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.

History

The first rankings were produced after the 1976 World Snooker Championship and were based on performances in the 1974, 1975 and 1976 World Championships.[1][2][3][4] This has led to the 1974 World Snooker Championship being regarded as the first ranking tournament.

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.

In the 1992–93 season, and from 2010–11 to 2015–16, a number of events were classified as "minor-ranking tournaments". These contributed to the world rankings but to a lesser degree than the standard ranking tournaments. From 2010 to 2016, the minor-ranking events were all part of the Players Tour Championship. These events are not included in the list below.

Winners

Ronnie O'Sullivan holds the record with 40 wins in ranking tournaments. 75 players have won at least one ranking event. The most recent first-time winner is Zhang Anda who won the 2023 International Championship.

Tournaments

Notes:
R – Ranking tournament number.
Date – Date of the final day of the tournament.
Numbers in parentheses in the Winner and Runner-up columns refer to the number of times the player had been a winner or runner-up at that time.
Sc – Frame score in the final.
RR – Final stage was a round-robin.

See also

References

  1. Turner, Chris. "Historical World Rankings 1975/76 to 1989/90". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
  2. "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  3. Hayton, Eric (2004). The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker. Lowestoft: Rose Villa Publications. pp. 119–123. ISBN 0-9548549-0-X.
  4. "World Rankings – History and Development". Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  5. Turner, Chris. "International Open, Goya Matchroom Trophy". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  6. Turner, Chris. "Professional Players Tournament, Grand Prix, LG Cup". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  7. Turner, Chris. "UK Championship". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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