Home Nations Series

The Home Nations Series is a snooker tournament series in the four home nations of the United Kingdom.[1] There is a bonus of £1,000,000 for any player winning all four events in the same season.

Home Nations Series
Tournament information
CountryUnited Kingdom
Established2016
Organisation(s)World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
FormatRanking events

History

On 29 April 2015, Barry Hearn, chairman of World Snooker announced that from the 2016–17 snooker season, a "Home Nations Series" will be added to the season's calendar. The Home Nations Series includes the tournaments of the four individual countries of the home of snooker, the English Open, the Northern Ireland Open, the Scottish Open, and the Welsh Open. A player who wins all four tournaments in the same season receives a special bonus of £1 million. So far, the highest number of tournaments won in the same season is two, with Mark Selby winning the English and the Scottish Open in the 2019–20 season, and Judd Trump winning the English and the Northern Ireland Open in the 2020–21 season. The Home Nations Series awards two wildcards to amateur players.[2] The four national governing bodies select the wildcard players according to criteria that they have previously agreed with the WPBSA.

Events and trophies

The cups of the individual tournaments are named after well-known snooker players of the respective countries:

Format

All tournaments are ranking tournaments of the World Snooker Tour and are played with 128 players. After first nominating all professional players, the wildcard players will be nominated and finally the qualifiers of the Q-School. Up to and including the knockout round the matches are played on best of 7, in the quarter-finals on best of 9, semi-finals best of 11, and in the final then best of 17.

Prize money

The prize money for each tournament:

  • Winner: £70,000
  • Runner-up: £30,000
  • Semi-finalist: £20,000
  • Quarter-finalists: £10,000
  • Last 16: £7,500
  • Last 32: £4,000
  • Last 64: £3,000
  • Highest break: £5,000
  • Total: £405,000

Results

Season Tournament City Winner Score Runner-up
2016–17 English Open Manchester Liang Wenbo 9–6 Judd Trump
Northern Ireland Open Belfast Mark King 9–8 Barry Hawkins
Scottish Open Glasgow Marco Fu 9–4 John Higgins
Welsh Open Cardiff Stuart Bingham 9–8 Judd Trump
2017–18 English Open Barnsley Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–2 Kyren Wilson
Northern Ireland Open Belfast Mark Williams 9–8 Yan Bingtao
Scottish Open Glasgow Neil Robertson 9–8 Cao Yupeng
Welsh Open Cardiff John Higgins 9–7 Barry Hawkins
2018–19 English Open Crawley Stuart Bingham 9–7 Mark Davis
Northern Ireland Open Belfast Judd Trump 9–7 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Scottish Open Glasgow Mark Allen 9–7 Shaun Murphy
Welsh Open Cardiff Neil Robertson 9–7 Stuart Bingham
2019–20 English Open Crawley Mark Selby 9–1 David Gilbert
Northern Ireland Open Belfast Judd Trump 9–7 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Scottish Open Glasgow Mark Selby 9–6 Jack Lisowski
Welsh Open Cardiff Shaun Murphy 9–1 Kyren Wilson
2020–21 English Open Milton Keynes Judd Trump 9–8 Neil Robertson
Northern Ireland Open Milton Keynes Judd Trump 9–7 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Scottish Open Milton Keynes Mark Selby 9–3 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Welsh Open Newport

Statistics

Champions

Player Total English
Open
Northern Ireland
Open
Scottish
Open
Welsh
Open
Winning
span
Judd Trump 413002018–2020
Mark Selby 310202019–2020
Neil Robertson 200112017–2019
Stuart Bingham 210012017–2018
Liang Wenbo 110002016
Mark King 101002016
Marco Fu 100102016
Ronnie O'Sullivan 110002017
Mark Williams 101002017
John Higgins 100012018
Mark Allen 100102018
Shaun Murphy 100012020
Total Events 19 5 5 5 4 2016–

Champions by country

Country Players Total First title Last title
 England 6 12 2016 2020
 Australia 1 2 2017 2019
 China 1 1 2016 2016
 Hong Kong 1 1 2016 2016
 Wales 1 1 2017 2017
 Scotland 1 1 2018 2018
 Northern Ireland 1 1 2018 2018

References

  1. "Home Nations Series". Livesnooker.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  2. "Home Nations Snooker Events To Include Wild Cards - World Snooker". Worldsnooker.com. 23 July 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
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