List of world number one in snooker

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Judd Trump - world number one in the current snooker world rankings

The list of winners of the Snooker World Ranking lists all winners of Snooker - World ranking on since their introduction. The first owner was Ray Reardon from Welsh in 1975 . Since then, a total of 11 different players have been ranked number 1 in the ranking.

Until 1981/82, the world rankings resulted exclusively from the results of the previous three world championships. Only then did other tournaments receive the status of world ranking tournaments. Nevertheless, the official world rankings were not updated until the end of the season, after the end of the World Snooker Championship . Between the other tournaments, a so-called provisional world ranking list was kept, the front runners are not listed. Only since the 2010/11 season has the official world rankings been updated after each tournament in which there are ranking points.

List of world number one

Chronologically
No. Surname from to Duration
01 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 3rd May 1975 Apr 20, 1981 312 weeks
02 CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn Apr 21, 1981 May 16, 1982 056 weeks
1.1 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon (2) May 17, 1982 May 2nd 1983 050 weeks
03 EnglandEngland Steve Davis May 3, 1983 Apr 29, 1990 365 weeks
04th ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry Apr 30, 1990 May 4, 1998 418 weeks
05 ScotlandScotland John Higgins May 5, 1998 May 1, 2000 104 weeks
06th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams May 2, 2000 May 6, 2002 105 weeks
07th EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan May 7, 2002 May 5, 2003 052 weeks
6.1 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams (2) May 6, 2003 May 3, 2004 052 weeks
7.1 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan (2) May 4, 2004 May 1, 2006 104 weeks
4.1 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (2) May 2, 2006 May 7, 2007 053 weeks
5.1 ScotlandScotland John Higgins (2) May 8, 2007 May 5, 2008 052 weeks
7.2 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) May 6, 2008 May 3, 2010 104 weeks
5.2 ScotlandScotland John Higgins (3) May 4, 2010 26 Sep 2010 021 weeks
08th AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 27 Sep 2010 Dec 12, 2010 011 weeks
5.3 ScotlandScotland John Higgins (4) Dec 13, 2010 May 2, 2011 020 weeks
6.2 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams (3) May 3, 2011 Sep 11 2011 019 weeks
09 EnglandEngland Mark Selby Sep 12 2011 Nov 4, 2012 060 weeks
10 EnglandEngland Judd Trump Nov 5, 2012 Dec 9, 2012 005 weeks
9.1 EnglandEngland Mark Selby (2) Dec 10, 2012 Feb. 17, 2013 010 weeks
10.1 EnglandEngland Judd Trump (2) Feb. 18, 2013 March 31, 2013 006 weeks
9.2 EnglandEngland Mark Selby (3) Apr 1, 2013 June 9, 2013 010 weeks
8.1 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson (2) June 10, 2013 May 5, 2014 047 weeks
9.3 EnglandEngland Mark Selby (4) May 6, 2014 July 6, 2014 009 weeks
8.2 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson (3) 7th July 2014 Aug 10, 2014 005 weeks
9.4 EnglandEngland Mark Selby (5) Aug 11, 2014 7th Dec 2014 017 weeks
11 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui Dec 8, 2014 Dec 14, 2014 001 week
8.3 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson (4) Dec 15, 2014 Jan. 25, 2015 006 weeks
11.1 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui (2) Jan. 26, 2015 Feb 8, 2015 002 weeks
9.5 EnglandEngland Mark Selby (6) Feb 9, 2015 March 24, 2019 215 weeks
7.3 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan (4) March 25, 2019 11 Aug 2019 020 weeks
10.2 EnglandEngland Judd Trump (3) 12 Aug 2019 today 055 weeks
Legend
  • The current world number one
  • World ranking updated only once per season
    • Summary
    Surname first on whole time span longest period Number of periods
    01. ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry Apr 30, 1990 471 weeks 418 weeks 2
    02. EnglandEngland Steve Davis May 3, 1983 365 weeks 365 weeks 1
    03. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 3rd May 1975 362 weeks 312 weeks 2
    04th EnglandEngland Mark Selby Sep 12 2011 321 weeks 215 weeks 6th
    05. EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan May 7, 2002 280 weeks 104 weeks 4th
    06th ScotlandScotland John Higgins May 5, 1998 197 weeks 104 weeks 4th
    07th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams May 2, 2000 176 weeks 105 weeks 3
    08th. AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 27 Sep 2010 069 weeks 047 weeks 4th
    09. EnglandEngland Judd Trump Nov 5, 2012 066 weeks 055 weeks 3
    10. CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn Apr 21, 1981 056 weeks 056 weeks 1
    11. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui Dec 8, 2014 003 weeks 002 weeks 2
    The world ranking positions at the start of the respective season of the dominant players between 1975 and 2020 (top 6 of the above tab.)

    Records and Statistics

    • Both Stephen Hendry and Steve Davis each took only 5 years from their professional debut to jump to number 1 in the world rankings.
    • Ding Junhui is the only player without a world title who was world number one in his career.

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ a b Ranking Records: World Number One. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed April 17, 2017 .
    2. ↑ Latest World Rankings ( English ) Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on April 14, 2011. Retrieved February 19, 2013.