2025–26 Q Tour

The 2025–26 Q Tour is an ongoing series of second-tier snooker tournaments, run by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, that will take place during the 2025–26 snooker season, for players not on the main World Snooker Tour.

A series of seven Q Tour Europe events will be played, with the leading money-winner gaining a place on the main tour for the 2026–27 snooker season. Eighteen players – the highest-ranked players who have not already secured a place on the main tour for the 2026–27 season – gained entry to a further event, the WPBSA Q Tour Global Play-Off. They are joined by five players from the Regional Q Tour winners outside Europe and one player from the CBSA China Tour third-ranked. These players will compete for a further three places on the World Snooker Tour.^[1]

This season sees an increase of prize money, more than doubled from £14,300 last season to £30,000 per event. An extended event duration from three to four days, along with a new seeding structure and points-based system, are also introduced.^[2]

Q Tour Europe events are generally played over four days. The first day is an open qualifying day with 16 places available. The main draw starts on the second day when the 16 qualifiers are joined by the 48 seeded players who qualified based on their rankings in the 2025 Q School Orders of Merit to make a first round field of 64 players. There are two rounds on the second day and a further four on the final day, to determine the winner of the event. The 48 who qualified directly included the top 32 eligible players from the 2024 UK Q School Order of Merit, the top eight from the 2025 Asia-Oceania Q School Order of Merit, and the eight highest ranked junior players on the 2024 UK Q School Order of Merit, not already qualified.^[1]

Each Q Tour Europe event featured a prize fund of £30,000, with the winner receiving £6,000.

The schedule for the Q Tour Europe events is given below.^[1]

Date		Country	Tournament	Venue	City	Field	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Ref.
28 Aug	31 Aug	SWE	Event 1	Snookerhallen	Stockholm	94
25 Sep	28 Sep	AUT	Event 2	Austrian Snooker Academy	Vienna
9 Oct	12 Oct	ALB	Event 3	The Grand Blue Fafa Resort	Kafaje
29 Oct	1 Nov	ENG	Event 4	Northern Snooker Centre	Leeds
4 Dec	7 Dec	BUL	Event 5	Bulgarian Snooker Academy	Sofia
12 Feb	15 Feb	BEL	Event 6	Delta Moon Snooker Club	Mons
26 Feb	1 Mar	ENG	Event 7	Landywood Snooker Club	Great Wyrley

The Q Tour Global will consist of regional Q Tour series held outside Europe.

The schedule for the Q Tour Americas events is given below.^[3]

Date		Country	Tournament	Venue	City	Field	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Ref.
19 Jun	22 Jun	BRA	Event 1	Iate Club	Rio de Janeiro	40	Igor Figueiredo (BRA)	Claudio Menechini (BRA)	5–1	[4]
12 Dec	14 Dec	USA	Event 2
10 Jan	12 Jan	CAN	Event 3		Toronto

The schedule for the Q Tour Asia Pacific events is given below.^[3]

Date		Country	Tournament	Venue	City	Field	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Ref.
27 Jun	29 Jun	AUS	Event 1	Pot Black North Perth	Perth	41	Vinnie Calabrese (AUS)	Salman Asif (AUS)	5–0	[5]
11 Jul	13 Jul	NZL	Event 2	Cuthberts Green	Christchurch	56	Cody Turner (NZL)	Mark Canovan (NZL)	5–1	[6]
1 Aug	3 Aug	AUS	Event 3	Commercial Club Albury	Albury	82	Steve Mifsud (AUS)	Hassan Kerde (AUS)	4–0	[7]
9 Oct	12 Oct	AUS	Event 4		Sydney
29 Jan	1 Feb	AUS	Event 5		Brisbane