British Open Snooker 2026 | Draw, Live Scores, Results and Schedule of Play
Murphy claimed his first ranking title in two years in 2025 (Credit: Action Plus Sports Images)
The snooker season returns to UK soil for the 2026 British Open, and you can follow the latest results and schedule of play here.
After three successive tournaments in China, the world’s best players are back on home shores at The Centaur in Cheltenham, where the event will take place between August 31 and September 6 with a top prize of £100,000 at stake.
This will be the sixth consecutive edition of the tournament, which was initially a mainstay on the tour between 1980 and 2004, since it returned to the calendar in 2021.
Unlike most events, there is a random draw ahead of every round, meaning anyone can play anyone and there is no protection for the world’s top players.
All players outside the world’s top 16, whose matches were heldover to the main venue, came through a qualifier in Leicester last month.
Shaun Murphy is the reigning champion after beating Anthony McGill 10-7 in last year’s final.
The Magician is aiming to become a multiple winner of this tournament, along with four-time champion John Higgins and three-time victor Mark Williams, who will be among the players trying to stop him.
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Allen have withdrawn from the event, but the rest of the world’s best players will be on display this week.
They include new world number one Zhao Xintong and World champion Wu Yize, as well as 2024 British Open winner Mark Selby.
Judd Trump starts his mission to regain top spot in the WST rankings, while world number two Neil Robertson looks to close the gap on Zhao at the summit, and Kyren Wilson looks to progress beyond the British Open last 16 for the first time.
All matches up to and including the last 16 are contested over the best of seven frames, with the quarter-finals the best of nine, the semi-finals best of 11, and final best of 19.
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British Open 2026 Schedule of Play
Monday August 31
Round One (Round Two = R2)
1pm
Shaun Murphy v Reanne Evans
Mark Williams v David Gilbert
Ding Junhui v Anton Kazakov
Iulian Boiko v Xu Yichen (R2)
2pm
Barry Hawkins v Deng Haohui
Wu Yize v Liu Hongyu
Mark Joyce v Mateusz Baranowski
Florian Nuessle v Kyren Wilson
7pm
Xiao Guodong v Jiang Jun
Wang Xinbo v Patrick Whelan
Judd Trump v Dylan Emery
Chris Wakelin v Luca Brecel
8pm
Mark Selby v David Lilley
Pang Junxu v Neil Robertson
John Higgins v Hossein Vafaei
Ashley Carty v Si Jiahui
Tuesday September 1
Round Two (Round One = R1)
10am
Gong Chenzhi v He Guoqiang
Winner of Match 7 v Jordan Brown
1pm
Oliver Brown v Zhao Xintong (R1)
Chatchapong Nasa v Chang Bingyu
Liu Yang v Duane Jones
2pm
Joshua Thomond v Artemijs Zizins
Mahmoud El Hareedy v Liam Highfield
7pm
Elliot Slessor v Jamie Clarke
Steven Hallworth v Ishpreet Singh Chadha
8pm
Phil O’Kane v Michael Holt
Ali Carter v Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon
Wednesday September 2
Round Two
10am
Long Zehuang v Winner of Match 16
Matthew Stevens v Fan Zhengyi
1pm
Bai Yulu v Ross Muir
Jamie Jones v Winner of Match 1
2pm
David Grace v Zak Surety
Aaron Hill v Ben Mertens