2015 Championship League

Championship League

Tournament information
Dates	5 January–12 February 2015
Venue	Crondon Park Golf Club
City	Stock
Country	England
Organisation(s)	Matchroom Sport
Format	Non-ranking event
Total prize fund	£180,100[1]
Winner's share	£10,000
Highest break	147 (x2)
Final
Champion	Stuart Bingham
Runner-up	Mark Davis
Score	3–2
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The 2015 Championship League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 5 January to 12 February at the Crondon Park Golf Club in Stock, England.^[2]

Judd Trump was the defending champion, ^[3] but he was eliminated at the end of group three.

Barry Hawkins made the 111th official maximum break during his league stage match against Stephen Maguire in group one. This was Hawkins second official 147 break and the sixth in the 2014/2015 season. It was also the second maximum break in the history of the tournament.^[4] David Gilbert made the 114th maximum break and ninth of the season during group 7.^[5]

Stuart Bingham won in the final 3–2 against Mark Davis, and earned a place at the 2015 Champion of Champions.^[6]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

• Tournament total: £180,100^[1]

Group one

Group one was played on 5 and 6 January 2014. Shaun Murphy was to take part in this group, but he was replaced by Mark King due to a bacterial chest infection.^[7] Barry Hawkins was the first player to qualify for the winners group.^[4]

Matches

Table

Play-offs

	Semi Finals Best of 5 frames				Final Best of 5 frames
	Stuart Bingham	3
	Judd Trump	2
					Stuart Bingham	1
					Barry Hawkins	3
	Neil Robertson	1
	Barry Hawkins	3

Group two

Group two was played on 7 and 8 January 2015. The group was won by Matthew Selt, who was a late replacement for Neil Robertson.^[9][10]

Matches

Table

Play-offs

	Semi Finals Best of 5 frames				Final Best of 5 frames
	Ali Carter	2
	Matthew Selt	3
					Matthew Selt	3
					Judd Trump	2
	Judd Trump	3
	Marco Fu	0

Group three

Group three was played on 19 and 20 January 2015. Ricky Walden was to take part this group, but he withdrew and was replaced by Peter Ebdon, who scheduled to play in group six before.^[12] Ali Carter won the group.^[13]

Matches

Table

Play-offs

	Semi Finals Best of 5 frames				Final Best of 5 frames
	Ryan Day	1
	Mark Davis	3
					Mark Davis	1
					Ali Carter	3
	Stuart Bingham	0
	Ali Carter	3

Group four

Group four was played on 21 and 22 January 2015. Martin Gould was to play in this group, but he moved to group six and was replaced by David Gilbert.^[15] Stuart Bingham was the fourth player to qualify for the winners group.^[16]

Matches

Table

Play-offs

	Semi Finals Best of 5 frames				Final Best of 5 frames
	Peter Ebdon	1
	Mark Davis	3
					Mark Davis	1
					Stuart Bingham	3
	Stuart Bingham	3
	Michael White	0

Group five

Group five was played on 26 and 27 January 2015. This round of group play was won by Mark Davis.^[18]

Table

Play-offs

	Semi Finals Best of 5 frames				Final Best of 5 frames
	Ronnie O'Sullivan	3
	Fergal O'Brien	2
					Ronnie O'Sullivan	2
					Mark Davis	3
	Mark Davis	3
	David Gilbert	1

Group six

Group six was played on 28 and 29 January 2015. Martin Gould was to take part this group, but he withdrew and was replaced by Rod Lawler.^[20] Ronnie O'Sullivan withdrew from the tournament ahead of this group and was replace by Ben Woollaston, who went on to win the group.^[21]

Matches

Table

Play-offs

	Semi Finals Best of 5 frames				Final Best of 5 frames
	David Gilbert	1
	Ben Woollaston	3
					Ben Woollaston	3
					Peter Ebdon	0
	Dominic Dale	1
	Peter Ebdon	3

Group seven

Group seven was played on 9 and 10 February 2015. Xiao Guodong was the last player to qualify for the winners group.^[5]

Matches

Table

Play-offs

	Semi Finals Best of 5 frames				Final Best of 5 frames
	Fergal O'Brien	0
	Xiao Guodong	3
					David Gilbert	0
					Xiao Guodong	3
	David Gilbert	3
	Mark Williams	1

Winners' group

The winners' group was played on 11 and 12 February 2015. Stuart Bingham won his first Championship League title.

Matches

Table

Play-offs

	Semi Finals Best of 5 frames				Final Best of 5 frames
	Matthew Selt	1
	Stuart Bingham	3
					Stuart Bingham	3
					Mark Davis	2
	Mark Davis	3
	Ben Woollaston	2

Century breaks

Here in descending order of highest breaks is a list of century breaks completed by each player.^{[4][9][13][16][18][21][5][6][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]}

• 147, 118, 110, 109, 105 Barry Hawkins
• 147, 113, 107, 103, 100, 100 David Gilbert
• 139, 124, 116, 108, 105 Matthew Selt
• 139, 101 Michael White
• 138, 129, 110, 103, 102 Ali Carter
• 137, 136, 125, 105, 104, 103, 100, 100 Judd Trump
• 137, 127, 123, 120, 108, 105, 103 101 Peter Ebdon
• 136, 121 John Higgins
• 134, 134, 130, 108, 101 Marco Fu
• 134, 134, 126, 120, 118, 115, 110, 108, 103, 101 Stuart Bingham
• 132, 125, 103 Dominic Dale
• 131, 128, 118, 117, 103 Mark Davis
• 131, 105 Matthew Stevens
• 128, 126, 101, 100 Ronnie O'Sullivan
• 127, 123, 111, 105 Fergal O'Brien
• 123, 100 Neil Robertson
• 112 Liang Wenbo
• 101 Ben Woollaston
• 100 Ryan Day

References