World Seniors Snooker Launches New Season with Increased Prize Money World Seniors Snooker (WSS) have today announced the dates for the 2025/26 season which will see nine tour events, with a minimum of four places available for players in their 2026 World Seniors Snooker Championship via the ranking list qualification system
Changes for the new campaign mean anyone over 40, including World Snooker Tour (WST) professionals, are now eligible to participate in the tour events which will see the winner’s prize doubled each weekend to £1,000 and prize money being paid down to the last 16.
Jason Francis, Chairman of WSS, said “This season there are a lot more players eligible to play, including a number of WST professionals, and we have pledged £27,000 in prize money across our nine events which is more than double the amount that was on offer last season. If you are over 40, now is the time to dust off your cue and come and enjoy some friendly but serious competition”
The season will begin on Friday 15 August 2025 with all events played at the Crucible Sports and Social Club in Reading.
TOUR DATES
2025
August 15-17
September 26-28
October 10-12
November 21-23
December 12-14
2026
January 16-18
February 6-8
March 6-8
April 3-5
On the Sunday of each weekend, a Super Seniors event will be staged for those aged over 55.
All events are now open for entry via WPBSA SnookerScores. A WSS Tour membership will be required in order to compete in the Race to the Crucible series.
The fact that players, including active professionals, are now eligible to compete on the Seniors Tour from the age of 40, instead of 45 in previous season, is a side effect of the failure of the negotiations between WST and Jason Francis, and one, I’m sure, that displeases WST much more than Jason…
How many active pros will be interested, and which ones, remains to be seen as they will have to set their priorities and find “spaces” in a rather full professional calendar. Another interesting question is wether the senior amateurs will feel excited at the prospect to play professionals and will embrace the challenge or if, on the contrary, this may be a deterrent if they feel that they have no chance to beat the pros.
All events will be played in Reading and that venue is very good but I remember the time, pre Brexit and pre covid, when some seniors qualifying events were played in mainland Europe. I wish it was still the case, but I guess, it would not be economically viable in the current state of affairs. It’s a shame though.
The WPBSA World Seniors Tour 