The 2017 UK Championship is already well under way with the television stages set to commence from Saturday in York.
With this year celebrating the 40th anniversary since the inaugural staging back in 1977, the UK Championship represents the third oldest professional tournament behind the World Championship and the prestigious Masters.
Most of the biggest faces in the sport have managed to etch their names onto the beautiful trophy in the past four decades and, as ever, it’ll be interesting to see if a new member can join the illustrious group of champions in just over a week’s time.
There have been a wide range of different finals in a host of venues, from the once permanent UK home of the Preston Guild Hall to its newest stop at the Barbican Centre, and the lesser remembered locations of Bournemouth and Telford.
The first final was played over the best-of-23 frames at the Tower Circus in Blackpool before longer showdowns became the norm with the best-of-31 guise from 1980.
It wasn’t until 1993 that the length was reduced to its current best-of-19 affair for glory.
A total of nine finals have gone the distance, while the record margin of victory was a whopping 13 frames when Steve Davis hammered Terry Griffiths 16-3 in… wait, no hints!
This quiz is a little different to all the others in that the answers are provided for you, so all you have to do is match the year with the final.
The question is, how well do you remember the UK Championship finals?
