Winners’ Group and play-offs

Who is playing in the Championship League snooker 2025 and what is the format?

All the big hitters are slated to play and seem ready to play.

That includes O’Sullivan, at the time of writing, who has pulled out of these type of events in recent months, but may want to get some form as we close in on the World Championships.

Group 1 (Jan 3-4) – Chris Wakelin, Gary Wilson, Jak Jones, Hossein Vafaie, Pang Junxu, Ryan Day, Elliot Slessor
Group 2 (Jan 6-7) – Ali Carter, Si Jiahui, Robert Milkins
Group 3 (Jan 8-9) – Ronnie O’Sullivan, Kyren Wilson, Mark Selby
Group 4 (Jan 10-11) – Barry Hawkins, Stuart Bingham, Jackson Page
Group 5 (Jan 20-21) – Judd Trump, Tom Ford, Neil Robertson
Group 6 (Jan 22-23) – David Gilbert, Jack Lisowski, Noppon Saengkham
Group 7 (Jan 24-25) – Xiao Guodong, Zhou Yuelong, Matthew Selt

The Championship league is a round robin of eight groups of seven players.

Trump vs Wilson

SNOOKER's Class of '92 are fading away - with two English superstars ready to forge a new era.

Judd Trump has declared he’s ready to battle reigning world champion Kyren Wilson for “the next 10 years” or more.

Current world No 1 Trump admitted Wilson’s meteoric rise over the last twelve months has “pushed him forward” as a player.

The Class of ’92 refers to the legendary trio of Ronnie O’Sullivan, John Higgins, and Mark Williamson.

With 14 world titles among them, the three players have dominated UK snooker over the past three decades.

But as their powers begin to fade, Wilson and Trump appear ready to fill the rivalry vacuum.

The top four from each group qualify for a play-off with the overall winner going straight into the Winners’ Group.

The bottom two are eliminated totally from the competition, while the other four move into the next group, where they are joined by three more players.

This format continues through all seven groups until the Winners’ Group is fulled.

The players are ranked by matches won, then most frames won, then least frames lost – if two players are tied, the player who won the head-to-head match finishes higher.

The play-off semi-finals are played between 1st and 4th and 2nd and 3rd, with the two winners meeting and then playing for a place in the Winners’ Group.

The overall winner secures a place in the 2025 Champion of Champions and earns a modest amount of prize money.