2020–21 snooker season

The 2020–21 snooker season is an upcoming professional snooker season with tournaments played between September 2020 and May 2021.

2020–21 snooker season
Details
Duration18 August 2020 – 3 May 2021
Tournaments12 (9 ranking events)
Triple Crown winners
UK Championship
Masters
World Championship
2021–22

Players

The World Snooker Tour in the 2020–21 season consists of the standard field of 128 professional players.[1] The top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2020 World Championship, and the 35 players earning a two-year card the previous year automatically qualify for the season. Next, four places are allocated to the top four on the One Year Ranking List who have not already qualified for the Main Tour. Another two players came from the Challenge Tour, two players came from the CBSA China Tour, and a further 12 places were available through the Q School (four Event 1 winners, four Event 2 winners and four Event 3 winners). Two-year tour cards were also awarded to any player outside the top 64, who qualified for the main stage of the 2020 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible.[2] The rest of the places on to the tour came from amateur events and national governing body (NGB) nominations.[1]

New professional players

All players listed below received a tour card for two seasons.[1]

Calendar

The following table outlines the dates and results for all the ranking events of the World Snooker Tour, major invitational events, the Q Tour, and World Seniors Tour.

Date[note 1] Country Rank Tournament name Venue City Winner Runner-up Score Ref.
08-19 08-22  ENG WST World Seniors Championship Crucible Theatre Sheffield [9]
09-13 10-27  ENG WR Championship League
09-21 09-27  AUT WR European Masters
10-12 10-18  ENG WR English Open
10-29 11-01  ENG WR Snooker Shoot Out
11-02 11-08  ENG NR Champion of Champions Marshall Arena Milton Keynes
11-16 11-22  NIR WR Northern Ireland Open
11-24 12-06  ENG WR UK Championship Barbican Centre York
12-07 12-13  SCO WR Scottish Open
12-14 12-20  ENG WR World Grand Prix
01-10 01-17  ENG NR The Masters Alexandra Palace London [10]
04-17 05-03  ENG WR World Championship Crucible Theatre Sheffield [11]
WR = World ranking event
NR = Non-ranking event
QT = Q Tour event
WST = World Seniors Tour

Notes

  1. Dates use month–day format

References

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