The 2025 Ultimate Pool Women’s Series will feature eight events at four long weekends throughout the year – four ‘main’ events and four plate events. There will be a maximum of 64 players per event.

Women’s Series events initially feature a round robin phase of 16 groups of four players. Matches in the round robin phase and the knockout rounds of the ‘main’ event are the first to five frames.

The top two from each group will go into the ‘main’ event knockout phase (Last 32). The bottom 2 from each group will go straight into the knockout phase of the plate (Last 32)

The Golden Break and Golden Duck rules are not in operation during this year’s Series.

The draws and schedules for each Series weekend will be released on the Live Scoring page around a fortnight before the event begins.

Dates

All Pro Series events in 2025 will take place at either the Premier Suite, Bolton Wanderers FC, Bolton or the Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan.

There are four weekend stops, with two Pro Series events taking place at each one. Events will run from Fridays to Sundays. The dates are:

Events 1 & 2 | April 4-6 - Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan
Events 3 & 4 | May 23-25 - Premier Suite, Bolton Wanderers FC, Bolton
Events 5 & 6 | July 11-13 - Premier Suite, Bolton Wanderers FC, Bolton
Events 7 & 8 | September 19-21 - Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan

Prize Money

The 2025 Ultimate Pool Women’s Series has a total prize fund of £20,800.00 The prize money breakdown for each event is as follows:

Women’s Series Events (Main):

Winner: £1,400
Runner-Up: £700
Semi-Finalist: £400
Quarter-Finalist: £200
Last 16: £100

Women’s Series Plate Events:

Winner: £250
Runner-Up: £100
Semi-Finalist: £75
Quarter-Finalist: £50

Coverage

The latter rounds of Women’s Series events – where possible – will be played on the main arena tables and shown on ultimatepool.tv, Ultimate Pool App, TikTik and YouTube.

Ranking Points Distribution and Rules

2023 Women’s Series Events (Main):

Winner: 5,000
Runner-Up: 3,000
Semi-Finalist: 2,000
Quarter-Finalist: 1,500
Last 16: 1,000
Last 32: 500

2023 Women’s Series Plate Events:

Winner: 450
Runner-Up: 300
Semi-Finalist: 200
Quarter-Finalist: 150
Last 16: 100
Last 32: 50

The top 4 ranked players from the Womens Challenger Series at the end of the season will have the opportunity to become a Professional on the Womens Pro Series for 2026. The bottom 4 ranked players from the Professional Womens Series will be relegated into the Womens Challenger Series for 2026

For any matches that involve a bye/withdrawal, the ‘beneficiaries’ will earn full prize money, ranking points and frames on offer.

Players have to attend the tournament and complete their matches (unless otherwise authorised by a UPG official) in order gain ranking points.

Players Tied on Points

A) If players are level on the same number of points, positions are determined by whoever won the most points in any single event during the season.

B) If positions can’t be decided by (A) the countback method will be applied.

.1 This means positions will be decided by how many points were earned during the most recent weekend on this season’s Women’s Series.

.2 Should this still not separate players, you continue this process looking at the most recent Women’s Series weekend working backwards throughout the season until players can be separated.

C) If players have an exactly identical ranking points record throughout the entire season, positions will be decided by whoever won the greatest number of frames in their losing match at the most recent Women’s Series weekend.

.1 Should this still not separate players, you continue this process looking at the most recent Women’s Series weekend working backwards throughout the season until players can be separated.

D) In the event that players still can’t be separated, the players involved may have to contest a playoff – the details of which would be decided by the Ultimate Pool Group.

Should an issue arise that is not covered above, the decision of the Ultimate Pool Group will be final.

The Ultimate Pool Group has the right to alter the above in exceptional circumstances.

Seedings and How Qualification Works

The group seeds will be determined from the 2024 rankings and again the rest will fall in at random.

These 16 seeded players will go into corresponding numbered groups from 1-16 (top seed will be in Group 1, number 16 seed will be in Group 16).

The knockout round bracket for the ‘main’ event is below. This has been created in such a way that if the seeded players win their groups, the very top ranked seeded players will avoid each other until the latter rounds.

