Snooker season 2005/2006

The snooker season 2005/ 06 was a series of snooker tournaments that belonged to the main tour. It consisted, as in the pre-season of nine competitions: in addition to the title and prize money and world ranking points were awarded in six world ranking tournaments, in addition, there were three invitational tournaments.

After 21 years, the British Open for the first time were no longer in the tournament calendar. Likewise, the Irish Masters was canceled after three years Main Tour. For the first time the Northern Ireland Trophy was held in Belfast, which also opened the season on 17 August 2005. They also had the status of an invitation tournament as the Pot Black Cup, which was revived after a long break. In this Cup, it was, however, only a one-day show tournament was decided in which in a single frame on getting ahead and Tournament victory. The season was completed traditionally on 1 May 2006 with the final of the World Cup.

Season Results

The following table shows the final results of this season.

World Ranking

The Snooker world rankings will be updated after every full season and takes into account the performance of the past two seasons. The following table shows the 32 highest ranked player of the season 2005/ 06, ie it is based on the results from 2003/ 04 and 2004/05. In brackets the year placement is indicated in each case.

Qualification for the Main Tour 2005/ 06

In addition to the 64 top-ranked players in the world rankings at the end of the season 2004/ 05 - the player Chris Small, Nick Walker and Anthony Davies resigned - the other 35 starting places were awarded as follows: