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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 sport of professional snooker first adopted a ranking system for the 1975–76 season, which saw Ray Reardon ranked in the top position. An Order of Merit was published in the 1975/76 season to determine the seedings for events, and the first set of official rankings the following year used the same criteria.
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
The sport of professional snooker has had a world ranking system in place since 1976. [1] Certain tournaments were given "ranking" status, with the results at those events contributing to a player's world ranking. The events that made up the 1976–77 snooker season were the first to award players with ranking points. [1]
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 .
The same rudimentary system was used for a number of years, but the rankings for the 1983–84 season included performances in two additional tournaments during the 1982–83 season. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The UK Championship became a ranking tournament in 1984 , [ 7 ] contributing points to the following season's rankings for the first time.
2017–18 snooker world rankings: The professional world rankings for all the professional snooker players who qualified for the 2017–18 season are listed below. The rankings work as a two-year rolling list. The points for each tournament two years ago are removed when the corresponding tournament during the current season finishes.
List of snooker players by number of ranking titles; 0–9. 2000 Malta Grand Prix; 2003 Irish Masters; 2004 Irish Masters; 2005 Irish Masters; 2008 Bahrain Championship;