How To Watch Snooker tournaments live online from anywhere ?
Snooker world tour have number of high profile tournaments including the big ones like British Snooker Championshop followed by World Snooker Championship. Apart from that we have other big events in different parts of the world. But snooker fans usually struggle to find which channel or streaming platform is broadcasting these events.
On this page you will find every single major tournament of Snooker and where it will be streamed live. Best part is most of the tournaments are on free to air channels. There are number of streaming platforms as well which broadcast snooker events like British Open and World Snooker championship are both available on BBC and their online platform BBC iplayer.
Where To Stream Snooker Tournaments Live Online ?
Below are list of free online streaming platforms which has official live coverage of most of the big snooker tournaments.
BBC iplayer
BBC has the coverage rights for both British Open and Snooker World Championship which take place in the UK every year during the summer. BBC not only have live coverage of the tournaments on their traditional TV channel but also via their online streaming platform called ‘BBC iplayer’.
However BBC iplayer is geoblocked to only UK residents. So if you want to access BBC iplayer from outside the UK you will need to install and use VPN to change your device ip address to that of UK.
Matchroom.TV
MatchroomTV is also sports streaming platform which stream number of events under the matchroom banner. They also have several tv rights deals with snooker tournaments. Matchroom.tv is not accessible in the UK but anyone from outside of the UK can access Matchroom.TV. some of their sports are ppv but snooker coverage is available absolutely free.
Youtube & Facebook:
Some of the tournaments orgnized by ‘The world snooker tour’ are shown live on their official youtube and facebook channels. For example WST Youtube channel has live streams of UK Championship 2025 and many other tournaments played across europe and Asia.
Below is the list of all upcoming Snooker events listed according to date/time and what streaming service will have the live coverage of that event. Snooker world tour usually starts in the summer and played through the next summer. The current cycle will finish with the world championship in England on 05 May 2025
| TOURNAMENT | DATES | STREAMING |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Ireland Open | 20-27 Oct 2024 | Eurosport |
| Intl Championship China | 03-10 Nov 2024 | EuroSport & Youtube |
| Champion of Champions | 11-17 Nov 2024 | ITV (UK), MatchroomTV |
| UK Championship | 23 Nov – 1 Dec 2024 | Youtube & Facebook |
| Scotish Open | 01-15 Dec 2024 | EuroSport & MatchroomTV |
| German Masters | 27 Jan 2025 | EuroSport & MatchroomTV |
| Welsh Open | 10-16 Fab 2025 | EuroSport & MatchroomTV |
| World Open (China) | 3-9 March 2025 | |
| Players Championship | 31 Mar – 06 Apr 2025 | |
| Tour Championship | 07-16 April 2025 | BBC iPlayer, Matchroom.TV |
| World Championship | 19 Apr – 05 May 2025 | BBC iPlayer, Matchroom.TV |
