List of snooker players by number of ranking titles

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This is a list of professional snooker players by the number of "ranking titles" they have won. A ranking title is a snooker event that counts towards the snooker world rankings. World ranking started in the 1976–77 season. The 1974 World Snooker Championship was the first ranking event, won by Ray Reardon. Until 1982, the World Championship was the only ranking event. In the 1982–83 season, two more ranking events were added to the snooker calendar: the International Open and the Professional Players Tournament. In 1984, the UK Championship, initially a non-ranking tournament, became a ranking event for the first time. More ranking tournaments were established over the years. In the 2018–19 season, there were twenty events worth ranking points.

List of winners change

Following the 2024 World Open

Ronnie O'Sullivan holds the record for the most ranking titles, with 41. He passed Stephen Hendry's previous record of 36 by winning the 2020 World Snooker Championship.[1]

Name Titles First Latest


  Players currently not on the World Snooker Tour

References change

  1. Ronnie O'Sullivan won five Shanghai Masters tournaments but three were non-ranking.
  2. John Higgins won the China Championship in 2016 but this was not a ranking win.
  3. Steve Davis won six UK Championships but two were non-ranking. He also won the China Open tournament in 1997 but this was not a ranking win.
  4. Judd Trump won three World Grand Prix tournaments but one was non-ranking.
  5. Mark Selby won three Paul Hunter Classic tournaments but two were non-ranking.
  6. Shaun Murphy won two European Masters tournaments but one was non-ranking.
  7. John Parrott won the German Masters tournament in 1998 but this was not a ranking win.
  8. Ray Reardon won six World Snooker Championships but two were non-ranking.
  9. Doug Mountjoy won two UK Championships but one was non-ranking.
  10. John Spencer won three World Snooker Championships but two were non-ranking.
  11. Terry Griffiths won the UK Championship in 1982 but this was not a ranking win.
  12. Alex Higgins won two World Snooker Championships but one was non-ranking. He also won the UK Championship in 1983 but this was not a ranking win.
  1. Hafez, Shamoon (16 August 2020). "O'Sullivan wins sixth world title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 August 2020.