Who are the professional players for the 2025/26 World Snooker Tour season?

In total, there will be 129 professional players for the 2025/26 term - each of those cueists have a World Snooker Tour card.

The majority of players on this season’s top-flight circuit have kept their place from the previous campaign, but a plethora of brand new and returning professionals will be welcomed on to the tour having qualified via one of several international amateur pathways.

How did the players qualify for the 2025/26 professional snooker season? What is the make-up of the tour?

The top 64 players from the world rankings following the season-ending 2025 World Snooker Championship all maintained their place on the professional circuit for the new term.

Dominic Dale was inside that bracket, but retired after his World Championship qualifying campaign and was removed from the rankings, therefore pushing Stan Moody up into 64th. (Moody would have stayed on tour via the one-year list had this not happened, although being inside the 64 means that he can keep his ranking points instead of his total being reset to zero).

31 players will be using the second year of a two-year tour card and were safe regardless of wherever they finished the season in the world rankings.

All the players who have qualified via the pathways described below each have a two-year tour card.

4 players have requalified for the tour via the one-year ranking list. These were the four highest ranked players on the one-year list (most prize money earned from ranking events during the 2024/25 season) who finished the season outside the top 64 of the main world rankings.

From the 2025 Q Schools held in Thailand (Bangkok) and England (Leicester), 12 players each earned a two-year professional tour card.

4 players won professional status from last season’s Q Tour. One of these spots was allocated to the UK/Europe ranking list, while the other three went to the global playoff events. World Champion Zhao Xintong finished top of the rankings, but as he went into the world’s top 64 after his historic Crucible triumph, that tour card qualification method took preference. With that spot subsequently vacated, the tour card went to Dylan Emery, who finished second in the UK/Europe Q Tour rankings.

2 players qualified from the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association (CBSA) Tour and 2 players booked places from the World Women’s Snooker Tour.

There are 7 players who have won tour cards via their achievements at major international amateur events throughout the past several months.

2 players - Jimmy White and Marco Fu - have been awarded tour cards because of their ongoing contributions to the sport, while Sam Craigie has been given a medical exemption. Craigie did not play at all last season, as he continues to recover from a neck injury and surgery.

Full list of professional snooker players for the 2025/26 season, and how they qualified:

Finished the 2024/25 season inside the world’s top 64 rankings:

1) Judd Trump (England)

2) Kyren Wilson (England)

3) Mark Williams (Wales)

4) John Higgins (Scotland)

5) Ronnie O’Sullivan (England)

6) Ding Junhui (China)

7) Mark Selby (England)

8) Neil Robertson (Australia)

9) Barry Hawkins (England)

10) Mark Allen (Northern Ireland)

11) Zhao Xintong (China)

12) Zhang Anda (China)

13) Xiao Guodong (China)

14) Shaun Murphy (England)

15) Si Jiahui (China)

16) Chris Wakelin (England)

17) Ali Carter (England)

18) Gary Wilson (England)

19) Tom Ford (England)

20) Wu Yize (China)

21) Jak Jones (Wales)

22) Stuart Bingham (England)

23) David Gilbert (England)

24) Hossein Vafaei (Iran)

25) Jack Lisowski (England)

26) Pang Junxu (China)

27) Stephen Maguire (Scotland)

28) Joe O’Connor (England)

29) Elliot Slessor (England)

30) Yuan Sijun (China)

31) Lei Peifan (China)

32) Zhou Yuelong (China)

33) Noppon Saengkham (Thailand)

34) Matthew Selt (England)

35) Jimmy Robertson (England)

36) Jackson Page (Wales)

37) Ryan Day (Wales)

38) Lyu Haotian (China)

39) Luca Brecel (Belgium)

40) Ricky Walden (England)

41) Xu Si (China)

42) Ben Woollaston (England)

43) Martin O’Donnell (England)

44) Daniel Wells (Wales)

45) He Guoqiang (China)

46) Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (Thailand)

47) Robbie Williams (England)

48) Fan Zhengyi (China)

49) Robert Milkins (England)

50) Aaron Hill (Ireland)

51) Jamie Jones (Wales)

52) Matthew Stevens (Wales)

53) Jordan Brown (Northern Ireland)

54) Mark Davis (England)

55) Scott Donaldson (Scotland)

56) Liu Hongyu (China)

57) David Lilley (England)

58) Long Zehuang (China)

59) Anthony McGill (Scotland)

60) Sanderson Lam (England)

61) Graeme Dott (Scotland)

62) Cao Yupeng (China)

63) Ishpreet Singh Chandha (India)

64) Stan Moody (England)

Will be using the second year of a two-year tour card:

65) Zak Surety (England)

66) Michael Holt (England)

67) Oliver Lines (England)

68) Gong Chenzhi (China)

69) Duane Jones (Wales)

70) Sunny Akani (Thailand)

71) Antoni Kowalski (Poland)

72) Ben Mertens (Belgium)

73) Wang Yuchen (Hong Kong)

74) Allan Taylor (England)

75) Amir Sarkhosh (Iran)

76) Liam Davies (Wales)

77) Julien Leclercq (Belgium)

78) Artemijs Zizins (Latvia)

79) Bulcsu Revesz (Hungary)

80) Cheung Ka Wai (Hong Kong)

81) Haydon Pinhey (England)

82) Haris Tahir (Pakistan)

83) Chris Totten (Scotland)

84) Robbie McGuigan (Northern Ireland)

85) Farakh Ajaib (Pakistan)

86) Mitchell Mann (England)

87) Huang Jiahao (China)

88) Bai Yulu (China)

89) Ken Doherty (Ireland)

90) Mink Nutcharut (Thailand)

91) Kreishh Gurbaxani (India)

92) Jonas Luz (Brazil)

93) Kok Leong Lim (Malaysia)

94) Mohamed Shehab (UAE)

95) Hatem Yassen (Egypt)

Qualified via the 2024/25 one-year ranking list:

96) Louis Heathcote (England)

97) Ross Muir (Scotland)

98) Jiang Jun (China)

99) Liam Graham (Scotland)

2025 Q School graduates:

100) Chatchapong Nasa (Thailand): Asia-Oceania event one

101) Liu Wenwei (China): Asia-Oceania event one

102) Xu Yichen (China): Asia-Oceania event two

103) Zhao Hanyang (China): Asia-Oceania event two

104) Liam Pullen (England): UK event one

105) Oliver Brown (England): UK event one

106) Alexander Ursenbacher (Switzerland): UK event one

107) Mateusz Baranowski (Poland): UK event one

108) David Grace (England): UK event two

109) Ian Burns (England): UK event two

110) Fergal Quinn (Northern Ireland): UK event two

111) Connor Benzey (England): UK event two

2024/25 Q Tour ticket winners:

112) Dylan Emery (Wales): UK/Europe ranking list

113) Steven Hallworth (England): Global playoffs event winner

114) Liam Highfield (England): Global playoffs event winner

115) Florian Nuessle (Austria): Global playoffs event winner

CBSA China Tour ticket winners:

116) Yao Pengcheng (China)

117) Lan Yuhao (China)

World Women’s Snooker Tour ticket winners:

118) Ng On Yee (Hong Kong): via the women’s tour rankings

119) Reanne Evans (England): via the women’s tour rankings

Ticket winners from major international amateur events:

120) Gao Yang (China): 2025 World Snooker Federation Championship winner

121) Leone Crowley (Ireland): 2025 World Snooker Federation Junior Championship winner

122) Iulian Boiko (Ukraine): 2025 European Under-21 Championship winner

123) Michal Szubarczyk (Poland): 2025 European Championship runner-up*

124) Chang Bingyu (China): 2025 Asia-Pacific Championship winner

125) Sahil Nayyar (Canada): 2024 Pan American Championship winner

126) TBC: 2025 African Championship winner (played in June)

* European Championship winner Liam Highfield had already won a tour card via the Q Tour global playoffs, therefore the tour card went to runner-up Szubarczyk

Invitational Tour Cards:

127) Jimmy White (England)

128) Marco Fu (Hong Kong)

Medical Exemption:

129) Sam Craigie (England)

Please note, Graeme Dott is listed but he is currently suspended from the World Snooker Tour.

Cao Yupeng is still ranked inside the world’s top 64 but he did not play a single professional match last season as he focused on playing Chinese 8-ball pool. It is unknown whether he plans to compete on the snooker scene during the 2025/26 term.