List of snooker players by number of ranking titles

This list provides information about the winner of snooker ranking tournaments.

The World Snooker Association (WSA ) resulted in the 1976/77 season a world ranking. This applied retroactively for the past three years, ie from the 1974 World Cup. Initially, only the results at the annual World Championships were considered for the rankings, from the 1982/83 season were added more ranking tournaments. From the mid- 1980s between six and ten events were mostly played out every year, a total of 262 tournaments (as after the Players Tour Championship 2013/14 - Grand Finals ). The number of winners is therefore compared with other sports such as Tennis, rather low. So far, 50 different players wore from 11 nations in the winners' lists.

The following table considers only title winner, the results have also been included in the world rankings. Exceptions are the so-called minor ranking events: In the early 1990s, only one -tenth of the normal ranking points were distributed in four tournaments. These events, however, were not accepted by the established players and abolished by the World Association after a short time. The winners of the minor ranking events were Joe Swail, Tony Drago, Troy Shaw and Chris Small. Last but also recorded a regular tournament victory and is therefore listed in the list. Also not considered are the advantages tournaments in the Players Tour Championship from the season 2010/ 2011.

The actual performance of the most successful players of the 1970s and early 1980s can from this list, however, not be sufficiently given, since their success did not translate to the part in ranking results. This mainly concerns the multiple world champion Ray Reardon, John Spencer and Alex Higgins, whose early world title ( to 1973 ) are not shown here. Also not counting the early title at the UK Championship, as this was only in 1984 Ranking Tournament.

List of Winners

Place: Arranges the players after their number of tournament victories. Case of a tie, the player is first called, who won his first tournament earlier.
Name: Lists the name of the player.
Country: Name the nationality under which the player is registered with the World Association.
Life-history: Denotes the date and optionally the player's date of death. The sorting is done on the basis of date of birth.
Wins: Reports the number of the player in the tournament victories during his career.
From: Names the first calendar year in which the player won a tournament.
To: Denotes the last calendar year in which the player won a tournament.

Note: The list is sortable: the list by clicking on a column header sorts by that column, double clicking reverses the sorting order. By clicking on two columns consecutively can achieve any desired combination.

Nations Cup

Place: Arranges the nations according to their number of tournament victories. Case of a tie, first the nation is called for which a player has won his first tournament at an earlier time.
Country: Name the nation.
Players: Reports the number of players on a nation that has won a tournament.
Wins: Reports the number of tournament victories all players of a nation in the course of their career.
From: Names the first calendar year in which a player a nation has won a tournament.
To: Denotes the last calendar year in which a player a nation has won a tournament.

Records

The youngest winner of the tournament so far Ronnie O'Sullivan, who won the UK Championship 1993, a week before his 18th birthday. After he turned eighteen years old, Ding Junhui won two days later at the China Open 2005.
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 victory was Doug Mountjoy at age 46.
Tournament victories over the longest period of time may show Ronnie O'Sullivan: Between his first success on 28 November 1993 at UK Championship and his most recent on March 2, 2014 the Welsh Open were 20 years and 3 months.
The longest time interval between two tournament victories same player Jimmy White has achieved: between his last two titles passed twelve years. 2nd place in these statistics is Dominic Dale, who scored his only two successes in ten-year intervals.
With two exceptions, all the tournament winners are drawn in the course of her career in the top 16 in the world rankings: Dominic Dale ( despite two wins) and Bob Chaperon ( British Open 1990).
17 of the 50 tournament winners were world champions during the course of their career. The most successful players who have never been world champions, are Jimmy White and Ding Junhui with ten tournament victories.
Matthew Stevens has the worst rate of all Final tournament winner. His only victory in the UK Championship in 2003 are compared with seven final defeats.
The United Kingdom dominated so far the Snooker Sport: 227 of the 262 played out tournaments were won by players from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
With a total of 133 titles, the five players with the most titles (Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Mark Williams) decided together more than half of all ranking tournaments for themselves.

Snooker world rankings List of snooker tournaments John Spencer (snooker player) John Higgins (snooker player) Mark Williams (snooker player) John Parrott Peter Ebdon Neil Robertson (snooker player) Australia Ken Doherty Stephen Lee Stephen Maguire Shaun Murphy (snooker player) James Wattana Paul Hunter Mark Selby Judd Trump Tony Knowles (snooker player) Alan McManus Graeme Dott Ricky Walden Mark Allen (snooker player) Barry Hawkins Terry Griffiths Willie Thorne Silvino Francisco Joe Johnson (snooker player) Neal Foulds Mike Hallett Tony Meo Steve James (snooker player) Tony Jones (snooker player) Dave Harold Nigel Bond David Gray (snooker player) Stuart Bingham World Open (snooker) 2014 Welsh Open (snooker)

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