The 1997 UK Championship (officially the 1997 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Guild Hall in Preston, England.

Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Stephen Hendry 10–6 in the final, ending Hendry's run of three successive UK championship wins.

O'Sullivan had been the last player other than Hendry to win the event, as a 17-year-old in 1993.

[1] The highest TV break of the competition was 137 made by Stephen Lee and it was worth £5,000.

[citation needed] The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: