| Tournament Name: | 1997 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship |
| Venue: | Preston Guild Hall |
| Location: | Preston |
| Country: | England |
| Organisation: | WPBSA |
| Format: | Ranking event |
| Total Prize Fund: | £440,000 |
| Winners Share: | £75,000 |
| Highest Break: | (143) |
| Score: | 10–6 |
| Previous: | 1996 |
| Next: | 1998 |
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. The event started on 12 November 1997 and the televised stages were shown on BBC between 22 and 30 November 1997. This was the last UK championship to be held in Preston, where the event was held since 1978. The following year's competition was held in Bournemouth.
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.__TOC__
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
| Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: John Williams The Guild Hall, Preston, England, 30 November 1997. | |||
| Stephen Hendry (1) | 6–10 | Ronnie O'Sullivan (7) | |
| First session: 103–29 (89), 75–37, 13–78 (78), 10–115 (78), 63–44 (57), 88–16 (67), 28–67, 73–21 (68), 33–98 (98) Second session: 23–75, 0–89 (89), 0–72, 0–79 (54), 0–82, 80–1, 17–70 (70) | |||
| 89 | Highest break | 98 | |
| 0 | Century breaks | 0 | |
| 4 | 50+ breaks | 6 | |
1st Round Best of 11 frames John Read 6–3 Michael Judge 
Paul Davies 6–4 Steve Judd
Dean Reynolds 6–3 Stephen O'Connor
Lee Richardson 6–5 Stefan Mazrocis 
Gerard Greene 6–5 Ian Brumby
Mark Bennett 6–4 Darren Clarke