World Seniors Snooker Championship final 2025 LIVE RESULTS: Alfie Burden thrashes Aaron Canavan in huge showpiece match

Until this year, Alfie Burden had only won one of his three professional career finals, UK Tour - Event 1 in 1998 - he has now doubled that tally in the last few weeks.

First with the World Seniors Golden Ticket Tournament in late April, where he edged past Matthew Ford 4-3 in the final and now the most prestigious honour in the World Seniors Championship.

Includes more Crucible fallout:

• R1: 4-1 vs Jimmy White
• R2: 4-3 vs Tony Drago
• SF: 6-2 vs Hassan Kerde
• F: 8-4 vs Aaron Canavan

Speaking after the final, Burden paid a touching tribute to his mother.

He dedicated the win to her after opening up on how he always doubted himself and how she told him he was always destined to do something with a ball after going to bed with one at 18 months old.

A classy move.

Your World Seniors Snooker World Champion: Alfie Burden

He had a late scare after seeing Canavan win back-to-back frames, but the 48-year-old kept his cool and went on to claim victory with the decisive frame.

Burden avenges his defeat in the final against Jimmy White in 2023.

The comeback is on!

Canavan has secured his fourth frame of this thrilling final, reducing Burden's lead to three.

He couldn't could he?

Frame 11 has been the tightest frame so far as neither player seems to be able to take the point.

Burden makes a crucial error by missing a pot of a red ball.

He had just taken the lead but his mistake allowed Canavan to return to the table before he won the frame.

This isn't over just yet.

A stunning frame from Burden sees him move within one of being named the World Seniors Snooker champion.

He gets a break of 81 to put him within touching distance of his maiden title.

Burden takes the frame.

He scores 107 and clears the table to score the first century in this final.

He is given a round of applause by the crowd for his efforts.

A re-rack has been agreed on by both players and the referee due to the muddle-up nature of the table.

Burden wrestles his three-frame advantage back with some clever doses of ingenuity.

"Good, aint I," says Burden. He's putting together some pretty special stuff at the moment.

Apart from his end shot where he clipped the cue ball off the table.

Canavan puts too much power on the blue which he aimed to pot in the middle right pocket.

Burden ensues back control and pots the green in a crucial frame of snooker.

Canavan eventually puts an end to the cat-and-mouse game of snooker that saw the pair work their way around the remaining colours.

Burden nailed in the green, brown and nearly produced magic on the blue, but Canavan rolled in the pink to get himself back into this contest.

The dreaded phone that tends to typify every snooker match at the Crucible goes off again and to the cheek of Canavan, he lets the phonee know that "his busy" to the jester of the crowd.

He can let lines like that out as he looks to close out this frame after picking up some much-needed coincidence in his shot-making.

Wee're back and no let-up from Burden.

Canavan is back on the table with the unenviable task of managing a puzzle of reds.

Burden counties to dominate this contest as we enter a mid-session interval.

Back in 15!

Burden is whizzing around this snooker table.

He once again works his way through the reds - potting the yellow and green in the process - beofre playing the safety shot on the right side red.

Canavan's attempted red clips off the pocket corner and out and it's a shot that has epitomises his final so far: any chance to put pressure on Burden has been close but far.

He returns to the table after lax play for Burden, who seemingly forgot about the 30-second shot clock, but again is unable to capitalise as the pink is wide of the mark.

Burden nails the yellow, green, brown blue and pink but misses out on the bending black to clear the table but takes the frame.

Burden nails a wonderful long red pot down the table line which works his way to the black and an attack on the clustered reds.

Before making a successful move on the pink.

Burden takes his first lead of this final and his certainly the player with all the initiative.

Canavan tires an audacious cross-table red after regaining back some control.

Burden is averaging 17secs between shots, in other words, he's playing with a clarity in his potting.

Burden would go on to clean the table bar the tricky pink to level this contest as he leaves the arena for a quick break.