List of winners in ranked snooker tournaments

This list provides information on the winners of snooker ranking tournaments .

The World Snooker Federation ( WSA ) introduced a world ranking list for the 1976/77 season . This applied retrospectively for the past three years, ie from the 1974 World Cup. Initially, only the results of the annual World Championships were taken into account for the ranking , and further ranking tournaments were added from the 1982/83 season . From the mid-1980s onwards, between six and twelve events were usually played annually, a total of 361 tournaments (as of the 2020 Snooker World Cup ). The number of winners is therefore, compared to other sports such as. B. tennis, rather low. So far, 66 different players from 13 nations have entered the winners' lists.

The following table only takes into account title winners whose results have also been included in the world rankings. Exceptions are the so-called minor ranking events : In the early 1990s, only a tenth of the normal ranking list points were distributed in four tournaments. These events were not accepted by the established players and after a short time abolished by the world association. The winners of the minor ranking events were Joe Swail , Tony Drago , Troy Shaw and Chris Small . However, the last one also recorded a regular tournament win and is therefore included in the list. Also not considered are the pre-tournaments of the Players Tour Championship , which were held from the 2010/11 season to the 2015/16 season and were also minor ranking tournaments.

However, the actual performance of the most successful players of the 1970s and early 1980s cannot be adequately reflected in this list, as some of their successes have not been reflected in ranking results. This applies above all to the multiple world champions Ray Reardon , John Spencer and Alex Higgins , whose early world championships (until 1973) are not listed here. The early titles at the UK Championship are also not counted , as it only became a ranking tournament in 1984.

List of winners

• Place: Arranges the players according to the number of their tournament victories. In the event of a tie, the player who won his first tournament earlier is named first.
• Name: gives the name of the player.
• Nation: States the nationality under which the player is listed at the world association.
• Dates of life: states the date of birth and, if applicable, the date of death of the player. Sorting is based on the date of birth.
• Victories: The number of tournament victories the player has won over the course of their career.
• By: Names the first calendar year in which the player won a tournament.
• To: Calls the last calendar year in which the player won a tournament.

Note: The list can be sorted : By clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column, clicking twice reverses the sorting. Any desired combination can be achieved by clicking two columns in a row.

Status: including Snooker World Championship 2020

1st place: Ronnie O'Sullivan

2nd place: Stephen Hendry

3rd place: John Higgins

4th place: Steve Davis

5th place: Mark Williams

space	Surname	nation	Life dates	Victories	From	To
1	Ronnie O'Sullivan		0Dec 5, 1975	37	1993	2020
2	Stephen Hendry		Jan. 13, 1969	36	1987	2005
3	John Higgins		May 18, 1975	30th	1994	2018
4th	Steve Davis		22 Aug 1957	28	1981	1995
5	Mark Williams		21 Mar 1975	22nd	1996	2018
6th	Neil Robertson		Feb. 11, 1982	18th	2006	2020
7th	Mark Selby		June 19, 1983	17th	2008	2019
7th	Judd Trump		Aug 20, 1989	17th	2011	2020
9	Ding Junhui		0Apr 1, 1987	14th	2005	2019
10	Jimmy White		0May 2, 1962	10	1985	2004
11	John Parrott		May 11, 1964	9	1989	1996
11	Peter Ebdon		Aug 27, 1970	9	1993	2012
11	Shaun Murphy		Aug 10, 1982	9	2005	2020
14th	Ken Doherty		17 Sep 1969	6th	1993	2006
14th	Stephen Maguire		13 Mar 1981	6th	2004	2020
14th	Stuart Bingham		May 21, 1976	6th	2011	2019
17th	Ray Reardon		0Oct 8, 1932	5	1974	1982
17th	Stephen Lee		Oct 12, 1974	5	1998	2012
17th	Mark Allen		Feb. 22, 1986	5	2012	2018
20th	Allister Carter		July 25, 1979	4th	2009	2016
21st	James Wattana		Jan. 17, 1970	3	1992	1995
21st	Paul Hunter		Oct 14, 1978 - Oct 9, 2006 0	3	1998	2002
21st	Marco Fu		0Jan. 8, 1978	3	2007	2016
21st	Ricky Walden		Nov 11, 1982	3	2008	2014
21st	Barry Hawkins		Apr 23, 1979	3	2012	2017
21st	Kyren Wilson		23 Dec 1991	3	2015	2019
27	Cliff Thorburn		Jan. 16, 1948	2	1980	1985
27	Tony Knowles		June 13, 1955	2	1982	1983
27	Dennis Taylor		Jan. 19, 1949	2	1984	1985
27	Doug Mountjoy		0June 8, 1942	2	1988	1989
27	Alan McManus		Jan. 21, 1971	2	1994	1996
27	Dominic Dale		Dec 29, 1971	2	1997	2007
27	Graeme Dott		May 12, 1977	2	2006	2007
27	Michael White		05th July 1991	2	2015	2017
27	Anthony McGill		0Feb 5, 1991	2	2016	2017
27	Ryan Day		23 Mar 1980	2	2017	2018
37	John Spencer		Sep 18 1935 - July 11, 2006	1	1977	1977
37	Terry Griffiths		Oct 16, 1947	1	1979	1979
37	Alex Higgins		18 Mar 1949 - July 24, 2010	1	1982	1982
37	Willie Thorne		04th Mar 1954 - June 17, 2020	1	1985	1985
37	Silvino Francisco		0May 3, 1946	1	1985	1985
37	Joe Johnson		July 29, 1952	1	1986	1986
37	Neal Foulds		July 13, 1963	1	1986	1986
37	Tony Meo		0Oct. 4, 1959	1	1989	1989
37	Mike Hallett		02nd July 1959	1	1989	1989
37	Steve James		0May 2, 1961	1	1990	1990
37	Bob chaperone		May 18, 1958	1	1990	1990
37	Tony Jones		Apr 15, 1960	1	1991	1991
37	Dave Harold		0Dec 9, 1966	1	1993	1993
37	Nigel Bond		Nov 15, 1965	1	1996	1996
37	Fergal O'Brien		0March 8 1972	1	1999	1999
37	Chris Small		26 Sep 1973	1	2002	2002
37	David Gray		0Feb. 9, 1979	1	2003	2003
37	Matthew Stevens		Sep 11 1977	1	2003	2003
37	Joe Perry		Aug 13, 1974	1	2015	2015
37	Martin Gould		Sep 14 1981	1	2016	2016
37	Liang Wenbo		05th Mar 1987	1	2016	2016
37	Mark King		28 Mar 1974	1	2016	2016
37	Anthony Hamilton		June 29, 1971	1	2017	2017
37	Luca Brecel		0March 8 1995	1	2017	2017
37	Michael Georgiou		Jan. 18, 1988	1	2018	2018
37	Jimmy Robertson		0May 3, 1986	1	2018	2018
37	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh		Apr 18, 1985	1	2019	2019
37	Matthew Selt		07th Mar 1985	1	2019	2019
37	Yan Bingtao		Feb 16, 2000	1	2019	2019
37	Michael Holt		0Aug 7, 1978	1	2020	2020

