Snooker world rankings

The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine their qualification and seeding for events on the World Snooker Tour and other tournaments, as well as their future professional status on the tour.

First introduced in the 1976–77 season, world rankings are maintained by the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA); Each player's world ranking is based on their performances, in terms of cumulative prize money earned in designated ranking tournaments over the preceding two years. Every professional member of the WPBSA is assigned a ranking disregarding their activeness on the circuit. The current number one in world snooker rankings is Judd Trump from England, taken over from Northern Ireland's Mark Allen since 26 August 2024.

Other forms of World Snooker rankings include the one-year list, which only calculates the current season's earnings to date to qualify for the Players Series events; the World Women's Snooker (WWS) has its own women's only rankings; the pre-season qualifying event Q School also produces a Q School Order of Merit rankings after each edition to decide the order of players topping up the main tour events when undersubscription of players occurs.

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