Championship League Invitation Group 1 Day 1

Date
Fri 2nd January 2026 (UTC)
Fri 2nd January 2026 (Local)

Timestamp
2026-01-02T00:00:00

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00:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
World Snooker

Season
2025-2026

Round
20

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Location
Mattioli Arena

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Description

The 2026 Championship League Invitational (officially the 2026 BetVictor Championship League Snooker Invitational) is a professional non-ranking snooker tournament taking place from 2 January to 11 February 2026 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. Part of the 2025–26 snooker season, it is the 20th edition of the invitational version of the tournament, which was first staged in 2008.

Mark Selby is the defending champion, having retained the title at the 2025 event by defeating Kyren Wilson 3‍–‍0 in the final.

A total of 25 players are initially invited to the event, with the matches played behind closed doors without an audience. Players earn prize money for every frame won, as well as being semi‑finalists, runners‑up, and winners of each group, with more money involved in the Winners' Group. Since 2010, all matches have been played as the best of five frames.
The tournament is played in a round‑robin format, consisting of eight groups of seven players. The top four players in each group qualify for a play‑off, with the winner entering the Winners' Group. The bottom two players in each group are eliminated, and the remaining four moved to the next group, where they are joined by three more players.

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Result List

Result Description
Group 1, Day 1

Chris Wakelin
Elliot Slessor
Joe O’Connor
Pang Junxu
Tom Ford
Hossein Vafaei
Jackson Page

League Fixtures, 2nd January

Table 1
Chris Wakelin vs Elliot Slessor
Chris Wakelin vs Tom Ford
Elliot Slessor vs Joe O’Connor
Chris Wakelin vs Joe O’Connor
Elliot Slessor vs Hossein Vafaei
Chris Wakelin vs Pang Junxu

Table 2
Joe O’Connor vs Hossein Vafaei
Pang Junxu vs Jackson Page
Hossein Vafaei vs Jackson Page
Pang Junxu vs Tom Ford
Tom Ford vs Jackson Page
Joe O’Connor vs Jackson Page

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