The 2026 Scottish Open qualifiers happen on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester this week, with gamers bidding to safe their locations on the venue phases in Edinburgh later within the 12 months.
That is the ultimate leg of a three-event swing of preliminary matches in Leicester, following the qualifiers for each the Northern Eire Open and Worldwide Championship.
The Scottish Open would be the third occasion on the Residence Nations Sequence calendar this season, in the meantime, following the English Open and Northern Eire Open.
The venue phases will happen on the Meadowbank Sports activities Centre in Edinburgh in December, with gamers competing for the Stephen Hendry Trophy.
Reigning champion Chris Wakelin can be seeking to defend the title, however the high seed and the opposite high 32 gamers on the earth rankings have all been seeded by to the venue phases in Edinburgh.
The remaining gamers should negotiate the qualifying competitors to safe one of many different 32 locations within the first-round draw.
When are the 2026 Scottish Open qualifiers?
The 2026 Scottish Open qualifiers run from September 20 to 23 on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester.
The venue phases will then be held from December 14 to twenty on the Meadowbank Sports activities Centre in Edinburgh.
Scottish Open prize cash
Winner: £100,000
Runner-up: £45,000
Semi-finals: £21,000
Quarter-finals: £13,200
Final 16: £9,000
Final 32: £5,400
Final 64: £3,600
Final 96: £1,000
Highest break: £5,000
Whole: £550,400
Who’s within the draw?
The Scottish Open qualifiers characteristic the gamers exterior the highest 32 on the earth rankings, who’re competing for the remaining locations within the venue-stage draw.
Amongst these in motion can be Luca Brecel, who scored confidence-building victories within the Northern Eire Open qualifiers and Worldwide Championship qualifiers in latest days.
Brecel can also be a former Scottish Open champion having received his arms on the Stephen Hendry Trophy again in 2021.
A number of Scottish gamers can be making an attempt to achieve their residence event, together with former rating occasion winner Anthony McGill and Scott Donaldson, who every enter the fray in spherical two of the preliminaries.
Ross Muir, Liam Graham, and a few native amateurs are additionally within the lineup from the preliminary round-of-128 stage.
2026 Scottish Open qualifiers draw
Spherical of 128 (bo7)
Chatchapong Nasa vs Allan Taylor (Solar 20 Sep, 10:00)
Sahil Nayyar vs Gong Chenzhi (Solar 20 Sep, 13:00)
Dylan Emery vs Ashley Hugill (Solar 20 Sep, 13:00)
Florian Nuessle vs Deng Haohui (Solar 20 Sep, 13:00)
Alexander Ursenbacher vs Panchaya Channoi (Solar 20 Sep, 13:00)
Oliver Brown vs Michael Larkov (Solar 20 Sep, 16:00)
Ross Muir vs Jack Borwick (Solar 20 Sep, 16:00)
Xu Yichen vs Steven Wardropper (Solar 20 Sep, 16:00)
Yao Pengcheng vs Hammad Miah (Solar 20 Sep, 16:00)
Michal Szubarczyk vs Cheung Ka Wai (Solar 20 Sep, 19:00)
