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The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
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.
This is a list of notable amateur and professional snooker players, past and present. Players currently on the World Snooker Tour are shown in bold text with a following †. A
This category shows people who have won the BA&CC/WPBSA World Snooker Championship (1927–present), and/or its World Professional Match-play Championship competing title (1952–57). Pages in category "Winners of the professional snooker world championship"
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
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.
For the 21 tournaments from 1990 to 2010 there was a wild-card round in which two additional players (three in 2007) played against the players seeded 15 and 16 (14, 15 and 16 in 2007) to reach the last-16 round. [3] In most years one of the additional players was the winner of the Masters Qualifying Event while the other wild-card was selected ...
The World Snooker Championship is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament in professional snooker. It is also the richest, with total prize money of £2,395,000 in 2023 , including £500,000 for the winner. [ 1 ]