The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has today announced the 2025/26 WPBSA Q Tour Global, which includes a new format and increased money for the Q Tour Europe series.
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The Q Tour Global is an established series of events which provides an elite pathway for talented snooker players around the world to earn their place on the World Snooker Tour.
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In its second full season, Q Tour Global continued to see records broken with 711 players from 54 countries completing 1542 matches across four continents.
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WPBSA Q Tour Europe
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This season’s Q Tour Europe will once again comprise seven events, with five to be held in mainland Europe for the first time, and sees significant changes to the format, ranking system and prize money following player feedback.
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- Prize money more than doubled from the 2024/25 season to £30,000 per event
- New seeding structure
- Best-of-seven frame matches from the last 128 stage onwards
- New points-based ranking system
- Regular seeding cut-off dates introduced to make the seedings per event more up to date and relative to the current seasons results
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The circuit will benefit from increased prize money investment with £30,000 to be contested at each of the events – more than double the prize fund from the past season.
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Following player feedback, there has also been an important change to the tournament seeding structure, which will now see 64 players seeded through to the last 128 stage. Each tournament will be played under a flat draw, with the remaining players drawn at random.
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All matches from the last 128 stage onwards will now be played over the best of seven frames and each event will now be played over four days.
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A new points-based ranking system will replace the previously used prize money system and points will be on offer in all rounds of each event. There will also be regular seeding cut-off dates to ensure the seedings reflect the current seasons results.
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As in previous seasons, the top ranked player at the end of the campaign will earn a place on the World Snooker Tour. The next 16-ranked players (to include each event champion) will qualify for the season-end Q Tour Global Playoff.
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The Dates
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The provisional dates for this season’s Q Tour Europe are:
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- Q Tour 1 – 28-31 August 2025 – Snookerhallen, SWEDEN
- Q Tour 2 – 25-28 September 2025 – Vienna, AUSTRIA
- Q Tour 3 – 9-12 October 2025 – Golem, ALBANIA
- Q Tour 4 – 29 October – 1 November 2025 – Northern Snooker Centre, UK
- Q Tour 5 – 4-7 December 2025 – Bulgarian Snooker Academy, BULGARIA
- Q Tour 6 – 12-15 February 2026 – Mons, BELGIUM
- Q Tour 7 – 26 February – 1 March 2026 – Landywood Snooker Club, UK
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All dates are provisional and subject to change.
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All Q Tour Europe events in England will be held at official 147 Clubs recognised by the English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards.
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“A great start to building for the future”
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WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson said: “We are delighted to announce the new, improved WPBSA Q Tour Europe series for the 2025/26 season. We have listened to the players and consulted with the WPBSA Players Board and we believe these changes are a great start to building for the future not just in Europe but across all the Q Tour Global events.”
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“As we move forward, we plan to make further improvements so that WPBSA can establish a truly global secondary tour for our sport. These changes are only the beginning!”
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Event Entry
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Entry for all seven Q Tour Europe events is now open via WPBSA SnookerScores. Please view each tournament for confirmation of each entry deadline.
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We aim to accommodate all players who wish to enter; however, we do reserve the right to limit entries for each qualifier or to extend events subject to the number of tables available at the club and time available.
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Q Tour Global
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WPBSA Q Tour Global will continue to incorporate regional Q Tour series’ staged around the world as part of the continued international expansion of Q Tour.
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The Q Tour Global will once again continue to include series in the Middle East, Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, alongside the CBSA China Tour.
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As part of the WPBSA’s commitment to the international growth of our sport, the leading players from these Regional Q Tour events will qualify to compete at the Q Tour Global Playoff, alongside players from Q Tour Europe.
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Players competing in Q Tour events outside of Europe, must be resident for a minimum six months to be eligible to play in these events.
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