2016 UK Championship

The 2016 UK Championship (officially the 2016 Betway UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 22 November to 4 December 2016 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the tenth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.

Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 2-6 in the first round to Liang Wenbo.

In his last 64 match against Barry Hawkins, Fergal O'Brien made 5 centuries, setting up a new record in a best of 11 match.

Mark Allen made the 124th official maximum break in the 7th frame of his last 64 match against Rod Lawler. It was Allen's first maximum break, and it was the fifth time in a row, that a maximum was made in a UK Championship.

105 centuries were made during the tournament, breaking last year's record of 104, which included 10 from both Selby and O'Sullivan.

Mark Selby claimed his second UK title by beating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10–4 in the final. This was O'Donnell' s 10th ranking title. This also made him the sixth player to have completed the Triple Crown twice.

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


 * Winner: £200,000
 * Runner-up: £95,000
 * Semi-final: £40,000
 * Quarter-final: £22,500
 * Last 16: £15,000
 * Last 32: £10,000
 * Last 64: £5,000


 * Highest break: £5,000
 * Total: £850,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £5,000.

Century breaks

 * 147, 137, 136, 136, 132, 105 – Mark Allen
 * 141, 126 – Mark King
 * 140 – Jimmy Robertson
 * 137, 134, 120, 119, 109, 107, 102, 101, 100, 100 – Mark Selby
 * 137 – Scott Donaldson
 * 136, 101 – Joe Perry
 * 134, 131, 130, 130, 129, 124, 112, 106, 103, 101 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
 * 134 – Michael Georgiou
 * 132, 126, 106, 101 – John Higgins
 * 131, 106 – Noppon Saengkham
 * 130 – Alan McManus
 * 129 – Barry Hawkins
 * 128, 125, 118, 114, 100 – Marco Fu
 * 128, 116, 112, 101, 101 – Stephen Maguire
 * 127, 121, 108 – Stuart Bingham
 * 127 – Jamie Jones
 * 126, 118 – Ryan Day
 * 126, 108, 102 – David Gilbert
 * 126 – Gary Wilson
 * 125, 110 – Liam Highfield
 * 125, 105, 105 – Zhang Anda
 * 123, 120 – Sam Baird
 * 122 – Wang Yuchen


 * 121 – Mark Williams
 * 119, 115, 112, 110, 103 – Shaun Murphy
 * 119 – Dominic Dale
 * 119 – Xiao Guodong
 * 116, 111, 100 – Ali Carter
 * 113, 111, 111, 101, 100 – Fergal O'Brien
 * 113 – Kurt Maflin
 * 113 – Sanderson Lam
 * 112 – Hammad Miah
 * 112 – Robbie Williams
 * 109 – Judd Trump
 * 108 – Rory McLeod
 * 107, 103 – Mark Davis
 * 107, 100 – Liang Wenbo
 * 106 – Mark Joyce
 * 105 – Igor Figueiredo
 * 104 – Anthony McGill
 * 103 – Robin Hull
 * 103 – Martin Gould
 * 102, 102 – Luca Brecel
 * 102 – Yan Bingtao
 * 101 – Ben Woollaston
 * 100 – Josh Boileau