The 2023 UK Championship qualifiers start on Saturday on the Morningside Enviornment in Leicester.

A complete of 128 opponents will vie for the 16 spots that stay out there for the venue phases on the Barbican Centre in York.

Defending UK champion Mark Allen, world primary Ronnie O’Sullivan, and world champion Luca Brecel are among the many prime 16 stars who’ve already assured their round-of-32 berths.

Judd Trump, Neil Robertosn, John Higgins, and Mark Williams will even undoubtedly function on the sport’s second most prestigious rating occasion.

UK Championship prime 16 seeds

1. Mark Allen (defending champion)
2. Luca Brecel (world champion)
3. Ronnie O’Sullivan
4. Judd Trump
5. Mark Selby
6. Neil Robertson
7. Shaun Murphy
8. Kyren Wilson
9. Mark Williams
10. Ali Carter
11. John Higgins
12. Barry Hawkins
13. Jack Lisowski
14. Robert Milkins
15. Zhang Anda
16. Tom Ford

The primary spherical correct will get beneath method subsequent Saturday (Nov 25), however previous to that there can be six days of UK Championship qualifiers.

Following the identical tiered format because the World Championship, there can be 4 rounds within the preliminary competitors.

The gamers seeded from 81 to 144 meet in spherical one, with the winners progressing to face the gamers ranked from 49 to 80.

Spherical three will see the heavier hitters from 17 to 48 within the rankings enter the fray, together with the likes of three-time UK Champion Ding Junhui who simply missed out on automated qualification.

Beneath is the complete draw and schedule for the UK Championship qualifiers.

UK Championship qualifiers draw

Spherical 1 – L144 (better of 11)

Saturday, Nov 18
9:30am UTC
1. Daniel Wells vs Mostafa Dorgham
2. Jenson Kendrick vs Oliver Briffett-Payne
3. Adam Duffy vs Mink Nutcharut
4. Stuart Carrington vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
5. Mohamed Ibrahim vs Victor Sarkis
6. Marco Fu vs Michael Holt
7. Anton Kazakov vs Ryan Davies
8. Xing Zihao vs Jimmy White

2:30pm UTC
9. Ross Muir vs Andrew Pagett
10. Stan Moody vs Filips Kalnins
11. Peng Yisong vs Umut Dikme
12. Alfie Burden vs Oliver Sykes
13. Ma Hailong vs Sydney Wilson
14. Fergal O’Brien vs Robbie McGuigan
15. Jiang Jun vs Rebecca Kenna
16. Allan Taylor vs Liam Davies

7:30pm UTC (except in any other case said)
17. Rod Lawler vs Liam Graham
18. Ryan Thomerson vs Reanne Evans
19. Andy Lee vs Joel Connolly (Solar, 9:30am)
20. Liam Pullen vs Iulian Boiko (Solar, 9:30am)
21. Lengthy Zehuang vs Haydon Pinhey
22. Oliver Brown vs Dean Younger
23. Andrew Higginson vs Alexander Ursenbacher
24. Muhammad Asif vs Duane Jones

Sunday, Nov 19
9:30am UTC (except in any other case said)
25. Sean O’Sullivan vs Baipat Siripaporn (Sat, 7:30pm)
26. Louis Heathcote vs Ahmed Aly Elsayed (Sat, 7:30pm)
27. Hammad Miah vs Bulcsu Revesz
28. Ian Burns vs Amaan Iqbal
29. Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Gao Yang
30. Andres Petrov vs Craig Steadman
31. Rory Thor vs Riley Powell
32. Martin O’Donnell vs Jack Borwick

Spherical 2 – L112 (bo11)

2:30pm UTC
33. Ashley Carty vs winner of match 1
34. Robbie Williams vs winner of match 2
35. Michael White vs winner of match 3
36. Martin Gould vs winner of match 4
37. Andy Hicks vs winner of match 5
38. Ben Mertens vs winner of match 6
39. David Grace vs winner of match 7
40. James Cahill vs winner of match 8