Nations ranking

• Place: Arranges the nations according to the number of their tournament wins. In the event of a tie, the nation for which a player won his first tournament earlier is named first.
• Nation: Name the nation.
• Players: The number of players in a nation who won a tournament.
• Victories: The number of tournament victories of all players for their nation.
• By: Calls the first calendar year in which a player from a nation won a tournament.
• Until: Calls the last calendar year in which a player from a nation won a tournament.

space	nation	player	Victories	From	To
1	England	33	183	1977	2020
2	Scotland	7th	79	1987	2020
3	Wales	8th	37	1974	2018
4th	Australia	1	18th	2006	2020
5	People's Republic of China	3	16	2005	2019
6th	Northern Ireland	3	8th	1982	2018
7th	Ireland	2	7th	1993	2006
8th	Thailand	2	4th	1992	2019
9	Canada	2	3	1980	1990
9	Hong Kong	1	3	2007	2016
11	South Africa	1	1	1985	1985
11	Belgium	1	1	2017	2017
11	Cyprus	1	1	2018	2018

Records

• The youngest tournament winner so far is Ronnie O'Sullivan , who won the UK Championship in 1993 a week before his 18th birthday. After turning eighteen, Ding Junhui won the 2005 China Open two days later .
• The oldest winner of a ranking tournament is Ray Reardon , who won the Professional Players Tournament in 1982 shortly after his 50th birthday. The oldest player on the day of his first tournament win was Doug Mountjoy at the age of 46 ( UK Championship 1988 ).
• Ronnie O'Sullivan can boast tournament victories over the longest period of time: There are more than 26 years between his first success on November 28, 1993 at the UK Championship and his last on August 16, 2020 at the World Snooker Championship .
• Jimmy White has the longest time gap between two tournament victories by the same player : twelve years passed between his last two titles. In second place in this statistic is Dominic Dale , who achieved his only two successes ten years apart.
• Judd Trump achieved six tournament victories in one season ( 2019/20 ).
• With seven exceptions, all tournament winners have moved into the top 16 of the world rankings in the course of their careers : Dominic Dale (despite two wins), Bob Chaperon ( British Open 1990 ), Michael Georgiou ( Snooker Shoot-Out 2018 ), Jimmy Robertson ( European Masters 2018 ), Thepchaiya Un-Nooh ( Snooker Shoot-Out 2019 ), Matthew Selt ( Indian Open 2019 ) and Michael Holt ( Snooker Shoot-Out 2020 ).
• 21 of the 66 tournament winners became world champions in the course of their careers . The most successful player who never became world champion is Ding Junhui with 14 tournament victories.
• Matthew Stevens has the worst final quota of all tournament winners. His only win at the 2003 UK Championship was matched by seven defeats in the final.
• The United Kingdom has dominated the sport of snooker so far: 306 of the 360 ​​tournaments played were won by players from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
• With a total of 153 titles, the five players with the most titles (Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins , Steve Davis , Mark Williams ) together won almost half of all ranking tournaments.

Web links

• Listing of all tournament winners on Chris Turner's Snooker Archive
• List of all tournament winners at SnookerInfo

This version was added to the selection of informative lists and portals on November 15, 2009 .