# Q School (snooker)

The Q School is an amateur snooker competition which serves as the qualification process for the World Snooker Tour. It is held annually, before the start of the professional season.

## Overview

The Q School was established in an attempt to streamline the qualification process for the World Snooker Tour. A series of play-offs are run every year before the season. Players pay a fixed entry fee to enter the play-off events, and there is no prize money. Qualifiers earn a two-year tour card on the Main Tour.

## Qualifiers

For each event, the players who qualified for the World Snooker Tour are listed.
| Year | Location | Entries | Event | End date | Qualifier 1 | Qualifier 2 | Qualifier 3 | Qualifier 4 |
| 2011 | Sheffield | 124 | Event 1 | 16 May | Andrew Norman | David Grace | Adam Wicheard | Robin Hull |
| 2011 | Sheffield | 124 | Event 2 | 22 May | Li Yan | David Morris | Simon Bedford | Tian Pengfei |
| 2011 | Sheffield | 124 | Event 3 | 28 May | Kurt Maflin | Stuart Carrington | Adam Duffy | David Gilbert |
| 2012 | Sheffield | 115 | Event 1 | 17 May | Martin O'Donnell | Sam Baird | Ian Burns | Chen Zhe |
| 2012 | Sheffield | 115 | Event 2 | 23 May | Daniel Wells | Jamie O'Neill | Sean O'Sullivan | Paul Davison |
| 2012 | Sheffield | 115 | Event 3 | 29 May | Rod Lawler | Michael Wasley | Joel Walker | Robbie Williams |
| 2013 | Sheffield | 110 | Event 1 | 14 May | Elliot Slessor | Alex Davies | Lee Page | Hammad Miah |
| 2013 | Sheffield | 110 | Event 2 | 18 May | Ahmed Saif | Ross Muir | Ryan Clark | Alexander Ursenbacher |
| 2013 | Sheffield | 110 | Event 3 | 22 May | David Morris | Lee Spick | Chris Wakelin | Fraser Patrick |
| 2014 | Gloucester | 145 | Event 1 | 15 May | Craig Steadman | Chris Melling | Zhang Anda | Tian Pengfei |
| 2014 | Gloucester | 145 | Event 2 | 21 May | Liam Highfield | Michael Georgiou | Lee Walker | Michael Leslie |
| 2015 | Burton- upon-Trent | 166 | Event 1 | 19 May | Sydney Wilson | Daniel Wells | Eden Sharav | Rhys Clark |
| 2015 | Burton- upon-Trent | 166 | Event 2 | 25 May | Jason Weston | Gareth Allen | Duane Jones | Paul Davison |
| 2016 | Burton- upon-Trent | 182 | Event 1 | 16 May | Fang Xiongman | Christopher Keogan | Cao Yupeng | Chen Zhe |
| 2016 | Burton- upon-Trent | 182 | Event 2 | 22 May | Michael Georgiou | John Astley | Alex Borg | David John |
| 2016 | Burton- upon-Trent | 182 | Order of Merit | Order of Merit | Craig Steadman | Jamie Curtis-Barrett | Ian Preece | Adam Duffy |
| 2017 | Preston | 206 | Event 1 | 14 May | Lukas Kleckers | Allan Taylor | Billy Joe Castle | Ashley Hugill |
| 2017 | Preston | 206 | Event 2 | 20 May | Duane Jones | Sanderson Lam | Paul Davison | Chen Zifan |
| 2017 | Preston | 206 | Order of Merit | Order of Merit | Zhang Yong | Sean O'Sullivan | Joe Swail | Martin O'Donnell |
| 2018 | Burton- upon-Trent | 202 | Event 1 | 19 May | Jak Jones | Sam Baird | Hammad Miah | Sam Craigie |
| 2018 | Burton- upon-Trent | 202 | Event 2 | 25 May | Jordan Brown | Craig Steadman | Lu Ning | Zhao Xintong |
| 2018 | Burton- upon-Trent | 202 | Event 3 | 31 May | Thor Chuan Leong | Kishan Hirani | Andy Lee | Ashley Carty |
| 2019 | Wigan | 218 | Event 1 | 23 May | Xu Si | David Lilley | Jamie O'Neill | Soheil Vahedi |
| 2019 | Wigan | 218 | Event 2 | 29 May | Chen Zifan | Riley Parsons | Louis Heathcote | Fraser Patrick |
| 2019 | Wigan | 218 | Event 3 | 4 June | Barry Pinches | Alex Borg | Alexander Ursenbacher | Andy Hicks |
| 2019 | Wigan | 218 | Order of Merit | Order of Merit | Si Jiahui | Billy Castle | Peter Lines | Lei Peifan |
| 2020 | Sheffield | 172 | Event 1 | 7 August | Lee Walker | Peter Devlin | Simon Lichtenberg | Fan Zhengyi |
| 2020 | Sheffield | 172 | Event 2 | 8 August | Jamie Jones | Zak Surety | Oliver Lines | Ben Hancorn |
| 2020 | Sheffield | 172 | Event 3 | 9 August | Rory McLeod | Jamie Wilson | Farakh Ajaib | Steven Hallworth |
| 2021 | Sheffield | 196 | Event 1 | 1 June | Peter Lines | Fraser Patrick | Jackson Page | Yuan Sijun |
| 2021 | Sheffield | 196 | Event 2 | 7 June | Barry Pinches | Craig Steadman | Michael Judge | Alfie Burden |
| 2021 | Sheffield | 196 | Event 3 | 13 June | Ian Burns | Lei Peifan | Dean Young | Duane Jones |
| 2021 | Sheffield | 196 | Order of Merit | Order of Merit | Hammad Miah | Mitchell Mann | – | – |
| 2022 | Sheffield | 173 | Event 1 | 21 May | Rod Lawler | Andy Lee | Fergal O'Brien | Bai Langning |
| 2022 | Sheffield | 173 | Event 2 | 27 May | Adam Duffy | Aaron Hill | Zak Surety | Sanderson Lam |
| 2022 | Sheffield | 173 | Event 3 | 2 June | James Cahill | John Astley | Jenson Kendrick | Lukas Kleckers |
| 2023 | Leicester | 208 | Event 1 | 31 May | Alexander Ursenbacher | Andrew Higginson | Liam Pullen | Andrew Pagett |
| 2023 | Leicester | 208 | Event 2 | 6 June | Dean Young | Louis Heathcote | Stuart Carrington | Alfie Burden |
| 2024 | Leicester | 167 | Event 1 | 26 May | Artemijs Zizins | Allan Taylor | Haydon Pinhey | Wang Yuchen |
| 2024 | Leicester | 167 | Event 2 | 1 June | Antoni Kowalski | Chris Totten | Farakh Ajaib | Mitchell Mann |

