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The world rankings are updated at specific revision dates following each ranking tournament. On these dates, the ranking points from the latest 2023–24 season ranking event are added, while those from two years ago in the 2021–22 snooker season are removed from a player's total.
The sport of snooker has utilised a world rankings system since 1975, used to seed players on the World Snooker Tour for tournaments. Originally, rankings were published once a year at the conclusion of a season: this had the effect of ensuring the World Champion would be the top seed for the entirety of the subsequent season.
The World Snooker Tour in the 2023–24 season initially involved 130 professional players, but dropped to 129 players. [1] [2] The decrease in membership was due to Dechawat Poomjaeng letting his WPBSA membership lapse and thus meant he was automatically removed from the main tour.
By reaching his third career ranking final, which were all within the 2023–24 season, Zhang became the second Chinese player to make three ranking finals in a single season, since Ding in the 2013–14 season. Zhang commented: "He's [Selby's] a top player and I needed to bring my best to win, which I did before the mid-session.
The World Snooker Tour in the 2024–25 season initially consisted of 127 professional players, but dropped to 126 after Michael White had his WPBSA membership revoked. The tour includes the top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2024 World Championship and 31 players who earned a two-year card the previous year.
The 2023 Championship League was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 26 June to 21 July 2023 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England.The event featured 128 players and was played as three rounds of round-robin groups of four, before a best-of-five final.
Originally, the world rankings were decided based only on results in the World Snooker Championship, but other events were later added. [1] The system used for the 2022–23 snooker season was first used in the 2010–11 season , where players won ranking points based entirely on prize money won from these events. [ 2 ]
The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour. First introduced in the 1976–77 season , world rankings are maintained by the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association .