Today's the day! The winner of the 2024 World Snooker Championship will be decided over the course of the next 24 hours, deciding who will hold the crown of the sport's biggest title winner for the next 12 months.
This year's tournament has seen shock results from almost the minute go, with defending champion Luca Brecel knocked out in the first round, and fellow top seeds Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump both exit proceedings at the quarterfinal stage. That set up a pair of semifinals where the highest-ranked player remaining was 12th seed Kyren Wilson, and he overcame David Gilbert 17-11 to reach the final.
That sets up a decider which will see Gilbert face off against Jak Jones on Sunday, May 5, after the 44th-seeded Welshman beat Stuart Bingham.
STREAM: World Snooker Championship 2024 on Discovery+ in the UK
First held all the way back in 1927, and for the last 48 consecutive years at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, the World Snooker Championship is the tournament in global snooker, and we're down to the final two players gunning to win their sizeable share of a prize pot worth over £2 million.
The deciding match of this year's World Snooker Championship is just hours away from the first break, and to make sure you catch all the world-class action from the Crucible, The Sporting News has you covered for scheduling, TV and streaming details.
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2024 World Snooker Championship final TV channel, live stream
As the home broadcaster of the World Snooker Championship for many a year, the BBC are providing plenty of coverage from South Yorkshire in 2024. They will be showing the decisive match across BBC Two as well as on BBC iPlayer.
Eurosport subscribers can also watch the action live and on catch-up, either on TV or streaming via Discovery+. Across the pond, US and Canada-based fans can watch the action on World Snooker Tour's own online channel via a matchroom.live subscription.
| TV channel | Live Stream | |
| UK | BBC Two, Eurosport | BBC iPlayer, Discovery+, matchroom.live |
| Canada | — | matchroom.live |
| US | — | matchroom.live |
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When is the 2024 World Snooker Championship final?
The deciding match of the 2024 World Snooker Championship is on Sunday, May 5, 2024 and Monday, May 6 2024 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, UK. Play begins from 1:00 p.m. local time (BST).
| Date | Round | UK (BST) | US (ET) | Canada (ET) |
| Sunday, May 5 | Session 1 | 1:00 p.m. | 8:00 a.m. | 8:00 a.m. |
| Sunday, May 5 | Session 2 | 7:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. |
| Monday, May 6 | Session 3 | 1:00 p.m. | 8:00 a.m. | 8:00 a.m. |
| Monday, May 6 | Session 4 | 7:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. |
2024 World Snooker Championship prize money
The overall prize fund for this year's World Championship is £2,395,000, and the winner will receive £500,000 of that total. Qualification for the first round alone saw players in the last 32 pocket an automatic £20,000 in prize money, which increased with each passing stage up until the semifinals.
Whichever player records the highest break throughout the tournament also receives £15,000 on top of their prize fund regardless of which stage it comes at. The runner-up of today's final receives £200,000, just under half the winning total, but that'll be far away from the minds of Wilson and Jones as play gets underway.
- Winner: £500,000
- Runner-up: £200,000
- Semifinal: £100,000
- Quarterfinal: £50,000
- Last 16: £30,000
- Last 32: £20,000
- Highest break: £15,000
- Maximum break (main tournament): £40,000