2025 Championship League Invitational Information

Monique Snooker

The 2025 Championship League Snooker Invitational starts tomorrow and WST, eventually, shared some more comprehensive information about who plays in it, when and how to watch.

LINE-UP CONFIRMED FOR CHAMPIONSHIP LEAGUE INVITATIONAL

The 2025 BetVictor Championship League Snooker Invitational is set to welcome 25 of the world’s best players, including defending champion Mark Selby, reigning World Champion Kyren Wilson, and fan favourites Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump.
 
Returning to the Mattioli Arena in Leicester, the tournament runs from January 3 to February 4, 2025. Players will compete across seven intense group stages, with the winners progressing to the Winners’ Group, where the ultimate champion will be crowned.
 
Confirmed Player Groups:
Group 1 (January 3–4):
•    Chris Wakelin
•    Gary Wilson
•    Jak Jones
•    Hossein Vafaei
•    Pang Junxu
•    Ryan Day
•    Elliot Slessor

Group 2 (January 6–7):
•    Ali Carter
•    Si Jiahui
•    Robert Milkins

Group 3 (January 8–9):
•    Ronnie O’Sullivan
•    Kyren Wilson
•    Mark Selby

Group 4 (January 10–11):
•    Barry Hawkins
•    Stuart Bingham
•    Jackson Page

Group 5 (January 20–21):
•    Judd Trump
•    Tom Ford
•    Neil Robertson

Group 6 (January 22–23):
•    David Gilbert
•    Jack Lisowski
•    Noppon Saengkham

Group 7 (January 24–25):
•    Xiao Guodong
•    Zhou Yuelong
•    Matthew Selt
 
Each group will follow a round-robin format, with the top four players advancing to a play-off to determine the group winner. The winners from Groups 1–7 will battle it out in the Winners’ Group, scheduled for February 3–4, to compete for the prestigious Championship League Snooker title and secure a place in the 2025 Champion of Champions.
 
Broadcast Information
Fans can watch the action unfold globally, with comprehensive live coverage available on two tables throughout the tournament. Table One will be streamed live on the Matchroom Pool YouTube channel and available to UK viewers as well as on Rigour in China and Viaplay in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Iceland. Table Two will be streamed live on the Matchroom Multi Sport YouTube channel, accessible to fans worldwide. A full broadcast schedule will be announced shortly.
 
With a £20,000 prize fund for the champion and additional financial rewards for each frame won, the 2025 BetVictor Championship League Snooker Invitational guarantees high-stakes drama and unforgettable moments. Don’t miss this exciting start to the snooker calendar!

Ronnie has entered the event and is scheduled to play in the week just before the Masters. I have absolutely no doubts that his interest in this event is to get good match practice against top opposition ahead of his Masters title defense. Nothing else and he’s probably not the only one with that mindset.

The event will be streamed on YouTube but from what I understand from the “broadcast information” table 1 will not be available worldwide. Why? Can someone explain to me why some of the action streamed on YouTube will be restricted to UK viewers? I guess it’s to protect the interests of the other broadcasters who will show it. OK, maybe, but once again the UK-centric nature of the whole organisation of the sport is blatantly apparent. It should be available in all regions not covered by Rigour and Viaplay, not just in the UK … or not at all outside those regions. If WST is serious about growing the sport worldwide, they should treat all fans equally no matter where they live.

9 thoughts on “2025 Championship League Invitational Information”

  4. CBSA exhibition event, day3, final match (2nd match of the day):

    Judd Trump v Ding Junhui: (Judd Trump made the 2nd 147 of the day here!)

  6. The Championship League is a pitiful excuse for a snooker tournament.

    A combination of meaningless and pointless group matches and nobody cares who wins it including the players.

    Await numerous withdrawals and replacements by players who have better things to do than play in an event which congrats the calendar unneccarily

  7. A good idea to get some match practice in against top opposition. My hunch is that if he doesn’t win group 3 and advance to the winners group, he will drop out. I don’t think he will play 4 consecutive days before his opening match on the Sunday but I might be wrong.

  9. Okay, silly question time from me: Why are there 7 players in group 1, and only 3 confirmed in the other groups? Does it mean that the other groups will also eventually be filled up to 7 spots, or is that a special just for group 1?

    Also, Viaplay for Scandinavia is… incredibly expensive if you just want to watch one event or one sport. It costs NOK 399,- per month here (about £28.30), and there’s no way I can randomly spend that kind of money to watch just this.

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