Players are invited on a category-based system. All players in the top five categories are guaranteed an invite, and players in the remaining categories are invited in order until the field is full at 128 players.
1. World Rankings
Players Ranked 1-16 on the WPA World Ranking
Joshua Filler (GER)
Shane van Boening (USA)
Fedor Gorst (ROC)
Jayson Shaw (GBR)
Alexander Kazakis (GRE)
Niels Feijen (NED)
Ralf Souquet (GER)
Billy Thorpe (USA)
Tyler Styer (USA)
Players Ranked 1-16 on the Matchroom Pool World Ranking
Albin Ouschan (AUT)
Naoyuki Oi (JPN)
Max Lechner (AUT)
Eklent Kaci (ALB)
Chris Melling (GBR)
Darren Appleton (GBR)
Billy Thorpe (USA)
2. Continental Federation Invitations
Masato Yoshioka (JPN)
Yukio Akagariyama (JPN)
Roberto Gomez (PHI)
So Shaw (IRI)
Hunter Lombardo (USA)
Jeremy Sossei (USA)
Jennifer Barretta (USA)
Mieszko Fortunski (POL)
Karol Skowerski (POL)
Tomasz Kaplan (POL)
Denis Grabe (EST)
Mario He (AUT)
Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz (ESP)
Konrad Juszczyszyn (POL)
Wojciech Szewczyk (POL)
Mark Gray (GBR)
Oliver Szolnoki (HUN)
Sanjin Pahlivanovic (BIH)
Roman Hybler (CZE)
Mats Schjetne (NOR)
Radoslaw Babica (POL)
Muhummed Daydat (RSA)
Richard Halliday (RSA)
Vincent Halliday (RSA)
Ruben Bautista (MEX)
Jeff Nieuwenhuijzen (AHO)
Riccardo Sini (ITA)
Nikos Ekonomopoulos (GRE)
Daniel Maciol (POL)
Tim de Ruyter (NED)
Marco Dorenburg (GER)
Miquel Silva (POR)
Tobias Bongers (GER)
Vitaliy Patsura (UKR)
Shane Wolford (USA)
Jani Siekkinen (FIN)
3. Tournament & Sponsor Invites
Alex Montpellier (FRA)
April Larson (USA)
Benji Buckley (GBR)
Elliot Sanderson (GBR)
Julio Burgos (PUR)
Kaiden Hunkins (USA)
Kristina Tkach (ROC)
Lukas Fracasso Verner (USA)
Marc Vidal (USA)
Marcel Price (GBR)
Margarita Fefilova (BLR)
Oscar Dominquez (USA)
Ricky Evans (USA)
Sergey Lutsker (ROC)
Stephen Holem (CAN)
Wiktor Zielinski
4. Matchroom Pool Events
Mosconi Cup Players 2020
Corey Deuel (USA)
Chris Reinhold (USA)
Skyler Woodward (USA)
Players Who Finished 1st-9th at US Open 2019
Jeffrey De Luna (PHI)
Imran Majid (GBR)
Players Who Finished 1st-9th at World 9-Ball Championship 2019
Casper Matikainen (FIN)
Ruslan Chinakhov (ROC)
Aloysius Yapp (SGP)
Mateusz Sniegocki (POL)
Predator Championship League Pool Winners' Group 2021
David Alcaide (ESP)
Mark Bijsterbosch (NED)
5. WPA Women's World Rankings
Players Ranked In The Top 5 Of The WPA Women's World Ranking
Kelly Fisher (GBR)
Jasmin Ouschan (AUT)
6. Event Winners
Winners of Matchroom Pool Events 2018-2020
Winners of Matchroom World Ranking Events 2020
WPA World U-19 Champion
Jonas Souto Comino (ESP)
WPA Junior Girls World Champion
WPA U-17 World Champion
Moritz Neuhausen (GER)
7. World Rankings
Players Ranked 17th Onwards On The WPA World Ranking
