The 2016 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2016 Coral Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 20 November 2016 at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the ninth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.

This was the inaugural Northern Ireland Open event, being held as part of a new Home Nations Series introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the existing Welsh Open and new English Open and Scottish Open tournaments. The winner of the Northern Ireland Open is awarded the Alex Higgins Trophy which is named in honour of Northern Irish two-time world champion Alex Higgins.

Mark King won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Barry Hawkins 9–8 in the final.

John Higgins made the 123rd official maximum break in the fifth frame of his last 64 match against Sam Craigie. It was Higgins' eighth professional maximum.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £70,000 Runner-up: £30,000 Semi-final: £20,000 Quarter-final: £10,000 Last 16: £6,000 Last 32: £3,500 Last 64: £2,500

Highest break: £2,000 Total: £366,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000.

Main draw

Top half Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Terry Camilleri.Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 20 November 2016. Mark King 9–8 Barry Hawkins (11) Afternoon: 1–85 (85), , , , , , , Evening: 95–5 (62), , , , , , , , 110 Highest break 113 2 Century breaks 1 4 50+ breaks 4

Century breaks

147, 137, 130, 107 John Higgins 142 Fergal O'Brien 141, 133, 131, 126, 117, 108 Ronnie O'Sullivan 139 Mark Williams 138, 134, 124 Anthony Hamilton 137, 130, 117, 104 Michael White 133 Dominic Dale 131 Chen Zhe 130, 121 Yan Bingtao 126, 117, 113 Barry Hawkins 126 Kurt Dunham 125, 108 Rhys Clark 125 Alfie Burden 125 James Cahill 121 David Gilbert 120 Peter Ebdon 119, 112, 101 Kurt Maflin 119 Hossein Vafaei 118 Marco Fu 118 Alan McManus

117 Luca Brecel 116, 109 Ricky Walden 113, 109, 100 Kyren Wilson 112 Michael Georgiou 110, 100 Mark King 110 Anthony McGill 110 Tom Ford 109 Mark Allen 106 Scott Donaldson 106 Sam Baird 104 Sam Craigie 104 Yu Delu 103 Jamie Curtis-Barrett 102 Jordan Brown 102 Ken Doherty 102 Liang Wenbo 101 Robbie Williams 102 Stephen Maguire 100 Jack Lisowski 100 Eden Sharav

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