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This is a list of professional and alternative format snooker tournaments. Professional snooker tournaments can take the form of ranking tournaments—which are open to players on the main tour and award ranking points based on a player's performance—and non-ranking tournaments. A non-ranking tournament may take the form of an invitational ...
The snooker major tournaments, often referred to simply as "the majors", are the most prestigious tournaments in snooker.. Traditionally, the majors consisted of the three Triple Crown tournaments: the World Snooker Championship (first held in 1927 and staged as a knockout tournament continuously since 1969), the invitational Masters (held annually since 1975), and the UK Championship (held ...
The World Snooker Championship (WSC) is a series of video games based on snooker featuring licensing from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.The first game in the series was released in 2001 and the last in 2011; a new licensed World Snooker game, Snooker 19, was released in 2019.
BBC Sport's rights portfolio also includes the Olympic Games, the FA Cup, women's Euro 2025, men's Euro 2028, Women's Super League (WSL), the 2026 and 2030 World Cups, Wimbledon Championships ...
The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. [1] The World Snooker Tour is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, which introduced the World Snooker Tour name, logo, and revised website as ...
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 ]
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.
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.