Group 1 Winner v
Group 16 Winner v
Group 9 Winner v
Group 8 Winner v
Group 5 Winner v
Group 12 Winner v
Group 13 Winner v
Group 4 Winner v
Group 3 Winner v
Group 14 Winner v
Group 11 Winner v
Group 6 Winner v
Group 7 Winner v
Group 10 Winner v
Group 15 Winner v
Group 2 Winner v

Group positions will be determined by the following:

Points
Frame Difference
Head to Head

INFORMATION FOR PLAYERS

ABOUT ULTIMATE POOL

The Ultimate Pool Group organises and promotes professional 8-ball pool events featuring the world’s top players. Founded in 2020 when the QK Sports Entertainment and Orange Media Group brands merged forces, the Ultimate Pool Group harbours an exciting vision for the sport’s future, with an emphasis on supplying quality, entertainment and increased levels of professionalism, exposure and prize money.

Ultimate Pool hosts a portfolio of live televised tournaments including several major invitationals and a structured two-tier floor circuit that consists of an open amateur series and an elite 64 player professional series. Throughout 2025, Ultimate Pool is set to pay out approximately over £840,000 in prizes (subject to a fully paid fields).

SCHEDULE

Ultimate Pool Series Events will commence on Friday and conclude on Sunday. All matches will have an allocated start time: A comprehensive match schedule will be published a minimum of two weeks prior to each Series event.

SERIES FORMAT

The Women’s Pro and Challenger Series will be a replica of the 2024 Series. The Women’s Pro Series will be based on 32 players playing two events each weekend (8 in total in 2025). The format will be single elimination with races to 7 and a race to 8 in the final. The Women’s Challenger Series will again have one event per weekend consisting of 16 groups of 4 players. The top 2 from each group will go through to the main knockout stages and the bottom two from each group will go into the plate competition. The group stage matches races will be to 5. In the knockout phase, the main draw will continue with races to 5, while the plate competition will consist of races to 4.

SERIES PROMOTION & RELEGATION

The top 4 from the 2025 Women’s Challenger Series Rankings will be promoted to the 2026 Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series. The bottom 4 from the Women’s Pro Series will be relegated to the 2026 Ultimate Pool Women’s Challenger Series.

DRESS CODE

All players will receive an official series shirt, which must be worn during your matches. No jeans or trainers allowed. Trousers and shoes to be worn whilst playing in all events. Any player who doesn’t wear the official Ultimate Pool Shirt will be fined £45.00 and a new shirt will be ordered for them.

TV & STREAMING

Our events will either be televised and/or livestreamed on ultimatepool.tv, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. For further details please visit ultimatepoolgroup.com.

WRISTBAND FEE

For the 2025 season, we will be using a wristband system for each series event. If you are participating in the events, the charge will be £50.00 per weekend. If you are planning on bringing your partner, friend etc., weekend passes are available for £20.00. Under 18s go free, but must be accompanied by a fee-paying adult.

##HOW TO ENTER Please contact the Tournament Director via email: TD@ultimatepoolgroup.com and provide your full name and a contact telephone number. By entering the Ultimate Pool Series you agree to abide by the rules set out by the organisers of the Ultimate Series, accept they are subject to change and that decisions made by The Tournament Director will be final.

BY PAYING YOUR DEPOSIT YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE READ AND AGREED TO THESE RULES.

WOMEN’S PRO SERIES FEES PAYMENT STRUCTURE TOTAL FEES: £1000.00

Payment 1: £250 (Deposit): Due 15th November 2024
Payment 2: £250: Due 28th February 2025
Payment 3: £250: Due 30th April 2025
Payment 4: £250: Due 20th June 2025

WOMEN’S CHALLENGER SERIES FEES PAYMENT STRUCTURE TOTAL FEES: £600

Payment 1: £200 (Deposit): Due 15th November 2024
Payment 2: £200: Due 28th February 2025
Payment 3: £100: Due 30th April 2025
Payment 4: £100: Due 20th June 2025

Entry includes series shirt & annual Ultimate Pool app subscription. DEPOSITS AND ALL ENTRY FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. If your application is not successful, your deposit will be returned as soon as possible.

The organisers reserve the right to remove and replace any entrant who fails to make the payment deadline as set out above. All players must pay all the entry fees, even if they do not attend all the Events. The organisers reserve the right to decline any unsuitable new applicants.

By applying to join the Ultimate Pool Series, you have read and agreed to the Ultimate Pool Players Terms and Conditions which can be found at https://www.ultimatepoolgroup.com/tournaments/terms-and-conditions