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This is a list of professional snooker players ordered by the number of "ranking titles" they have won. A ranking title is a tournament that counts towards the snooker world rankings. World rankings were introduced in the 1976–77 season, initially based on the results from the previous three World Championships.
The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship is Joe Davis, who won fifteen consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era, usually dated from the reintroduction in 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is shared by Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan , both having won the ...
Judd Trump is the current world number one. 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 ...
List of snooker players, a list of professional players from all eras; List of world snooker champions; List of snooker players by number of ranking titles; List of snooker world number ones; List of snooker players with over 100 century breaks
Blue-filled: nations that have hosted a snooker ranking tournament. This is a chronological list of snooker ranking tournaments. Ranking tournaments are those that are used for the official system of ranking professional snooker players which is used to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour.
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 .
This article lists every player to have competed in the World Snooker Championship (not including qualifiers) since 1969, when the championship reverted to a knockout format, following the title being decided in a series of challenge matches from 1964 to 1968.
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 2023–24 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 ]