### Asia-Oceania Q School

| Year | Location | Entries | Event | End date | Qualifier 1 | Qualifier 2 |
| 2022 | Bangkok | 70 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 5 June | Muhammad Asif | Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon Asjad Iqbal |
| 2022 | Bangkok | 70 | Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 11 June | Dechawat Poomjaeng | Himanshu Jain |
| 2023 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 6 June | Thor Chuan Leong | Manasawin Phetmalaikul |
| 2023 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 12 June | Ishpreet Singh Chadha | He Guoqiang |
| 2024 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 27 May | Lim Kok Leong | Sunny Akani |
| 2024 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 2 June | Haris Tahir | Kreishh Gurbaxani |

## Statistics

* Craig Steadman has qualified from Q School on a record 4 occasions. Paul Davison, Fraser Patrick, Duane Jones and Alexander Ursenbacher have qualified through the event on three occasions.
* Michael Georgiou, Jordan Brown, David Gilbert, Fan Zhengyi, Fergal O'Brien and Zhao Xintong are the six Q-School qualifiers to win a ranking event. Zhao is the only one to have won multiple ranking events. O'Brien, Brown and Gilbert had been professionals before qualifying through Q School.
* The youngest qualifier through Q School was Lei Peifan at 15, while Peter Lines was the oldest, qualifying at 51 in 2021.