Organised by the World Snooker Tour and sponsored by car retail company Cazoo, the event was broadcast domestically by the BBC and Eurosport.

Allen trailed in every match he played in the tournament, and fell 1–6 behind in the final, but he won nine of the last ten frames to clinch a 10–7 victory.

Other international broadcasters included Kuaishou, Huya Live, Youku, and CCTV in China; NowTV in Hong Kong; and DAZN in Canada, the United States, and Brazil.

[15] The defending champion was China's Zhao Xintong, who won his maiden ranking title at the previous year's event, defeating Belgium's Luca Brecel 10–5 in the final.

[24] Marco Fu, who had recently reached the final of the 2022 Hong Kong Masters, made three consecutive century breaks as he defeated Bai Langning 6–2.

[28]In the third qualifying round, Jimmy White trailed Stephen Maguire 1–3 at the mid-session interval, but recovered to win five of the next six frames for a 6–4 victory.

Zhou Yuelong, who had recently been runner-up at the 2022 Northern Ireland Open, made breaks of 70, 61, 101, and 100 as he defeated Michael White by the same score.

[35] Two-time world finalist Ali Carter came from 1–3 behind against Peter Lines to win five consecutive frames for a 6–3 victory, making a highest break of 130.

[33] In the fourth and final qualifying round, billed as "Judgement Day", Jimmy White defeated Dominic Dale 6–1 to reach the last-32 stage of the tournament for the first time since 2010.

[38] Three-time champion Neil Robertson congratulated White on Twitter, calling his qualification at age 60 "one of the greatest achievements in our sport".

[41] Trailing 1–5 in his match against Lyu Haotian, Andy Hicks grew frustrated and smashed the pack of reds open on a break-off shot, going in-off in the process.

The previous season's Welsh Open winner Joe Perry whitewashed former world champion Graeme Dott, making breaks of 86, 102, 134, and 77.

David Gilbert advanced with a whitewash victory over King, while Ding secured his place in York with a 6–4 win over Robert Milkins.

[48] Ryan Day, winner of the previous month's British Open, faced White, who received a standing ovation as he entered the arena.

[51] Facing Lyu, the previous year's runner-up Brecel won three consecutive frames to take a 5–3 lead and went on to win the match 6–4.

[52] Ding trailed tenth seed Barry Hawkins 1–3 at the mid-session interval, but then won five consecutive frames with breaks of 105, 62, 122, 72, and 91 to clinch the match 6–3 and reach the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time in the season.

Ding made his 600th career century break during the match, becoming the seventh player in professional snooker history to reach that milestone.

[54] Seventh seed and two-time winner Mark Williams suffered from food poisoning in his match against Clarke, commenting afterwards that "I was shaking, shivering, boiling hot one frame and freezing cold the next.

[58] Calling his record at the UK Championship "atrocious", Trump commented afterwards that "I'm happy to get through because I love the prestige of this event and I'd have been devastated to be going home after the first game".

In the sixth, Gilbert missed a red to a middle pocket while on a 67 break and Murphy cleared to force a re-spotted black, which he potted after a lengthy safety exchange to tie the scores at 3–3.

In the fourth frame, Ford had a 46-point lead with 51 remaining on the table, but Brecel produced another clearance to level the scores at the mid-session interval.

Ford then won three consecutive frames, making a 100 break in the seventh, clinching the match 6–3 and reaching the 15th ranking quarter-final of his career.

In the seventh, Murphy ended a lengthy tactical battle on the colours by potting a long brown, reducing Trump's lead to 4–3.

Lisowski made a 101 in the seventh to lead 5–2, and wrapped up a 6–2 victory in frame eight after Vafaei missed a pot on the yellow and slammed his cue on the floor in frustration, receiving a warning from referee Leo Scullion.

After play resumed, Ding produced breaks of 87 and 131 as he wrapped up a 6–0 whitewash, with O'Sullivan having scored just four points in the last four frames of the match.

In frame four, Perry led by 28 points but missed the penultimate red; Ford made a 41 clearance to take a 3–1 lead at the mid-session interval.

Lisowski became the eighth player—the others being Neil Robertson, John Higgins, Gary Wilson, Allen, Murphy, Maguire, and Lu Ning—to make four consecutive centuries in professional competition.

Ford then played a poor safety shot that left one of the two remaining reds over the middle pocket, allowing Ding to wrap up a 6–3 victory.

Lisowski took the seventh frame with the help of a 54 break, and won the eighth after a safety battle on the last two reds, taking a 5–3 lead.

His comeback from 1–6 behind also saw him overcome the largest deficit in a UK Championship final since Higgins came from 0–7 behind to defeat Steve Davis 16–15 in that year.