The 2016 UK Championship (officially the 2016 Betway UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 22 November to 4 December 2016 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the tenth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.
Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 3–6 in the first round to Peter Lines.
In his last 64 match against Barry Hawkins, Fergal O'Brien made 5 centuries, setting up a new record in a best of 11 match.
Mark Allen made the 124th official maximum break in the 7th frame of his last 64 match against Rod Lawler. It was Allen's first maximum break, and it was the fifth time in a row, that a maximum was made in a UK Championship.
105 centuries were made during the tournament, breaking last year's record of 104, which included 10 from both Selby and O'Sullivan.
Mark Selby claimed his second UK title by beating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10–7 in the final. This was Selby's 10th ranking title. This also made him the sixth player to have completed the Triple Crown twice.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £170,000 Runner-up: £75,000 Semi-final: £35,000 Quarter-final: £22,500 Last 16: £15,000 Last 32: £10,000 Last 64: £5,000
Highest break: £5,000 Total: £850,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £5,000.
Main draw
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Olivier Marteel.Barbican Centre, York, England, 4 December 2016. Ronnie O'Sullivan (8) 7–10 Mark Selby (2) Afternoon: 138–0 (124), , , , , , , Evening: 9–65 (56), , , , , , , , 134 Highest break 137 3 Century breaks 3 7 50+ breaks 9
Century breaks
147, 137, 136, 136, 132, 105 Mark Allen 141, 126 Mark King 140 Jimmy Robertson 137, 134, 120, 119, 109, 107, 102, 101, 100, 100 Mark Selby 137 Scott Donaldson 136, 101 Joe Perry 134, 131, 130, 130, 129, 124, 112, 106, 103, 101 Ronnie O'Sullivan 134 Michael Georgiou 132, 126, 106, 101 John Higgins 131, 106 Noppon Saengkham 130 Alan McManus 129 Barry Hawkins 128, 125, 118, 114, 100 Marco Fu 128, 116, 112, 101, 101 Stephen Maguire 127, 121, 108 Stuart Bingham 127 Jamie Jones 126, 118 Ryan Day 126, 108, 102 David Gilbert 126 Gary Wilson 125, 110 Liam Highfield 125, 105, 105 Zhang Anda 123, 120 Sam Baird 122 Wang Yuchen
121 Mark Williams 119, 115, 112, 110, 103 Shaun Murphy 119 Dominic Dale 119 Xiao Guodong 116, 111, 100 Ali Carter 113, 111, 111, 101, 100 Fergal O'Brien 113 Kurt Maflin 113 Sanderson Lam 112 Hammad Miah 112 Robbie Williams 109 Judd Trump 108 Rory McLeod 107, 103 Mark Davis 107, 100 Liang Wenbo 106 Mark Joyce 105 Igor Figueiredo 104 Anthony McGill 103 Robin Hull 103 Martin Gould 102, 102 Luca Brecel 102 Yan Bingtao 101 Ben Woollaston 100 Josh Boileau
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