2015 World Snooker Championship
The 2015 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2015 Betfred World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament which took place from 18 April to 4 May 2015 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 39th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible, and the final ranking event of the 2014–15 snooker season. Betfred sponsored the event for the first time in three years, having previously sponsored the tournament from 2009 to 2012. Qualifying for the event took place between 8 and 15 April 2015 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield.