The 2026 Scottish Open (officially the 2026 BetVictor Scottish Open) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 14 to 20 December 2026 at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Qualifying took place from 20 to 23 September at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. The 11th consecutive edition of the tournament since it was revived in 2016, it will be the 11th ranking event of the 2026–27 snooker season, following the 2026 Snooker Shoot Out and preceding the 2027 German Masters. It will be the third of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, following the 2026 English Open and the 2026 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2027 Welsh Open.
Chris Wakelin is the defending champion, having defeated Chang Bingyu 9–2 in the 2025 final.
Overview The tournament originated as the non-ranking 1981 International Open, staged at the Assembly Rooms in Derby, England. Steve Davis won the event, defeating Dennis Taylor 9–0 in the final. The tournament became a ranking event the following year, the first event after the World Snooker Championship to gain ranking status. Staged annually under various names (with the exception of the three years from 1990 to 1992, when it was not held), the tournament moved to Scotland in 1997 and was first branded as the Scottish Open in 1998. It was discontinued after the 2004 edition, apart from one staging in 2012 as a minor-ranking tournament. The tournament was restored to the calendar as a full ranking event in 2016 as part of the newly created Home Nations Series. Marco Fu won the 2016 edition, recovering from 1–4 behind to beat John Higgins 9–4 in the final; he was presented with the newly named Stephen Hendry Trophy by the seven-time World Champion personally.
The 2026 edition of the tournament—the 11th consecutive staging since its 2016 revival—will take place from 14 to 20 December at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Qualifying took place from 20 to 23 September at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. Sponsored by BetVictor, it will be the 11th ranking event of the 2026–27 snooker season, following the 2026 Snooker Shoot Out and preceding the 2027 German Masters. It will also be the third of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, following the 2026 English Open and the 2026 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2027 Welsh Open. Chris Wakelin is the defending champion, having defeated Chang Bingyu 9–2 in the 2025 final.
Format The tournament uses a tiered format first implemented for the Home Nations Series in the 2024–25 snooker season. In round one, players seeded 65–96 face those seeded 97 and below, including selected amateurs. In round two, the winners from round one face players seeded 33–64. The winners from round two face the top 32 seeds. All matches are played as the best of 7 until the quarterfinals, which are the best of 11. The semifinals are the best of 11, and the final is a bestof17-frame match played over two .
Prize fund The prize fund for the tournament is detailed below.
Winner: £100,000 Runner-up: £45,000 Semi-final: £21,000 Quarter-final: £13,200 Last 16: £9,000 Last 32: £5,400 Last 64: £3,600 Last 96: £1,000
Highest break: £5,000 Total: £550,400
Summary Qualifying Qualifying round one Qualifying round 1 was played on 20 and 21 September.
Antoni Kowalski defeated Sam Craigie 4–3, amateur player Jack Borwick beat Ross Muir 4–1, Steven Wardropper, also an amateur, defeated Xu Yichen 4–3, Yao Pengcheng beat Hammad Miah 4–2, and Florian Nüßle defeated Deng Haohui 4–3, making of 133 and 112.
Ng On-yee whitewashed fellow Hong Kong player Marco Fu, Liam Davies beat Julien Leclercq 4–1, Oliver Sykes defeated Reanne Evans 4–3, and Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon whitewashed Paul Norris. Liam Graham defeated Bai Yulu 4–3, and Connor Benzey beat Anton Kazakov by the same score. Sixty-four-year-old Jimmy White beat twenty-year-old Leone Crowley 4–2, Ian Burns beat Liu Yang 4–1, Jamie Clarke defeated Fergal Quinn 4–3, and Zhao Hanyang beat Phil O'Kane 4–1.
Qualifying round two Qualifying round 2 was played on 22 and 23 September.
Chatchapong Nasa defeated Louis Heathcote 4–3, Luca Brecel whitewashed Gong Chenzhi, Iulian Boiko defeated Ben Mertens 4–3, Aaron Hill beat Kowalski 4–2, Stan Moody beat Jack Borwick 4–1, Scott Donaldson beat Mitchell Mann 4–2, and Matthew Stevens defeated Nüßle 4–3. Jimmy Robertson beat Steven Hallworth 4–2, Gao Yang whitewashed He Guoqiang, Oliver Lines beat Ashley Carty 4–1, and Ryan Day defeated Michał Szubarczyk 4–3.
Davies defeated Long Zehuang 4–3, Daniel Wells beat Sykes 4–2, Robbie Williams defeated Tirapongpaiboon 4–3, and Mateusz Baranowski beat Ricky Walden 4–1. David Lilley beat Liu Wenwei 4–1, Xu Si beat Ng 4–2, Liam Pullen whitewashed Artemijs Žižins, and Anthony McGill beat Wang Xinbo 4–2. Matthew Selt beat Graham 4–1, Martin O'Donnell beat Lan Yuhao 4–2, Lyu Haotian beat Benzey 4–1, and Fan Zhengyi beat David Grace 4–2. Liu Hongyu defeated White 4–3, Zhao beat Jamie Jones, Burns beat Michael Holt, and Clarke beat Zak Surety, all by 4–2.
Main draw The draw for the tournament is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the players' seeding, and players in bold denote match winners.
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying rounds The results of the early rounds are shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the players' seeding, an "a" indicates amateur players who were not on the main World Snooker Tour, and players in bold denote match winners.
Century breaks Qualifying stage centuries A total of 25 century breaks were made during the qualifying stage of the tournament in Leicester.
139, 121, 100 Aaron Hill 137 Zhao Hanyang 133, 112 Florian Nüßle 133 Yao Pengcheng 132 Wang Xinbo 131 Jimmy White 130 Fan Zhengyi 122, 109 Gao Yang 122 Jordan Brown 121 Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 120 Mitchell Mann 118 Ian Burns 115 Alfie Burden 114 Jiang Jun 108 Oliver Lines 103 Lyu Haotian 102 Andrew Higginson 101 Oliver Sykes 100 Liam Highfield 100 Daniel Wells 100 Robbie Williams
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