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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 .
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 meant that the 1974 World Championship retrospectively became the first ranking event, won by Ray Reardon.
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 ]
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.
The World Snooker Championship originally was the only event to offer ranking points, until the 1982 International Open. [4] Over the next 22 seasons, five men held the first position; Reardon ( 1976/77 to 1980/81 ), Cliff Thorburn ( 1981/82 ), Reardon again for 1982/83 [ note 1 ] , Steve Davis ( 1983/84 to 1989/90 ) and Stephen Hendry ( 1990/ ...
Steve Davis (pictured in 2012) topped the rankings for the seventh consecutive year. [1] John Parrott (pictured in 2008) was ranked second. [1]The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), the governing body for professional snooker, first introduced a ranking system for professional players in 1976, with the aim of seeding players for the World Snooker Championship. [2]
Professional snooker players compete on the World Snooker Tour, which is a circuit of world ranking tournaments and invitational events held throughout the snooker season. All competitions are open to professional players who have qualified for the tour, and selected amateur players, but most events include a separate qualification stage.
The rankings at the start of 2021/2022 season are determined by prize money earned in the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons and are updated after every tournament carrying ranking status; the players are re-ranked at the beginning of the current season after removing players relegated at the end of the previous season from the ranking list. As ...