The World Snooker Tour will continue to be shown across Europe on Eurosport and HBO Max as Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) extends its exclusive broadcast rights until at least the 2030-2031 season. 

The renewed five-year partnership with World Snooker Tour extends Eurosport’s position as the home of snooker nearly 30 years after it first began broadcasting the sport's biggest events in 2003. 

It means that broad access to the World Snooker Tour, including the heralded Triple Crown – the World Championship, the Masters and the UK Championship – as well as other prestigious tournaments such as the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, Shanghai Masters, and Tour Championship among others, will continue to be provided to millions of fans for live viewing. 

Snooker attracts a huge audience across the continent through Eurosport’s pan-European coverage. During the 2024/25 season, more people than ever watched snooker on Eurosport with more than 88 million individual viewers reached with 1,500 broadcast hours delivered in each market. 

Trojan Paillot, Senior Vice President, Sports Rights Acquisitions and Syndication, at WBD Sports Europe, said: “We are thrilled to extend our long and successful partnership with IMG and the World Snooker Tour to continue telling the stories of the iconic players setting new records and delivering more drama and intensity at the table all year round. 

“With more than two decades of experience and snooker expertise demonstrated by producing coverage of the world’s greatest tournaments, we are perfectly positioned to provide broad access to the World Snooker Tour. By harnessing our comprehensive portfolio of channels and platforms, we will maximise the viewing opportunities for snooker fans across Europe while supporting the growth of the sport internationally.” 

WST’s Chief Commercial Officer Peter Wright said: “Eurosport has played such a significant role in developing the popularity of our sport across the continent. We meet so many fans who say that their first experience of snooker was watching on Eurosport. And of course many professional players from countries such as Belgium, Poland and Germany also discovered our sport this way. So in announcing this new extension we are celebrating the marvellous relationship between snooker and Eurosport and HBO Max. We are proud to have grown snooker to a level where it stands alongside huge events like the Olympics, Grand Slam tennis and the Tour de France as the premier sports content on Eurosport and HBO Max.  

“We are excited to be working alongside the team at Warner Bros. Discovery given their visionary approach, heralding a new era in sports broadcasting. We welcome the opportunities for collaboration across sports and wider content – and particularly loved Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal promoting our World Championship! We look forward to building on our long-standing partnership with WBD for the next five years and beyond.” 

Through its linear channels, streaming, digital and social media platforms, WBD has created more fan engagement opportunities during every major event throughout the snooker season than ever before. In addition to multi-market linear coverage on Eurosport in 20 languages, WBD provides access to tournaments during the World Snooker Tour on its enhanced streaming platform, HBO Max, which continues to rollout in new markets with launches planned in Italy, Germany and the UK in early 2026. 

The current 2025-2026 World Snooker Tour features 22 tournaments in total, 18 of which are ranking events. Judd Trump is currently the world number one heading into a spectacular period of snooker with the UK Championship (29 November – 7 December 2025); Masters (11-18 January 2026) and World Snooker Championship (18 April – 4 May 2026) coming up. 

*HBO Max currently shows live sport in 35 markets in Europe ahead of it launching in new markets including Austria; Germany; Italy; the UK and Ireland in early 2026 – the latter of which will become the streaming home of TNT Sports.