7:30pm UTC
41. He Guoqiang vs winner of match 9
42. Dominic Dale vs winner of match 10
43. Julien Leclercq vs winner of match 11
44. Jamie Clarke vs winner of match 12
45. Xu Si vs winner of match 13
46. Dylan Emery vs winner of match 14
47. Jackson Web page vs winner of match 15
48. Zak Surety vs winner of match 16

Monday, Nov 20
9:30am UTC (except in any other case said)
49. Lukas Kleckers vs winner of match 17
50. Ben Woollaston vs winner of match 18
51. Sanderson Lam vs winner of match 19
52. Mark Joyce vs winner of match 20
53. Oliver Traces vs winner of match 21
54. Ashley Hugill vs winner of match 22
55. Tian Pengfei vs winner of match 23
56. Ken Doherty vs winner of match 24 (Mon, 2:30pm)

2:30pm UTC (except in any other case said)
57. David Lilley vs winner of match 25
58. Elliot Slessor vs winner of match 26
59. John Astley vs winner of match 27
60. Liam Highfield vs winner of match 28
61. Mark Davis vs winner of match 29
62. Aaron Hill vs winner of match 30
63. Scott Donaldson vs winner of match 31
64. Liu Hongyu vs winner of match 32 (Mon, 9:30am)

Spherical 3 – L80 (bo11)

7:30pm UTC
65. Ding Junhui vs winner of match 33
66. Matthew Stevens vs winner of match 34
67. Si Jiahui vs winner of match 35
68. Fan Zhengyi vs winner of match 36
69. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs winner of match 37
70. Ricky Walden vs winner of match 38
71. Wu Yize vs winner of match 39
72. Noppon Saengkham vs winner of match 40

Tuesday, Nov 21
9:30am UTC
73. Anthony McGill vs winner of match 41
74. Anthony Hamilton vs winner of match 42
75. David Gilbert vs winner of match 43
76. Jordan Brown vs winner of match 44
77. Lyu Haotian vs winner of match 45
78. Matthew Selt vs winner of match 46
79. Jamie Jones vs winner of match 47
80. Gary Wilson vs winner of match 48

2:30pm UTC
81. Ryan Day vs winner of match 49
82. Cao Yupeng vs winner of match 50
83. Joe Perry vs winner of match 51
84. Xiao Guodong vs winner of match 52
85. Joe O’Connor vs winner of match 53
86. Stephen Maguire vs winner of match 54
87. Yuan Sijun vs winner of match 55
88. Chris Wakelin vs winner of match 56

7:30pm UTC
89. Stuart Bingham vs winner of match 57
90. Graeme Dott vs winner of match 58
91. Zhou Yuelong vs winner of match 59
92. Jak Jones vs winner of match 60
93. Pang Junxu vs winner of match 61
94. Jimmy Robertson vs winner of match 62
95. Sam Craigie vs winner of match 63
96. Hossein Vafaei vs winner match 64

Spherical 4 – L48 (bo11)

Wednesday, Nov 22
1pm UTC
winner of match 65 vs winner of match 66
winner of match 67 vs winner of match 68
winner of match 69 vs winner of match 70
winner of match 71 vs winner of match 72

7pm UTC
winner of match 73 vs winner of match 74
winner of match 75 vs winner of match 76
winner of match 77 vs winner of match 78
winner of match 79 vs winner of match 80

Thursday, Nov 23
1pm UTC
winner of match 81 vs winner of match 82
winner of match 83 vs winner of match 84
winner of match 85 vs winner of match 86
winner of match 87 vs winner of match 88

7pm UTC
winner of match 89 vs winner of match 90
winner of match 91 vs winner of match 92
winner of match 93 vs winner of match 94
winner of match 95 vs winner of match 96

Learn how to watch the UK Championship qualifiers

There can be protection of all six days on discovery+ and the Eurosport app throughout Europe.

Viewers in different territories (aside from China) can watch through a Matchroom.Stay subscription.

Matches over the past 4 days will even be out there worldwide on the World Snooker Tour Fb and YouTube channels.

The final two days are generally known as Judgement Day, the place the ultimate spherical will decide the 16 qualifiers within the UK Championship draw.

There can be roving protection of all 4 tables plus interviews with the profitable gamers all through every Judgement Day.

Featured photograph credit score: WST