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Ronnie O’Sullivan will aim to boost a disappointing season by his own lofty standards when he defends his UK Championship in York.
O’Sullivan, the sport’s biggest name, has missed out on every tournament final so far this season including semi-final exits at the Xi’an Grand Prix and Shanghai Masters.
2024 UK Championship snooker TV channel, live stream anywhere
- TV Channel: BBC One, BBC Two, Eurosport
- Live stream: Discovery+, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website, WST.TV (UK Only)
- Live Stream Anywhere: FanFanatics Live (Worldwide)
As one of the three Triple Crown events – the biggest tournaments in global snooker bar none – alongside the World Championship and the Masters, this year’s UK Championship has a plethora of TV and live streaming options for British fans to follow the action.
The BBC are providing free-to-air coverage of the entire tournament via their various TV and streaming networks, with matches shown across BBC One, and BBC Two, as well as on the iPlayer and BBC Sport website. Fans with access or a subscription to Eurosport can also follow the action via their coverage.
Fans can also catch the action both live and on-demand via a Discovery+ subscription, with the streaming service having a coverage partnership with Eurosport and access to their commentary feed. The World Snooker Tour’s streaming service, wst.tv, are also providing live coverage for fans across the globe.
Snooker UK Championship: Main draw, results, schedule
Nov. 23-26: First round (Best of 11 frames)
(Matches are in order of bracket. The winner of the first match in this order will face the winner of the second in the next round, and so on)
- Ronnie O’Sullivan vs. Barry Hawkins
- Ziao Guodong vs. David Gilbert
- Shaun Murphy vs. Zhao Xintong
- Ding Junhui vs. Robert Milkins
- Mark Selby vs. Jack Lisowski
- Ali Carter vs. Ryan Day
- Si Jiahui vs. Wu Yize
- Mark Allen vs. Jackson Page
- Judd Trump vs. Neil Robertson
- John Higgins vs. He Guoqiang
- Zhang Anda vs. Lei Peifan
- Mark Williams vs. Stuart Bingham
- Luca Brecel vs. Jak Jones
- Gary Wilson vs. Michael Holt
- Chris Wakelin vs. Matthew Selt
- Kyren Wilson vs. Stephen Maguire
Nov. 27: Second round (Best of 11 frames)
- TBD
Nov. 28: Quarter-finals (Best of 11 frames)
- TBD
Nov. 29: Semi-finals (Best of 11 frames)
- TBD
Dec. 1: Final (Best of 19 frames)
- TBD
When is the snooker UK Championship this year?
The main tournament runs from Saturday, November 23 to Sunday, December 1.
Who is playing at the UK Championship?
Since 2022, the tournament has utilised a similar format to the World Championship. The top 16 seeds in the world automatically qualify for the tournament, and are as follows (number denotes seed, nationality in brackets):
- Ronnie O’Sullivan (ENG)
- Kyren Wilson (ENG)
- Judd Trump (ENG)
- Mark Allen (NIR)
- Mark Selby (ENG)
- Mark Williams (WAL)
- Luca Brecel (BEL)
- Ding Junhui (CHN)
- Shaun Murphy (ENG)
- Gary Wilson (ENG)
- Zhang Anda (CHN)
- Ali Carter (ENG)
- Si Jiahui (CHN)
- John Higgins (SCO)
- Chris Wakelin (ENG)
- Xiao Guodong (CHN)
Each of the 16 seeds will face a qualifier in the first round, a straight elimination round-of-32.
