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Men's British Open squash prize money

The Men's British Open has paid £1,900,408 across 14 tournaments from 2012 to 2026. In 2026 Paul Coll took £39,600.

PAID IN TOTAL£1.9m
EDITIONS14
2026 TOP PRIZE£40k
PLAYERS PAID122
RANK3 of 97

Every edition

Who won, what they took, and what the tournament paid in all

Every edition of the Men's British Open with its winner, the winner's prize and the total paid.
YEAR WINNER TOP PRIZE PAID
2026 Paul Coll £39,600£40k £247,504£248k
2025 Diego Elías £41,925£42k £262,038£262k
2024 Mostafa Asal £23,399£23k £146,248£146k
2023 Ali Farag £21,534£22k £134,592£135k
2022 Paul Coll £20,571£21k £128,577£129k
2021 Paul Coll £19,850£20k £124,066£124k
2019 Mohamed El Shorbagy £19,850£20k £124,066£124k
2018 Miguel Ángel Rodríguez £21,711£22k £124,068£124k
2017 Grégory Gaultier £17,763£18k £101,541£102k
2016 Mohamed El Shorbagy £17,763£18k £101,541£102k
2015 Mohamed El Shorbagy £17,763£18k £101,541£102k
2014 Grégory Gaultier £17,763£18k £101,541£102k
2013 Ramy Ashour £17,763£18k £101,541£102k
2012 Nick Matthew £17,763£18k £101,541£102k

Prize money paid, edition by edition

The Men's British Open 2026 payouts

What each finishing place was worth at the latest edition

Prize money by finishing place at the Men's British Open 2026.
PLACE PLAYERS EACH BAND TOTAL
Winner 1 £39,600£40k £39,600£40k
Runner-up 1 £24,750£25k £24,750£25k
Semi-final 2 £14,850£15k £29,701£30k
Quarter-final 4 £8,662£9k £34,650£35k
Last 16 8 £5,198£5k £41,582£42k
Last 32 16 £2,970£3k £47,519£48k
Last 64 16 £1,856£2k £29,702£30k

Every cheque by name is on the Men's British Open 2026 payouts page.

Who has earned the most at the Men's British Open

Prize money won here, across every edition we hold

The players who have won the most prize money at the Men's British Open.
# PLAYER NATION WINS PRIZE MONEY
1 Paul Coll New Zealand 3 £129,117£129k
2 Mohamed El Shorbagy England 3 £117,732£118k
3 Diego Elías Peru 1 £89,772£90k
4 Mostafa Asal Egypt 1 £87,897£88k
5 Ali Farag Egypt 1 £87,732£88k
6 Grégory Gaultier France 2 £78,977£79k
7 Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Colombia 1 £67,813£68k
8 Nick Matthew England 1 £60,959£61k
9 Ramy Ashour Egypt 1 £56,871£57k
10 Karim Gawad Egypt 0 £50,311£50k
11 Marwan El Shorbagy England 0 £49,008£49k
12 Joel Makin Wales 0 £37,380£37k
13 Mazen Hesham Egypt 0 £33,442£33k
14 Tarek Momen Egypt 0 £30,543£31k
15 Grégoire Marche France 0 £28,113£28k
16 James Willstrop England 0 £27,655£28k
17 Victor Crouin France 0 £26,753£27k
18 Mohamed Abouelghar Egypt 0 £26,180£26k
19 Simon Rösner Germany 0 £25,863£26k
20 Youssef Soliman Egypt 0 £23,641£24k
21 Omar Mosaad Egypt 0 £23,472£23k
22 Nicolas Müller Switzerland 0 £22,477£22k
23 Fares Dessouky Egypt 0 £22,396£22k
24 Raphael Kandra Germany 0 £20,220£20k
25 Ng Eain Yow Malaysia 0 £19,550£20k

Other squash tournaments

The tournaments either side of the Men's British Open by prize money paid

Squash tournaments ranked around the Men's British Open.
# TOURNAMENT EDITIONS PAID
88 Women's Open de France 1 £50,733£51k
89 Men's Canadian Open 1 £41,359£41k
90 Chennai Open 1 £39,853£40k
91 Hurghada International 2 £34,740£35k
92 Burning River Classic 1 £29,362£29k
93 Dutch Open 1 £19,023£19k
94 El-Kersh Heliopolis Open 1 £19,023£19k
95 Granite Open 1 £18,800£19k
96 Boca del Río Veracruz International 1 £15,038£15k
97 Seoul Open 1 £15,038£15k
1 Men's World Championship 16 £4,896,440£4.9m
2 Women's World Championship 16 £4,103,552£4.1m
3 Men's British Open 14 £1,900,408£1.9m
4 Men's Qatar Classic 14 £1,761,926£1.8m
5 Women's British Open 14 £1,732,086£1.7m
6 Men's Tournament of Champions 16 £1,705,583£1.7m
7 Men's El Gouna Open 14 £1,645,693£1.6m
8 Men's US Open 15 £1,620,357£1.6m
9 Women's US Open 15 £1,515,759£1.5m
10 Men's Hong Kong Open 13 £1,508,065£1.5m
11 Women's Tournament of Champions 14 £1,376,760£1.4m
12 Men's Egyptian Open 6 £1,260,579£1.3m
13 Men's Windy City Open 9 £1,258,947£1.3m
14 Women's Windy City Open 9 £1,207,353£1.2m

Frequently asked questions

How much did the winner get at the Men's British Open 2026?

Paul Coll took £39,600. The whole tournament paid £247,504 across 48 players.

How much prize money has the Men's British Open paid?

£1,900,408 across 14 editions from 2012 to 2026. The richest was the Men's 2025 British Open, at £262,038.

Who has won the most money at the Men's British Open?

Paul Coll, with £129,117 and 3 wins. Mohamed El Shorbagy is next on £117,732.

Who has won the Men's British Open the most times?

Paul Coll, 3 times in the editions we hold.

Where does the Men's British Open rank for prize money?

3rd of the 97 squash tournaments we hold, by total prize money paid.

Where to next

Every squash tournament and player is ranked on squash prize money. The latest edition is the Men's British Open 2026, and the one before it the Men's 2025 British Open. What the men's and women's fields are paid is compared on men's vs women's squash prize money. How much of the pot a squash winner keeps, against every other sport, is on the winner's share of prize money. How far down the field the money runs, against every other sport, is on how deep prize money pays.