International Open (snooker)
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| Tournament information | |
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| Location | Glasgow |
| Country | Scotland |
| Established | 1981 |
| Organisation(s) | World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Current champion(s) |
 Marco Fu
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The Scottish Open is a ranking professional snooker tournament held in Scotland. The tournament had many name changes in its history, as the tournament was formerly called International Open, Goya Matchroom Trophy and Players Championship. Apart from a hiatus in the 1990/1991 and 1991/1992 seasons, the tournament remained a ranking event until 2003/2004. In the 2012/2013 season the tournament was added back to the calendar as part of the Players Tour Championship minor-ranking series. The last champion was Marco Fu.
On 29 April, 2015, Barry Hearn announced it would return to the main tour in 2016 at the Emirates Arena Glasgow, as part of a new "Home Series" with the existing Welsh Open and new English Open and Northern Ireland Open tournaments.
The tournament began in 1981 as the International Open at the Assembly Rooms in Derby, and became the following year the second ranking event after the World Championship. The event moved to the Eldon Square in Newcastle upon Tyne. Until 1984 the event was sponsored by Jameson Whiskey.
In 1985 the event moved to the Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent and was renamed (for this year only) to the Goya Matchroom Trophy due to sponsorship from Matchroom and Goya. The International Open name returned the following year and the sponsorship was overtaken by BCE (1986 and 1989) and Fidelity Unit Trusts (1987 and 1988). After 1989 the event went on a two-year hiatus.
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