Mitchell Mann vs Stuart Carrington (Solar 20 Sep, 10:00)
Gao Yang vs Huang Jiahao (Solar 20 Sep, 19:00)
Steven Hallworth vs Alfie Burden (Solar 20 Sep, 19:00)
Ashley Carty vs Mina Awad (Solar 20 Sep, 19:00)
Reanne Evans vs Oliver Sykes (Mon 21 Sep, 10:00)
Mateusz Baranowski vs Patrick Whelan (Mon 21 Sep, 10:00)
T Tirapongpaiboon vs Paul Norris (Mon 21 Sep, 10:00)
Liam Davies vs Julien Leclercq (Mon 21 Sep, 10:00)
Liu Wenwei vs Andrew Higginson (Mon 21 Sep, 13:00)
Wang Xinbo vs Luo Zetao (Mon 21 Sep, 13:00)
Marco Fu vs Ng On Yee (Mon 21 Sep, 13:00)
Artemijs Zizins vs Craig Steadman (Mon 21 Sep, 13:00)
David Grace vs Sean O’Sullivan (Mon 21 Sep, 16:00)
Iulian Boiko vs Mahmoud El Hareedy (Solar 20 Sep, 10:00)
Connor Benzey vs Anton Kazakov (Mon 21 Sep, 16:00)
Sam Craigie vs Antoni Kowalski (Solar 20 Sep, 10:00)
Lan Yuhao vs Joshua Thomond (Mon 21 Sep, 16:00)
Liam Graham vs Bai Yulu (Mon 21 Sep, 16:00)
Jamie Clarke vs Fergal Quinn (Mon 21 Sep, 19:00)
Zhao Hanyang vs Phil O’Kane (Mon 21 Sep, 19:00)
Ian Burns vs Liu Yang (Mon 21 Sep, 19:00)
Leone Crowley vs Jimmy White (Mon 21 Sep, 19:00)
Spherical of 96 (bo7)
Louis Heathcote vs Nasa/Taylor (Tue 22 Sep, 10:00)
Luca Brecel vs Nayyar/Gong (Tue 22 Sep, 13:00)
Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Emery/Hugill (Tue 22 Sep, 13:00)
Matthew Stevens vs Nuessle/Deng (Tue 22 Sep, 13:00)
Ben Woollaston vs Ursenbacher/Channoi (Tue 22 Sep, 13:00)
Jiang Jun vs Brown/Larkov (Tue 22 Sep, 16:00)
Stan Moody vs Muir/Borwick (Tue 22 Sep, 16:00)
Jordan Brown vs Xu/Wardropper (Tue 22 Sep, 16:00)
Liam Highfield vs Yao/Miah (Tue 22 Sep, 16:00)
Ryan Day vs Szubarczyk/Cheung (Tue 22 Sep, 19:00)
Scott Donaldson vs Mann/Carrington (Tue 22 Sep, 10:00)
He Guoqiang vs Gao/Huang (Tue 22 Sep, 19:00)
Jimmy Robertson vs Hallworth/Burden (Tue 22 Sep, 19:00)
Oliver Strains vs Carty/Awad (Tue 22 Sep, 19:00)
Daniel Wells vs Evans/Sykes (Wed 23 Sep, 10:00)
Ricky Walden vs Baranowski/Whelan (Wed 23 Sep, 10:00)
Robbie Williams vs Tirapongpaiboon/Norris (Wed 23 Sep, 10:00)
Lengthy Zehuang vs Davies/Leclercq (Wed 23 Sep, 10:00)
David Lilley vs Liu/Higginson (Wed 23 Sep, 13:00)
Anthony McGill vs Wang/Luo (Wed 23 Sep, 13:00)
Xu Si vs Marco Fu/Ng (Wed 23 Sep, 13:00)
Liam Pullen vs Zizins/Steadman (Wed 23 Sep, 13:00)
Fan Zhengyi vs Grace/O’Sullivan (Wed 23 Sep, 16:00)
Ben Mertens vs Boiko/El Hareedy (Tue 22 Sep, 10:00)
Lyu Haotian vs Benzey/Kazakov (Wed 23 Sep, 16:00)
Aaron Hill vs Craigie/Kowalski (Tue 22 Sep, 10:00)
Martin O’Donnell vs Lan/Thomond (Wed 23 Sep, 16:00)
Matthew Selt vs Graham/Bai (Wed 23 Sep, 16:00)
Zak Surety vs Clarke/Quinn (Wed 23 Sep, 19:00)
Jamie Jones vs Zhao/O’Kane (Wed 23 Sep, 19:00)
Michael Holt vs Burns/Liu (Wed 23 Sep, 19:00)
Liu Hongyu vs Crowley/White (Wed 23 Sep, 19:00)
The right way to watch the 2026 Scottish Open qualifiers
The Scottish Open qualifiers can be obtainable to look at dwell globally on WST Play (excluding China) by a subscription.
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