2016 Northern Ireland Open

The 2016 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2016 Coral Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 20 November 2016 at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the ninth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.

This was the inaugural Northern Ireland Open event, being held as part of a new Home Nations Series introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the existing Welsh Open and new English Open and Scottish Open tournaments. The winner of the Northern Ireland Open is awarded the Alex Higgins Trophy which is named in honour of Northern Irish two-time world champion Alex Higgins.

Mark King won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Barry Hawkins 9–8 in the final.

John Higgins made the 123rd official maximum break in the fifth frame of his last 64 match against Sam Craigie. It was Higgins' eighth professional maximum.

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


 * Winner: £70,000
 * Runner-up: £30,000
 * Semi-final: £20,000
 * Quarter-final: £10,000
 * Last 16: £6,000
 * Last 32: £3,500
 * Last 64: £2,500

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000.
 * Highest break: £2,000
 * Total: £366,000

Century breaks

 * 147, 137, 130, 107 – John Higgins
 * 142 – Fergal O'Brien
 * 141, 133, 131, 126, 117, 108 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
 * 139 – Mark Williams
 * 138, 134, 124 – Anthony Hamilton
 * 137, 130, 117, 104 – Michael White
 * 133 – Dominic Dale
 * 131 – Chen Zhe
 * 130, 121 – Yan Bingtao
 * 126, 117, 113 – Barry Hawkins
 * 126 – Kurt Dunham
 * 125, 108 – Rhys Clark
 * 125 – Alfie Burden
 * 125 – James Cahill
 * 121 – David Gilbert
 * 120 – Peter Ebdon
 * 119, 112, 101 – Kurt Maflin
 * 119 – Hossein Vafaei
 * 118 – Marco Fu
 * 118 – Alan McManus


 * 117 – Luca Brecel
 * 116, 109 – Ricky Walden
 * 113, 109, 100 – Kyren Wilson
 * 112 – Michael Georgiou
 * 110, 100 – Mark King
 * 110 – Anthony McGill
 * 110 – Tom Ford
 * 109 – Mark Allen
 * 106 – Scott Donaldson
 * 106 – Sam Baird
 * 104 – Sam Craigie
 * 104 – Yu Delu
 * 103 – Jamie Curtis-Barrett
 * 102 – Jordan Brown
 * 102 – Ken Doherty
 * 102 – Liang Wenbo
 * 101 – Robbie Williams
 * 102 – Stephen Maguire
 * 100 – Jack Lisowski
 * 100 – Eden Sharav