Champions Cup (Snooker)

Champions Cup

Tournament status
Ranking tournament:	-
Minor ranking tournament:	-
Invitation tournament:	1995-2001
Tournament dates of the last edition
Venue:	Brighton Center , Brighton
Prize money (total):	?
Prize money (winner):	£ 100,000
Frames in the final:	Best of 15
Records
Most wins:	Stephen Hendry John Higgins  (3 ×)
Highest Break:	147 ( Maximum Break ) Stephen Hendry 1997
Venue (s) on the map
Derby Birmingham Brighton Croydon

The Champions Cup (initially: Charity Challenge ) was a (charity) snooker tournament that was held from 1995 to 2001.

history

As a charity challenge , the tournament took place for the first time during the 1994/95 snooker season . It was the only professional snooker tournament where the prize money was donated to charity. The field of participants initially consisted of 16 players before it was reduced to eight players in 1996. In 1997 Stephen Hendry managed a maximum break in the final against Ronnie O'Sullivan . It was the 19th maximum break in snooker history and the only one that was ever achieved in a decision frame.

After five years, the tournament was renamed the Champions Cup in 1999 . The winners of the main tournaments of the previous season now competed against each other. The prize pool was £ 175,000 in the first tournament after the reorganization and has now ceased to be donated to charity. It was paid out in full to the winner. At that time it was the second most rewarded tournament of the season. In the following years, however, the prize money was again divided among the participants in the usual way.

The tournament was sponsored by Liverpool Victoria up to and including 1999 and by TVN in 2000 . The last tournament in 2001 had no sponsor.

winner

year	venue	winner	Result	finalist	Main sponsor	season
Charity Challenge
1995	Birmingham International CC	Stephen Hendry	9: 1	Dennis Taylor	Liverpool Victoria	1994/95
1996		Ronnie O'Sullivan	9: 6	John Higgins		1995/96
1997		Stephen Hendry	9: 8	Ronnie O'Sullivan		1996/97
1998	Derby Assembly Rooms	John Higgins	9: 8	Ronnie O'Sullivan		1997/98
1999		John Higgins	9: 4	Ronnie O'Sullivan		1998/99
Champions Cup
1999	Croydon - Fairfield Halls	Stephen Hendry	7: 5	Mark Williams	Liverpool Victoria	1999/2000
2000	Brighton Brighton Center	Ronnie O'Sullivan	7: 5	Mark Williams	TSN	2000/01
2001		John Higgins	7: 4	Mark Williams	-	2001/02

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History and final results ( Memento of March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Chris Turner's Snooker Archive)