2026 World Snooker Championship

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The 2026 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2026 Halo World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 18 April to 4 May 2026 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 50th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was staged at the venue. Qualifying took place from 6 to 15 April at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The 18th and final ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, the tournament was broadcast domestically by BBC Sport, in Europe by Eurosport, and globally by other broadcasters. The winner received £500,000 from a total prize fund of £2,395,000. The main stage featured a record eleven players from mainland China. There were four Crucible debutants: He Guoqiang, Antoni Kowalski, Stan Moody, and Liam Pullen. Zhao Xintong was the defending champion, having defeated Mark Williams 18–12 in the 2025 final, but he lost 10–13 to Shaun Murphy in the quarter-finals, becoming the 21st player to experience the...

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