 A qualifying tournament was held from 8 to 16 April 2014 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield.The 2014 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament played from 19 April to 5 May 2014 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.This was the 38th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was held at the Cruicible Theatre, first held there in 1977.