2014 Champion of Champions


The 2014 Dafabet Champion of Champions was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3 and 9 November 2014 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England.
Ronnie O'Sullivan successfully defended his title beating Judd Trump 10–7 in the final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Players qualified for the event by winning important tournaments since the previous Champion of Champions. Entry was guaranteed for the defending champion, winners of rankings events and winners of the following non-rankings events: 2014 Masters, 2014 Championship League, 2015 World Grand Prix and 2014 Players Championship Grand Final. Remaining places were then allocated to winners of European Tour events and then to winners of Asian Tour events and then, winners of the 2014 Six-red World Championship, 2014 Snooker Shoot-Out and 2013 World Seniors Championship.
Only 13 different players won one the 24 qualifying tournaments. The remaining three places were allocated to the three highest ranked players who had not already qualified, based on the world rankings after the 2014 Bulgarian Open.
The following 16 players qualified for the tournament:
SeedPlayerQualified as
1 Ronnie O'SullivanWinner of 2013 Champion of Champions, 2014 Masters and 2014 Welsh Open
2 Mark SelbyWinner of 2014 World Snooker Championship and 2014 Riga Open
3 Neil RobertsonWinner of 2013 UK Championship and 2014 Wuxi Classic
4 Ding JunhuiWinner of 2014 German Masters, 2014 China Open and 2014 Yixing Open
Judd TrumpWinner of 2014 Championship League and 2014 Australian Goldfields Open
Shaun MurphyWinner of 2014 Gdynia Open, 2014 World Open and 2014 Bulgarian Open
Barry HawkinsWinner of 2014 Players Championship Grand Final
Stuart BinghamWinner of 2014 Dongguan Open, 2014 Shanghai Masters and 2014 Haining Open
Ricky WaldenWinner of 2014 International Championship
Mark AllenWinner of 2014 Paul Hunter Classic
Stephen MaguireWinner of 2014 Six-red World Championship
Dominic DaleWinner of 2014 Snooker Shoot-Out
Steve DavisWinner of 2013 World Seniors Championship
Marco FuWorld ranking of 9
John HigginsWorld ranking of 12
Ali CarterWorld ranking of 13

Main draw

Final

Century breaks