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The 2024–25 snooker season was a professional
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season featuring tournaments played between June 2024 and May 2025, including the professional
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, the second-tier Q Tour and featured events from
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and World Seniors Tour. The season featured 18
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tournaments, including a ranking tournament in
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for the first time after a 30-year hiatus and a ranking event staged in
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for the first time. The European Series was discontinued and the European Masters was removed from the calendar. This season saw the reigning world champion
Kyren Wilson Kyren James Wilson (; born 23 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Kettering. He has won 10 ranking titles. Wilson made his professional tour debut in the 2010–11 snooker season, 2010–11 season after finishing fif ...
, the world number one
Judd Trump Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and the current List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is currently in ...
,
Mark Selby Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. Ranked List of world number one snooker players, world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 24 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the all ...
, and
Neil Robertson Neil Alexander Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and former List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He ...
claim multiple titles.
John Higgins John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by num ...
won the World Open and
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, setting a record span of 30 years between his first and most recent ranking titles. In the Triple Crown events, Trump won his second
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title and
Shaun Murphy Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...
won his second Masters title. After returning from a 20-month ban, Zhao Xintong won four qualifying matches to reach the main stage of the
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and went on to win his first world title with an 18–12 victory over Mark Williams, who was the oldest ever world finalist at age 50. Zhao became the first World Champion from China and also the first from Asia. The season set a new record for the number of maximum breaks made in professional competition, with 15. Trump set a new record for the most century breaks in a single season, with 107.


Players

The
World Snooker Tour The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. It is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, ...
in the 2024–25 season initially consisted of 127 professional players, but dropped to 126 after Michael White had his WPBSA membership revoked. The tour includes the top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2024 World Championship and 31 players who earned a two-year card the previous year.


New professional players

The players listed below have received a two-year tour card for the 2024–25 and 2025–26 seasons. ;Top 4 players from 2023–24 one year ranking list ;International champions ; Q Tour ;CBSA China Tour ;
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qualifiers ; Q School ;Event 1 ;Event 2 ;Asia-Oceania Event 1 ;Asia-Oceania Event 2 ;Invitational Tour Card


Calendar

The following tables outline the dates and results for all the
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, World Women's Snooker Tour, World Seniors Tour, Q Tour, and other events in the season.


World Snooker Tour

Note: This calendar only includes events that have been confirmed by the World Snooker Tour, and is subject to change at any time during the season.


World Women's Snooker Tour


World Seniors Tour


Q Tour


Other events


Tournament rankings


World ranking points

The ranking points for reaching different stages of each ranking tournament are listed below.


Revision dates and seeding cut-offs

The world rankings are updated at specific revision dates following each ranking tournament. On these dates, the ranking points from this season's ranking event are added, while those from two years ago in the
2022–23 snooker season The 2022–23 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played from June 2022 to May 2023. Players The World Snooker Tour in the 2022–23 season initially consisted of a field of 131 professional players, but later dropped to 130 w ...
are removed from a player's total. The revision dates are also used for seeding of following ranking events.


Notes


References


External links


Official calendar
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World Snooker Tour

2024–25 season calendar
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snooker.org
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