2012 World Seniors Championship

The 2012 World Seniors Championship (Known for sponsorship reasons as the Wyldecrest Park Homes World Seniors Championship) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 and 28 October 2012 at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth, England.

Darren Morgan was the defending champion, but he lost in the semi-finals 0–2 against Nigel Bond.

Bond won in the final 2–0 against Tony Chappel. Bond won 14 frames in a row by beating all of his opponents with 2–0.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
 * Winner: £18,000
 * Runner-up: £8,000
 * Semi-finalist: £4,000
 * Quarter-finalist: £2,000
 * Last 16: £1,000
 * Total: £50,000

Main draw
The draw for the last 16 was made on the evening of 13 September 2012 at The Sands in Carlisle during the Premier League. The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals was made on a random basis. All matches were best of 3 frames. The times for 27 October are BST and those for 28 October are GMT. The highest break of the tournament was 86 made by Karl Townsend.

Last 16

 * '''Saturday, 27 October – 13:00
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Darren Morgan 2–0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joe Johnson
 * Dennis Taylor 0–2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nigel Bond
 * 🇳🇿 Dene O'Kane 2–0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Barry West
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve Davis 2–1 🇨🇦 Cliff Thorburn


 * '''Saturday, 27 October – 19:00
 * 🇲🇹 Tony Drago 1–2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Tony Chappel
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Karl Townsend 1–2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tony Knowles
 * 🇨🇦 Alain Robidoux 2–0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Les Dodd
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jimmy White 2–0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mike Hallett

Quarter-finals

 * Sunday, 28 October – 13:00
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve Davis 0–2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Darren Morgan
 * 🇳🇿 Dene O'Kane 2–1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jimmy White
 * 🇨🇦 Alain Robidoux 0–2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Tony Chappel
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tony Knowles 0–2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nigel Bond

Semi-finals

 * Sunday, 28 October – 19:00
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nigel Bond 2–0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Darren Morgan
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Tony Chappel 2–1 🇳🇿 Dene O'Kane

Final

 * Sunday, 28 October – 19:00
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nigel Bond 2–0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Tony Chappel

Qualifying
These matches took place on 30 September 2012 at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England. There was only one century break during the qualifying. Nigel Bond made a 101 against Gary Wilkinson.