World Championship: Schedule, results & BBC coverage

The 2025 World Snooker Championship started at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield on 19 April, with a major shock occurring on the opening day.

Defending champion and top seed Kyren Wilson was knocked out 10-9 by Chinese qualifier Lei Peifan in the first round.

Seven-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan is playing in a 33rd consecutive edition of the tournament despite battling "stage fright" and "nerves" over the past two years.

The 49-year-old beat two-time finalist Ali Carter 10-4, then emphatically defeated China's Pang Junxu 13-4 to reach the quarter-finals where he will meet Si Jiahui.

World number one Judd Trump won £100,000 for his 100th century break of the season in a second-round win over Masters champion Shaun Murphy and faces 2023 champion Luca Brecel for a place in the semi-finals.

BBC Sport has comprehensive live coverage of the championship on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and Red Button, while every match will be shown in full on iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app.

The final takes place over two days, starting on Sunday 4 May.

As the defending champion, Wilson had the honour of being the top seed.

Trump began as the second seed, with four-time champions John Higgins and Mark Selby third and fourth respectively.

O'Sullivan, bidding for an eighth title to surpass the Crucible record he shares with Stephen Hendry, is seeded fifth.

Full seedings:

1) Kyren Wilson, 2) Judd Trump, 3) John Higgins, 4) Mark Selby

5) Ronnie O'Sullivan, 6) Mark Williams, 7) Luca Brecel, 8) Mark Allen

9) Neil Robertson, 10) Ding Junhui, 11) Barry Hawkins, 12) Zhang Anda

13) Si Jiahui 14) Xiao Guodong, 15) Shaun Murphy, 16) Jak Jones

Northern Ireland's Mark Allen made a 147 break in the 13th frame of his second-round match against Chris Wakelin.

It made him only the 11th player to make a 147 at the Crucible. The maximum was the 15th at the venue in the tournament's history and the first since Selby's clearance in the 2023 final.

Allen, who was 10-2 behind in the match at the time, went on to lose 13-6 to qualifier Wakelin.

First-round matches were the best of 19 frames.

Second round and quarter-final matches are played over a maximum of 25 frames.

Semi-final matches are best of 33 frames.

The final is the best of 35 frames.

Watch live coverage on BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four, or take your pick of the matches on iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.

For further coverage, audiences can tune into Snooker Extra every night on BBC Two and iPlayer to catch up on the action from the day's early games.

Radio 5 Live will have regular updates and features in programmes throughout the tournament.

Meanwhile, the BBC Sport website and app will have text updates on the early rounds and quarter-finals before full live text commentary on the semi-finals and final.

The BBC's presenting team will be Hazel Irvine, Seema Jaswal and Rishi Persad, with reporting from Shabnam Younus-Jewell and Abigail Davis.

Audiences can expect expert commentary and insights from snooker legends Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, John Parrott, Ken Doherty, Dennis Taylor and John Virgo, alongside some of the game's current players.

All times are BST and subject to late changes. Championship seedings in brackets

Quarter-finals

10:00

Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) 6-2 Si Jiahui (13)

John Higgins (3) 8-8 Mark Williams (6)

14:30

Zhao Xintong 12-4 Chris Wakelin

Luca Brecel (7) 3-5 Judd Trump (2)

19:00

Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) 6-2 Si Jiahui (13)

Luca Brecel (7) 3-5 Judd Trump (2)

Live coverage

10:00-11:15 - BBC Two

10:00-14:00 - iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app

13:00-18:00 - BBC Two

14:30-18:00 - iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app

19:00-20:00 - BBC Two

19:00-22:30 - iPlayer, BBC Sport website and app

20:00-22:00 - BBC Four

Highlights

00:05-02:05 - World Championship Extra - BBC Two

Semi-finals

Live coverage

13:00-16:00 - BBC Two

13:00-18:00 - iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app

19:00-20:00 - BBC Two

19:00-22:30 - iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app

20:00-22:00 - BBC Four

Highlights

00:05-02:05 - World Championship Extra - BBC Two

Semi-finals

Live coverage

10:00-12:00 - BBC Two

10:00-14:00 - iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app

14:00-18:00 - BBC Two

14:30-18:00 - iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app

19:00-20:00 - BBC Two

19:00-22:30 - iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app

20:00-23:00 - BBC Four

Semi-finals

Live coverage

10:00-12:00 - BBC Two

10:00-14:00 - iPlayer, BBC Sport website and app

13:15-16:30 - BBC One

14:30-18:00 - iPlayer, BBC Sport website and app

16:30-17:30 - BBC Two

19:00-22:00 - BBC Two

19:00-22:30 - iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app

20:00-23:00 - BBC Four

Final

Live coverage

13:00-18:00 - BBC Two

19:00-22:00 - BBC Two

Final

Live coverage

13:00-16:00 - BBC Two

19:00-22:00 - BBC Two

The winner will receive £500,000 and there is total prize fund of £2,395,000.

Winner: £500,000

Runner-up: £200,000

Semi-finalists: £100,000

Quarter-finalists: £50,000

Last 16: £30,000

Last 32: £20,000

Highest break (qualifying stage included): £15,000

Among the 16 players who secured their places at the Crucible were two-time runner-up Carter and 2021 UK champion Zhao Xintong, while Daniel Wells, Zak Surety and Lei were the three Crucible debutants.

Zhao returned to the sport as an amateur player in September following a 20-month ban for his involvement in a match-fixing scandal, and was one of a record 10 Chinese players involved in the first round.

Jack Lisowski, 2015 winner Stuart Bingham and world number 17 Gary Wilson were among the names to miss out.

Wales' Jackson Page, who in the third qualifying round became the first player to compile two maximum 147 breaks in the same match - earning a £147,000 bonus - failed to make the Crucible after losing 10-7 to Englishman Joe O'Connor in the final qualifying round.

Second round

Mark Allen (8) 6-13 Chris Wakelin

Mark Williams (6) 13-10 Hossein Vafaei

John Higgins (3) 13-12 Xiao Guodong

Lei Peifan (39) 10-13 Zhao Xintong

Shaun Murphy (15) 10-13 Judd Trump (2)

Si Jiahui (13) 13-10 Ben Woollaston

Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) 13-4 Pang Junxu

Luca Brecel (7) 13-4 Ding Junhui (10)

First round

Kyren Wilson (1) 9-10 Lei Peifan

Xiao Guodong (14) 10-4 Matthew Selt

Mark Williams (6) 10-8 Wu Yize

Barry Hawkins (11) 9-10 Hossein Vafaei

Neil Robertson (9) 8-10 Chris Wakelin

Jak Jones (16) 4-10 Zhao Xintong

Mark Allen (8) 10-6 Fan Zhengyi

John Higgins (3) 10-7 Joe O'Connor

Ding Junhui (10) 10-7 Zak Surety

Si Jiahui (13) 10-6 David Gilbert

Shaun Murphy (15) 10-4 Daniel Wells

Zhang Anda (12) 7-10 Pang Junxu

Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) 10-4 Ali Carter

Judd Trump (2) 10-4 Zhou Yuelong

Luca Brecel (7) 10-7 Ryan Day

Mark Selby (4) 8-10 Ben Woollaston