List of world snooker champions

The World Snooker Championship Trophy

The World Snooker Championship is an annual ranking snooker tournament founded in 1927 and since 1977 played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The tournament is played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season since 1977/1978, when the UK Championship was first held. The event was not held from 1941 to 1945 because of World War II or between 1958 and 1963 due to declining interest.

The governing body that currently organises this event is the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Prior to the WPBSA assuming control of the professional game in 1968, the world championship was organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC), except for a few years when the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) staged their own event, the World Professional Match-play Championship, following a dispute with the BACC.[1]

The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship was Joe Davis, who won fifteen consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era, usually dated from the reintroduction in 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is held by Stephen Hendry, who won the title seven times between 1990 and 1999.

Champions

Format Organiser
Knockout tournament BACC
Challenge event with defending champion receiving a bye to the final † BACC
World Professional Match-play Championship ◊ PBPA
Challenge matches ‡ BACC
Knockout tournament (modern era) WPBSA

[2][3][4][5][6]

Statistics

Multiple champions

Challenge match double-dagger
World Professional Match-play Championship*
Competed in 2017 dagger
Player Total Years
England Joe Davis 15 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946
England Fred Davis 8 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952*, 1953*, 1954*, 1955*, 1956*
England John Pulman 1957*, 1964double-dagger, 1964double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1966double-dagger, 1968double-dagger
Scotland Stephen Hendry 7 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999
Wales Ray Reardon 6 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978
England Steve Davis 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989
England Ronnie O'Sullivan dagger 5 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013
Scotland John Higgins dagger 4 1998, 2007, 2009, 2011
England John Spencer 3 1969, 1971, 1977
England Mark Selby dagger 2014, 2016, 2017
Scotland Walter Donaldson 2 1947, 1950
Northern Ireland Alex Higgins 1972, 1982
Wales Mark Williams dagger 2000, 2003

Champions by country (modern era)

Country Players Total First title Last title
 England 9 22 1969 2017
 Scotland 3 12 1990 2011
 Wales 3 9 1970 2003
 Northern Ireland 2 3 1972 1985
 Canada 1 1 1980 1980
 Republic of Ireland 1 1 1997 1997
 Australia 1 1 2010 2010

Champions by country (all-time)

Country Players Total First title Last title
 England 12 53 1927 2017
 Scotland 4 14 1947 2011
 Wales 3 9 1970 2003
 Northern Ireland 2 3 1972 1985
 Australia 2 2 1952 2010
 Canada 1 1 1980 1980
 Republic of Ireland 1 1 1997 1997

Notes

  • a Due to a disagreement with the Billiards Association and Control Club and the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA), Lindrum and McConachy were the only players to compete, with most professional players playing in the World Professional Match-play Championship instead. As a result, Lindrum's title win is sometimes ignored, with Cliff Thorburn (Canada), Ken Doherty (Republic of Ireland) and Neil Robertson (Australia) usually regarded as the only non-United Kingdom World Champions.[5]
  • b1 b2 The title was decided over a series of matches rather than frames.[7]

References

  1. "World Snooker Title". The Glasgow Herald. 19 February 1952. p. 2.
  2. Turner, Chris. "World Professional Championship". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 April 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  3. "World Championship – Roll of Honour". Global Snooker. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  4. "Hall of Fame". Snooker.org. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  5. 1 2 "History of the World Snooker Championship". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
  6. "Embassy World Championship". Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  7. Everton, Clive (1981). Guinness Book of Snooker. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. p. 65. ISBN 0-85112-230-2.
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