Q School (snooker)

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. Each player who wins a quarter-final game qualifies for a two-year tour card on the Main Tour.[1]

For each event, four winners which qualified for the World Snooker Tour are listed.

Season	Date of final	Ref	Players	Event	Qualifier 1	Qualifier 2	Qualifier 3	Qualifier 4
2011–12	11 May 2011	[2]	124	Event 1	Andrew Norman	David Grace	Adam Wicheard	Robin Hull
	17 May 2011	[3]		Event 2	Li Yan	David Morris	Simon Bedford	Tian Pengfei
	23 May 2011	[4]		Event 3	Kurt Maflin	Stuart Carrington	Adam Duffy	David Gilbert
2012–13	13 May 2012	[5]	115	Event 1	Martin O'Donnell	Sam Baird	Ian Burns	Chen Zhe
	19 May 2012	[6]		Event 2	Daniel Wells	Jamie O'Neill	Sean O'Sullivan	Paul Davison
	25 May 2012	[7]		Event 3	Rod Lawler	Michael Wasley	Joel Walker	Robbie Williams
2013–14	11 May 2013	[8]	110	Event 1	Elliot Slessor	Alex Davies	Lee Page	Hammad Miah
	15 May 2013	[9]		Event 2	Ahmed Saif	Ross Muir	Ryan Clark	Alexander Ursenbacher
	19 May 2013	[10]		Event 3	David Morris	Lee Spick	Chris Wakelin	Fraser Patrick
2014–15	10 May 2014	[11]	145	Event 1	Craig Steadman	Chris Melling	Zhang Anda	Tian Pengfei
	16 May 2014	[12]		Event 2	Liam Highfield	Michael Georgiou	Lee Walker	Michael Leslie
2015–16	14 May 2015	[13]	166	Event 1	Sydney Wilson	Daniel Wells	Eden Sharav	Rhys Clark
	20 May 2015	[14]		Event 2	Jason Weston	Gareth Allen	Duane Jones	Paul Davison
2016–17	16 May 2016	[15]	182	Event 1	Fang Xiongman	Christopher Keogan	Cao Yupeng	Chen Zhe
	22 May 2016	[16]		Event 2	Michael Georgiou	John Astley	Alex Borg	David John
	22 May 2016	[17][18]		Order of Merit	Craig Steadman	Jamie Curtis-Barrett	Ian Preece	Adam Duffy
2017–18	14 May 2017	[19]	206	Event 1	Lukas Kleckers	Allan Taylor	Billy Joe Castle	Ashley Hugill
	20 May 2017	[20]		Event 2	Duane Jones	Sanderson Lam	Paul Davison	Chen Zifan
	20 May 2017	[21][22]		Order of Merit	Zhang Yong	Sean O'Sullivan	Joe Swail	Martin O'Donnell
2018–19	19 May 2018	[23]	202	Event 1	Jak Jones	Sam Baird	Hammad Miah	Sam Craigie
	25 May 2018	[24]		Event 2	Jordan Brown	Craig Steadman	Lu Ning	Zhao Xintong
	31 May 2018	[25]		Event 3	Thor Chuan Leong	Kishan Hirani	Andy Lee	Ashley Carty
2019–20	23 May 2019	[26]	218	Event 1	Xu Si	David Lilley	Jamie O'Neill	Soheil Vahedi
	29 May 2019	[27]		Event 2	Chen Zifan	Riley Parsons	Louis Heathcote	Fraser Patrick
	4 June 2019	[28]		Event 3	Barry Pinches	Alex Borg	Alexander Ursenbacher	Andy Hicks
	4 June 2019	[29]		Order of Merit	Si Jiahui	Billy Joe Castle	Peter Lines	Lei Peifan
2020–21	7 August 2020	[30]	172	Event 1	Lee Walker	Peter Devlin	Simon Lichtenberg	Fan Zhengyi
	8 August 2020	[31]		Event 2	Jamie Jones	Zak Surety	Oliver Lines	Ben Hancorn
	9 August 2020	[32]		Event 3	Rory McLeod	Jamie Wilson	Farakh Ajaib	Steven Hallworth
2021–22	1 June 2021	[33]	196	Event 1	Peter Lines	Fraser Patrick	Jackson Page	Yuan Sijun
	7 June 2021	[34]		Event 2	Barry Pinches	Craig Steadman	Michael Judge	Alfie Burden
	13 June 2021	[35]		Event 3	Ian Burns	Lei Peifan	Dean Young	Duane Jones
	13 June 2021	[36]		Order of Merit	Hammad Miah	Mitchell Mann	–	–
2022–23	21 May 2022	[37]	173	Event 1	Rod Lawler	Andy Lee	Fergal O'Brien	Bai Langning
	27 May 2022	[38]		Event 2	Adam Duffy	Aaron Hill	Zak Surety	Sanderson Lam
	2 June 2022	[39]		Event 3	James Cahill	John Astley	Jenson Kendrick	Lukas Kleckers
2023–24	31 May 2023	[40]	208	Event 1
	6 June 2023	[41]		Event 2

Notes

• Michael Georgiou represented England in 2014, but switched to Cyprus in 2016.

Season	Date of final	Ref	Players	Event	Qualifier 1	Qualifier 2
2022–23	5 June 2022	[42]	70	Asia & Oceania Event 1	Muhammad Asif	Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon[43]
	11 June 2022	[44]		Asia & Oceania Event 2	Dechawat Poomjaeng	Himanshu Jain
	22 June 2022	[45]		Order of Merit	Asjad Iqbal	–

• Craig Steadman has qualified from Q School on a record 4 occasions. Paul Davison and Fraser Patrick have both qualified through the event on three occasions.[22]
• 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.